Professor Gillen Wood will deliver a talk at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Friday titled “The Volcano Lover: Sir William Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei and the Craze for Vesuvius.” Join us to learn more about Sir William Hamilton’s research on Mount Vesuvius and see Campi Phlegraei for yourself!
This event is free and open to all. Refreshments will be served. More details here.
I couldn’t stop taking pictures of Vesuvius. No words can describe what I’m feeling to see this beauty in person. I’ve been dreaming of visiting Vesuvius since I was 5 when I received a book about Vesuvius and Pompeii.
I booked a wonderful Airbnb in Pompei that blessed me with a magnificent view of Vesuvius. I took photos every chance I got, every morning and every night. You can easily imagine what the volcano looked like before the 79 AD eruption and how it would have felt to stand under its impressive height.
Ancient loaves of bread from the sister cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum that were carbonized in volcanic pyroclastic flows of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD
me, trying to turn off my alarm (which is “Pompeii” by Bastille) by using my passcode, (which is 79 , the year Pompeii was destroyed) to get through my lock screen (which has a picture of Pompeii as my background): “maybe I have a problem”
If you were suddenly frozen in time, there are a few things (I’d imagine) you would rather not be caught doing. This is the unfortunate fate many believe to have befallen the “masturbating man” of Pompeii.
In 79 BCE, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii was buried in the volcanic ash of Mount Vesuvius, a volcano located in Italy’s Gulf of Naples. The bodies of over 1,000 inhabitants have been frozen in the moment of its eruption—including one suspected to be having his own eruption at the time.
The plaster-cast body of this 2,000-year-old man can still be seen clutching himself tightly with his right hand. The photo was initially shared on Archaeological Park of Pompeii’s Instagram in 2017 and quickly exploded across the internet. The masturbating man became an immortalized meme. Read more.
