Pompeii – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Wed, 14 May 2025 19:41:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Pompeii – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Records of Pompeii Survivors in 79 CE Show How They Rebuilt Their Lives https://brewminate.com/records-of-pompeii-survivors-in-79-ce-show-how-they-rebuilt-their-lives/ Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:28:08 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=237204 Records include the people who managed to escape the city. Introduction On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount

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Political and Personal Themes of the Graffiti in Ancient Pompeii https://brewminate.com/political-and-personal-themes-of-the-graffiti-in-ancient-pompeii/ Thu, 21 May 2020 20:09:59 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=126158 One of the most common types of graffiti found lining the streets of Pompeii were political graffiti. These

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Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius: Pompeii Scrolls Being Read for the First Time https://brewminate.com/buried-by-the-ash-of-vesuvius-pompeii-scrolls-being-read-for-the-first-time/ Tue, 18 Sep 2018 17:36:39 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=70596 The charred papyrus scroll recovered from Herculaneum is preserved in 12 trays mounted under glass. Here is PHerc.118

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The Graeco-Roman-Etruscan Marvel that Was Pompeii https://brewminate.com/the-graeco-roman-etruscan-marvel-that-was-pompeii/ Sat, 15 Sep 2018 17:38:57 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=69862 Forum, looking toward Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii Pompeii was not always a Roman town. By the mid-sixth century BCE,

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The Fall and Rise and Fall of Pompeii https://brewminate.com/the-fall-and-rise-and-fall-of-pompeii/ Fri, 13 Jul 2018 17:37:28 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=64394 The view inside Pompeii’s old granary (Francesco Lastrucci) The famous archaeological treasure is falling into scandalous decline, even as

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The Grim Reality of the Brothels of Pompeii https://brewminate.com/the-grim-reality-of-the-brothels-of-pompeii/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:37:23 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=57656 Brothels in Pompeii were decorated with murals depicting erotic and exotic scenes: but the reality was far more

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Apocalypse Then: Bulwer-Lytton’s “The Last Days of Pompeii” https://brewminate.com/apocalypse-then-bulwer-lyttons-the-last-days-of-pompeii/ Mon, 02 Apr 2018 17:37:52 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=55847 Cover and illustration from the copy of Bulwer-Lytton’s The Last Days of Pompeii in the special collections of the Getty

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Pompeii: House of the Vettii https://brewminate.com/pompeii-house-of-the-vettii/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 19:05:44 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=45540 View of the Forum with Mount Vesuvius in the distance, Pompeii By Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker / 12.09.2015 Professor of

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