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4.2 The Early Settlement and the Forum at Pompeii
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Roman Architecture
Yale University
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Civic Life interrupted: Nightmare and Destiny on August 24, A.D. 79
Civic, commercial, and religious buildings of Pompeii buried by the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and later rediscovered. Daily life in Pompeii is illustrated through its bakeries and fast food stands and a moving account dramatizes what happened when disaster struck.
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Diana E.E. KleinerDunham Professor of History of Art and Classics at Yale University
History Of Art
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