Pompeii, is where the elites lived and they got buried in ash and stones that erupted from the mountain and took about three days to kill everyone. Herculaneum on the other hand is where all the servants lived. They got covered by a mud flow from the mountain traveling at about 200mph and hotter than a cookie out of the oven
I love how you say 200 mph then hotter than s cookie! You could have said '... traveling at the same speed as a peregrine falcons stoop and hotter than 180°C! 😀
Although smaller than Pompeii with a population of circa 5000, Herculaneum was a wealthier town. It was a seaside retreat for the Roman elite, as reflected by the extraordinary density of luxurious houses featuring lavish use of coloured marble cladding. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum
Both Pompeii and Herculaneum were prosperous cities; Herculaneum was much smaller and appears from the ruins to have been somewhat more elite. The third city buried in the eruption was Stabiae. The entire area was a summer seaside retreat for wealthy Romans.
Ancient servants- where for many "big" households glorified home appliances. So there you are. Forbidden to fuck around (you have no money for a family), stirring food all day. Cleaning all day. You are the roman Roombra
How are you defining "better" ? They would have had worse food, little/no freedoms, no political power, lesser legal rights... That's not even touching technological developments.
OK their living area looks really nice but I would not trade my existence today for that of an ancient servant in any society.
RenaissanceFaireMan
Shouldn't there be more animals here and made a big wheel in the wall at the top of the stairs?!
chd7hubx8m11666
No one believed me in grade school when I gave a report on
a second city near Pompeii destroyed in the eruption.
athomp78
The floor is lava
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circlebreaker
Weird, just saw a different one, have you seen this one from 1987? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcZXfoB2f70
Bigemedic
Kinda cool video:
https://youtu.be/dY_3ggKg0Bc?si=pKBTW_QQc82LbgGA
sadurdaynight
That's the kind of bullshit place hipster vampires hang out in.
nsaspyingonuranus
Still can't afford the rent...
GrumpyOldMan55
Skyrim got it right.
SidJorgenson
I was thinking Assassins creed 2, but you do you boo
shadowarachh
Has an RE4 vibe to me.
Poppypoppoppop
"GLADIATORS!!! GET READY FOR BATTLE!!!"
joechristo
xcv330
Papyrus. You're using Papyrus!
joechristo
joechristo
Sorry James Cameron
LinguisticBitch
I think I went there on Assassin's Creed.
IAMSRC
I wonder if that was a Spencer's or Gadzook's straight ahead.
alittlekinkinthenuts
Olive Garden
aslum
I dunno ... a lot of those walls look like they're AI generated art - the very well preserved nature of the wooden supports also makes me Q
Lisossoma
That wooden is reconstructed for sure. But overall this seems pretty legit
aslum
Oh, especially w/ the second pic I'd bet it is - it's just the first pic was kinda sus.
Lisossoma
Yeah, it is a bit colourful, probably some photoshop tweaking
FormerlySable
I’ve been to Herculaneum. Some of the excavated ruins really *do* look this good.
houghten
Bigger than my flat... I wonder what the rent's like in Herculaneum.
Tenugui
Costs an arm and a leg...and a torso, and a head.
beachbum273
I hear the market was pretty hot for a bit but it should have cooled off by now
PicassoCT
2 blowjobs per week
SnakesInBowties
The landlord was way overcharging. The last people that lived here got burnt pretty bad.
beaubrent
I think the market has cooled a bit.
DrivingTheBus
Cheap but the renter's insurance is a bitch.
AEady
Pretty good deal, but there's some smoke damage...
acetothermus
Don't forget the lava flows. Dried now, but it makes parking a real nightmare.
kumagororyu
Still listed on Zillow for 4.8m
kahooki
I'm a part time cicada farmer.
That's in the budget.
Goldmarble
Probably around 1-5 Denarii a month, maybe as low as 2 sestertii for really cheap places.
decarnatedame
I was thinking of looking into being indentured to save more money.
SnakesInBowties
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
Pompeii, is where the elites lived and they got buried in ash and stones that erupted from the mountain and took about three days to kill everyone.
Herculaneum on the other hand is where all the servants lived. They got covered by a mud flow from the mountain traveling at about 200mph and hotter than a cookie out of the oven
muzzmuzzle
I love how you say 200 mph then hotter than s cookie! You could have said '... traveling at the same speed as a peregrine falcons stoop and hotter than 180°C! 😀
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
Merde. 1 upvote
RoyalWithChz
Yeah, the servants definitely lived in an entirely different city. That makes a lot of sense!
ExTechOp
Although smaller than Pompeii with a population of circa 5000, Herculaneum was a wealthier town. It was a seaside retreat for the Roman elite, as reflected by the extraordinary density of luxurious houses featuring lavish use of coloured marble cladding.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum
cjtb2
Both Pompeii and Herculaneum were prosperous cities; Herculaneum was much smaller and appears from the ruins to have been somewhat more elite. The third city buried in the eruption was Stabiae. The entire area was a summer seaside retreat for wealthy Romans.
GuyFleegman
Did a guided tour of Pompeii about 8 years ago & what you said is what our tour guide told us. They were both homes to wealthy and well to do people.
fightkostka6
You are telling me servents in ancient times lived better than I do now?
PicassoCT
Ancient servants- where for many "big" households glorified home appliances. So there you are. Forbidden to fuck around (you have no money for a family), stirring food all day. Cleaning all day. You are the roman Roombra
Geistbar
How are you defining "better" ? They would have had worse food, little/no freedoms, no political power, lesser legal rights... That's not even touching technological developments.
OK their living area looks really nice but I would not trade my existence today for that of an ancient servant in any society.
jtxyz
And red hot mud murdered them before they had to fully repay their student loans.
rubypilgrim
sauce? Something cool recently from Herculaneum: a library of scrolls was discovered there, and recently some students figured out how to read the scrolls without unrolling them: https://www.neh.gov/news/students-decipher-2000-year-old-herculaneum-scrolls#:~:text=Almost%20two%20millennia%20after%20the%20eruption%20of%20Mt.,from%20the%20National%20Endowment%20for%20the%20Humanities%20%28NEH%29. Updated info: reading more of these scrolls, we now know where Plato is buried. -
rubypilgrim
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/platos-elusive-grave-located-after-bionic-eye-penetrates-2000-year-old-papyrus-180984221/ not earthshaking info but it's fantastic to recover this stuff.
GuyFleegman
That's awesome! Thanks for the share!