Pompeii and Herculaneum, Xerxes, Battle of Leutra & Greek Notes

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Notes on Pompeii and Herculaneum, Xerxes, Battle of Leutra & The Greek World 400-500BC

The Eruption
• Buildings that were in the process of repairs or needed to be repaired – Te temple of Isis due to the 62 AD earthquake
• Plinian Phase – 24th August Pompeii
• Mainly impacted Pompeii and rained down Pumic, ash and gas which was breathed in by the people the pumic
expanded inside their lungs choking them
• Pompeii was covered in 6 metres of pumic before this, buildings began to collapse under the weight
• Pliny the Youngers letters
• “Described as an umbrella pine
• Fiorelli’s plaster casts
• dying dog – sufering in pain
• Pelean Phase – Herculaneum
• Pyroclastic flow – hot gas travelling at 100-200km/h
• Buried Herculaneum under 20m
• People had time to escape since they could see Vesuvius erupting
• People in the boat sheds
• Woman with femur through her torso shows a brutal fast death
• Discolouration of skulls of the people in boat sheds shows that their brains ‘exploded’, and quick death