Director of Pompeii project pens history-based fiction "Pompeiian Lives"- December 10, 2006 Reetta Vairimaa:Ancient Rome is now in vogue. The popular television series produced by the BBC and HBO has stirred interest in many of the viewers about how the Romans really lived. Public libraries receive numerous queries on the subject every day. Interest in the topic is in fact so wide that one librarian thought it best to contact Paavo Castrn, a professor emeritus in classical philology, for advice.Castrn was just the man to help. He has headed the Expeditio Pompeiana Universitatis...http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2006/12/director-of-pompeii-project-pens.html |