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Pompeii. Strabo’s chronology V.4.8. Oscans Etruscans Pelasgians (Greeks) Samnites. ‘Altstadt’. Sarno river. Early History. Traces of remains as early as 2 nd millennium BCE. Early small settlement Foundation of town= 6 th c. BCE ( Greeks?Etruscans?) 5 th century--- Samnites.
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Strabo’s chronology V.4.8 • Oscans • Etruscans • Pelasgians (Greeks) • Samnites
Early History • Traces of remains as early as 2nd millennium BCE. • Early small settlement • Foundation of town= 6th c. BCE ( Greeks?Etruscans?) • 5th century--- Samnites
Greeks vs. Etruscans • 525 BCE Etruscans attack Greeks at Cumae • Greeks win and 50 years later get the Etruscans out of Campania • But……
Capture Cumae, • Capua • 5th c. Campania=Samnite
Samnite Building evidence? • 4th c. on Pompeii is part of loose Samnite alliance. • No visible buildings • Traces under existing buildings
Punic Wars-Carthage-Hannibal • 218 BC Pompeii remains loyal absorbed by Rome as ally
2nd and 1st centuries BC • Prosperity and building
House of the Faun Opus sectile
Construction techniques Opus reticulatum (60 BCE) Opus craticum (late 1st c. BCE onward)
80 BCE – Sulla’s Roman Colony Colonia CorneliaVeneria Pompeianorum
Roman Empire Roman Empire------------------------------------------------- Augustus and Julio-Claudians 27BC-AD 69 ( Nero AD 54-68) Flavians (Vespasian/Titus) AD 69- AD 79