Pompeii

Richardson Jr.,a resident of the American Academy of Rome and did field research of Pompeii. Richardson overviews the architecture methodology and the history of Pompeii. He focuses on Roman architectures influence to Pompeii. He provides details from his experience and on the field. Nevertheless, this source provides a nice understanding of how the author lays out the information and characteristics of…

name loosely translates to summoning of a god. Our race has this name because when a person belonging to them turns 20 years of age they possess the ability to summon elemental creatures I can describe as titan like. Our race lived just outside of Pompeii in their own village. They…

Daily life in Pompeii The entire top of Mt.Vesuvius blew off and a huge, black cloud of ash and poisonous gases rose into the air. Twenty feet of ash and poisonous gases covered Pompeii and almost killed all of its people. Even though there are some differences of how people lived their lives in 79 A.D., they have many similarities including their values and interests, being an advanced society, and being a time capsule. To begin, the people of Pompeii had similar values and interests that we…

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 type where it produces mostly ash and cinders, second type where it produces lava. Mount Vesuvius is said to be a hundred of thousands years old. The volcano has a record of 50 over eruptions, with its most significant eruption in 79 CE. The city of Pompeii was a beautiful city. Pompeii was a wealthy Roman trading town,…

There is mythology of Pompeii and Herculaneum by Hercules. According to Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook, “Hercules was sent to the western edge of the world, to Gades (modern Cadiz, Spain). Having defeated the monster Geryon there, he drove Geryon's herd of cattle back to Greece, passing through Italy on his travels. As he did so, he was said to have bestowed upon Pompeii its name, derived from the word for procession common to Greek and Latin (pompe/ pompa). Nearby Herculaneum was also…

Crime and Punishment: An Interpretation of Ancient Roman Law enforcement in Pompeii Introduction Today, our police force is affiliated with the slogan, To Serve and Protect. The policemen and women are now trained to perform their duties as protectors of the peace by enforcing law and order and ensuring the safety of the citizens they are put in charge of. However, it has only been since the eighteenth and nineteenth century that “a police force in the sense of a specialized and impartial…

The excerpt from Graffiti from the walls of Pompeii tells readers what daily life was like in Pompeii. Pompeii was located in ancient Rome and was considered a city. The sources title “Graffiti from the walls of Pompeii” is quite literal because the writings actually came from graffiti on walls in Pompeii. The sources of graffiti are very important to archeologist because it gives them an inside look at what life was like in Pompeii. It can tell one what they mainly focused on in their community…

and Pompeii Google Project. So I took the time to look at each website and I decided Pompeii Google Project would be the most fun to explore. The reason being the display seems really normal and there seem to be a lot of open space. Pompeii was an ancient city in southern Italy. The remains of the settlement are located near to Naples. The city of Pompeii was built at the foot of the volcano, Mount Vesuvius. If I had to choose which website site was most dramatic I would have to say Pompeii…

I t has been more than 70 years since the Mt.Vesuvious disaster rocked Pompeii. On 1944 august 24 a shallow quake shook Pompeii and the volcano started to get magma and erupt. The quake happened 16 years before which messed up the volcano which finally made it heat up magma and erupt Before the Pompeii incident happened people were just sitting around and doing what they do every day. And when the volcano started to erupt they didn’t know what to do because they were unprepared and didn’t…

Pompeii was covered in ashes after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79. The eruption discharged lava to a height of 33 kilometers. The volcano spewed out hot ash and molten rock at a rate of 1.5 million tons per second. The overall deaths that occurred are unknown but they have discovered over 1500 body remains at Pompeii and Herculaneum. The screams from all those who were in shock and who were injured crying out to love ones who had lost their life. Misery occurred on the town after the…