Pompeii and the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

The Ancients

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🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Pompeii is back in the news. An extraordinary new, touching discovery, found during the Great Pompeii Project of Professor Massimo Osanna and his team. Roughly 700 metres northwest of Pompeii, in the remains of a suburban Roman villa, archaeologists have unearthed the incredibly-preserved remains of two men, victims of the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that occurred almost 2,000 years ago in 79 AD.

So what do we know about the eruption? What do we know about this terrible event that has left Pompeii with this astonishing legacy? Daisy Dunn came back on the show for this special, emergency podcast to talk through what we know about the eruption and those who witnessed it.

Daisy is the author of In The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Tale of Two Plinys. She has also appeared on the Ancients podcast earlier this year, talking about Rome’s most erotic poet Catullus.

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0:00.0	It's the ancients on History Hit.
0:04.6	I'm Tristan Hughes your host and you might have noticed this week that Pompeii has been
0:09.3	in the news yet again.
0:11.3	They have made another extraordinary touching new discovery.
0:15.5	This time from a villa just outside of Pompeii, dating to that infamous day in 79 AD when
0:21.9	Mount Vesuvius erupted and a series of pyroclastic surges swept down and engulfed famous ancient
0:29.2	settlements such as Hucculanium and Pompeii.
0:33.0	Now to talk through the story of AD 79, the story of the eruption and its aftermath, I
0:38.9	was delighted to get back on the show, the one and only the brilliant classicist Daisy
0:44.0	Dunn.
0:45.0	Daisy has been on the ancients once before to talk about Catulus, Rome's most erotic poet
0:49.7	which you can find in our ancient slobby, and it was great to get back on the show to
0:53.8	talk through the story of AD 79.
0:57.4	Here is Daisy Dunn.
1:05.2	Daisy Dunn, it's a pleasure to have you back on the show.
1:08.3	Thank you very much for having me.
1:10.0	In this case, Pompeii, it's just been in the news all of this week.
1:15.8	It has.
1:16.8	It's one of these great things Pompeii.
1:18.0	It's kind of forever rising from the dead and from destruction I think, so every other
1:22.3	year it seems there's something fantastic being found.
1:25.1	I think at the moment there's a lot because there's been a great excavation project taking
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