In the luxurious city below Vesuvius, the Athenian Glaucus loves the beautiful Ione, whose guardian, the Egyptian priest Arbaces, wants her for himself. Around them move the blind flower-girl Nydia, gladiators, early Christians, a witch of the mountain and the idle gentlemen of Pompeii, all unaware of what the mountain is preparing.
The novel that fixed Pompeii in the popular imagination and inspired operas, paintings and films. Download the free EPUB.