Pagan Holiday

Name: Pagan Holiday | On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists
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On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists

Tony Perrottet(Autor*in)

Random House (Verlag)

Erschienen am 6. Mai 2009

416 Seiten

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Intro
About the Author
Other Books By This Author
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Map
Part 1 - Pagan Holiday
Chapter 1 - Jupiter's Panorama
Chapter 2 - The Pompeii McDonald's
Chapter 3 - I, Spectator
Chapter 4 - The Once and Future Tourist Trail
Chapter 5 - Rites of Passage
Chapter 6 - The Empire on Ten Denarii a Day
Chapter 7 - Lucian Takes a Sex Tour
Part 2 - All Roads Lead from Rome
Chapter 8 - Farewell to the Megalopolis
Chapter 9 - The Urban Monster
Chapter 10 - Omens 101: How to Start a Journey
Part 3 - The Hedonism Coast
Chapter 11 - Dolce Vita by the Bay of Naples
Chapter 12 - Initiation Rites
Chapter 13 - The Pleasure Trail
Chapter 14 - Capri: The Emperor's New Hideaway
Chapter 15 - The Call of Aurora
Part 4 - Hermes' Highways
Chapter 16 - A Road Trip Through Greece- Papyrus Guidebook in Hand
Chapter 17 - Athens: The Altar of High Culture
Chapter 18 - Timeless Rituals of the Road
Chapter 19 - Traffic Jam on the Sacred Way
Chapter 20 - Stairway to Apollo
Chapter 21 - Spartan Pleasures
Chapter 22 - Sacred Frenzy: The Olympic Games
Chapter 23 - Et in Arcadia Ego .
Part 5 - The Transit of Venus
Chapter 24 - Island-hopping the Aegean
Chapter 25 - At Poseidon's Mercy
Chapter 26 - Asian Seductions
Chapter 27 - In Sickness and in Health
Part 6 - Homer's Heroes
Chapter 28 - Troy: The Ultimate Faux-Historical Site
Chapter 29 - "Even the Ruins Are Ruined"
Chapter 30 - The Eternal Killing Fields
Chapter 31 - Sailing from Byzantium
Part 7 - Alexandria
Chapter 32 - Cleopatra's Capital, "On the Way to Egypt"
Chapter 33 - The New Atlantis
Chapter 34 - Bar-Crawling in the Ruins
Part 8 - In the Realm of the Exotic
Chapter 35 - Magic and Mummification on the Nile
Chapter 36 - Interview with the Mortician
Chapter 37 - The Deathless Pyramids
Chapter 38 - Missives from the Beyond
Chapter 39 - VIP Seeks Crocodile God
Chapter 40 - Loving Middle Egypt
Chapter 41 - The Dark Side of the Nile
Chapter 42 - Divine River Cruising
Chapter 43 - The End of the World As They Knew It
Epilogue: Domus, Sweet Domus
Acknowledgments
Appendix I: Timeline
Appendix II: Who's Who in the Ancient World
Appendix III: Sources
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