Professor Edith Hall

And of course, it got linked in with Christian stories of Judeo-Christian stories of humans being wiped out by floods because of their wickedness. It resonated with the story of Noah and the flood, the Deucalion and Pyrrha story, the other flood. Sodom and Gomorrah a bit maybe as well. Absolutely.

So apocalyptic punishment for decadence and overextending your empires, that resonates very profoundly, which allowed it to be one of the stories from pagan antiquity that were assimilated very easily to Christian morality. And that sort of continued, I suppose, in terms of its acceptability. And that was further ramified by the excavations at Pompeii. Now, that wasn't flood, that was volcanoes.

So apocalyptic punishment for decadence and overextending your empires, that resonates very profoundly, which allowed it to be one of the stories from pagan antiquity that were assimilated very easily to Christian morality. And that sort of continued, I suppose, in terms of its acceptability. And that was further ramified by the excavations at Pompeii. Now, that wasn't flood, that was volcanoes.

So apocalyptic punishment for decadence and overextending your empires, that resonates very profoundly, which allowed it to be one of the stories from pagan antiquity that were assimilated very easily to Christian morality. And that sort of continued, I suppose, in terms of its acceptability. And that was further ramified by the excavations at Pompeii. Now, that wasn't flood, that was volcanoes.

But, you know, Pompeii was first dug up much, much earlier in the Renaissance. A few workmen dug up a few completely obscene images and hastily covered them up. Yes, the secret cabinet, yes. They thought it was devil's work. I mean, they at that time thought that the devil had left these sort of huge fallacies.

But, you know, Pompeii was first dug up much, much earlier in the Renaissance. A few workmen dug up a few completely obscene images and hastily covered them up. Yes, the secret cabinet, yes. They thought it was devil's work. I mean, they at that time thought that the devil had left these sort of huge fallacies.

But, you know, Pompeii was first dug up much, much earlier in the Renaissance. A few workmen dug up a few completely obscene images and hastily covered them up. Yes, the secret cabinet, yes. They thought it was devil's work. I mean, they at that time thought that the devil had left these sort of huge fallacies.

But when it was properly dug up, which was the 18th century, the idea and then Pliny is read, the account of the volcano and the excavations at Pompeii do indeed show an extraordinarily lively mercantile society, thoroughly hybrid, ethnically mixed. with a lot of pleasure going on, you know, bordellos and theatre, rude graffiti, murals showing really quite extraordinarily rude sexual things.

But when it was properly dug up, which was the 18th century, the idea and then Pliny is read, the account of the volcano and the excavations at Pompeii do indeed show an extraordinarily lively mercantile society, thoroughly hybrid, ethnically mixed. with a lot of pleasure going on, you know, bordellos and theatre, rude graffiti, murals showing really quite extraordinarily rude sexual things.

But when it was properly dug up, which was the 18th century, the idea and then Pliny is read, the account of the volcano and the excavations at Pompeii do indeed show an extraordinarily lively mercantile society, thoroughly hybrid, ethnically mixed. with a lot of pleasure going on, you know, bordellos and theatre, rude graffiti, murals showing really quite extraordinarily rude sexual things.

As you say, the secret museum in Naples, they were kept under lock and key for a very long time, the more obscene images. So Pompeii became yet another example. And of course, today, apocalyptic fiction of one kind or another has never been more popular. I've heard of the term apocalypse porn. There's a whole sub-genre out there.

As you say, the secret museum in Naples, they were kept under lock and key for a very long time, the more obscene images. So Pompeii became yet another example. And of course, today, apocalyptic fiction of one kind or another has never been more popular. I've heard of the term apocalypse porn. There's a whole sub-genre out there.

As you say, the secret museum in Naples, they were kept under lock and key for a very long time, the more obscene images. So Pompeii became yet another example. And of course, today, apocalyptic fiction of one kind or another has never been more popular. I've heard of the term apocalypse porn. There's a whole sub-genre out there.

I've heard of a whole sub, there's a whole sub genres out there often set in the future, you know, after whatever we humans do to the planet, we're going to have flood and fire then endless TV shows with the premise of there are just a few survivors. Atlantis sort of underlies far more stories than those just about Atlantis.

I've heard of a whole sub, there's a whole sub genres out there often set in the future, you know, after whatever we humans do to the planet, we're going to have flood and fire then endless TV shows with the premise of there are just a few survivors. Atlantis sort of underlies far more stories than those just about Atlantis.

I've heard of a whole sub, there's a whole sub genres out there often set in the future, you know, after whatever we humans do to the planet, we're going to have flood and fire then endless TV shows with the premise of there are just a few survivors. Atlantis sort of underlies far more stories than those just about Atlantis.

Oh, it's right there in the Renaissance when people start reading Plato. People try to find it. And that, of course, is the great age of the first great European colonisation of the Americas and India for the sort of 15th century onwards. So wherever they went, they were trying to find Atlantis. The literalist reading of Plato. I don't think they understood it as fiction at all.

Oh, it's right there in the Renaissance when people start reading Plato. People try to find it. And that, of course, is the great age of the first great European colonisation of the Americas and India for the sort of 15th century onwards. So wherever they went, they were trying to find Atlantis. The literalist reading of Plato. I don't think they understood it as fiction at all.

Oh, it's right there in the Renaissance when people start reading Plato. People try to find it. And that, of course, is the great age of the first great European colonisation of the Americas and India for the sort of 15th century onwards. So wherever they went, they were trying to find Atlantis. The literalist reading of Plato. I don't think they understood it as fiction at all.

I think quite the opposite. I think that's a fairly recent academic proposition as we come to understand Plato's politics more. I mean, Atlantis has been discovered, you know, in the Dogger Bank.