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The city of Pompeii, and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

The city of Pompeii, and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius


1. Why the city of Pompeii name was not changed, when Caesar won Pompey, because Pompeii has a similar name with Pompey?

One of the most interesting thing in the name of Mount Vesuvius is could that mountain named after some ancient Roman warlord. There are long traditions about this name, but as you know, the name of that volcano seems like some Roman noblemen name, so could it be possible that in a long time before the fatal day on 24 August 79 AD.

The city was named for the enemy of Caesar, and the question is, why Romans didn't change its name. The city has an autonomic position in the Roman empire, and when it was surrounded in 89 BC.  every people of that town got Roman citizenship. The story of the road to that point began in the year 290 BC. , when that city was forced to take the position as "socii" with linguistic and administrative autonomy.

2. Why Lucius Cornelius Sulla show mercy to that town?

And after the war in 89 BC. those people got Roman Citizenship, and the question is, why Romans didn't punish that city about the rebellion? They were given many punishments and killed people for smaller actions, so why Romans show mercy for that city? During that action, the city was besieged by Sulla, who was not very well known about mercy and sensitive attitude against his enemies. Read all story of Pompeii from the link below this line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii

When we are looking at the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, we are seeing one strange detail. Was there any family members of those people, who lived in Pompeii, who would come to search them? The city was forgotten soon after the famous eruption in  79 AD. And the thing is, why there were no people, who would keep in contact with those people, who lived in Pompeii.

Below this text is a link to the fine animation, what shows, how and when the Mount Vesuvius erupted, and the question is, why those people didn't even try to escape? And in the animation is one very interesting detail, what how the entire city can wipe out from the ground, and nobody misses those people? Didn't any captain of the ships tell that the harbor of that town, was not where it should be?

3. Why there was not even treasury hunting like in Egypt?

And didn't Romans even try to dig those people out from the volcanic ash? Or what was the reason, why the entire city disappear in history? So who were those people, who lived in Pompeii, and why nobody misses them?  The thing what makes this case interesting is that there were two cities near Mount Vesuvius, which disappears from the ground.

When we are looking at the history, Romans made tunnels to the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii, and they stole gold and other merchandise, but there were no systematic rescue actions in this area. Maybe the explanation of the leaving those areas can be found from the Roman religion.

4. Why there were no systematic attempts to rescue people?

Because of the eruption was happen in the day, when Romans celebrated the god (or goddess) of fire, Volcanalia, the reason for the destruction of those cities might be thought to be that those people were a disappointment for that god.  When we are thinking about the name of Mount Vesuvius, we might guess the origin of that name, and sometimes I have thought that was the name of that mountain given for honor of some ancient Roman warlord?

But even today we cannot realize, why there were not made even treasury hunting in that area until 19th. century. And even today there are large areas of those towns, what remains under the ash. And many of uncovered areas are not properly documented.

5. Why nobody missed those people? 

Of course, Roman religion was different than us, and maybe they thought that Mount Vesuvius or the god of fire was unhappy because of the gifts, who knows the reason, why both cities were left under the ash. But I still imagine, why people didn't try to escape?

They have to see that everything was not fine, and if they were guarded their expensive merchandise in that situation, we must ask what they did on a normal day? Did those people take their gold with them, when they went to work?

Or did they all work at home? And in fact, the thing is that those people might be seen that there was something wrong,  and in that time people should know about volcanoes because in the Roman empire is active volcanic like Mount Stromboli and Mount Etna, and they should know, that when the mountain starts to keep voice, there is possibility that they were buried in the ash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii

. The film, I mentioned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY_3ggKg0Bc

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