Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Apocolocyntosis, October Horse, Main Source

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Christopher Brown

Document Summary

Graffiti referring to gladiators fulleries clothing cleaning plants. Volcanic eruption earth tremors experienced a few days before the eruption the volcano begins to erupt on august 27, ad 79: rock and gas climbed 10 miles into the sky, which wind drove over. Casts pumice stones and rocks on pompeii. Over 100 million tones of pumice, stones and ash fall on pompeii. Herculaneum rather than pompeii: a second pyroclastic surge sent deadly gas into pompeii, a third pyroclastic surge emerged and hit pompeii on the third day the volcano weakened after 18 hrs. Pliny the elder and pliny the younger both witnessed the eruption. Pliny the elder went to help friends caught by the eruption. Pliny the younger (the nephew of pliny the younger) also witnessed the eruption and wrote about it after the event. He described the pyroclastic surges, but his description was not believed until modern times.