It’s amazing how this house’s paintings show a clear understanding of linear perspective (or at least some variation of it) at least 1.5 millennia before the Renaissance! Thank you for making this video, I learned a lot! :)
I find the small shrines particularly moving. Especially the one that still has the figures inside. It's like they're still in the state where they were used.
On a rainy day, I was hoping we could have seen that rain-catching basin in the main atrium "in action". But, I can understand why the skylight was covered, for the sake of preservation.
@liam Anderson considering most of everything we make has to be repaired or replaced every ten years or so, I doubt much more than rusty, roofless stone husks will be left of our buildings. Old abandoned mining towns are a great example of this, ive been to Kaymoor in west Virginia. The stone buildings which were decades older than the sheet metal buildings, were standing straight, while the sheet metal ones were collapsed at odd angles.
@liam Anderson Hello.. We must not forget here that the building remains we can see in Pompei and which are 2000 years old, have been buried by volcanic ashes and stones with several meters high levels on top of their roof heights. So obviously this created a protection of the infrastructures against erosion and climate. Otherwise much of the city would have been melted to the ground by rain and temperature changes over the centuries. The private dwellings of the ancient people were not build as strong as the surviving official buildings. Such as temples with columns and walls made out of massive high quality stones. I looked at videos about Pompei and noticed that many columns were made of a center pillow built with red bricks and mortar. Covered on the outside with a type of plastering. Of course such columns would erode within 300 years if not covered by roofs. Certainly it is interesting to evaluate the durability of our modern concrete constructions where the inclusion of bare untreated steel rods may become an issue after a certain time. I think that steel reinforced massive columns can also withstand 2000 years if they are not part of a very huge building such as these skyscrapers which are indeed all the time in movement because of gravity, the winds and their own extremely high weight.
@@NickVenture1 face>palm...so anyway, look at the roman houses in Syria which have never been covered. architecture has been intentionally made in the past 200 to be disposable because the society is going to be completely washed & reborn soon enough
Nice presentation. Thank you. I like the garden with the columns around it. What bothers me with this kind of roman town houses is the absence of windows in many of their rooms. Looking at these, although decorated with frescoes I must immediately think about caves or graves. Probably these rooms were more easily remaining cool in summer. And less entry points for burglars may have been an advantage in those days.
@@Monkforilla Hello, in fact the purpose of my comment was to tell that I don't like rooms without windows. And next I speculated for the possible reasons why the Romans had many of these kind of accomodations where the only entry and exit door brings in fresh air and light.(As long as the door is open! Maybe they had curtains in the door frames, but safety and privacy will be diminished by such instead of a door lock.) Now imagine to go to sleep in a room without windows.. a locked door and a smoking oil lamp. That is not my ideal type of resting place. Even if I can look at frescoes. This kind of comment which is primarily not a question is destinated to be read and an incitement to be commented further by persons having something interesting to add to the discussion. You may also still do so. 😉
Hey, random fact I happen to know! The garden with the columns around it is called a peristylum. Maybe slightly spelled wrong, it is a common feature in Roman villas.
An interesting video idea would we what was the Roman world's reaction to Pompeii? If I was a Roman from a few towns over and I visited the city a year after the disaster what would I have seen? Surely it wasn't just wiped from everyone's memory until the archaeological excavations?
I believe I heard from somewhere that people attempted to go back and did dig up some stuff, search for survivors and whatnot. But the damage was immense and many probably considered the area still dangerous and eventually superstitious. So people eventually left it alone until the middle ages when they began digging it up again.
Thanks so much for an informative tour of the House of Menander, both with the helpful diagrams and virtual tour through the rooms. I may add that the Tablinum, where the master of the house conducted business, and greeted guests, was always elevated above the atrium by a step. It served as a noticeable and physical boundary to the client or guest, & that he was the respected owner of the Domus.
Believe it or not, the video shows only a small part of the entire house. That courtyard section used to have two stories (the upper floor was destroyed by the eruption), and there are large service wings that open from the main rooms.
That single minute describing the 4 styles of wall paintings made things 10x clearer than the hour or so spent on Pompeii in my history class for interior design hahaha
Been there! Loved the book, Naked Statues, etc. Great read. Really fun and interesting. Wasn’t too keen about the bloodlust. But a good read. I’ve been to Italy 3 times. Loved the food.
I wonder who the original designers were. If they were from Spain - in which case them taking the Roman formula isn’t too surprising to me seeing as their past was so intertwined.
@@praetorianstride5948 seeing the intelligence exhibited in Roman and Greek statues and artwork it isn't hard to know where this talent and perspective originated. Hard as it is to refrain from attributing it to cultures less well-known for paintings architecture and sculptures...
You should do a tour of one of the homes in Ercolano (Herculaneum) just down the way from Pompeii. Because the lava damage was cooler and more mud, the second stories of the homes were preserved in better shape than Pompeii. You can really see the architectural details, along with the water catching atriums. The streets are smaller, as well, giving you a feel for what it was like then. And best of all, very few tourists compared to Pompeii which can be a disaster (pun intended) on a hot day in August with wall to wall people and no shade.
Great tour...you mention that the peristyle courtyard is surrounded by ionic columns...am I mistaken or are those doric? I'm no expert but I am curious. cheers.
Remember to allocate enough time to see things. Pompeii is a city and it will take a good long time just to walk from one end to the other. When we went there on a tour we only had a few hours and left wanting to see more.
What a delightful video and such a beautiful place! I've always admired the ancient Roman homes and had the good fortune to visit Pompeii and Herculaneum, but just once and a long time ago. I must go back.
In 1996 I visited Pompeii and was impressed, but then I visited Herculaneum. Smaller, but more perfectly formed. Thanks for this, I didn't get to see it when I was there. (Who has the time to tour every street of any city, who even knows every suburb, let alone street of their own city?)
“Walking” through with your narration truly made me imagine the lives of the people who lived there. They truly got to experience the best their time had to offer (up until the volcano lol)
Tried to go see Pompeii and Vesuvius. Ended up at Pompeii Theater in Rome. Actually drove up to toll plaza and found the wallet had been misplaced only to be found by a German tourist who turned it into a police station just above the Forum. The building is still there behind that beautiful marble structure.
Hello. I visited Pompeii in 1984. My European tour was fantastic and still memorable. Most likely the mansion you just shared was one of our visiting points of interest. Where are the giant frescos featuring erotica and giant phallus'? Also, I don't think that was a " rain catcher" in the atrium. I think that is were a priceless mosaic of Alexander the Great defeating Darius was located. Thank you for sharing.
Your content is awesome! I really like to envision myself in the era. Roman, Greek, Japanese Samurai, Wild West- these are the cultural time periods I enjoy Incase you need ideas for new content. Thanks for what you do
Thank you for your wonderful UA-cam postings... Your commentary is superb, and your light style makes these tours comfortable and delightful... Make sure you send me a postcard from your next destination!
Thank you for posting. Very enjoyable. I went to Pompeii a few years back. Spent all day there and it still wasn't enough time to see everything. Sadly, it was raining for the first part of the day, entry fee was waived, but the exhibits were locked away and we couldn't see them.
Just imagine feeling the terror: Vulcan is so angry 😡 Vesuvius is now alive, shaking so hard the entire world is trembling. It is raining ash and stones, large and small. Some are on 🔥 fire. The smoked is so high it is touching the sun. Day is now night. It is hard to see, it’s hard to breathe. Where can I go! How can I get away?
Yeah those two groups of people really had it bad. Imagine trying to escape through the wall in hope that in some sort of way you can survive only to suffocate. The other group being around a single lantern in a otherwise pitch black hell. I cann't imagine what those people thought, if they hoped that somehow they'd make it only to die and be forgotten for almost 2000 years...
Never been at Pompeii in the rain. Visited in the summer the two times I was there. Next time, I will go to Herculaneum. This is well done, by the way, as are all your videos.
@@toldinstone I dig what you're doing. I am an ex-historian-of-science-in-training. Terminal masters type. Always thought of doing something like what you're doing. Can't think of a good tourism angle -- come see Darwin's house! LOL. But the rest--videos maybe even books? Been kicking around for ages: I'm 51. Maybe I should. Totally enjoying your stuff. When I became "terminal" in grad school, they kept me on to TA another semester and said I could take undergrad classes as "999"s. One was Roman Art and Architecture (at Penn, this was: I was Doug Keen back then; long story). Hold on, I'll find the prof...Haselberger. Spring '97 it was. He was good; loved the class. Got into Roman culture from then on. Keep up the great work!
@@toldinstone - I’m a dual US and Italian citizen, my ancestral hometown is half way between Rome and Naples. The nearby town of Arpino is the birthplace of Cicero and Agrippa.
Excellent. Not only were the Roman artists good at using perspective, they also make more distant objects looked more grey or hazy. Really surprisingly good. And it showed balconies!
Yeah how did it happen that they had a pickaxe, I wonder. Not the sort of thing you'd know in advance might be handy when you're running to take shelter.
He said a form of hoe, so perhaps it was someone who was tending the courtyard gardens that day? (Or perhaps they were not gardeners themselves, but those tools happened to be placed that room the day of the eruption and thus in reach?) Another possibility is perhaps they grabbed anything they could find as a makeshift defensive weapon earlier on in the day, considering how lawless and panick-stricken the city must've been the entire day leading up to the eruption. Either way, definitely both fascinating and depressing.
@@HipposHateWater yeah it's sad to see the last futile efforts in Pompeii because they are ancient and preserved and we look at them with a an attraction. i guess its cause ancient people are basically fiction to us modern, their time and thinking was just so different it seems like a fantasy novel. so it strikes a nerve to see their real bodies and realize wow, they were basically the same as us
Have you ever been anywhere near a volcanic eruption Dr. G? Or an earthquake? In both cases what I observed first-hand was how it seems to paralyze the flight response in humans. I wanted nothing more than to run out to the street but my neighbours or colleagues stayed put and some seemed to want to retreat into the inner recesses of the building itself. We flee from fire or rising water but otherwise just creep into a corner and wait for the pyroclastic flow!
I once climbed up Mount Etna in Sicily, and went to the rim of the crater where a "minor" eruption was occurring. Even though I was ready for it, that was an unsettling experience.... You're certainly right about the paralytic effects of sudden disasters. Many Pompeiians were saved by the duration of the eruption, which had the courtesy to dump ash on them for the better part of a day before unleashing the deadly pyroclastic flow. But thousands were like the dozen or so who tried to hide in the House of Menander, and were overwhelmed there.
In most houses, at least, the atrium was out in the open - important Romans wanted both their clients and passers-by to see them making decisions and helping people.
Its insane how connected you feel when you see the skeletons with digging tools, feeling the fear and hopelessness these people 2000 years ago felt
your channel is underrated. a gem to Roman history topics.
Thanks! That's very kind of you to say
What is its rating?
@@jamesmcinnis208 69, dudes!!
It’s amazing how this house’s paintings show a clear understanding of linear perspective (or at least some variation of it) at least 1.5 millennia before the Renaissance! Thank you for making this video, I learned a lot! :)
Glad to hear it! And yes, those second style paintings really are remarkable.
Linear perspective is 700 years older
@Sunbro don’t know why you’re in such a bad mood, but okay man :)
@Sunbro Is _that_ why I can never catch the bus?? Oh, man.....
There's a reason the reainassance is called this way and not just "naissance"
That peristyle courtyard is stunning. My favorite part of the mansion.
Mine too
I find the small shrines particularly moving. Especially the one that still has the figures inside. It's like they're still in the state where they were used.
Something enchanting about the rain. The weather adds a timeless quality to mundane situations or settings but, here it would be truly otherworldly…
On a rainy day, I was hoping we could have seen that rain-catching basin in the main atrium "in action". But, I can understand why the skylight was covered, for the sake of preservation.
Yes, that would have been interesting. Just outside the door, incidentally, the 2000-year old street gutters were still functioning perfectly.
@liam Anderson considering most of everything we make has to be repaired or replaced every ten years or so, I doubt much more than rusty, roofless stone husks will be left of our buildings. Old abandoned mining towns are a great example of this, ive been to Kaymoor in west Virginia. The stone buildings which were decades older than the sheet metal buildings, were standing straight, while the sheet metal ones were collapsed at odd angles.
@liam Anderson Hello.. We must not forget here that the building remains we can see in Pompei and which are 2000 years old, have been buried by volcanic ashes and stones with several meters high levels on top of their roof heights. So obviously this created a protection of the infrastructures against erosion and climate. Otherwise much of the city would have been melted to the ground by rain and temperature changes over the centuries. The private dwellings of the ancient people were not build as strong as the surviving official buildings. Such as temples with columns and walls made out of massive high quality stones. I looked at videos about Pompei and noticed that many columns were made of a center pillow built with red bricks and mortar. Covered on the outside with a type of plastering. Of course such columns would erode within 300 years if not covered by roofs. Certainly it is interesting to evaluate the durability of our modern concrete constructions where the inclusion of bare untreated steel rods may become an issue after a certain time. I think that steel reinforced massive columns can also withstand 2000 years if they are not part of a very huge building such as these skyscrapers which are indeed all the time in movement because of gravity, the winds and their own extremely high weight.
@liam Anderson they won't
@@NickVenture1 face>palm...so anyway, look at the roman houses in Syria which have never been covered. architecture has been intentionally made in the past 200 to be disposable because the society is going to be completely washed & reborn soon enough
I've visited the House of Menander, it really is very impressive. This brought back some great memories of visiting Pompeii.
“And now the rain weeps o’er his halls,
With no one there to hear.”
💀🦁
This lyric from Rains of Castamere still gives me chills.
well except the guy with camera and at least 190 k people :D
I could never forget my trip to Pompeii in 2019, I felt different beings who used to live there. It was magnificent
Gore Vidal said the same thing when he went to the the Domus Aura . He said he could feel where Nero's office was!
Beautiful and interesting. The people of the last room made me sad. But it was indeed a very good insight to the past.
I was amazed on how large a city Pompeii was. And, it is still under excavation. We had an excellent guide. She was very humorous.
How was she humorous?
@@Hihoweryew She was Italian. Enough said.
Very enjoyable walk-through. Thank you! One minor correction: The columns in the peristyle aren't Ionic. They look like a variant of the Roman Doric.
Glad you enjoyed it!
And yes, I have no idea why I said Ionic. The capitals are very clearly Doric / Tuscan.
Visited the place ones and it was magic in a different way. Sometimes you thought that a historical Roman should show up in these buildings.
This video is like a secret window into my soul. The rain, the stillness where there was once life. Ugh, it’s so beautiful and sad all at once 😞 💜
well said
Poignant.
Enjoyed the tour very much.
Very sad for the people in the room. Thank you. Felt like I was walking right along.
Cheers🌷
I'm very glad you enjoyed the tour.
Nice presentation. Thank you. I like the garden with the columns around it. What bothers me with this kind of roman town houses is the absence of windows in many of their rooms. Looking at these, although decorated with frescoes I must immediately think about caves or graves. Probably these rooms were more easily remaining cool in summer. And less entry points for burglars may have been an advantage in those days.
Op you answered your own comment in the question you were asking.
@@Monkforilla Hello, in fact the purpose of my comment was to tell that I don't like rooms without windows. And next I speculated for the possible reasons why the Romans had many of these kind of accomodations where the only entry and exit door brings in fresh air and light.(As long as the door is open! Maybe they had curtains in the door frames, but safety and privacy will be diminished by such instead of a door lock.) Now imagine to go to sleep in a room without windows.. a locked door and a smoking oil lamp. That is not my ideal type of resting place. Even if I can look at frescoes. This kind of comment which is primarily not a question is destinated to be read and an incitement to be commented further by persons having something interesting to add to the discussion. You may also still do so. 😉
Hey, random fact I happen to know! The garden with the columns around it is called a peristylum. Maybe slightly spelled wrong, it is a common feature in Roman villas.
An interesting video idea would we what was the Roman world's reaction to Pompeii? If I was a Roman from a few towns over and I visited the city a year after the disaster what would I have seen? Surely it wasn't just wiped from everyone's memory until the archaeological excavations?
I believe I heard from somewhere that people attempted to go back and did dig up some stuff, search for survivors and whatnot. But the damage was immense and many probably considered the area still dangerous and eventually superstitious. So people eventually left it alone until the middle ages when they began digging it up again.
There’s an amazing episode of the podcast Stuff You Should Know on Pompeii. They kind of go into that
Really cool! Much bigger than I imagined. I really appreciate this sort of view, great videos!
Glad you enjoyed it!
How can anyone "thumbs down" this? This channel is amazing.
Looks so lovely the rain makes it that much better
This video reminds me why I love to learn about history so much 🙏
Thankyou for sharing this ❤
You're very welcome
Thanks so much for an informative tour of the House of Menander, both with the helpful diagrams and virtual tour through the rooms. I may add that the Tablinum, where the master of the house conducted business, and greeted guests, was always elevated above the atrium by a step. It served as a noticeable and physical boundary to the client or guest, & that he was the respected owner of the Domus.
I'm very glad you enjoyed the tour
@@toldinstone Wonderful!
Been twice..in 1999 and 2000
Very interesting place
I need to visit Europe to do this. I’m just worried that being an English speaker that I will have difficulty with the experience.
@@praetorianstride5948 Now you have an excuse to pick up some Italian ;)
@@praetorianstride5948 I found you can get by..
you explained it better than the italian tour guide did when i was there in 2019
wow! I had no idea that was all one house! I did love the garden n the middle, and how the rooms all opened out into it
Believe it or not, the video shows only a small part of the entire house. That courtyard section used to have two stories (the upper floor was destroyed by the eruption), and there are large service wings that open from the main rooms.
A wonderful tour! My dream is to visit Pompeii and see these homes myself. Thank you for your attention to detail.
What a nicely paced and effectively narrated tour. I’m subscribing and look forward to your future descriptive travelogues.
Was there in 2016, so watching this was both nostalgic and informative. Didnt know even the half of it!!
We visited here a couple of years ago, absolutely stunning and atmospheric.
Again, a wonderfully clear, minimalistic presentation, but somehow full of detail. Thanks !!
That single minute describing the 4 styles of wall paintings made things 10x clearer than the hour or so spent on Pompeii in my history class for interior design hahaha
Been there! Loved the book, Naked Statues, etc. Great read. Really fun and interesting. Wasn’t too keen about the bloodlust. But a good read. I’ve been to Italy 3 times. Loved the food.
I visited it a few years ago and it's one of the things that stands out the most in my memories from the trip
Such a wonderful building. Love the civilization. I wasn't aware that it had been used 300 years prior. Nice tour!
Man has always looked to something greater than himself .
Brilliant analysis! I remember touring the House of Menander when I was 16. I hope I can go back some day.
I’m very glad you enjoyed it! I hope to go back myself soon.
Wow... Can you imagine walking in the corridors of that house as someone who worked or lived there?
Fun to go to places like Mexico, where mansions still very often follow the Vitruvian style.
The centers of many old Mexican towns, with their plazas and porticoes, were directly inspired by Roman city planning.
I wonder who the original designers were. If they were from Spain - in which case them taking the Roman formula isn’t too surprising to me seeing as their past was so intertwined.
@@praetorianstride5948 seeing the intelligence exhibited in Roman and Greek statues and artwork it isn't hard to know where this talent and perspective originated. Hard as it is to refrain from attributing it to cultures less well-known for paintings architecture and sculptures...
As usual, a very informative and interesting article on Pompeii
Very glad you enjoyed it
Love your content, thank you for sharing!
My pleasure!
You should do a tour of one of the homes in Ercolano (Herculaneum) just down the way from Pompeii. Because the lava damage was cooler and more mud, the second stories of the homes were preserved in better shape than Pompeii. You can really see the architectural details, along with the water catching atriums. The streets are smaller, as well, giving you a feel for what it was like then. And best of all, very few tourists compared to Pompeii which can be a disaster (pun intended) on a hot day in August with wall to wall people and no shade.
Great tour...you mention that the peristyle courtyard is surrounded by ionic columns...am I mistaken or are those doric? I'm no expert but I am curious. cheers.
No, you're right - those are Doric / Tuscan. I have no idea why I said Ionic in the video. The perils of hasty recording...
Thanks. Always loved Pompei. Only been there on two occasions but.
I loved Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast.
Ahh yess the slightly shaky camera footage I've been waitin for this masterpiece.
The rain ads a serious touch of realism! You usually have to pay extra for that...
This is a full service channel
Remember to allocate enough time to see things. Pompeii is a city and it will take a good long time just to walk from one end to the other. When we went there on a tour we only had a few hours and left wanting to see more.
Clear, concise, informative and entertaining. Keep up the good work, I need more of these videos!
Beautiful Presentation! Thanks....
That place in absolutely amazing. Your channel is so great. I'm so happy I stumbled onto this gem of a channel. Thank you.
Thank you!
What a delightful video and such a beautiful place! I've always admired the ancient Roman homes and had the good fortune to visit Pompeii and Herculaneum, but just once and a long time ago. I must go back.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
I went to pompeii twice, because it is so big i had to see it in two trips, i saw herculaneum only once though
In 1996 I visited Pompeii and was impressed, but then I visited Herculaneum. Smaller, but more perfectly formed.
Thanks for this, I didn't get to see it when I was there. (Who has the time to tour every street of any city, who even knows every suburb, let alone street of their own city?)
Absolutely magnificent! Thank you for making this video!
must have been a nice place once upon a time, you can still see its grandeur even after all this time.
The rainy day seemed to be a perfect backdrop for this.
Your channel needs millions of subscribers, this is good wholesome content!
Thank you! And as for the subs - tell your friends!
“Walking” through with your narration truly made me imagine the lives of the people who lived there. They truly got to experience the best their time had to offer (up until the volcano lol)
Tried to go see Pompeii and Vesuvius. Ended up at Pompeii Theater in Rome. Actually drove up to toll plaza and found the wallet had been misplaced only to be found by a German tourist who turned it into a police station just above the Forum. The building is still there behind that beautiful marble structure.
An excellent tour!
I've watched a few of your videos, and thoroughly enjoyed them. I have subscribed as a result!
Thank you, and welcome aboard!
Hello. I visited Pompeii in 1984. My European tour was fantastic and still memorable. Most likely the mansion
you just shared was one of our visiting points of interest. Where are the giant frescos featuring erotica and
giant phallus'? Also, I don't think that was a " rain catcher" in the atrium. I think that is were a
priceless mosaic of Alexander the Great defeating Darius was located. Thank you for sharing.
Your content is awesome! I really like to envision myself in the era. Roman, Greek, Japanese Samurai, Wild West- these are the cultural time periods I enjoy Incase you need ideas for new content. Thanks for what you do
God it looks so beautiful
Thank you for your wonderful UA-cam postings... Your commentary is superb, and your light style makes these tours comfortable and delightful... Make sure you send me a postcard from your next destination!
That's very kind of you to say
Thank you for posting. Very enjoyable. I went to Pompeii a few years back. Spent all day there and it still wasn't enough time to see everything. Sadly, it was raining for the first part of the day, entry fee was waived, but the exhibits were locked away and we couldn't see them.
Glad to hear it. As you can tell, it was raining during my last visit too.
You rock my world. Amazing depth, and knowledge. Thank You Dr. G!!! p.s. I watch EVERYTHING you do, it's always a gift.
That's very kind of you to say. I'll try to keep your world rocked!
Just imagine feeling the terror:
Vulcan is so angry 😡
Vesuvius is now alive, shaking so hard the entire world is trembling.
It is raining ash and stones, large and small. Some are on 🔥 fire.
The smoked is so high it is touching the sun.
Day is now night. It is hard to see, it’s hard to breathe.
Where can I go! How can I get away?
fly
Yeah those two groups of people really had it bad. Imagine trying to escape through the wall in hope that in some sort of way you can survive only to suffocate. The other group being around a single lantern in a otherwise pitch black hell. I cann't imagine what those people thought, if they hoped that somehow they'd make it only to die and be forgotten for almost 2000 years...
This reminded me of the House of Batiatus from the series Spartacus!
I keep meaning to watch that series... I would bet that the producers of the show modeled the house on the mansions of Pompeii.
Thanks; beautifully done and fascinating.
So interesting! Thank you.
My pleasure!
The dude getting attacked by his doggos was cool!
incredible place to see, it strongly provokes the imagination ! very good tour
If I were a time traveller and I got stuck in ancient Rome I'll go to that house and scribble my message on the wall.
A travel in lost time! Amazing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I enjoyed the art lesson and the rain made it seem like you went back in time.
Never been at Pompeii in the rain. Visited in the summer the two times I was there. Next time, I will go to Herculaneum. This is well done, by the way, as are all your videos.
Very glad you enjoyed the video! The rain was atmospheric, but not much fun to cope with between buildings...
@@toldinstone I dig what you're doing. I am an ex-historian-of-science-in-training. Terminal masters type. Always thought of doing something like what you're doing. Can't think of a good tourism angle -- come see Darwin's house! LOL. But the rest--videos maybe even books? Been kicking around for ages: I'm 51. Maybe I should.
Totally enjoying your stuff. When I became "terminal" in grad school, they kept me on to TA another semester and said I could take undergrad classes as "999"s. One was Roman Art and Architecture (at Penn, this was: I was Doug Keen back then; long story). Hold on, I'll find the prof...Haselberger. Spring '97 it was. He was good; loved the class. Got into Roman culture from then on.
Keep up the great work!
I've visited it in 2019 and it's really amazing.
Nice one. Well done!
Fantastic. Love Pompeii! I would also love to see you do a video on Paestum with some very well preserved greek ruins south of Salerno.
Thank you! As it happens, I plan to return to Italy this summer. If I do, I will certainly visit Paestum.
@@toldinstone - I’m a dual US and Italian citizen, my ancestral hometown is half way between Rome and Naples. The nearby town of Arpino is the birthplace of Cicero and Agrippa.
Thank you.. I have been watching yale courses on Roman art and architecture, they explain in great details about this house.
You're very welcome. The Yale courses are a great resource.
As a classics nerd I love your channel
As a fellow classics nerd, I'm delighted to hear that
What a beautiful home that must've been.
Many houses from the 1860s-1920s follow this same floor plan in Argentina and Uruguay, the Italian influence...
I've watched many of your excellent presentations. Thank you for putting them together!
Oh, if only I had the money, I'd have this built for a holiday home in Naples.
its actually pretty chea i live near pompey and pretty much evry weekend i go visit it im not even 20 minute awya with a car
Excellent. Not only were the Roman artists good at using perspective, they also make more distant objects looked more grey or hazy. Really surprisingly good. And it showed balconies!
I've always liked Second Style paintings.
Love your content!
lovely .... love love anything Roman!
Great video thank you
What a courtyard that is... just awesome
Great video! The columns around the courtyard aren't Ionic, most recognizable by their volutes. These are Doric columns.
Glad you enjoyed it! Frankly, I have no idea why I said Ionic in the video.
I figured. :) I've watched a bunch of your videos now and you clearly know what you are talking about. I'm loving your content.
Thanks for the tour
My pleasure
Wow, some poor bastards got buried alive and had no hope despite having a pick axe... that's facainating and depressing
Yeah how did it happen that they had a pickaxe, I wonder. Not the sort of thing you'd know in advance might be handy when you're running to take shelter.
He said a form of hoe, so perhaps it was someone who was tending the courtyard gardens that day? (Or perhaps they were not gardeners themselves, but those tools happened to be placed that room the day of the eruption and thus in reach?)
Another possibility is perhaps they grabbed anything they could find as a makeshift defensive weapon earlier on in the day, considering how lawless and panick-stricken the city must've been the entire day leading up to the eruption.
Either way, definitely both fascinating and depressing.
@@HipposHateWater yeah it's sad to see the last futile efforts in Pompeii because they are ancient and preserved and we look at them with a an attraction. i guess its cause ancient people are basically fiction to us modern, their time and thinking was just so different it seems like a fantasy novel. so it strikes a nerve to see their real bodies and realize wow, they were basically the same as us
Beautiful video. Thanks for the tour 👍
Enjoy your channel! Thx
What a great tour! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Have you ever been anywhere near a volcanic eruption Dr. G? Or an earthquake? In both cases what I observed first-hand was how it seems to paralyze the flight response in humans. I wanted nothing more than to run out to the street but my neighbours or colleagues stayed put and some seemed to want to retreat into the inner recesses of the building itself. We flee from fire or rising water but otherwise just creep into a corner and wait for the pyroclastic flow!
I once climbed up Mount Etna in Sicily, and went to the rim of the crater where a "minor" eruption was occurring. Even though I was ready for it, that was an unsettling experience....
You're certainly right about the paralytic effects of sudden disasters. Many Pompeiians were saved by the duration of the eruption, which had the courtesy to dump ash on them for the better part of a day before unleashing the deadly pyroclastic flow. But thousands were like the dozen or so who tried to hide in the House of Menander, and were overwhelmed there.
Actually a nice looking place. Just add electricity and decent water sewer and total liveable today.
Were the tablinum and the other rooms off the atrium sealed off from the courtyard by doors? Was the master doing business "out in the open"?
In most houses, at least, the atrium was out in the open - important Romans wanted both their clients and passers-by to see them making decisions and helping people.
I would totally restore, and renovate a place like that, and live in it...