Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

Oh, we do know it was, didn't we? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's one of the earliest passages that mentions Herculaneum is a narrative. We only have a fragment of this, a narrative of the social war. And the Roman general arrives with his army, and he finds this guard post, a stronghold, between two rivers.

Oh, we do know it was, didn't we? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's one of the earliest passages that mentions Herculaneum is a narrative. We only have a fragment of this, a narrative of the social war. And the Roman general arrives with his army, and he finds this guard post, a stronghold, between two rivers.

Oh, we do know it was, didn't we? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's one of the earliest passages that mentions Herculaneum is a narrative. We only have a fragment of this, a narrative of the social war. And the Roman general arrives with his army, and he finds this guard post, a stronghold, between two rivers.

So the thing we know about Herculaneum was it was between two rivers, which would make it really easy to defend. We can't find the rivers. We know where one was. It's right on the edge of the site. We can't find the other, though. It must be just past the theatre, we think.

So the thing we know about Herculaneum was it was between two rivers, which would make it really easy to defend. We can't find the rivers. We know where one was. It's right on the edge of the site. We can't find the other, though. It must be just past the theatre, we think.

So the thing we know about Herculaneum was it was between two rivers, which would make it really easy to defend. We can't find the rivers. We know where one was. It's right on the edge of the site. We can't find the other, though. It must be just past the theatre, we think.

But the whole area, there will have been many rivers, because what you've got is volcanic flow coming down to the sea, which then gets riven by a series of watercourses, which create rivers through the soft toothed.

But the whole area, there will have been many rivers, because what you've got is volcanic flow coming down to the sea, which then gets riven by a series of watercourses, which create rivers through the soft toothed.

But the whole area, there will have been many rivers, because what you've got is volcanic flow coming down to the sea, which then gets riven by a series of watercourses, which create rivers through the soft toothed.

Absolutely. This is the paradox of living with a volcano. English people find it really hard to get their heads around. Why on earth did anyone live on the Bay of Naples? You have to take a page from Seneca, who, when there was a great earthquake a little before the eruption, and he was asked, and he was writing a work of science, He was asked, should we evacuate?

Absolutely. This is the paradox of living with a volcano. English people find it really hard to get their heads around. Why on earth did anyone live on the Bay of Naples? You have to take a page from Seneca, who, when there was a great earthquake a little before the eruption, and he was asked, and he was writing a work of science, He was asked, should we evacuate?

Absolutely. This is the paradox of living with a volcano. English people find it really hard to get their heads around. Why on earth did anyone live on the Bay of Naples? You have to take a page from Seneca, who, when there was a great earthquake a little before the eruption, and he was asked, and he was writing a work of science, He was asked, should we evacuate?

Is it too dangerous to live in this area? He said, look, nowhere is safe to live. And the truth is the whole west coast of Italy is volcanic. And Senec said, you know, it might blow anywhere. You can't be confident of the earth. So just stay then, he said. Just stay. And people do stay. around volcanoes because they are tremendously fertile. It's like you're living on fertilizer.

Is it too dangerous to live in this area? He said, look, nowhere is safe to live. And the truth is the whole west coast of Italy is volcanic. And Senec said, you know, it might blow anywhere. You can't be confident of the earth. So just stay then, he said. Just stay. And people do stay. around volcanoes because they are tremendously fertile. It's like you're living on fertilizer.

Is it too dangerous to live in this area? He said, look, nowhere is safe to live. And the truth is the whole west coast of Italy is volcanic. And Senec said, you know, it might blow anywhere. You can't be confident of the earth. So just stay then, he said. Just stay. And people do stay. around volcanoes because they are tremendously fertile. It's like you're living on fertilizer.

You can grow three crops a year instead of one crop a year. And in that mild atmosphere of the bay, it's just glorious.

You can grow three crops a year instead of one crop a year. And in that mild atmosphere of the bay, it's just glorious.

You can grow three crops a year instead of one crop a year. And in that mild atmosphere of the bay, it's just glorious.

No, no, no. It punches above its weight, doesn't it? It makes no sense to us that a town of, they say, 4,000 inhabitants. I say that's too many. I can't put them within the walls. I say 3,000 maximum. It could be 2,500. But it really doesn't matter. It's not a big... To us, it's...

No, no, no. It punches above its weight, doesn't it? It makes no sense to us that a town of, they say, 4,000 inhabitants. I say that's too many. I can't put them within the walls. I say 3,000 maximum. It could be 2,500. But it really doesn't matter. It's not a big... To us, it's...