Quotes About Pompeii

Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was irresistible.

'Pompeii' will be PG-13. I think it has to have a level of violence and death in it because you've got a volcano exploding. But it will be another PG-13 movie.

Brazil is living the last hours of Pompeii.

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.

I think when people think of Pompeii, they think it was just destroyed by the volcano. Yes, it was the eruption of the volcano that eventually caused the pyroclastic surge that swept over Pompeii and destroyed it for good. But also, they had to face the effects of a very extreme earthquake and a tidal wave that swept in from the Bay of Naples.

We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.

Pompeya contaba con vino, cereales, lana, metalistería, aceite de oliva, un ambiente de pujante prosperidad y diez atalayas estratégicas empotradas en la muralla de la ciudad. —¡Es un lugar que se propone durar!— exclamé y fue uno de mis comentarios más sagaces.

Like Dionysus, the Egyptian gods reached Rome by way of Campania. In the second century BC, traders on Delos made the acquaintance of Isis and Serapis, whom a priest from Memphis had imported at the beginning of the preceding century. Many of these negotiatores were originally from southern Italy where, with Alexandrian sailors, they spread Nilotic representations. Very soon Pompeii had its Iseum and Pozzuoli its Serapeum.

Most of the Pompeian leaders died fighting and their heads were brought to Caesar for his inspection.

Some were popular sex symbols: graffiti from the first century AD have been found on walls in Pompeii—one Thracian gladiator was "the maiden's prayer and delight" and "the doctor to cure girls." Their images appeared on pots and dishes.

it was at Pompeii, nonetheless, that archaeology was born. It was to come of age in Egypt. Once

It's easy to get lost in the history here—the beautiful art, the ability to walk around a first century city—and forget that thousands of people died here…in hours," Zoe said, glancing into the distance where Mt. Vesuvius was clearly visible, dark against the blue sky.

Almost 2,000 years ago, on August 24, A.D. 79, the seaside town of Pompeii (pom-PAY) was a typical Roman town. Many Romans went there on their ?vacation. They built large houses called villas and planted groves of olive trees along the slopes of a mountain called Mount Vesuvius (vuh-SOO-vee-us).

We were trying, as I irrelevantly analyzed it, to avoid what might be termed a historic mistake. We were trying to understand, that is, whether we were in a preapocalyptic situation, like the European Jews in the thirties or the last citizens of Pompeii, or whether our situation was merely near-apocalyptic, like that of the Cold War inhabitants of New York, London, Washington

At times I see them as if I were walking through the streets of Pompeii before the eruption of Vesuvius. This is one of the historian's delights and, even more, his sorrow. If we see someone doing something for the last time, even just eating a piece of bread, this activity becomes wondrously profound. We participate in the transmutation of the ephemeral into the sacramental. We have inklings of eras during which such a sight was an everyday occurrence.

To a peaceful August in Pompeii, then, saaid Flavia's father, and raised his cup in a toast. Pompeii, they all echoed, and raised their wine cups.

They were like two landowners in Pompeii arguing over who had the better view of Vesuvius.

Camarile ticsite ale Pompeiului debordau, femeile boite, impudice, sterile; barbatii mercantili, mediocri, sarcastici, obositi! Toti zeii repudiati - din Grecia, din Orient, din Egipt - se inhaitau intr-o hora scelerata, rapace, impartindu-si, ranjind, ofrandele sacre si sufletul oamenilor. In vreme ce, la picioarele vezuviului, cetatea statea intr-o rana, hohotind fara griji.

Napoli è la più misteriosa città d'Europa, è la sola città del mondo antico che non sia perita come Ilio, come Ninive, come Babilonia. È la sola città del mondo che non è affondata nell'immane naufragio della civiltà antica. Napoli è una Pompei che non è stata mai sepolta. Non è una città: è un mondo.

bleibt nur in eurem nordischen Nebel und christlichem Weihrauch; laßt uns Heiden unter dem Schutt, unter der Lava ruhen, grabt uns nicht aus, für euch wurde Pompeji, für euch wurden unsere Villen, unsere Bäder, unsere Tempel nicht gebaut. Ihr braucht keine Götter! Uns friert in eurer Welt!

One of the things that struck me when I was a kid and I was learning about Pompeii was these figures that were frozen in the moments of their death. It is very powerful imagery, and it is very emotional and very evocative.

Pompeii was an incredibly corrupt city. Pompeii was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire.

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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.