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Destruction Of Pompeii

Main article: Pompeii.

Reconstruction of the eruption of Vesuvius in the docudrama The Last Day of Pompeii (2003).

The destruction of Pompeii is the burial of the city Rome of Pompeii under the ashes of Vesuvius in the year 79.

During this eruption , the nearby towns of Herculaneum , Oplontis and Stabiae were also buried.

This catastrophe would have been approximately 3000 deaths. ^{The end date}

On a date traditionally set at 24 August 79 , the eruption of Vesuvius destroys the city. Pliny the Younger , who was nearby, described the eruption in two letters to Tacitus. Vesuvius began spilling onto the city and those of Herculaneum and Stabiae , nearby, a huge mass of ash, lapilli and lava . According to recent studies, particularly those of the Italian archaeologist Grete Stefani, analysis of coins found in 1974 in the house of gold bracelet dating from the fifteenth greeting Imperial Titus , necessarily subsequent to the beginning of September 79, have recently confirmed this dating .

Description after Pliny the Younger and Pliny the Elder

The Last Day of Pompeii Briullov Karl (1830-1833)
Oil on canvas (456.5 x 651 cm) - State Russian Museum ( St. Petersburg )

It is now 10:00 am, August 24 we are 79 AD, Pliny the Elder and his nephew, Pliny the Younger , are in Misenum , seat of the Roman fleet. There were few shocks in recent days, but nothing serious.

That Pliny did not know: that the lava plug that blocks the fire just jumped from Vesuvius. Fifteen minutes later, the wife of Pliny the Elder noted him a huge cloud over the Bay of Naples.

According to the writings of Pliny the Younger that cloud is shaped like a pine tree, also be called the cloud from the ^twentieth century a "Plinian plume.

Ash, pushed by wind, are beginning to cover the Bay of Naples. Pompeii is beginning to be buried. Pliny the Elder then receives a call with a friend. As he wrote a book of Natural History, he is arming a galley, to cross the bay, both to observe the eruption more closely than to help his friend. He starts to Herculaneum.

At 13 hours, a rain of ash and lapilli fell on Pompeii (animation: See also

Bibliography

Book sources

Quid , Plon , Paris

^{a and b} Quid , 2004, Dominique and Michele Fremy, Editions Robert Lafont, p 140 B

Other books

N Monteix "And if the eruption had occurred in the fall," History , June, 2004, p. 49
GFR, "The date of the destruction of Pompeii postponed for a few months", in Le Vif / L'Express , 4 October 2007 [ Full text (accessed October 11, 2008.)]