Classical Studies 1000 Lecture 21: Lecture 21 Term 2 - Pompeii and Herculaneum.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Robert Stanley Brown

Document Summary

Destroyed by eruption of mount vesuvius it will go off again, however this area is densely populated. Bay of naples elite romans had residences there. Pompeii: destroyed by the eruption of vesuvius in ad 79. Excavation results: a settlement plan going back to the 6th century b. c. Important evidence for the organization of public and private space. People left in a hurry and left many things: jewelry tools: public and private art. Pompeii is a very large site, lots of damage. Private shrines mimic more public buildings in their structure. Traces of ancient plumbing: romans were very good at plumbing but in most places ancient plumbing has been abandoned or replaced. Ancient bits and pieces all over the place. We have corpses from pompeii really just the space where they once were under the ashes a cast of the dead in their last moments abundant.