Each volume focuses on a particular theme and provides an accessible

The Art Ecosystem

Edited by Antoine Hermary and Bertrand Jaeger

after fleeing the Nazi regime

as well as a new critical introduction

The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum BS2018 Each volume focuses on aDavid Sider The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii in CE 79 also buried nearby Herculaneum. Over time the location of the small town was forgotten, but shortly after its rediscovery in the 1730s, "excavations"more properly, treasure huntswere organized to unearth ancient sculpture. The richest finds were from a villa that came to be called the Villa dei Papiri, because it also yielded upward of a thousand papyrus rollsthe only library