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Riots and Earthquakes.

Riots and Earthquakes. Something’s brewing…. The Earthquake. When?. Seneca dates it to AD 63 Tacitus dates it to AD 62 Huh?!! Noooooooooooooooooo. February 5 AD 62?. Seneca Natural Questions: Lasted several days. Inflicted ‘great devastation’.

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Riots and Earthquakes.

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  1. Riots and Earthquakes. Something’s brewing….

  2. The Earthquake.When? Seneca dates it to AD 63 Tacitus dates it to AD 62 Huh?!! Noooooooooooooooooo

  3. February 5 AD 62? Seneca Natural Questions: • Lasted several days. Inflicted ‘great devastation’. • Many people have ‘denounced Campania’ and ‘have emigrated after this misfortune and say that they will never go there again’. • Tacitus, Annals 15.22 ‘And the busy town of Pompeii in Campania largely collapsed because of an earthquake…’

  4. OCR p106 • Why was there seismic activity at Pompeii? • What damage did the earthquake do to Pompeii? • What opportunity did it give Pompeians to change their city? • Where was some of the most important renovation work being carried out?

  5. The lararium of Caecilius

  6. The lararium earthquake relief

  7. Temple of Jupiter Arch City wall Castellum aquae Vesuvius gate.

  8. The Water tower and Vesuvius gate

  9. Caecilius’ house

  10. The Water tower and Vesuvius gate

  11. Big Problems • Water supply system broken? Water pipes on Via dell’Abbondanza being replaced. • Many fountains in private houses closed. • Many buildings being restored – e.g. the colonnade of the forum. The Macellum, Comitium, Basilica all repaired. • Odeon and Theatre appear to be closed. • Temple of Apollo: Cracks in walls ‘stitched’ by brick or rubble. • Only 1 public bath operational. • Too much damage for a 17 year old earthquake?

  12. Repairs to earthquake damage?

  13. Constant problems? • Regular tremors precede most volcanoes. • Water pipes being replaced in AD 79. Must have been repaired quickly after AD 63, but damaged again. Burying them deeper to make them stronger? • Repairs in Suburban Baths repaired again. • Changes to occupation: several properties merged into one house or converted into businesses. People have left? BUT: Many upstairs rooms being constructed for apartments = housing shortage?

  14. Numerius Popidius Celsinus, son of Numerius, rebuilt at his own expense from its foundations the Temple of Isis, which had collapsed in an earthquake; because of his generosity, although he was only 6 years old, the town councillors nominated him into their number free of charge.

  15. Inscription of T. Suedius Clemens. After 62 AD

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