The Fortifications of Pompeii and Ancient Italy

"""The book provides the reader with the evidence for Pompeii’s fortifications and the author is to be commended for undertaking the challenge of making this important feature accessible to advanced students ... there is an admirable amount of work in this book that provides a way into the subject of defences at Pompeii that – after the paved streets – were the city’s largest public monument."" - Ray Laurence, Macquarie University, Australia, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019 ""The Fortifications of Pompeii and Ancient Italy is a valuable read for anyone interested in the history of ancient Italy or in that of fortification and urban planning and the architectural influences on culture and society."" - A. A. Nofi, The NYMAS Review ""[T]he book demonstrates, in an articulated and sustained manner, the potential that walls hold for our broader understanding of an ancient town. This is one of the first book-length studies to take seriously the claim that circuit walls hold as much, if not more, civic importance as they do military. One hopes to see the volume inspire imitators."" - Seth Bernard, University of Toronto, Canada, Journal of Roman Archaeology 2019 ""[T]he book offers a thorough and up-to-date study of the architectural development of Pompeii's fortifications, while placing them in a wider Mediterranean context."" - Saskia Stevens, BABESCH, 2021"