There is an ancient story. I don’t know when it was written but I do remember reading it in school in the early 60’s. A homeless boy in Pompeii had a companion, a loyal dog. They took care of each other. When the mountain erupted the boy and the dog took refuge in a structure near the sea. The boy waited there while his canine friend went to search for food for them in the rubble. Before the dog could return to the boy a family saw him and carried him off to safety in a boat while the boy was screaming for his friend. The craft left the city leaving the boy in hysterics. Two thousand years had passed and when the city was finally discovered and excavated. The researchers found that the hot ash had petrified many of the people left behind. They found among the remains a petrified small dog holding a loaf of bread in his mouth. I am 73 years old. I read that story probably before I was a teenage. When it comes up in my mind, such as this clip, I still feel sadness for the boy who survived to live a full life and the dog that couldn’t reach him in time to share their last meal together. My apologies to those that will feel for years this story after reading.
Louis Untermeyer - " The Dog of Pompeii ". It was a fiction, but a beautiful story nonetheless and thank you for reminding it. “Amazing!” gasped his assistant. “You’d think a dog would have had sense enough to run away at the time. And what is that flat thing he’s holding between his teeth? It can’t be a stone.” “No. It must have come from this bakery. You know it looks to me like some sort of cake hardened with the years. And, bless me, if those little black pebbles aren’t raisins. A raisin cake almost two thousand years old! I wonder what made him want it at such a moment?” “I wonder,” murmured the assistant
@@sanvean4601 I very much appreciate your help with remembering the title and author. Like I said I read this story somewhere about 60 years ago. Somethings will stick with you forever, I guess.
@@thesnowmexican763 Animals, particularly dogs, do seem to trigger our emotions. I agree with what you said about Fry’s dog. There was another story, this one a true story. It was the story of Old Drum. It has one of the greatest courtroom speeches ever. I won’t go into the details here, but I encourage people to look it up.
It was a pyroclastic flow, so it was all over in minutes with a wall of hot ash, not the bomb like rocks as seen here. But it makes for less of a movie I suppose.
Cinematic, but unrealistic. Based on what I've heard of archeological studies, it was a massive and sudden eruption of extremely hot ash, that blanketed the city. Much like the Mt Saint Helen's eruption. This lengthy bombardment did not likely happen due to how much was intact.
vesuv is one of the most dangerous vulcanos on earth because he erupts rarely but if he does the chances are high that its like a massive explosion because his magma is a special very sticky kind it mostly blocks the ways out for a normal eruption and that causes the volcano to more or less explode modern days vesuv is shaped like he is because of that....in the time of pompei he was probably way higher and more mountain like....until kabooom
btw the area around vesuv is getting more and more active again with the last few years...italia is already working on emergency evac plans for neapel and other cities because vesuv will show us one day he is still alive.....
Not only that, but there was not a violent earthquake (strong enough to destroy buildings) accompanying the initial eruption. There had been tremors for days leading up to the eruption, but no one paid any heed to them. The volcano erupted around 1:00 pm and rained down ash and pumice for hours, which ultimately buried Pompeii. Sometime in the night or early next morning rapid moving pyroclastic flows from the volcano began. At this point there were one or two earthquakes violent enough to cause buildings to collapse.
Well, it hasn't done a very good job. Since man appeared millenia ago, nature has won battles here and there, like Vecuvius in 79 AD, but humans keep growing exponentially and nature has been ineffective wiping mankind from the face of the Earth. Humanity is now threatening nature.
The pyroplastic flow was the final event the actual eruption lasted for some time and debris did fly into the city. Most of the people in the city actually had time to get out. The people who died and whos bones and preserved bodies we see today were the ones who sought shelter in the cities wine cellars, basements, etc feeling safe but not knowing what was going to happen in the end.
Awful movie..cheesy acting performances with a very predictable plot which largely seems to have been "borrowed" from the exponentially better "Gladiator"
As said by many people since 79AD, only to be proved wrong. Never mistake a dormant volcano with an extinct volcano. I have climbed to the caldera of Vesuvius about five years ago and can assure you, it’s alive and well, just having a little nap at the moment 😊
There is an ancient story. I don’t know when it was written but I do remember reading it in school in the early 60’s. A homeless boy in Pompeii had a companion, a loyal dog. They took care of each other. When the mountain erupted the boy and the dog took refuge in a structure near the sea. The boy waited there while his canine friend went to search for food for them in the rubble. Before the dog could return to the boy a family saw him and carried him off to safety in a boat while the boy was screaming for his friend. The craft left the city leaving the boy in hysterics. Two thousand years had passed and when the city was finally discovered and excavated. The researchers found that the hot ash had petrified many of the people left behind. They found among the remains a petrified small dog holding a loaf of bread in his mouth. I am 73 years old. I read that story probably before I was a teenage. When it comes up in my mind, such as this clip, I still feel sadness for the boy who survived to live a full life and the dog that couldn’t reach him in time to share their last meal together. My apologies to those that will feel for years this story after reading.
Louis Untermeyer - " The Dog of Pompeii ". It was a fiction, but a beautiful story nonetheless and thank you for reminding it.
“Amazing!” gasped his assistant. “You’d think a dog would have had sense enough to run
away at the time. And what is that flat thing he’s holding between his teeth? It can’t
be a stone.” “No. It must have come from this bakery. You know it looks to me like
some sort of cake hardened with the years. And, bless me, if those little black pebbles
aren’t raisins. A raisin cake almost two thousand years old! I wonder what made him
want it at such a moment?”
“I wonder,” murmured the assistant
Seymore from Futurama makes me cry every single time.
@@sanvean4601 I very much appreciate your help with remembering the title and author. Like I said I read this story somewhere about 60 years ago. Somethings will stick with you forever, I guess.
@@thesnowmexican763 Animals, particularly dogs, do seem to trigger our emotions. I agree with what you said about Fry’s dog. There was another story, this one a true story. It was the story of Old Drum. It has one of the greatest courtroom speeches ever. I won’t go into the details here, but I encourage people to look it up.
Read the same story.
It's based on finding both boy, dog and a raisin cake forever together encased in ash.
Funny how that earthquake created a fissure that split the arena, but left the circus underlevel entirely intact.
...and left the arena intact afterwards! I have walked in it as it was just buried in ash and preserved. Its a miracle!
This is not historically accurate. Jon Snow was never in Pompeii
Neither was the guy from Grimm.
I know right???!!! And that was not Cersei in the box...
As someone who lived a past life in Pompeii . I can confirm that Jon Snow was not there
It was his cousin, Jon Ash...
@@leatheredlife4861 hahaha😐
It was a pyroclastic flow, so it was all over in minutes with a wall of hot ash, not the bomb like rocks as seen here. But it makes for less of a movie I suppose.
I don't know, man, I was at Subic Bay in 91 when Mt Pinatubo blew, that was enough excitement for several lifetimes.
Yeah, that eruption was horrific
If your an amateur.
well that would have been too short for a movie lol, or a very abrupt end
There were weeks of ash and pumice clouds before the main eruption.
Cinematic, but unrealistic.
Based on what I've heard of archeological studies, it was a massive and sudden eruption of extremely hot ash, that blanketed the city. Much like the Mt Saint Helen's eruption. This lengthy bombardment did not likely happen due to how much was intact.
vesuv is one of the most dangerous vulcanos on earth because he erupts rarely but if he does the chances are high that its like a massive explosion because his magma is a special very sticky kind it mostly blocks the ways out for a normal eruption and that causes the volcano to more or less explode
modern days vesuv is shaped like he is because of that....in the time of pompei he was probably way higher and more mountain like....until kabooom
btw the area around vesuv is getting more and more active again with the last few years...italia is already working on emergency evac plans for neapel and other cities because vesuv will show us one day he is still alive.....
Not only that, but there was not a violent earthquake (strong enough to destroy buildings) accompanying the initial eruption. There had been tremors for days leading up to the eruption, but no one paid any heed to them. The volcano erupted around 1:00 pm and rained down ash and pumice for hours, which ultimately buried Pompeii. Sometime in the night or early next morning rapid moving pyroclastic flows from the volcano began. At this point there were one or two earthquakes violent enough to cause buildings to collapse.
Right we're really supposed to buy Kiefer & Kit as Romans. XD
@@alexbenadetto5006 Campi Flegrei is pretty darn scary with active geothermal features that people built right around.
Kiefer in a period piece! Wow!
I have heard stories of this.. but it's just hard to even imagine.. what those poor people went through.. the hell those people went through
Atticus: 6:43, Milo, this is madness! We have to get the harbor and find a boat! The mountain is going to kill us all!
The vulcano was much lower, this is the modern one
3:35 - Let me guess - Jack Bauer saved many lives in Pompeii! 😃😃😃
Not only a great movie but very sad too can you imagine the horrors of being there when that happened at least is was a quick death
Nature been wiping the humanity slate clean for a very long time
And yet humanity keeps claiming themselves above nature.
@@Orcaluv26 I know right
Nature has been wiping the slate clean long before we existed.
@@Dusk.EighthLegion well it’s long over due
Well, it hasn't done a very good job. Since man appeared millenia ago, nature has won battles here and there, like Vecuvius in 79 AD, but humans keep growing exponentially and nature has been ineffective wiping mankind from the face of the Earth.
Humanity is now threatening nature.
This doesn't even remotely resemble a shred of evidence gleaned from the history or excavation of Pompeii.
So true
I've visited Pompeii, stood in the arena. I must have missed the big gaping fissure through the middle of it.
Poor Jon Snow…he can’t catch a break. First zombies and ice men, and now a freaking volcano 🌋 when it rains it pours don’t it 😅
I actually visited the coliseum in Pompeii, smaller than Rome's but fairly substantial.
It's a bit sad to think the people of Pompeii in 79AD had no idea what was going on they didn't even have a word for volcano.
"Wrath of Gods"
The entire city was covered by a pyroclastic flow in minutes. None of this nonsense happened
The pyroplastic flow was the final event the actual eruption lasted for some time and debris did fly into the city. Most of the people in the city actually had time to get out. The people who died and whos bones and preserved bodies we see today were the ones who sought shelter in the cities wine cellars, basements, etc feeling safe but not knowing what was going to happen in the end.
I’m sure Captain Crosier wasn’t there either! Lost in the Artic centuries later!
Memorial Hall in the Louisiana State Capitol has floors with lava from Mt. Vesuvius.
0:43
400 mph cloud of sulfur dioxide and 1800° ash.
Sorry, this will hurt.
John snow?
HHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wie heißt der Film
Sure hope this wasn't based on history.
What's the name of the movie?
Pompeii
Titanic
High school musical 3
john snow in a skirt. who gives a F about the volcano
Year One?
Year 79 AD
Typical Yankee stadium exit crowd on nickel beer day…
Mt Vesuvius
Go
Fake.
One of the dumbest movies ever. Maybe someday someone will make a version The Last Days of Pompeii that isn't unintentionally funny.
Awful movie..cheesy acting performances with a very predictable plot which largely seems to have been "borrowed" from the exponentially better "Gladiator"
today vesuvius is dead volcano....and will not erupt again
It is very much alive, and is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world.
Wrong it's dormant not dead, it famously erupted during ww2.
😂 F00l troII
That's completely untrue.
As said by many people since 79AD, only to be proved wrong. Never mistake a dormant volcano with an extinct volcano. I have climbed to the caldera of Vesuvius about five years ago and can assure you, it’s alive and well, just having a little nap at the moment 😊