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The Antique Landscape.--The History of Pompeii Before
and After its Destruction.--How it was Buried and
Exhumed.--Winkelmann as a Prophet.--The Excavations
in the Reign of Charles III., of Murat, and of
Ferdinand.--The Excavations as they now are.--Signor
Fiorelli.--Appearance of the Ruins.--What is and What
is not found there. 13

II.

THE FORUM.

Diomed's Inn.--The Niche of Minerva.--The Appearance
and The Monuments of the Forum.--The Antique
Temple.--The Pagan ex-Voto Offerings.--The Merchants'
City Exchange and the Petty Exchange.--The Pantheon,
or was it a Temple, a Slaughter-house, or a
Tavern?--The Style of Cooking, and the Form of
Religion.--The Temple of Venus.--The Basilica.--The
Inscriptions of Passers-by upon the Walls.--The Forum
Rebuilt. 37

III.

THE STREET.

The Plan of Pompeii.--The Princely Names of the
Houses.--Appearance of the Streets, Pavements, Sidewalks,
etc.--The Shops and the Signs.--The Perfumer, the Surgeon,
etc.--An Ancient Manufactory.--Bathing
Establishments.--Wine-shops, Disreputable Resorts.--Hanging
Balconies, Fountains.--Public Placards: Let us
Nominate Battur! Commit no Nuisance!--Religion on
the Street. 67

IV.

THE SUBURBS.

The Custom House.--The Fortifications and the Gates,--The
Roman Highways.--The Cemetery of Pompeii.--Funerals:
the Procession, the funeral Pyre, the Day of
the Dead.--The Tombs and their Inscriptions.--Perpetual
Leases.--Burial of the Rich, of Animals, and of
the Poor.--The Villas of Diomed and Cicero. 93

V.

THE THERMAE.

The Hot Baths at Rome.--The Thermae of Stabiae.--A
Tilt at Sun Dials.--A Complete Bath, as the Ancients
Considered It: the Apartments, the Slaves, the Unguents,
the Strigillae.--A Saying of the Emperor Hadrian.--The
Baths for Women.--The Reading Room.--The
Roman Newspaper.--The Heating-Apparatus. 120

VI.

THE DWELLINGS.

Paratus and Pansa.--The Atrium and the Peristyle.--The
Dwelling Refurnished and Repeopled.--The Slaves, the
Kitchen, and the Table.--The Morning Occupations of
a Pompeian.--The Toilet of a Pompeian Lady.--A Citizen
Supper: the Courses, the Guests.--The Homes of