Mount Vesuvius

When I was a child, every night before bed my mother would read to me. She would lay next to me on my little bottom bunk, while the snow fell in the Maine woods outside and the dog slept at my feet and she would read. The stories she read to me were almost always historical fiction, a favorite of both of ours. We read about medieval Europe, ancient Greece, victorian England, the roaring twenties, the world wars, anything before this century really. One day she read me a book called Brighty of…

Much countries that have an unstable government mirror the same types of social structures. The regimes of North Korea, Sudan, and Somalia has great disparity between the social classes. The poor in these countries have very little compared to the rich, and the reason behind much of this is the inadequate or over-enforcement of the laws. Suzanne Collins got inspired by these events and wrote a book based off of these events. The Hunger Games suggests that the hierarchical manner in which social…

the art that surrounds it. The art installment in the museum is called Pompeii Archive: Recent Photographs by William Wylie. Pompeii was once a thriving and sophisticated Roman city. It became buried under ash and pumice after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. William Wylies’ photography revolves around the theme of death. The musical performances incorporated the theme of death from…

Throughout history, researchers have relied on the visual artistic culture represented through pictorial language as one of the main ways to analyze Roman Society. Some of this information became highly controversial as it contradicted some of the ideals proposed by various literary documents and artifacts. One of the aspects that over time has provided historians with a perplexing definition of the relationship between sexuality and Roman everyday life was the erotic frescoes situated in the…

These women were considered upper class and a Roman Lady below. This picture was found in the remains of a “villa destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (Spielogel, 2006, p. 123).” This is a good visual of Roman women versus those who were born into the upper classes. Along with poverty affecting farms, slaves, disabled, and women poverty also could be found in Roman religion. Religion is a significant…

to seeing today, it was a system dependent upon the everyday person to ensure that justice was dispatched. This paper explores the world of Pompeii’s law enforcement during it duration as a Roman colony before its destruction by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 BC. By answering the questions of who enforced that laws and what kinds of crimes often required enforcement we can see how the judicial system of authority shaped the culture of Pompeii.…