CAS AR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Domenico Fontana, August Mau, Pyroclastic Surge
18 Jan 2018
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Wars between 4th and 2nd centuries bce led to territorial expansion. Centralization of power under increasingly authoritarian leaders. 1st century bce: julius caesar appointed perpetual dictator by the roman senate. 31 bce: caesa(cid:396)"s so(cid:374), o(cid:272)tavia(cid:374), (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:395)ue(cid:396)s egypt. 27 bce: roman senate grants octavian overarching powers, rendering him the first. 1st century ad: imperial town: 62 ad: earthquake, 79 ad: eruption. Not ethnically roman (cultural tensions with romans), but roman city because rome conquered with infrastructure. *pyroclastic surge buried and preserved the city. Primary source: letter by pliny the younger to historian tacitus. 1599: aqueduct work found ancient walls covered with paintings and inscriptions. Wall inscription read decurio pompeii but he missed the reference to the lost city. He had the remains covered again unsure why. 1738: herculaneum remains found by workmen while laying foundation work for the ki(cid:374)g"s su(cid:373)(cid:373)e(cid:396) (cid:271)ala(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:894)cha(cid:396)les of bou(cid:396)(cid:271)o(cid:374)(cid:895) The king became a patron of excavations. Giuseppe fiorelli led excavations from 1863 onward.
