2 posts published by vlcampbell during April 2021| Pompeian Connections
For the first time in its three year history, I made a point to participate daily in #ClassicsTober. This initiative started by LE Jenks (otherwise known as Greek Myth Comix) and Cora Beth Fraser is intended to be a creative endeavour sharing artwork based on the daily prompts, but I don’t have quite the artistic … Continue reading #ClassicsTober in Pompeii| Pompeian Connections
Last week the team at the University of Kentucky, who have been working on the carbonised papyri scrolls from Herculaneum, announced a new initiative to help decipher the texts. Professor Brent Seales, a computer scientist, has been working for a number of years developing methods for reading ancient texts that are otherwise, for whatever reason, … Continue reading Unwrapping the Past| Pompeian Connections
When I first became aware that there was to be a fictional work (a triliogy no less!) based in the lupanar of Pompeii, my reaction was somewhat… disdainful. It is, I think anyone with considerable expertise would admit, incredibly difficult to consume popular culture that aims to accurately replicate your specialist subject. Anyone who has … Continue reading A Bitter Pill| Pompeian Connections
Earlier this week it was announced that the Italian Ministry of Culture is planning to build a floor in the Colosseum. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the reaction from archaeologists and historians is a bit mixed. There is an understandable concern about the mechanisms of the floor and the impact on the structure. How the floor is integrated … Continue reading Floored| Pompeian Connections
Like most of the world, it has been an unusually long time since I was last able to venture out to visit a museum. As everyone has come so much more reliant on the digital world in the last year, quite a few museums are making more effort to make their collections available online and … Continue reading Exhibiting Roman Women Online| Pompeian Connections
When I wrote a post last month about approaches to women’s history, I included as an image a wall painting from Pompeii that depicts an all female dinner party. I chose it simply for the lack…| Pompeian Connections
Networks in Pompeii and the Roman World| Pompeian Connections
Yesterday came a rather exciting announcement that a Samnite grave has been discovered in Pompeii. The details revealed thus far include that a skeleton, belonging to a woman approximately forty to…| Pompeian Connections
In addition to the pleas of the lovelorn one would expect to find addressed to the goddess of love, Venus appears in a number of contexts in Pompeii, both epigraphic and iconographic. Many of the i…| Pompeian Connections
Venus enim / plagiaria / est; quia exsanguni / meum petit, / in vies tumultu(m) / pariet: optet / sibi, ut bene / naviget, / quod et / Ario sua r(ogat). ‘Venus is a weaver of webs; from the moment …| Pompeian Connections
1 post published by vlcampbell during August 2021| Pompeian Connections
Another new find in Pompeii was announced on Tuesday, this time two monumental statues found in the necropolis at the Porta di Sarno. Whilst we have all watched the excavations taking place over th…| Pompeian Connections
With fairly equal parts of glee and trepidation I took myself off to the cinema on Friday afternoon for the first showing of Gladiator II. As more and more ancient historians see the film over the …| Pompeian Connections
News broke on Thursday of more stunning discoveries as a result of the current excavations in Pompeii’s Regio IX. Whilst the rest of the world is agog, and rightly so, over the stunning fresc…| Pompeian Connections
By now it seems the entire world is aware of the most recent discovery in Pompeii, a tomb located in the necropolis of the Porta Sarno to the east of the city. Having spent so many years investigat…| Pompeian Connections