Pompeii

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Pompeii

Strabos chronology V.4.8OscansEtruscansPelasgians (Greeks)SamnitesAltstadt

Sarno river

Early HistoryTraces of remains as early as 2nd millennium BCE.

Early small settlementFoundation of town= 6th c. BCE ( Greeks?Etruscans?)5th century--- Samnites

Greek Vases

Etruscans

Walls, Temple of Apollo, Doric Temple (600- 550 BC)

Greeks ( Temples)

Doric Temple

Altstadt

Greeks vs. Etruscans 525 BCE Etruscans attack Greeks at Cumae Greeks win and 50 years later get the Etruscans out of CampaniaButSamnites

Capture Cumae,Capua 5th c. Campania=Samnite

Oscan

Samnite Building evidence?4th c. on Pompeii is part of loose Samnite alliance.

No visible buildings

Traces under existing buildingsTemple of Venus (Mephitis)

343 BCE- 290 BCE Samnite Wars

Punic Wars-Carthage-Hannibal218 BC Pompeii remains loyal absorbed by Rome as ally

Social War

Sullas Seige

Ballista

2nd and 1st centuries BCProsperity and building

House of the FaunOpus sectile

Temple of Jupiter

Construction techniquesOpus reticulatum (60 BCE) Opus craticum (late 1st c. BCE onward)

Pre-Roman and later ( Opus Africanum)

Pre-Roman and later (Opus quadratum)

Opus caementicium 200 BC and later

Opus incertum

Opus latericium

Opus vittatum mixtum

Opus reticulatum

Building spree

Sullas Seige

80 BCE Sullas Roman ColonyColonia CorneliaVeneria PompeianorumSpartacus

Romans on the Bay of Naples

Roman EmpireRoman Empire-------------------------------------------------Augustus and Julio-Claudians 27BC-AD 69 ( Nero AD 54-68)Flavians (Vespasian/Titus) AD 69- AD 79Roman Empire - Augustus

Temple of Augustan Fortune

Nero and Poppaea

59 CE Riot in the Amphitheater

Earthquake 62 CE