Where is Herculaneum located? What happened to the city? It is in Rome‚ near Pompeii. Why is Herculaneum important to archeology today? It is important because archeaologists know so many different things about it like what their diet was‚ how they lived and how they made their money‚ and so many little details. They have many different aspects and can put them together to make a society. It gives archeologists a big idea on how societies were back then. What are some of the challenges that
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client relationship were: 1- The client was to support his patron at political elections and do any favours that might be required. 2- The patron might assist in legal matters or give a small gift or free meal. C) Essentially in Pompeii and Herculaneum political life was bases around client patron relationship and often as a favour the clients of the patrons would go around either telling people to vote for a particular person or voting for themselves. The political graffiti; “I beg you to make
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baths and the sports field (palaestra) ‘spa’ comes from the latin ‘sales per aqua’‚ meaning ‘health from water’. This shows us that cleanliness and good hygiene were extremely important values in Roman society The quality of water in Pompeii and Herculaneum was of huge importance to its
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Baths * There were 4 public baths in Pompeii: the Stabian‚ the Forum‚ the Central and the Amphitheatre Baths. Herculaneum had 2 sets of baths: one near the centre called the Forum Baths‚ and the other on the marina outside the walls by the sea‚ known as the Suburban Baths. * Apodyterium- a change room. Caldarium- a hot bath. Tepidarium- a warm steam room. Frigidarium- a cold bath. Thermae- a bath. * Public baths were a very social place where friends met not only to bathe‚ but to
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what does the evidence reveal about social class in Pompeii and Herculaneum. ______________________________________________________________________________ The social classes in Pompeii and Herculaneum are created using a hierarchy with each class determining your social‚ legal and political privileges. A variety of archeological and epigraphic including architecture‚ plaster casts‚ graffiti‚ and statues throughout Pompeii and Herculaneum reveal this along with source A and B. Source A depicts an image
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restaurants or directly on the street‚ they could still make a good profit. Fishing was an even bigger profession in Herculaneum; in fact it is thought it was the biggest profession there. Various pieces of fishing equipment have been found in both Herculaneum and Pompeii; items such as fishing nets‚ hooks‚ sinkers and fish skeletons have been uncovered throughout both of the cities. In Herculaneum‚ a boat shed has been uncovered‚ and they contained many bodies of people who had taken cover from the lahar
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Bodies were first discovered at pompeii because there was a large number of them but now are being discovered at Herculaneum. Actual forms of bodies have been preserved at Pompeii which makes it far more accessible for visitors to see actual people and what and where they were when the eruption happened. Sara Bisel‚ who was the first to study human remains at Herculaneum was concerned about what to do with the skeletons once they were exposed. Casting techniques are used to create replicas
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1) What is the Castellum. A castellum is a building that distributed water throughout Pompeii and Herculaneum. The task of the castellum was to spread water all over Rome for public and private use. In Source 1‚ it shows three lead pipes which transferred water all over the city of Pompeii. The bricks encompassing the water narrow the water allowing it to fit through the pipes. 2) Why does the engineer Vitruvius recommend a three part water distribution in a town? A three part water distribution
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It is likely that virtually the whole population of nearby Herculaneum‚ which suffered a similar fate‚ perished in the pyroclastic flow. They had made it as far as the seafront‚ but tsunamis that had accompanied the eruption made it impossible to escape by ship. It is difficult to tell how many people were killed‚ only 2‚000 bodies have been recovered from Pompeii and surrounding towns‚ and some assume that most of the inhabitants of Pompeii escaped. Although‚ recent accounts make it clear that
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Pompeii was a great city in ancient Rome that was abruptly destroyed when the seemingly harmless and docile Mt. Vesuvius unexpectedly erupted destroying the city of Pompeii and the bordering city of Herculaneum. Before this tragedy struck Pompeii was a very wealthy city and a staple of Roman culture. Located just 10 Kilometers from Mount Vesuvius‚ Pompeii appeared to be nothing more than a wealthy city with a view of great mountain until its one defining moment in history changed everything. Where
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