Pompeii The Ancient City Of Italy, Found In The Campania Region, Built At The Mo

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Term Paper Title	Pompeii The Ancient City Of Italy, Found In The Campania Region, Built At The Mo
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Pompeii the ancient city of Italy, found in the Campania Region, built at the mouth of the Sarnus River, it is located about three kilometer south of mount Vesuvius, between Herculaneum and Stabiae. The city was built around 600 b.c. by the Oscans. Which was later taken over by Samnites. It later became a Roman colony in 80 b.c. under the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla. Pompeii became a favorite resort for wealthy Romans and reached a population of about 20,000 at the beginning of the Christian era. The city was heavily damaged by earthquakes in a.d. 63 and was later completely demolished in a.d. 79 by an eruption of vesuvius that also destroyed Herculaneum and Stabiae.
Here is a quot from the letter of the Younger Pliny  ‘‘Meanwhile on mount Vesuvius broad sheets of fire and leaping flames blazed at several points, their bright glare emphasized by the darkness of night.’’


Roman Architecture is very spectacular and very simuler to Greek Architecture. The Romans like to build temples to dedicate to their gods, Romans also have a lot of art that is included in there architecture. In this research I will talk mostly about their building techniques, and the type of materials they used to construct there buildings, I will also mention some of the more famous buildings that were constructed at Pompeii.
The buildings that were built at Pompeii were manly constructed out of a large verity of different types of stones that were found in the hills of Pompeii. the stones were retrieved from the volcanic mass from mount vesuvius. Here are some examples of the stones that the Romans used to reconstruct their buildings, the Sarno limestone it could be sawn into large blocks this stone is a fair building material and it consists of an unattractive, cold gray color it was used for the capitals of the Doric temple in Pompeii, Sarno stones a very similar stone to the Sarno limestone .The Sarno stone was sometimes used for unfluted  column drums to be finished with stucco. But not for building more delicately shaped members, it is more extensively used for the construction of the fortification walls and the edging of streets. It is used in broken chunks up to the size of a loaf...

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