Pompeii and Vesuvius
The eruption was the 24 of august in 79. That eruption was the first in Pompeii that is why they don´t know what to do
Pompeii and Vesuvius
Vesuvius has erupted many times since and is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years
Pompeii and Vesuvius
It was considered a divinity of the Genius type at the time of the eruption of 79 it appears under the inscribed name Vesuvius as a serpent in the decorative frescos of many lararia, or household shrines, surviving from Pompeii.
Pompeii and Vesuvius
Vesuvius was a name of the volcano in frequent use by the authors of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire.
Pompeii and Vesuvius
Vesuvius is a distinctive "humpbacked" mountain, consisting of a large cone partially encircled by the steep rim of a summit caldera caused by the collapse of an earlier and originally much higher structure called Monte Somma