Isn’t it weird when there is an odd figure in a museum, or an old extinct form of life that has never been seen before, for example? That is pretty much what the people of Pompeii have turned into. Mount Vesuvius in the southern part of Italy is dangerous to thousands of people who live around it, close to where it killed thousands of people in 79 A.D. The unlucky people who couldn’t make it out look like they were frozen in time because the ash fell and covered them. It also preserved their bodies. There were photos of them in a museum. In one, a mother was holding her baby, and in another, a man was on his knees holding his hands in front of his face (Colle, 1).Not only were the people covered in ash, but the entire city was. It went from a happy city to an ash covered pile of people and their things in less than two days. Pompeii is an unsafe place because Mt. Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano, it killed thousands of people, and it is located near the largely populated city of Naples.
First of all, Pompeii is an unsafe place because Mt.Vesuvius is the most threatening volcano. These eruptions have magma full of gas, water vapor and rock and lava chunks being flung from the volcano at extremely high temperatures (Chapoy 1). During an eruption, Mt. Vesuvius has toxic gases, lava, and chunks of rock that can kill several thousand people as it did in 79 A.D. Annie Chapoy, author of ABC science article about Mt.Vesuvius, says that, “In most cases, lava flows extremely slow and poses little threat to humans. But the addition of water into the magma chamber that houses the volcano’s lava can trigger a much more destructive pyroclastic eruption” (2). In other words, although lava is told to be “as slow as molasses”, when water i...
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...nto the water. To finalize, there were so many people in Pompeii the night before the eruption, due to the beautiful scenery, that because of it almost all of those people died.
To conclude, Pompeii is an unsafe place because Mt. Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano, it killed thousands of people, and it is located near the largely populated city of Naples. Most people don’t know this but Pompeii was destroyed as well as these two small towns named Stabiae and Herculaneum, and the unlucky people who could not make it out look like they were frozen in time because the ash fell and covered them and the rest of the city during the second eruption. Studies show that the people still alive between the two eruptions had plenty of time to escape but stayed most likely because they wanted to find lost family members and possessions. This is why Pompeii is an unsafe place.
Sebastian Pether’s piece of work called The Eruption of Vesuvius (1835) combines the silver watery reflection of the moon with the hot red molten lava that is flowing down its mountainsides. Though during Pether’s generation he wasn’t the only one to paint the well-known Mount Vesuvius, Joseph Wright of Derby also painted 30 paintings of the volcano. This art piece is currently located at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The piece is oil media on panel that is framed with a beautifully designed border, where it is hanging on a wall in the one of the rooms, with a one-dimension view. The quality of the piece owes itself to the color and lighting, which captures your immediate attention and guides the viewer through the piece.
On the afternoon of 24th August 79 AD, a volcano called Mt. Vesuvius erupted, which resulted in destroyed lives of citizens, it was estimated that there were 10 to 12 thousand people who occupied the city .The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and a few others were severely affected by the eruption. The cities are well known for its beautiful landscapes and its temperate climate.Pompeii is based in the south, close to Naples in the region of Campania in Italy.The eruption started a series of events such as pumice,rocks and ashes falling down and caused hot volcanic gases to rise high in the sky, people from around 100 miles away could see the event unfolding.The remains of Pompeii and other cities was frozen in time due to the pyroclastic surges
A prominent feature that contributed heavily to the way of life in Pompeii was the cities geographical location. The city was situated on a bay and was surrounded by rivers. Seneca tells us that “the city is a pleasant bay ….. bounded by the shores of Surrantum and Stabiae.” This meant that a large amount of trade took place in Pompeii, not only from the sea but from inland as well. Pompeii was also close to Vesuvius, a volcanic mountain. Pliny the Elder writes of this in his Natural History, “Pompeii [with Vesuvius visible close at hand.” Previous volcanic activity in the region led to extremely fertile soil. This contributes heavily to Pompeii’s productive and successful agricultural lands. The geographical location of Pompeii was a prominent feature as it contributed heavily to the city’s economic, industrial, and social aspects.
Nearly two millenniums ago a massive eruption rocked the Roman city of Pompeii, destroying buildings and coating the town in deep layers of volcanic ash. Fortunately, this same ash served as a tool for preservation and has allowed archaeologists to discover the remains of various types of Pompeii’s art. The values, beliefs, and daily workings of Roman culture have been brought to new light through the paintings, mosaics, statues and other forms of art found in the lost city of Pompeii.
It was nasty, and smelled like death! So my quandary for you is, why would we waste all the time, money, and resources for something we aren’t even going to tend to? The monuments that have been built are some of the greatest creations i’ve ever seen, I don’t believe that they should be torn down, but I think our government should stop for a moment,
The private and public leisure activities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were largely abundant. Many activities could be participated in and were used often. These include Drama performances, gladiatorial games, drinking, gambling, brothels, exercise, gardens, baths and food and dining. All these were an important part of Pompeian and Herculaneum life. They were seen as important to keep the body and mind healthy in most cases. Though some opposed some of the activities like brothels, gambling and drinking. But all give a important look into the life of those in Pompeii and Herculaneum before the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius which completely destroyed both towns and all its inhabitants.
Good morning today I would speak upon the cities of Vesuvius The cities of Vesuvius were flourishing port cities within the Italian Peninsula which attracted large amounts of the rich upper class; but was inevitably destroyed and preserved by the volcanic activity of Mt.Vesuvius in 79 AD as indicated by Pliny the Elder. The cities included Pompeii and Herculaneum, both center’s of trade and commerce resided within a region called Campania Felix. The name Campania Felix is correlated to its abundance of fertile land, corn, olives, and fleeces of its sheep resulting in the land being named blessed and fortunate though this was due to its volcanic nature of Vesuvius. The ancient port cities were excavated by many archaeologists within the span
In 79.A.D Pompeii was hit with one the worst volcano eruptions. Disaster is a sudden event, such as an accident or natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life. Pompeii 79.A.D Mount Vesuvius eruption included many details common to volcanos and caused damage and destruction to property and lives that affected the region, but the area has recovered in its aftermath.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to your guided tour of Pompeii. We are starting off our tour in one of Pompeii’s finest treasures: The Villa of Mysteries. We are particularly focusing on the wonderful mosaic inside. The mosaic in the Villa of Mysteries not only gives contemporary society insight into the social classes and trade in Ancient Pompeii, it also illustrates one of the religious practices and rituals that were popular at the time. Firstly, we will be exploring how The Villa of Mysteries contributes towards our understanding of the social classes and trade in Ancient Pompeii, secondly how it furthers our understanding of religion at the time, and finally, why it is considered to be a treasure.
while trying to help the residents of Pompeii. Today the type of eruption that Mount Vesuvius
Pompeii is possibly the best-documented catastrophe in Antiquity. Because of it, we know now how the Pompeians lived because they left behind an extensive legacy of art, including monuments, sculptures and paintings. Pompeii lay on a plateau of ancient lava near the Bay of Naples in western Italy in a region called Campania, less than 1.6 kilometers from the foot of Mount Vesuvius. With the coast to the west and the Apennine Mountains to the East, Campania is a fertile plain, traversed by two major rivers and rich soil. However, in the early days, it was not a remarkable city. Scholars have not been able to identify Pompeii’s original inhabitants. The first people to settle in this region were probably prehistoric hunters and fishers. By at least the eight century B.C., a group of Italic people known as the Oscans occupied the region; they most likely established Pompeii, although the exact date of its origin is unknown. “The root of the word Pompeii would appear to be the Oscan word for the number five, pompe, which suggests that either the community consisted of five hamlets or, perhaps, was settled by a family group (gens Pompeia)”(Kraus 7). In the course of the eight century B.C., Greek and Etruscan colonization stimulated the development of Pompeii as a city around the area of the Forum. A point for important trade routes, it became a place for trading towards the inland. Up until the middle of the 5th century B.C., the city was dominated politically by the Etruscans.
Pompeii was one of the Roman Empire’s richest and most popular locations. However, the picturesque landscape full of life eventually came to an end when a peaceful mountain awoke after two thousand years raining death, destruction, and eventually sealing Pompeii in an ash covered time capsule. This mountain once provided food for the population through its fertile soil is known today as Mount Vesuvius.
On August 24 in the year 79 A.D., the entire city of Pompeii was wiped out within 25 hours after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The blast sent an array of ashes, pumice and other rocks, and scorching-hot volcanic gases so high into the sky that Pompeians could see it for hundreds of miles around. Pliny the Younger, a Roman h...
Approximately 1 in 10 people in the world live within danger range of an active volcano
Mount Vesuvius is a strato-volcano consisting of a volcanic cone (Gran Cono) that was built within a summit caldera (Mount Somma). The Somma-Vesuvius complex has formed over the last 25,000 years by means of a sequence of eruptions of variable explosiveness, ranging from the quiet lava outpourings that characterized much of the latest activity (for example from 1881 to 1899 and from 1926 to 1930) to the explosive Plinian eruptions, including the one that destroyed Pompeii and killed thousands of people in 79 A.D. At least seven Plinian eruptions have been identified in