Year 12 Ancient History Pompeii & Herculaneum

Useful Websites
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Browse through the following websites when you have some spare time. You are sure to
find some useful information and images on Pompeii and Herculaneum. The websites
have been broken down according to the NSW HSC Ancient History Syllabus checklist.
Happy reading and viewing!!
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Geographical setting
Article: 'Bronze-Age Venice', Archaeology, July/August 2002
http://www.archaeology.org/0207/newsbriefs/bronzeage.html
Destruction of Bronze Age village by Avellino pumice
http://www.meridies-nola.org/nola/villaggiopreistoricoing.htm
Biography of Pliny the Elder
http://www.livius.org/pi-pm/pliny/pliny_e.html
'A fishy tale from the University of Bradford'
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/admin/pr/pressreleases/2002/fishy.htm

A Brief History of Pompeii

Sulla's attack on Pompeii
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/archsci/field_proj/anampomp/aapp_urban5.html
House of Caecilius Iucundus
http://www2.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf/pagine/B2EF6C410C7A377CC1256ABF002AD5F7?
OpenDocument
Pompeii Forum Project
http://pompeii.virginia.edu/

Written Sources for the 79AD Eruption

Critical inquiry, Question 1 (Pliny the Elder)
http://www.livius.org/pi-pm/pliny/pliny_e2.html
Textbook page/s: 21
The eruption of Vesuvius from the Soprintendenza di Pompeii
http://www2.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf/pagine/E4331B05D118F066C1256ABC005A2C8A?
OpenDocument
Biography of Pliny the Younger
http://www.livius.org/pi-pm/pliny/pliny_y.htm
Pliny the Elder's Natural History
http://www.livius.org/pi-pm/pliny/pliny_e3.html#history
Pliny the Elder's Natural History
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/home.html

Scientific Analysis of the 79AD Eruption

Vesuvius
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_vesuvius.html
Haraldur Sigurdsson 'Earth explorer' in Archaeology
http://www.archaeology.org/0007/abstracts/earth.html
Eruption of Mount St Helens
http://www.olywa.net/radu/valerie/StHelens.html

Discovery and Early Excavation

Dig deeper, Question 1
(Anglo-American Project in Pompeii)
http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/pompeii/field/9.html
Textbook page/s: 50
The influence of ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture on Sir John Soane
http://www.soane.org/
Pompeii: History of the excavations
http://www2.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf/pagine/86CEFC47EC002C16C1256AB6003247E1?
OpenDocument
History of the excavation of Herculaneum
http://www2.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf/pagine/81BE848D21E75728C1256AC00047DC26?
OpenDocument
Pompeian wall painting
http://www1.hollins.edu/docs/academics/divisioni/classical%20studies/saloweyca/clas%20245/vettii/vettiipage.htm
'Chasing Maiuri: three perspectives'
http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/pompeii/journals.html
Garden of the Fugitives
http://www2.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf/pagine/21B545CB4303B551C1256AC2003450B0?
OpenDocument

Australian Researchers at Pompeii

Recording and analysis of standing structures
http://www.bsr.ac.uk/ENG/sub_arch/BSR_Pomp_Record01.htm
Textbook page/s: 53
AAPP excavation report on bars in Pompeii
http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/pompeii/field/3.html
Evidence of Life and Death
Critical inquiry, Question 2
(Roman birth control practices)
http://www.unc.edu/courses/rometech/public/content/special/Stephanie_Doerfler/Contraception_and_Abortion.html
Textbook page/s: 69
Critical inquiry, Question 2a
(Article: 'Lower Class Women in the Roman Economy' by Susan Treggiari)
http://www.uwo.ca/english/florilegium/vol1/treggiari.html
Textbook page/s: 72

Death and burial

http://www.cambridgescp.com/latin/clc/onlineA/clc_onlineA_b1_s7.php
Pompeii: the cult of the dead
http://www2.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf/pagine/877D61C5B2AD1D80C1256ABC0059C020?
OpenDocument
House of Julius Polybius
http://www.stoa.org/projects/ph/house?id=15

Public Spaces
Review and revise, Question 2
(Gladiators)
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/gladiatr/types.htm
Textbook page/s: 86
Interactive town plan of Pompeii
http://pompeya.desdeinter.net/pompeya.htm
Plan of Pompeii
http://users.ipa.net/~tanker/pompeii.htm
The history of plumbing: Pompeii and Herculaneum
http://www.theplumber.com/pom.html
View of the Pompeii Forum from above
http://pompeii.virginia.edu/local/pVII_7-9_bal_wj.jpg
A comparison with the Imperial Forum in Rome
http://www.capitolium.org/english.htm
Latin inscription from the Building of Eumachia, Pompeii
http://pompeii.virginia.edu/pompeii/tti/eb-insc/eb-insc-top.html
New recording methods and technology used in the Pompeii Forum Project
http://pompeii.virginia.edu/pompeii/instrument/inst.html
Gladiator: the real story
http://www.exovedate.com/the_real_gladiator.html
Wall inscriptions about gladiators
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pompeii-inscriptions.html
Article about Herculaneum
http://www.roman-empire.net/articles/article-011.html
Collegium of the Augustales
http://herculano.desdeinter.net/erc00030.htm

Private Houses
Critical inquiry, Question 1
(Battle of Issus)
http://www.fact-index.com/b/ba/battle_of_issus.html
Textbook page/s: 97
Critical inquiry, Question 1
(Alexander Mosaic)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/pompeii_art_gallery_07.shtml

Textbook page/s: 97
Review and revise, Question 2
(House of the Surgeon)
http://hsc.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/antiqua/instru.html
Textbook page/s: 99
Essay on the patronclient relationship
http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/Exams/enns.html
The Pompeian House
http://gillonj.tripod.com/pompeianhouse/index.htm
Artist's impression of a typical Roman house
http://home.att.net/~b.b.major/domuscol.jpg
Roman houses: Pompeii and Herculaneum
http://www.cambridgescp.com/latin/clc/onlineA/clc_onlineA_b1_s1.php
British School at Rome: 3-D reconstructions of Pompeian houses
http://www.proxima-veritati.auckland.ac.nz/insula9/Pages/Page_2_menu.html
Images of Roman houses
http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/house_sources.html
Atrium houses with a list of rooms
http://www.villaivlilla.com/homes.htm
Sample plan of a Roman house based on houses in Pompeii and Herculaneum
http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/house.html
Pompeian houses at Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompeii
http://www2.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf/pagine/12476F2B50FE9D78C1256AB60034F720?
OpenDocument
Examine a Pompeian wall painting from the House of Gavius Rufus
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jjd5t/roman-ptg/top.html
Review of a German article on private toilets
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-03-16.html
Pompeian households: an on-line companion
http://www.stoa.org/projects/ph/home
Virtual tour of the House of the Faun
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pompeii/pmpReco.html
Images from the House of the Faun, including the Alexander Mosaic
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jjd5t/region-vi/faun/faun-table1.html
Houses of Pompeii database: House of the Vettii
http://www.stoa.org/projects/ph/house?id=18
Images from the House of the Vettii
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jjd5t/region-vi/vettii/vettii-table1.html
AAPP's excavation of the House of the Surgeon
http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/pompeii/field/11.html
Interactive map of Herculaneum
http://herculano.desdeinter.net/ercolano.htm

House of the Mosaic Atrium, Herculaneum

http://herculano.desdeinter.net/erc00125.htm
House of the Wooden Partition, Herculaneum
http://www2.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf/pagine/F42B702F27CBC00FC1256AC000512190?
OpenDocument
Images from the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum
http://www2.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf/b4604a8b566ce010c125684d00471e00/3169f4b5db02fd19c1
256cdf0051c7ce!OpenDocument
Article: 'Herculaneum' by Iain Dickson
http://www.roman-empire.net/articles/article-011.html
Sculptures from the Villa of the Papyri
http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/Everyone/Pompeii/Herculaneum/sculpture.html

Aspects of Social Life

Critical inquiry, Question 2
(Role and responsibilities of public priestesses in Roman society)
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/~noy/roman12.htm
Textbook page/s: 112
Dig deeper, Question 1
(Article: 'Slavery in the Roman Empire: numbers and origins' by John Madden)
http://www.ucd.ie/classics/96/Madden96.html
Textbook page/s: 116
Roman dress
http://www.roman-empire.net/society/soc-dress.html
Pictures and plan of Fullonica Stephani
http://pompeya.desdeinter.net/fstephani.html
Soprintendenza di Pompei: Fullonica Stephani
http://www2.pompeiisites.org/Database/pompei/Pompei2.nsf/pagine/C2502D950F45425DC1256B35004199E8?
OpenDocument
Roman clothing
http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/clothing2.html
Article: 'Ancient Roman women: following the clues' by Dr Suzanne Dixon
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/roman_women_01.shtml
Imperial women of ancient Rome
http://dominae.fws1.com/imperial_women/
Article: 'Ancient Roman Women: A Look at their Lives' by Moya K. Mason
http://www.moyak.com/researcher/resume/papers/roman_women.html
Roman women
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/~noy/roman16.htm
Poems of Sulpicia
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/sulpicia-anth.shtml
Inscriptions
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pompeii-inscriptions.html
Inscription from the House of Julia Felix
http://www.lamp.ac.uk/~noy/roman16.htm

Article: 'Lower class women in the Roman economy' by Susan Treggiari

http://www.uwo.ca/english/florilegium/vol1/treggiari.html
Roman prostitutes
http://www.angelfire.com/grrl/malibu_selina/papers/prostitutes.html
The Grand lupanar at VII.xii.1819
http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/italy_except_rome_and_sicily/pompeii/ac880914.html
Pantheon of Roman gods
http://www.roman-empire.net/religion/pantheon.html
Images of the collegium of the Augustales, Herculaneum
http://herculano.desdeinter.net/erc00030.html
Roman religion
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/roman_religion_gallery.shtml

Ancient Wonders Modern Problems

Restoring and interpreting a fresco in the House of the Golden Bracelet
http://www2.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf/b4604a8b566ce010c125684d00471e00/843438f1f68068dac1
256b0200559be5!OpenDocument
Textbook page/s: 122
Critical inquiry, Question 1
(Article: 'Villa of the Papyri: To dig or not to dig?')
http://www.forbes.com/2002/05/15/0514conn_print.html
Textbook page/s: 125
Dig deeper
(Jorvik Viking Centre)
http://www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/jorvik-navigation.htm
Textbook page/s: 128
UNESCO World Heritage List
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=829
About UNESCO
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=3328&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
World Monuments Fund
http://www.wmf.org/
Urgent postcard from Pompeii
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/cwa/issues/cwa4/pompeii/news.htm
Article: 'Pompeii puts its house in order', UNESCO Courier
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1999_July-August/ai_55413366
Anglo-American Project in Pompeii: video of 2002 excavation
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/video/pompeii.html
Anglo-American Project in Pompeii: preservation
http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/pompeii/preservation.html
Restoring ancient Stabiae
http://www.stabiae.org/
The illegal antiquities market
http://www.indiana.edu/~swasey/matrix/ael/ael_mod06.htm

About.com links to a variety of sites describing the history and excavation of the Villa of the Papyri
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/villaofthepapyri/
The Philodemus Project, Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/philodemus/philhome.htm
Casa del Menandro: description of room 19 and corridor L
http://www.stoa.org/projects/ph/rooms?houseid=9#189
New finds at Herculaneum: discovery of 48 more victims of Vesuvius
http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/herculaneum.html