Pompeii was an ancient Roman town situated near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum were destroyed in the Mt Vesuvius eruption that occurred just after lunch on the 24th August 79AD. Evidence for the destruction came from a letter by Pliny the Younger, who saw the eruption from a distance and described the incident. " There was daylight by this time, but they were still in darkness, blacker and denser than any ordinary night.."
The graffiti ,buildings, social life
In related to studying people who lived a very long time ago terms graffiti (plural of graffiti) is a mark, image or writing, scratched or wrote into a surface. There have been many examples found on places & locations of the Roman Empire, …show more content…
These buildings include the Basilica, the municipal offices, the market and the sanctuaries of various gods. Close by to the north and west are the public baths. To the south of the Forum is a second group of buildings which includes the Large Theatre, the Odeon and a triangular colonnade housing the oldest temple in the city. In the west of the city a third group of buildings consists of the Amphitheatre and the Large Palestra. Pompeii and Herculaneum offer us an (excellent/very unusual) understanding of Roman life in the first century AD, no more so than what it tells us about the houses the residents lived in. Both towns have many examples of the 'domus', the one family home, as it was between the fourth century BC and the first century AD. The basic layout was established by the Samnites and was plainly the result of previous experience. This was the 'domus italic', a house with a series of service areas off a central axis. This way the areas for sleeping, cooking and eating were next to areas used for family and social life.
As has already been talked about/said Pompeian (community of people/all good people in the world) was a mixture of cultures with a Samnitic root to which Greek and Roman cultures had been joined. In an overly-simple fashion this varied place of origin can be said to have given Pompeian (community of people/all good people in the world) its principal attributes: (related to a local area), hard working, open to external cultures, creative (with
The graffiti ,buildings, social life
In related to studying people who lived a very long time ago terms graffiti (plural of graffiti) is a mark, image or writing, scratched or wrote into a surface. There have been many examples found on places & locations of the Roman Empire, …show more content…
These buildings include the Basilica, the municipal offices, the market and the sanctuaries of various gods. Close by to the north and west are the public baths. To the south of the Forum is a second group of buildings which includes the Large Theatre, the Odeon and a triangular colonnade housing the oldest temple in the city. In the west of the city a third group of buildings consists of the Amphitheatre and the Large Palestra. Pompeii and Herculaneum offer us an (excellent/very unusual) understanding of Roman life in the first century AD, no more so than what it tells us about the houses the residents lived in. Both towns have many examples of the 'domus', the one family home, as it was between the fourth century BC and the first century AD. The basic layout was established by the Samnites and was plainly the result of previous experience. This was the 'domus italic', a house with a series of service areas off a central axis. This way the areas for sleeping, cooking and eating were next to areas used for family and social life.
As has already been talked about/said Pompeian (community of people/all good people in the world) was a mixture of cultures with a Samnitic root to which Greek and Roman cultures had been joined. In an overly-simple fashion this varied place of origin can be said to have given Pompeian (community of people/all good people in the world) its principal attributes: (related to a local area), hard working, open to external cultures, creative (with