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ByJohn F. DeFelice
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De Felice presents a highly engaging study of the hospitality business in Pompeii. He reasons that if Pompeii had a population of 10,000 inhabitants, and that its 151 inns, taverns, and/or snack shops each employed four women, there would have been one |waitress-prostitute| for every seven adult men at Pompeii. This figure being preposterous, he goes on to demonstrate, quite sensibly, how unreliable both the archaeology and nomenclature of hospitality establishments are. DeFelice examines Roman marriage law to define the status of women who worked. He reviewsproblems of trying to reconstruct first century A.D. law. DeFelice's catalogue updates structures excavated but officially unpublished, or published incompletely. Among other virtues, it provides a history of the excavation and identification of these structures at Pompeii, and a guide to graffiti locations.
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