Civic Life Interrupted: Nightmare and Destiny on August 24, A.D. 79
Dunham Professor of History of Art and Classics
Professor Kleiner examines the civic, commercial, and religious architecture of Pompeii, including its forum, basilica, temples, and bath complexes, as preserved by the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Professor Kleiner explores the civic, commercial, and religious buildings of Pompeii, an overview made possible only because of an historical happenstance--the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, which buried the city at the height of its development. While the lecture features the resort town's public architecture--its forum, basilica, temples, amphitheater, theater, and bath complexes--Professor Kleiner also describes such fixtures of daily life as a bakery and a fast food restaurant. The lecture culminates with a brief overview of tomb architecture in Pompeii and a moving account of what happened to the inhabitants of the city of Pompeii when disaster struck.
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