Pompeii Websites
Curran, Leo. "Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome." Available at
http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/italy_except_rome_and_sicily/ostia/thumb
nails_contents.html (last accessed 1/9/04)
Damon, Cynthia. "Classics 36: Pompeii and Herculaneum." Available at
http://www.amherst.edu/~classics/class36/ (last accessed 1/9/04)
Dickson, I. “Photos of Pompeii” available at http://www.romanempire.net/articles/article-017.html (last accessed 1/9/04)
Enhance Tv, “Pompeii Study Guide” available at
http://www.enhancetv.com.au/index.lasso (last accessed 1/9/04)
Free Stock Photos, www.freestockphotos.com/Pompeii.html
Fulkerson, Kristin, et al., "Roman Graffiti." Available at http://www.christa.coe.ohiostate.edu/keister.4/graffiti.htm (last accessed 1/9/04)
Harcourt School Publishers. “What Did the Eruption Look Like?” Available at
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pompeii/pmpErup.html (last accessed 1/9/04)
Hauser, John. "Pictures of History – Pompeii.." Available at
http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~jhauser/pictures/history/Romans/Pompeii/ (last accessed
1/9/04)
Internet Group Ostia. "Ostia: Harbour of Ancient Rome." Available at
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ostia/ (last accessed 1/9/04)
Old Stories. “Pompeii: Urbs Reperta.” Available at
http://www.marketplace.it/pompeii/index.htm (last accessed 1/9/04)
Scandone, “The AD 79 Eruption of Vesuvius” available at
http://vulcan.fis.uniroma3.it/vesuvio/79_eruptiontext.html (last accessed 1/9/04)
The Pompeii Gateway, available at http://www.rebecca-east.com/gateway.html (last
accessed 1/9/04)
Resources
Textbooks
-Demovic, Mary & M. Hayes, Dier el Medina
and Pompeii. (Melbourne, Longmans, 1996).
-Hurley, Toni, P. Medcalf & J. Rolph,
Antiquity, I, (Melbourne, Oxford University
Press, 1995).
-Lawless, J, K. Cameron, & C. Young,
Unlocking the Past, (Melbourne, Nelson,
1996).
-Zarmati, Lousie & Aedeen Cremin,
Experience Archaelogy, (Melbourne,
Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Books
-Amery, Colin & Brian Curran, Jr. The Lost
World of Pompeii. (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty
Publications, 2002).
-Bisel, Sara, The Secrets of Vesuvius. 3rd ed.
(Sevenoaks, Madison Press limited, 1990).
-Connelly Peter, Pompeii, 2nd ed. ( Oxford,
Oxford University Press, 1994).
-Descoeudres, Jean Paul, ed, Pompeii
revisited, Sydney, Meditarch, 1994).
-Deiss, Joseph Jay, Herculaneum: Italy’s
buried Treasure, 2nd ed, (Malibu, J Paul Getty
Museum, 1989).
Resources continuedNovels
-Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, The Last Days of
Pompeii, (1938)
-Harris, Robert, Pompeii: a novel, (London,
Hutchinson, 2003).
Audio/Visual
-The Private lives of Pompeii- Dramatised
version of events, available from the ABC
shop at
http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?pro
ductid=723340
-The eruption of Mount Helens! Rajon Vision
2001 (originally for IMAX cinemas).
-Dante’s Peak, Universal, City Studios, Inc.
1997.
- Pompeii: Buried Alive – 50 mins ***** 1995
multimedia entertainment and A&E television
networks, Produced by Benya Ben-Num
(HGHS – video 218)
Websites
Amherst College, Useful, Links for Pompeii &
Herculaneum
http://www.amherst.edu/classics/class36/usefulres.html
Prof. Cynthia Damon’s resources, including maps,
sources, pics and links.
http://www.amherst.edu/classics/class36/ancientsourc.html Long list of
sources from many different ancient authors that
refer to Pompeii, Herculaneum and Vesuvius.
Useful fro downloading sources for class handouts,
but keep in mind that translations can be loose and
Resources continued- (books)
-Etienne, Robert, Pompeii: the Day a city Died,
(London, Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1986).
-Goor, Ron & Nancy, Pompeii: Exploring a Roman
Ghost Town, (New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1986).
-Grant, Michael, Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and
Herculaneum, (London, Michael Grant Publications
Ltd, 1971).
-Harris Nicholas, Leap through time: Volcano, (Noble
Park, Victoria, the Five Miles Press, 2002).
-Hicks Peter, Digging up the Past: Pompeii and
Herculaneum, (Wayland Ltd., 1995)
-Irlando, Antonio, Pompeii: everyday life in the town
buried by Mount Vesuvius 2000 years ago, (Casa
Editrice Fortuna Augusta Pompeii, 1997).
-Maiuri, Amedeo, Pompeii, (Novara, Istituto
Geografico de Agostini, 1963).
-Maiuri, Amedeo, Herculaneum, (Mininstero della
Educatxione Nazionale, 1937).
-Matthews, Rupert, The Age of the Gladiators:
Savagery and Spectacle in Ancient Rome, (London,
Arcturus, 2003).
-Nappo, Salvatore, Pompeii, (London, Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, 1998).
-Rice, Melanie & Christopher, Pompeii: the Day a
City was Buried, (New York, DK Publishing Inc.,
1998).
-Richardson, Jr, L., Pompeii: an architectural history,
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).
-Seely, John & Elizabeth, Visiting the Past: Pompeii
and Herculaneum, (Oxford, Heinemann Library,
1999).
-Tanaka, Shelley, The Buried City of Pompeii: What
it was like when Vesuvius Exploded, (New York,
Hyperion, 1997).
-Trevelyan, Raleigh, The Shadow of Vesuvius:
Pompeii AD 79, (London, The Folio Society, 1976).
-Wallace- Hadrill, Andrew, Houses and Society in
Pompeii and Herculaneum, (Princeton, Princeton
University Press, 1994).
-Wilkinson, Paul, Pompeii, the last day, (London,
BBC Books, 2003).
-Zanker, Paul, Pompeii: Public and Private Life,
(Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University
Press, 2001).
Articles
-Goor, Rick, ‘The dead do tell tales at Vesuvius’,
National Geographic, Vol. 165, No. 5, May 1984,
557-613.
-Jones, P ‘Pompeii’s block of time’ Archaeology,
July/August 2003.
-Sigurdsson, Haraldur, S Cashollar and R S J Sparks,
‘The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79: reconstruction
from historical and volcanological evidence’,
American Journal of Archaeology, Vol 86, 1982, 315316.
-Sigurdsson, H., Carey, S., Cornell, W., and
Pescatore, T., ‘The eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79,
National Geographic Research, v. 1, no. 3, 1985,
can vary significantly in meaning from Loeb
translations.
Anglo – American Project in Pompeii
www.brad.ac.uk/acad/archsci/pompeii/
From the Bradford University Pompeii research
Laboratory. Information on excavation carried out
on one city block in Pompeii. Also details of the
Projects field school, where paying students can
spend the summers excavating under supervision.
Secrets of the Dead
http://www.channel14.com/history/microsites/P/po
mpeii/index.htm
Channels4’s website to support the two part series
on the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The first part concentrates on the work of Haraldur
Sigurdsson that reconstructs events during the
eruption while the second part concentrates on the
Herculaneum, especially the 1 800 papyrus scroll
found in the Villa of the Papyri.
Herculaneum
http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/italy_ex
cept
_rome_and_sicily/herculaneum/section_contenst.ht
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A good selection of photographs of the city, but
with captions only. Good for preparing PowerPoint
presentations.
Pompeii
http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/italy_ex
cept
_rome_and_sicily/herculaneum/section_contenst.ht
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Same as above but for Pompeii.
The History of Plumbing: Pompeii and
Herculaneum
www.theplumber.com/pom.html
An excellent article on a topic of great practical
importance to the inhabitants of Pompeii and
Herculaneum. Written by plumbers about ancient
plumber and plumbing, this article about baths and
toilet should fascinate most kids
New Finds at Herculaneum
www.archaeology.org/online/news/herculaneum.ht
ml
Summary of article in the journal Archaeology
February 2000 tells of the discovery of 48 more
victims of Vesuvius.
332-387.
-Maiuri, Amedeo, ‘Pompeii’, Scientific American, v.
198, 1958, 68-78.
-Maiuri, Amedeo, ‘Last moment of the Pompeians’,
National Geographic, November, 1961, 651-669.
Resources continued- (websites)
Villa of the Papyri
http://ancienthistory.minigoc.com/homework/ancienthistory
/cs/villaofthepapyri/
About com’s links to a variety of sites that describe the
history and excavation of the villa.
The Philodemus Project
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/philodemus/philho
me.htm
Information on one of the research projects dealing with the
papyri found at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum
which are the works of the poet/philosopher Philodemus.
Also has good links.
Pompeii the Last Day
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/progrmmmes/pompeii/
Website to support the BBC documentary soon to be shown
here on Commercial TV. May excellent article by Andrew
Wallace-Hadrill and good quality pictures of artefacts and
houses. Book of the documentary by Paul Wilkinson is
available from ABC shops for $44.95.
Virtual Tour of Pompeii
http://www.thecolefamily.com/itlay/pompeii/
Michael Cole was an amateur tour guide at Pompeii and has
made this virtual tour available on the web. Commentary is
very amateurish.
Official Site of the Superintendent of the Archaeology of
Pompeii
http://www.pompeiisites.org/database.pompei/pompei2nsf
Must fro your favourites as if has notifications of
exhibitions and some excellent articles and graphic,
including a simulated eruption. Make sure you do the
virtual tour of Herculaneum which visits 10 sites within the
town.
Volcanoes and Vesuvius
Volcano World
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html
Everything you could possibly want to know about the
volcanoes, with good definition of terminology
Italian Volcanoes- The 79AD eruption of Vesuvius
http://Vulcan.fis.uniroma3.it/vesuvio/79_erutpition.html
Website from the University’s of Rome’s Physics
Department. Good summery of Vesuvius eruption and well
illustrated with and animation that shows the stages of the
eruption. One of best sites of the description of the eruption.
Vesuvius, Italy
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_iamges/img_ves
uvius.html
Good Photographs and links. Part of the Volcano World
site.
Virtual Field Trip to Vesuvius
www.brookes.ac.uk/geology/8361/200/angela/home.htm
Good site created by a geology student at Oxford Brooks
University. This has the Stratigraphical diagram from
Sigurdsson’s 1985 article of the deposits from
Herculaneum.
Vulcanological Excursion to Vesuvius
http://vulcan.fis.uniroma3.it/vesuvio/excursiontext.html
Detailed plan for a visit to Vesuvius and the immediate area
surrounding it (including Pompeii and Herculaneum),
concentrating on the geological deposits that recall
eruption, including that of AD79. Links to maps, pictures,
timetable and other information. Also has Sigurdsson’s
stratigraphical diagram of Herculaneum deposits.