CLST 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Johann Joachim Winckelmann, William Gell, Military Engineering
6 Sep 2016
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Lecture 7, 8, 9, 10 september 28, 29, october 1,5 history of excavations and pompeii"s remains . Emperor titus himself rushed over with troops to help in relief effort. Property of people who died without wills donated to relief fund. Senators appointed to see if towns could be rebuilt. Digging was dangerous; in time lost interest (if they wanted to find someone in the ash, they couldn"t because they didn"t know where there house even was anymore. Site lost; survivors eventually died so the memory lost also (200-300 years later, people couldn"t go back and say that that is where pompeii was because they were unsure) Legends grew, names of sites forgotten: civitas shades of atlantis (name of pompeii was even lost, so people started to call it civitas which means the city. ) Herculaneum also lost, modern city grew on top (resina). They only did this because they had no idea that herculaneum was laying beneath them.
