How To Use Pompeii In A Sentence
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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.
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There is also a tour of Pompeii that shows how the town looked before the volcano eruption.
The Sun
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mount Vesuvius' eruption buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in volcanic ash and lapilli, preserving it in its current ghost-town-like state.
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Some Pompeii pilgrims visit the museum and then head straight out of Naples.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trips to Pompeii and Naples are absolute musts.
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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')
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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"
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At two o'clock the music and voices and thumping from the other room stopped, and I thought it was high time to go home, but when I went out there, trailing the blanket behind me, I found them all passed out: Louise face down on the Twister mat, a snoring Ted mountain near the fireplace, my parents spooning together in a corner like Pompeii people.
Babies
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Pompeii was a sexual hothouse, but the bordellos (which numbered about 25 when Vesuvius erupted) were the least sensual thing about the place.
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Sir William Hamilton, he obtained a chance to take impressions of rare cameos from Italy and Pompeii; later the Duke of Portland, who you may recall outbid him at the sale of the world-famed Portland Vase, allowed him to copy it.
The Story of Porcelain
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Pompeii was buried - although not, as we now know, destroyed - when the nearby, supposedly extinct, volcano Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, covering the town and its inhabitants in many tons of pumice and volcanic ash.
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I have tromped through Roman ruins, ogled ancient frescos at Herculaneum and Pompeii, walked the crumbling streets of Palermo, been awe-struck in Turin and marveled at the opulence of Florentine art.
Rediscovering Italy in a Totally Silent Town
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Harris's descriptive powers and his characteristic knack for instant thumbnail sketches are given full rein in Pompeii.
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Pompeii is an hour's drive away: up over the Chiunzi pass, down through the urban blight of the Sarno plain, and there it is, the world's most famous stopped clock.
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This one would be fit not only for a mayor but for an emperor: the new brick and brownstone building had ancient marble columns shipped in from Pompeii, unearthed only 20 years before.
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Pompeii split up much of the land giving large chunks to his soldiers as a reward for their prowess in battle.
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Royce is a familiar face from roles as diverse as Arthur Daley's accountant to a lovelorn poet in Up Pompeii, plus the voice of the daleks in Doctor Who.
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From this, the experts have been able to reconstruct a three-dimensional computer model of what the forum - twice the size of the tribunal at Pompeii - would have looked like.
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It is an exciting and fascinating story and one which the visitor to excavated Pompeii seems to re-live.
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Dad would trudge on to the lawn with a tin of fireworks, dashing back to safety after lighting each one as if a Pompeii-scale eruption were imminent.
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The second impressive thing about Pompeii. though, was more eye-popping - at least to my pubescent eyes.
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Judith Harris, author of "Pompeii Awakened," said Pompeii was a pleasure-loving mercantile town, at the mouth of a river by the sea, somewhat like New Orleans today.
Pompeii's Life and Death on View in New York
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Harris quickly catapults the reader into a world of striking authenticity with an armchair tour of Pompeii as it looked almost 2,000 years ago, including an aristocrat's sumptuous townhouse (the House of the Citharist, named after its statue of a lyre-playing Apollo), a lavishly designed new public baths facility (the Central Baths, uncompleted at the time of the eruption), and a dank two-story lupanar (the largest of at least nine brothels in Pompeii).
Love Among the Ruins
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In 1863 he visited Pompeii and thenceforward daily life in Greece and Rome became his preoccupation.
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The famous wall-paintings of biremes from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii show biremes, but there is not sufficient detail to specify the type of bireme.
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Pompeii was a walled town with an amphitheatre, forum, basilica, several public baths, two theatres, and at least nine temples.
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There is also a tour of Pompeii that shows how the town looked before the volcano eruption.
The Sun
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On Thursday, Koch will discuss color in Italian frescoes (using images from his trip to Pompeii last year) and Native American portraits by George Catlin.
Ventura County Star Stories
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Pompeii is one of Italy's prime tourist attractions.
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But at Rediscovering Pompeii there are enough screens to satisfy demand, and a technician is in regular attendance.
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About fifty murals depicting Narcissus survive from Pompeii alone.
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Herculaneum, the twin city to Pompeii, suffered a similar fate but has proved more difficult to excavate.
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Most neoclassical works based on the discoveries at Herculaneum and Pompeii were imitations of an art thought to be formally and morally superior to that of the eighteenth century.
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Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around.
Stray Studies from England and Italy
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I spent a week in Todi, and several days trapesing around Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Pompeii.
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They had started to uncover the ancient city of Pompeii.
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You can see how a triclinium was used to entertain in another fresco, the symposium scene from the Casa dei Casti Amanti in Pompeii.
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She said that her favorite parts of the trip were excursions to Pompeii and the port city Ostea.
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But where she went to nobody must know, for fear young ladies should begin to fancy that there are water-babies there! and so hunt and howk after them (besides raising the price of lodgings), and keep them in aquariums, as the ladies at Pompeii (as you may see by the paintings) used to keep Cupids in cages.
The Water Babies
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The park has three water rides including a very short Log Flume, a River Rapids Ride, and an excellently themed chute-the-chutes splash ride called Escape from Pompeii.
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It is an exciting and fascinating story and one which the visitor to excavated Pompeii seems to re-live.
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But at Rediscovering Pompeii there are enough screens to satisfy demand, and a technician is in regular attendance.
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Pompeii was a walled town with an amphitheatre, forum, basilica, several public baths, two theatres, and at least nine temples.
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A comparison can be made to a group of marble figures recovered from a brothel in Pompeii.
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Pompeii is one of Italy's prime tourist attractions.
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A classicist by training, Mr. Toohey argues, to the contrary, that boredom has always been with us, which seems plausible enough if this ancient graffito from a much-scribbled-on wall in Pompeii is anything to go by: Wall!
Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
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One of the delights of Pompeii by Robert Harris is his description of a wealthy vulgarian's banquet.
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Pompeii was a walled town with an amphitheatre, forum, basilica, several public baths, two theatres, and at least nine temples.
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Its most famous victim, Pompeii, is at its best in autumn, when, untroubled by crowds, you can wander at will through the maze of highways and alleys.
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There is also a tour of Pompeii that shows how the town looked before the volcano eruption.
The Sun
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Mr. Chairman and prize goose, -- The feelings which now agitate my sensorium on this Michaelmasian occasion stimulate the vibratetiuncles of the heartiean hypothesis, so as to paralyse the oracular and articulative apparatus of my loquacious confirmation, overwhelming my soul-fraught imagination, as the boiling streams of liquid lava, buried in one vast cinereous mausoleum -- the palace-crowded city of the engulphed Pompeii.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841
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Casca was on a bireme out of Antium when Yesuvius blew and smothered Herculaneum and Pompeii beneath tons of ash and lava.
The Eternal Mercenary
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A comparison can be made to a group of marble figures recovered from a brothel in Pompeii.
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By the twentieth century, Pompeii's metaphorical significance had largely eclipsed its moral charge.
