Pompeii

I had never been to Pompeii and it was a revelation. I had no idea of the size and that it was a city. It had an amphitheatre which held 20,000 people and a large theatre for plays which held 5,000. It is huge and amazing in terms of the preservation and how you can visualise the lives of the people living there. I’ve now started to read Mary Beard’s ‘Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town’ which is very readable, and they’re just like us. Here are some photos.

One of the streets
The Forum
Gateway in a street
Garden in the House of the Faun
Decorated walls inside a house
Beautiful painting of a bird on a wall inside a house
Decorated walls inside a house
Wall painting inside a house
Plaster cast of a man thought to be a mule driver
Large theatre
Spectator
For grinding flour in the bakers
For measuring in the market

 

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