Pompeii and Herculenum: Important Archaeologists (rush Memorising)

Question 1

Who are the important archaeologists?

Answer 1

Giuseppe Fiorelli (1860-1875)
August Mau (1882)
Michele Ruggiero (1875-93)
Giulio De Petra (1893-1901) 
Ettore Paris (1901-1905)
Antonio Sogliano (1905-1910)
Vittorio Spinazzola (1910-1923)
Amedeo Maiuri (1924-61)

Question 2

What’s the most important contribution Giuseppe Fiorelli had made to the excavations at Pompeii?

Answer 2

Giuseppe Fiorelli had made plaster casts of all the people that had died at Pompeii due to the eruption of Mt. Vevius.

Question 3

What’s the most important contribution August Mau had made to the excavations at Pompeii?

Answer 3

August Mau had came up with the 4 art styles that had existed during the Roman occupation of Pompeii.

Question 4

What’s the most important contribution Michele Ruggiero had made to the excavations at Pompeii?

Answer 4

Restoration of the House of the Silver Wedding, the House of the Balcony and more than 600 paintings.

Question 5

What was the most important contribution De Petra had made at the excavations at Pompeii?

Answer 5

Restoring roofs, covering atria and recreating several gardens.

Question 6

What’s the most important contribution Antonio Sogliano had made at the excavations of Pompeii?

Answer 6

The invention of many of the conservation techniques that are still used today.

Question 7

What’s the most important contribution Vittorio Spinazzola had made at the excavations of Pompeii?

Answer 7

The focus on the 600-metre length of the main commercial road - the Via dell’Abbondanza - that ran west to east through Pompeii,linking the forum with the amphitheater and the Sarnian Gate.

Question 8

What was the important contribution Amedeo Maiuri had made at the excavations of Pompeii?

Answer 8

Excavating monuments such as the House of Menander and the Villa of Mysteries.