Since the house has fallen gladiator in the Pompeii, has returned attention to one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. The excavations were, in my teenage years, a place of daily life for me. Via Villa dei Misteri in Rome until you can walk alongside the site, and as they proceed, you can see the trees near the road and the wide expanse of the old city. I made several trips to visit at any age and the place always seemed so fascinating to be conducted within it, other photographic services for various events.
I was able to assist in the excavations in the ancient theater, the comedies of Plautus and Terence, a concert and events that were performed live and it was like a spell, feeling part of a world still around there.
Those who work in this vast and complex structure must be equipped with different types of knowledge to be able to live day by day, the magic of the place. And in that regard I am reminded of an episode in Greece, when asking Homer to the shepherds, they looked lost and suggesting they did not know the big fellow. It happens too. The story does not take unprepared and in this case is very important to know the world that has gone before us.
I could appreciate the beauty of a place of great cultural interest only gaining knowledge and love art. People living in places of art, however, does not have this size, has an addiction, over time, so much beauty and there is more appropriate, a bit 'as happened to the shepherds telling them about Homer.
My interest in Pompeii is well beyond the fact of belonging to this geographical territory, history and culture, literature, geology and entertainment. Difficult not to recall the fateful eruption of 79 AD C. that brought down the city, leaving in its place a pile of rubble. The Emperor Tito, in power from 79 to 81, sent in near real time a committee of "curatores restituendae Campaniae" consisting of ex-consuls, why not start the reconstruction time rapid. For his humanity and love shown in general and in particular to the city, was called by Suetonius' love humani generis ac delicia. The same Pliny the Elder died then looking at the phenomenon of the eruption from the beach of Stabia and his nephew Pliny the Younger to Tacitus recounts the episode in the sixteenth letter of the sixth book of the correspondence.
Walking through the ruins are still relishing the existence of a world that lives like a ghost that you can feel the movements. It is not difficult to find among the people on the streets of ancient Pompeii and hear the chatter and shouting in a language that still does its part. It lies in the mind that distant eruption, like Jupiter, angry and severe, had all hell broke loose as the gladiator arena. The same Spartacus, the famous slave revolt incited the others, he found refuge, long before the eruption, in 73 a. C., right in the bush of Mount Vesuvius. But if we go to the excavations in fine weather and we rely on a stone column, the sun will shine the harmony of styles, the accuracy of the plaster and the wonderful art of frescoes. In these cases, our thoughts turn to the neoclassical, which prey on studies of styles and history, they went looking for suggestions on places where art relive the past. I speak of Goethe, Stendhal and many other scholars visiting the excavations soon after their discovery.
Many studies have been also made for the place names and among the Latin authors, who have born in Pompeii, we Titus Lucretius Carus. The story of Pompeii is a fascinating history and contains the footsteps of a past known throughout the world. Show lack of care for these places is like not having self-esteem. We should take example from that Schliemann, dreaming of recapturing the treasure of Troy, invested assets, stopping only when she found him and his dream became reality. One must love the past, our history, have great sense of civic duty and responsibility to protect an asset. Not enough to be entrusted with a charge to play a role, it takes a lot more, the passion of life and the past is part of our present.
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