On the west side of Italy, a six foot chamber of magma is building under Mt. Vesuvius. Mt. Vesuvius is a volcano that is still active to this day but, in 79 A.D. the volcano erupted wiping away the city of Pompeii and killing almost everyone in the city. The eruption killed over 16,000 people and it wiped away all the belongings of the people who did make it out alive. The eruption was a total surprise. No warning was given because the volcano eruption was completely unpredictable. Mt.…
A VOLCANO TRAGEDY January 15 , 2004 was the tragic day that a volcano had erupted. It all happened so fast like in a blink of an eye everything was so dark and magma was gushing out like a gusher candy. We realized that we where in the ring of fire , after the tragedy had passed. Before all that happened me and my family decided to head for safety in a gym where thousands of people were panicking trying to find out…
Pompey’s return to Rome was one of a kind, his accomplishments and the wealth brought with them was never encountered till this moment in Roman history. By historical records we can track his return back to Rome from Asia. He stopped in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, he decided to build theater in Rome like the one in this city, also he stopped in Rhodes, and Athens and gave money to compensate and help rebuilding the city that was destroyed by the last Sulla’s war with King Mithridates…
Pompeii is one of the most well-known ancient cities in the world. However, at the height of its existence, it was just another Roman city. What makes Pompeii so important to us today is how well it was preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Nevertheless, there are still many unanswered questions about the city. Mary Beard defined it as the Pompeii Paradox, or the fact that we “simultaneously know a huge amount and very little about ancient life there.” Although the eruption of Mount…
18. The ancient Roman city of Pompeii boasts of several brothels. Lupanare, a two storey brothel with numerous small rooms containing stone beds and walls filled with sexual painting is one the important brothels of Pompeii. Excavators digging through the layers of ash discovered that the ancient city of Pompeii boasted a robust sexual scene during their heyday. They uncovered a large number of erotic frescoes and graffitis painted on the walls of buildings that contained numerous rooms with…
Carrying the concept of masculine dominance out of the Pompeian brothels and into the homes of wealthy individuals in Pompeii, we come to a small golden bracelet left behind on the body of a female victim of the eruption of Vesuvius. In her article On Reading the Material Culture of Ancient Sexual Labor, Baird discusses the significance and some of the potential meanings behind a golden serpent shaped coil bracelet found on a woman’s corpse, presumably that of a slave. Etched on the inside of…
Who was Gaius Plinius Luci fulius Caecilius Secundus? He was the Younger Pliny, for short, a lawyer, senator, consul, governor, and a passionate writer. He went to Rome to get a better education, but he also developed a stronger relationship with his uncle the Elder Pliny, his mother’s brother. After his uncle's death from the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius, Elder Pliny’s will allowed Younger Pliny to inherit Elder Pliny’s property. Through his will, Elder Pliny also legally adopted Younger Pliny…
Roman mosaics were fairly common throughout the Roman Empire they could be found in public places and in the villas of the wealthy Romans. Roman mosaics are made of geometrical blocks called tesseare they are mostly blue, black, red, white, and yellow, assemble together to form a picture. They could be found at the entrances to homes, on the floors, or fountains as well in public places. People had them to show a sign of wealth and status, they were pleasing to the eye, and some depicted a scene…
The search for the legendary lost island known as Atlantis has been grabbing the attention of explorers, historians and philosophers for over 2,000 years. People to this day still argue about its location. Plato, the Greek philosopher, wrote about this ancient civilization in two of his dialogues. Although some argue that this place is fictional, there are scientific and geographical explanations as to why the city would have sunken. Also, there have been relics that were found that suggest they…
The ancient site of Pompeii has not been perfectly preserved like an insect in amber as the general public believes. Not only did the volcanic eruption of 79 AD that buried the city cause damage, but tunneling, robbing, war, natural disasters, excavations, and tourism have since caused a lot of damage to the city. What stands today of Pompeii is ruins of what once was. Thus, building an amusement park near the site could increase safety for visitors, increase revenue for restoration efforts…