Pompeii: Daily Life in an Ancient Roman City

Explore a fabled city, frozen in time and buried for centuries, and gain a riveting and unprecedented view of life as it was lived in ancient Roman times.

• By This Professor
• 01: Reflections on and of Pompeii
• 02: Geology and Geography on the Bay of Naples
• 03: The Rediscovery of Vesuvian Lands
• 04: Etruscan Pompeii—5th Century B.C.
• 05: Samnite Pompeii—2nd Century B.C.
• 06: Building the Roman Colony—80 B.C.
• 07: Villa of the Papyri and Life with Piso
• 08: Marriage and Mysteries—Rites of Dionysus
• 09: Eumachia, Public Priestess
• 10: A Female Slave in Pompeii
• 11: Governing in the 1st Century A.D.
• 12: Games and Competition for Offices
• 13: Riot in the Amphitheater—A.D. 59
• 14: The House of the Tragic Poet
• 15: Pompeii's Wool Industry
• 16: Pompeii's Wine and Vineyards
• 17: Earthquake—A.D. 62
• 18: Rebuilding after the Earthquake
• 19: Wall Paintings in the House of the Vettii
• 20: A Pompeian Country Club
• 21: Worshipping the Emperors at Herculaneum
• 22: Visiting a Villa at Stabiae
• 23: Pliny Narrates the Eruption of Vesuvius
• 24: The Bay of Naples after Vesuvius