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Month: August 2012
Some Pompeii Stuff
We’ll start with a video from the BBC and with a focus on what the people died from:
… and then remind folks of a Scientific American blog on the subject (which includes another one of our fave videos):
… and now that you’re interested (as if you weren’t), we’ll remind folks of the Ancient World Open Bibliography on the subject:
… and in case you didn’t see it in the Scientific American thing up there:
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem ix kalendas septembres
ante diem ix kalendas septembres
- rites in honour of Luna at the Graecostasis
- mundus patet — the mundus was a ritual pit which had a sort of vaulted cover on it. Three times a year the Romans removed this cover (August 24, Oct. 5 and November 8) at which time the gates of the underworld were considered to be opened and the manes (spirits of the dead) were free to walk the streets of Rome.
- 72 A.D. — martyrdom of Batholomew at Albanopolis
- 79 A.D. — Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae
- 410 A.D. — Alaric sacks Rome
- 1971 — death of Carl Blegen (excavator of Pylos)
- 1997 — death of Philip Vellacott
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