(October 12, 2021 at 1:30 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(October 12, 2021 at 11:10 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I would LOVE to have been a Pompeiian 79CE!! Seriously - eyewitness to one of the great events of the classical world and a 90% chance of living through it. Who wouldn’t want that?
Boru
I can’t disput your desire to witness it, but I wonder how many classical events must be considered great for the eruption of Visuvius and burial of pompei and herculaneum can rank amongst them.
It is a little like considering the death of pharaoh Tutankhamen being regarded as one of the great events in the history of new kingdom egypt merely because his tomb survived unlimited to be discovered intact.
Clearly, the eruption of Vesuvius isn’t ‘great’ in the sense of being a seminal event. I admit to a poor choice of word.
Boru
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