Pompeii, a town in Naples, Italy was built in 600 B.C.E. It housed around 20,000 people and was a busy port city for the ancient Romans.Nearby Mount Vesuvius, which is 7 miles away from Pompeii, stood 6,500 feet high. Pompeii became covered in ash by a volcanic explosion from Mount Vesuvius. This eruption also caused devastation in other cities like Herculean and most of the surrounding countryside. The eruption happened on the twenty-fourth through twenty-fifth of August, 79 C.E. The eruption took
Mount Vesuvius, on the west coast of Italy, is the only active volcano on mainland Europe. It is best known because of the eruption in A.D. 79 that destroyed the city of Pompeii. Mount Vesuvius is considered to be one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world due to the large population of the city of Naples and the surrounding towns on the slopes nearby. The volcano is classed as a complex stratovolcano because its eruptions typically involve explosive eruptions as well as pyroclastic flows
Tiberius was born Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar in Rome on November 16, 42BC. Four years later his mother divorced his father and married the triumvir Octavian, later Emperor Augustus, who had Tiberius carefully educated. In 20BC Tiberius commanded an expedition to Armenia, and he subsequently helped subdue the Rhaetians and fought against the Pannonians (12-9BC). In 11BC Tiberius, at his stepfather's command, dissolved his happy marriage to Vipsania Agrippina (died AD20), daughter of the Roman general
Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey the Great, was historically criticized by the Romans for his piracy, when he was referred to by anything at all (Growing, 2002). A pirate is defined as a brutal person who performs acts of seaborne raiding and violent theft undertaken outside of the sanction of war or law, and with notable frequency. Brutality, raiding, and prowess upon the sea, Sextus seemingly had all the makings of a pirate that meets the eye. Yet was he truly a pirate, or simply a victim of propaganda
The Roman Empire was one of the foremost powers in the ancient world, a grand civilization that held dominion over its land for roughly five hundred years until its decline in 476AD. During their reign, many Roman buildings were constructed around their empire, in colonies such as Africa, France, and Syria. Many of these constructions were amphitheatres. An amphitheatre is an open-air arena for the entertainment of the audience, for executions and performances. Named for its shape (that of two
The Last Legion is an intriguing fantasy film based on a novel, which holds the same name, by Valerio Massimo. The movie is based on events from the Fifth Century that tie the last Roman Emperor and the fall of Rome, into the legends of the Ninth Legion and King Arthur. The movie is somewhat based off of historical facts and makes a slightly plausible story line; however, the further someone would look into history, the more they would find the movie to be Hollywood fantasy. In the first paragraph
The Love Story of Antony and Cleopatra The tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra can be said to have an overall effect of comical lightness. In this way, it is altogether different from the preceding tragedies, although the tragedy that leads to the death and destruction of Antony and Cleopatra is definitely a matter of choice rather than of circumstances that engulf the hero. Yet, ultimately their tragic ending differs greatly from the ominous feeling of those that preceded it. Antony and Cleopatra
Volcano: A hill or mountain formed around and above a vent by accumulations of erupted materials, such as ash, pumice, cinders or lava-flow. The term refers both to the vent itself and to the often cone-shaped accumulation above it. (Scarth, 1994.) This definition can do Mt. Vesuvius no justice. Instead, I would describe it as one of the most hellish and population decimating volcanoes. Vesuvius lives…or lived! In its prime, Vesuvius covered and demolished two of Italy’s biggest cultural and artistic