Pompeii and Herculaneum are widely known for sudden death, but major new exhibition at the British Museum evoke Roman cities full of life
Pompeii - and, to a lesser extent, Herculaneum, less visited, according to the most rewarding destination for modern tourists -. Death are widely known for the great moment of exhibitions devoted to Pompeii is usually courtesy of one of the animated figures ever molds - plaster images of voids filled once in human form, flesh faded to nothing after the debris and superheated ash hardened into a solid mass around them. (No figures at Herculaneum. Closer Vesuvius, the city was engulfed by pyroclastic even hotter than those paid on Pompeii. Immediately sprayed Human bones, brain boiling in their skulls. Exposure) In the wake of the British Museum
Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum
contains some of these models, but has a strong emphasis on life. The first image in the series is the famous "Cave Canem" mosaic, his last memory of people living in cities before the catastrophe of the year 79 24 August: A set of placid portrait carved heads, type of warts and the Roman busts that make you gasp and everyday familiarity of the Campanian long gone.
The exhibition focuses on the Roman house: a trope familiar enough, and you can invite us to recognize and empathize with these former heads of households, their faces completely normal. Visitors can walk through sections organized to recall a "typical" room: first, the window and atrium, and then takes us to the garden, cabin, living rooms, dining room, the kitchen. It all seems awfully familiar, except that it is a trap, because it is very difficult to decipher how these rooms actually worked, what they liked. Take the cell, all schools teach Latin with confidence can be translated as "room". Except that, as Commissioner Paul Roberts, seems to be very similar to our idea of ??a room at all. "A range of activities may have occurred there," he wrote. "This includes washing, dressing, toileting and beautify the body, but also a bit more unusual activities such that eating small meals and business meetings. Sometimes even used toilet cubicle. "
And speaking of bathrooms, often seem to have been in the culinary, usually translated as the kitchen, next to the food preparation area. (The lav also came with its own tutelary deity: a fresco from Pompeii shows Isis protecting a man as it does to their needs, with the motto "cave malu cacator (m)" - john, beware of evil eye.) There is not, as is often when we look at the Romans, a sense of double exposure:. sense of simultaneous recognition, which were somehow "like us" - with an opposite alienation and confusion
If these things were not enough to address the state of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD is not well understood: it is difficult to know exactly what kind of places they were entering their peoples living days. As Mary Beard wrote in an essay in 1999, and later in his book
> Pompeii>
, it is difficult to fight - as he has adapted many writers, artists and filmmakers do - the eruption of Vesuvius came out of nowhere. Days of earthquakes and a mushroom cloud rises over the mountain in the morning of the eruption showed signs warning of the catastrophe to come. Despite the different signs of life interrupted (the bread in the oven, people fleeing the house keys or bags of money in their pockets), "what survives is absolutely not a frozen moment in the life of a community go about their normal duties, but the traces of an abandoned town and almost bare. " More puzzles. There was an earthquake in AD 62 and is far from clear what this meant for the Pompeii of 79 years. It was almost deserted? Or just a little gone to seed? Or, indeed, was being restored to its former glory? (In the House of the Painters at work, scaffolding, lime, gypsum and 50 pots of paint cans were found abandoned in the workplace.) In addition to this is the fact that the city seems to have looted almost tunnels through the rubble - immediate - householders scavengers or return. "This room is already past," says a graffiti scrawled on a wall in Pompeii. The "past" began in the 17th century Pompeii and Herculaneum in 18. By modern standards, they were looting, not unreasonable with fresh attractive walls torn and sent, as well as art, obviously, at the Palais Bourbon Portici. Everything else was destroyed by pure negligence, or for fear of being sold to foreigners. Herculaneum put up to 23 meters below the modern city, whether tourist access through a series of tunnels traitors. (It was a bad review in Mariana Starke popular
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on the continent for its "oppressive humid environment," the type of Lonely Planet-style-warn-off contributed to its relative lack of popularity compared to Pompeii, which could be completely bare, allowing visitors can walk in the streets.)
It is commonly observed, with Freud, that "the destruction of Pompeii was only now that he had uncovered" the "real work of the volcano" was "made our time. "William Gell, whose Pompeiana the first comprehensive English" topography, buildings and ornaments of Pompeii ", published in 1817-1818, reported that the monuments "beginning to feel the effects of this exposure has occurred since the second birth ... summer and winter alternating usually have blurred the paintings, and, in many cases, completely stripped the stucco walls. "At least artifacts and frescoes by the Bourbons survived - as fresh glorious carved into the wall of the city of Stabia, the goddess Flora. Dressed in a saffron robe on one shoulder moves attractive, it has the air half late, it is delicately pluck a flower with his right thumb while their left arm cradles a cornucopia of flowers.'s all on a background of green grass: all about spring breathes image
, all the way to Mark Rothko Seagram murals, now in the Tate Modern. It was after a trip to Pompeii and the influence on them of the illusionist "second style" fresco from Pompeii decision has been detected, while the Pompeian red and yellow many ancient murals have recovered slightly over the past ten palette of abstract expressionism. For the authors, the city has often brought a heavy moral burden: Proust
Time Regained
a Baron de Charlus imagine their own pre-war Paris in the last days of Pompeii, when "the lava of Vesuvius German and some come get" people decadent, but applies Mrs Mole destroyed in the act of "false eyebrows complete." To Robert Harris, author of the recent thriller
Pompeii
the story is, in part, "pride and nemesis," a fable about the idea of ??"a orderly society, where everyone always assumes that life goes on ... is suddenly interrupted by a force beyond their control "- as he told investigators in the collection of essays 
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