Dr. Jessica Venner
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The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii
And that's where the coastline was.
The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii
And so, yeah, so Herculeanum was completely destroyed quite early on.
The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii
And so volcanic eruption, it keeps going.
The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii
People are getting stuck inside houses now because the pumice has got a couple of metres high.
The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii
This is when we have Pliny the Younger saying they realized his uncle's had a sleep.
The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii
Especially if you were a Roman elite male, you had to look like you were keeping your composure.
The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii
That made you a very good, virtuous man.
The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii
And so Pliny the Younger is depicting his uncle as that way.
The Ancients
The Last Days of Pompeii
He might not have been doing this.