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The Destruction of Pompeii
© 2006 Mr. Craft’s Class and CrossRoads Middle School
Life in Pompeii
• Harbor town• Center for import and export for
six hundred years
• Influence of traders
Life in Pompeii
• Pompeii streets lined with
– Bars
– Taverns
– shops
Life in Pompeii
• The good and the bad– Lots of money for local economy– Lots of people who want the money– chambermaids
Life in Pompeii
• Paintings of gods and goddesses– Venus is patron goddess of Pompeii
• Shops and workshops operated by slaves and owned by free men.
Life in Pompeii
• Main commercial center was the…?– Forum
• Center of…– Government– Business– law
Life in Pompeii
• Bars– No seating– Sold hot drinks– Folks wrote on the walls while they
drank– Guest rooms above
Let’s take a bath
• Three public bath houses– Forum baths– Stabian baths– Central baths
• Bath houses served as places to bathe, swim, or exercise
Let’s take a bath
• Bath houses– Choose your temperature!– Impressive system to heat the
water•hypocaust•Series of boilers•Operated by servants
Let’s take in a show
• Two theatres– Large theatre – no roof
•~5000 people
– Small theatre – enclosed roof•~1200 people
Let’s take in a show
• Amphitheatre– ~20,000 people– Gladiator contests– Riot in 59 A.D.
Mountain of Fire
• Vesuvius sits ~ 6 miles from the center of Pompeii
• Destroyed all of Pompeii– Herculaneum– Stabiae
• Ash traveled 1000 km
Mountain of Fire
• Pliny the younger– “enveloped in night, only the shrill
cries of women, the wailing of children, the shouting of men could be heard”.
Mountain of Fire
• Pompeii covered in ash up to 21 feet deep (7 meters)
• Many people died because of the poisonous sulfur gasses
• Excavations continue still today!• That’s it!