NOUN
- ancient city to the southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius
How To Use Pompeii In A Sentence
- Then there are the ruins of Dura-Europos, a Parthian caravan center founded in 300 B.C., halfway between Syria and Mesopotamia and known as the "Pompeii of the East.
- There is also a tour of Pompeii that shows how the town looked before the volcano eruption. The Sun
- Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples and Caserta in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Pompeii Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
- The ancient Romans, on the other hand, gave us the first known word square, the so-called sator square, found in the ruins of Pompeii and elsewhere.
- Created about 20-10 B.C., the Roman bronze figure of an ephebe (youth) was excavated in 1925 in a well-appointed residence, now called the House of the Ephebe, off Pompeii's Via dell'Abbondanza. Art Knowledge News
- Mount Vesuvius' eruption buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in volcanic ash and lapilli, preserving it in its current ghost-town-like state.
- Some Pompeii pilgrims visit the museum and then head straight out of Naples. Times, Sunday Times
- Trips to Pompeii and Naples are absolute musts.
- Whenever one of those Pompeii fellows dropped, the ashes kind of caked over him, and in the course of time there was a hole where he had been. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')
- Linda Seidel has shown, for instance, that Van Eyck's famous Arnolfini portrait is best understood as something like a marriage contract, and the "cave canem" inscription on the fierce dog mosaics at Pompeii (often cited by Gombrich as examples of "apotropaic" imagery) seems redundant in view of the image. Notes, Mitchell, "Ekphrasis and the Other"
