![]() There is little of Mediterranean antiquity that can’t be found in the Vesuvian cities in some way, and I wanted to demonstrate that, in this instance, through Greek myth. It is this that brings me back to Pompeii over and over again, and why there is still so much to learn even after more than two hundred years of study. It is all of these things and more, it is a way of finding Roman literary and historic evidence in a physical place, and through the lives of real, everyday people. It is life and death: theatre and entertainment and baths and tombs. It is the development of various economies and technologies. It is seven hundred years of multicultural interaction, and the archaeology, art, and epigraphy produced by the people who lived there. My initial reasoning for doing this was to make a point: I have found that the absolute wealth of material and myriad of ways of engaging with the city can sometimes be dismissed or misunderstood (particularly by hiring committees). This year, I made the conscious decision to fulfil the brief entirely with things from Pompeii (and the Vesuvian region more broadly). 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 ability to fill a month of days, and like many others, have shared objects and artwork from the ancient world. For the first time in its three year history, I made a point to participate daily in #ClassicsTober. ![]()
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