Antiquity recovered: the legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum

Introduction / Victoria C. Gardner Coates and Jon L. Seydl

Natural marvels and ancient ruins : volcanism and the recovery of antiquity in early modern Naples / Sean Cocco

Subverting the secret of Herculaneum : archaeological espionage in the Kingdom of Naples / Alden R. Gordon

From art to archaeology : recontextualizing the images from the Porticus of Herculaneum / Tina Najbjerg

Four women from Stabiae : eighteenth-century antiquarian practice and the history of ancient Roman painting / Hérica Valladares

Hearing voices : the Herculaneum papyri and classical scholarship / James I. Porter

Picnic at Pompeii : hyperbole and digression in the warm south / Chloe Chard

The visible and the visual : Pompeii and Herculaneum in the Getty Research Institute collections / Claire L. Lyons and Marcia Reed

The sentinel of Pompeii : an exemplum for the nineteenth century / Lee Behlman

Science or morbid curiosity? the casts of Giuseppe Fiorelli and the last days of romantic Pompeii / Eugene Dwyer

"A picture painted in fire" : Pain's reenactments of The last days of Pompeii, 1879-1914 / Nick Yablon

Replicating Roman murals in Pompeii : archaeology, art, and politics in Italy of the 1920s / Elaine K. Gazda

Seeing women in the Villa of the Mysteries : a modern excavation of the Dionysiac murals / Bettina Bergmann

Odysseys of life and death in the Bay of Naples : Roberto Rossellini's Voyage in Italy and Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt / Jennie Hirsh.