CLASSIC 20 Lecture 24: Lecture 24 - Pompeii Pt. 2
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Geography: pompeii: 120 miles south of rome, campania: latin campi; open plains, bay of naples: also cup or crater c. i. Greek city means new city (neopolis) c. ii. 1. Formerly called parthenope (one of the sirens: two projecting capes to the north, pompeii: 13 miles south-east of naples. Vesuvius: elevation today at 4203 feet: 80 recorded eruptions, last eruption 1944, changing shape c. i. Might have been a single tall cone at time of eruption c. ii. Sides fall in to form a vast crater about eleven kilometers in circumference c. iii. Has become a cone again: strabo d. i. Vesuvius was an inactive volcano even though it is active d. iv. No recorded eruption in history until the first one: a fresco in one of the houses in pompeii depicts mt. Greek god dionysus full of grapes (he"s the god of wine and revelry) e. iv. Objects associated with east (panther, thyrus staff) e. v.
