ARTHIST 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Isthmus Of The Fauces, Pediment, Toga
17 Apr 2017
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A: veristic portrait, a pure republican tradition. (republican era: republican era tends to be somewhat more modest, realistic, and natural compared to early imperial works. ) Trying to set his image apart from the image of nero. Buried a large area of the countryside, so not just pompeii and herculaneum, but also other areas have debris that preserved a lot of archaeological material. It is also important because a lot of roman authors talked about it. Pliny the younger (famous for his letters) was at his uncle"s house at a place thats. Western from the bay of naples, and we have a letter about the eruption from him. 1922 eruption of vesuvius (note tree like shape of cloud, depiction of ash fall), illustrating the plinian phase. Eruption phase 1: plinian phase - volcanic cloud, ash and pumice fall. Eruption phase 2: pyroclastic phase - hot gas, debris. Passage about what he saw about vesuvius.
