Campania

The Latins were Indo-European people who settled in west-central Italy in a country called Latium. Latium was originally settling on the territory within the Alban Hills and was bounded by countries like Samnium, Sabina, Campania and Etruria (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, 2015). The Latins who stayed in Rome had a common identity with the Romans as one people. The Etruscans who settled within the Romans influenced them in art and other fields and as Rome grew in numbers, it began to…

In Pompeii, religion shows an influence Egyptian culture. In particular, the Egyptian goddess Isis, goddess of health, marriage and wisdom, had a notable presence in Pompeii. One of the most notable influences Isis and the Egyptian culture had on Pompeii was the Temple of Isis, erected in devotion to her within the city. The temple was situated near the Large Amphitheatre in the Pompeiian Forum. Source A also shows the influence of Egyptian culture. It depicts a marble statue of Isis, found in…

Pompeii was a small town with a big story. Pompeii was destroyed by a devastating volcanic eruption and many people died. Also, some rocks were found from the site of the explosion. Pompeii was a coastal Roman city in campania, a region in southwestern Italy. Many groups of people such as the Oscans, the Etruscans, and the Samnites lived there for short periods of time before they were conquered and another group would gain control. Eventually, Rome gained control of…

the heavy traffic of Commercial Drive. The menu offers up many Italian staples, such as a vast assortment of thin crust pizzas, a modest selection of pastas, and a variety of fire-bread sandwiches. Their dishes are all centered around the unique Campania tomato, a special tomato that grows in the volcanic soil at the base of the infamous Mount Vesuvius. The volcanic soil gives the tomatoes interesting properties, such as a deeper hue of red, a firmer and less acidic pulp, softer skin, and a…

Rome was safe from the floods of the Tiber and able to defend themselves. The Italian peninsula take up the center of the Mediterranean basin. Italy is protected by the Alps. The Apennines leave two broad and fertile plains which were Latium and Campania. The plains attracted a lot of settlers. Rome developed great resources of Latium and maintained with the rest of Italy. There was a social conflict in Rome between plebeians and patricians which was known as the…

One of the most infamous natural disasters that has ever taken place would have to be the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the destruction and devastation it caused those who lived in Pompeii and other neighboring towns. Before this fateful day Pompeii was a prosperous city that rested on the southeastern base of Mt. Vesuvius. In 90 BCE, Pompeii and its Italian allies rebelled against Rome in what is called the Italic War. Pompeii eventually became Romanized adopting many of the characteristics…

Gladiators were condemned criminals or slaves. These men were trained to fight with sword and other weapons in order to kill each other for the delight of spectators. Gladiatorial games developed in the third and second centuries B.C. in the region of Campania and become a element of the Roman culture. Salvius (Thypon) led the resistance in the eastern part of the island in the second Sicilian slave war from 104 to 100 B.C. and became the king of the rebels. He had the reputation of being…

Mount Vesuvius is located on Campania, Italy. It is one of several other volcanos that form the Campanian volcanic arc. Vesuvius consists of a big cone partly bordered by the rim of a summit caldera caused by the breakdown of a former and initially much higher arrangement. The height of the main cone has been continually changed by eruptions but was 4,203 feet in 2010. Vesuvius is a stratovolcano at the convergent boundary where the African Plate is being subducted below the Eurasian Plate.…

The sources provide information on many different parts of religious life in Pompeii and Herculaneum. There is information about some of the many temples built to dedicate the gods they worshipped including Apollo, Isis and Jupiter as well as the household gods such as Lares and genius as well as some of the cults which sprung up around the Campanian area. They also provided information on how they treated the dead. There were three temples in particular. The temple of Isis, Jupiter and Apollo.…

In 79 CE, August, Mount Vesuvius had a significant eruption, that went on for nineteen hours, burying an ancient Roman city for seventeen centuries. This city was near the modern Naples within the Italian Region of Campania. The buildings and many of the people were buried and lost until the discovery made in 1738. This city is known as the lost city of Pompeii. Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano that consists alternate layers of ash and lava. Stratovolcanos have two types of eruption, one…