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selenakLoading up all my Naples pictures before June will max out the monthly bandwidth, but I thought I might try just the Pompeji ones, and lo and behold, I'm still within the limit. So, on the continuation of the ancient world theme
Have an overview from the ancient city walls first:
Pompeji has two theatres (and a stadium). The larger one:
And next door, the smaller one:
If you were a Patrician, you lived in style, like this:
Casca of Caesar assassination fame lived nearby, but his house isn't as well preserved, so you get this one. There are a lot of taverns in Pompeji, with and without bordellos or thermae attached. Here is one example:
One of the biggest Thermae still has a lot of its wall decorations and ornaments. As for example:
The inhabitants must have sought protection there when the ash fell, as it was one of the biggest buldings. In vain:
I have to say I'll never see those bodies again the same way after the Doctor Who episode The Fires of Pompeji. Not just because of the look the slowly-turning-to-stone soothsayers had, which is similar, but also because that episode made the ancient catastrophe real to me in a way none of the other big fictionalisations, on and off screen, of Pompeji ever did.
On a lighter note, there is evidence not just the Seventh (audio) and Tenth (tv show) Doctor were in Pompeji, but also the Third. Why, you ask? Because on one street stone, there is an exact copy of the Master detection device that he uses in the episode The Time Monster. *veg* Sadly, every time about a gazillion tourists were standing around it, and so I could not take a picture. You'll have to believe my word.
In non DW terms, the depiction in question is actually meant to show the direction of the next brothel. Which has incredibly tiny working places for the inhabitants, but on the other hand some of the wall decorations still survive:
The brothel is quite close to the Forum. Have a look:
The biggest temple at said forum was the one of Apollo:
Let's visit some more of the hobnobbing Patricians:
The Julian-Claudian imperial family had their own villa at Pompeji, which because of one of the frescoes is called the Villa Dei Misteri these days. Now this is the one part of Pompeji I never managed to see on my previous visit many years ago, as it's located on the other side of town, but this time I made it a must. After all, it has the best preserved frescoes. And I was incredibly lucky - for all of ten minutes, I had the villa all to myself (must have caught the ten minutes between groups:
Some of the frescoes are not in Pompeji but in the Archaeological Museum in Naples to better preserve them; they also have a showcase to show which tools the ancient painters used:
We know of both male and female painters, thanks to Pliny; here's a female painter shown in action:
And some of the most incredible details from Pompeiji in the museum which originally hail from these villas:
In the Villa dei Misteri, too, is an ancient Pompeian left:
Ave atque vale, Pompeji:
Have an overview from the ancient city walls first:
Pompeji has two theatres (and a stadium). The larger one:
And next door, the smaller one:
If you were a Patrician, you lived in style, like this:
Casca of Caesar assassination fame lived nearby, but his house isn't as well preserved, so you get this one. There are a lot of taverns in Pompeji, with and without bordellos or thermae attached. Here is one example:
One of the biggest Thermae still has a lot of its wall decorations and ornaments. As for example:
The inhabitants must have sought protection there when the ash fell, as it was one of the biggest buldings. In vain:
I have to say I'll never see those bodies again the same way after the Doctor Who episode The Fires of Pompeji. Not just because of the look the slowly-turning-to-stone soothsayers had, which is similar, but also because that episode made the ancient catastrophe real to me in a way none of the other big fictionalisations, on and off screen, of Pompeji ever did.
On a lighter note, there is evidence not just the Seventh (audio) and Tenth (tv show) Doctor were in Pompeji, but also the Third. Why, you ask? Because on one street stone, there is an exact copy of the Master detection device that he uses in the episode The Time Monster. *veg* Sadly, every time about a gazillion tourists were standing around it, and so I could not take a picture. You'll have to believe my word.
In non DW terms, the depiction in question is actually meant to show the direction of the next brothel. Which has incredibly tiny working places for the inhabitants, but on the other hand some of the wall decorations still survive:
The brothel is quite close to the Forum. Have a look:
The biggest temple at said forum was the one of Apollo:
Let's visit some more of the hobnobbing Patricians:
The Julian-Claudian imperial family had their own villa at Pompeji, which because of one of the frescoes is called the Villa Dei Misteri these days. Now this is the one part of Pompeji I never managed to see on my previous visit many years ago, as it's located on the other side of town, but this time I made it a must. After all, it has the best preserved frescoes. And I was incredibly lucky - for all of ten minutes, I had the villa all to myself (must have caught the ten minutes between groups:
Some of the frescoes are not in Pompeji but in the Archaeological Museum in Naples to better preserve them; they also have a showcase to show which tools the ancient painters used:
We know of both male and female painters, thanks to Pliny; here's a female painter shown in action:
And some of the most incredible details from Pompeiji in the museum which originally hail from these villas:
In the Villa dei Misteri, too, is an ancient Pompeian left:
Ave atque vale, Pompeji:
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