As I’ve created a few podcasts and an article on Pompeii I thought I’d put these on one page along with the sources I have used. Podcasts. The original podcast I did focuses on the history of Pompeii, how it developed and what it was when disaster struck. Pompeii wasn’t a city Rome founded or …
I hope you enjoyed the discussion and the insight Jess was able to give. Jessica Venner is an AHRC-M3C funded Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham studying Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology. Her thesis is on the subject of subsistence and commercial food cultivation in the urban gardens of Pompeii. Jessica previously undertook an …
Recently Jessica Venner (@missjlvenner) tweeted about gardens in Pompeii and this included a fantastic image you can see below. The photo shows a replanted garden in Pompeii with Vesuvius looming beyond. Much of Pompeii is couched in what was unearthed and discovered. The gardens, however, allow us to see Pompeii from another perspective. Venner has …
Prior to AD 79. Vesuvius had been a threat to those living near it much earlier than those at Pompeii and Herculaneum would later bear witness to. The Avellino eruption, dating to 2,000 – 1,500 BC had buried local bronze age settlements and this eruption surpassed the brutality of the later famous one. It has …
