Pompeii - full deck Flashcards
(183 cards)
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Roman time
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Hora Prima - first hour after sunriseHora Duodecima - last hour before sunsetEight watches in the night - Vespera, Prima Fax, Concubia, Intempesta (midnight), Inclinato, Gallicinium, Conticinium, Diluculum
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Roman days of the week
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Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Sun
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Quotes at the start
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Tom Wolfe, Hooking UpPliny, Natural HistoryA Trevor Hodge, Roman Aqueducts & Water Supply
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Book starts at
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Conticinium, Mars, 22 August - 04:21
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Quotes at start of Mars
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Bardintzeff, McBirney - Volcanology
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Engineer’s name
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Marcus ATTILIUS Primus
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Where is Attilius based
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Misenum
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Constellation that rises on Festival of Vinalia
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Vintager
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Overseer
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Gavius Corax
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Name of the aqueduct around the Bay of Naples
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Aqua Augusta
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Who had recruited Attilius’ great grandfather?
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Marcus Agrippa
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Which aqua did Attilius’ great grandfather build?
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Aqua Julia
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Which aqua did Attilius’ grandfather build?
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Anio Novus
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Which aqua did Attilius’ father build?
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Aqua Claudia
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Where does the Aqua Augusta start?
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Appenninus - springs of Serinus
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Which towns are served by the Aqua Augusta?
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Pompeii (spur) - Nola - Acerrae - Atella - Neapolis - Puteoli - Cumae - Baiae - Misenum
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Architect to the Divine Augustus (chinrest)
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Vitruvius
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Province book takes place in
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Campania
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Villain of the piece
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Numerus Popidius AMPLIATUS
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Ampliatus’ villa on Bay of Naples
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Villa Hortensia, Misenum
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Augustan aristocrat who threw slaves to his eels
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Vedius Pollo
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Ampliatus’s eels
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Moray
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One of Ampliatus’s eels was a favourite of which emperor?
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Nero
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Ampliatus’s teenage son
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Celsinus
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Ampliatus's household steward
Scutarius
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Which fish had the slave "killed"?
Red Mullet
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How much were the red mullet worth?
6,000s each
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Ampliatus's daughter
Corelia
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Name of slave being fed to the eels
Hipponax
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Hipponax's mother
Atia
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Terminus of the Aqua Autusta
Piscina Miribilis - Pool of Wonders
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Roof of Piscina Miribilis
48 pillars, each more than 50m high
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Attilius's predecessor
Exomnius Aelianus - sicilian, 20 years
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Person administering aqueducts
Curator Aquarium - Rome
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Name of Curator Aquarium
Acilius Aviola
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Where was Attilius working when transferred
Anio Novus
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Philosophical school Attilius subscribes to
Stoics
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Attilius's household slave
Phylo
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Attilius's late wife
Sabina
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Temple build by Ampliatus in Pompeii
Cult of Isis - presented in Celsinus's name
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Osiris
Sun GodHusband to IsisSlain each evening by Set, bringer of Darkness
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What does Attilius smell in the water at the Villa Hortentius
Sulphur
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What does Ampliatus smell of?
Crocus oil
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What game is Corax playing with Musa and Becco
Bones
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Atillius's greek slave
Polites
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How long has Corax worked on the Aqua Augusta?
Twenty years
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Which hill are the Claudia and Anio Novus in Rome?
Esquiline
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Roman waters
Aqua Marcia - Sweetest tasting, three springs of the ArnioAqua Alsietina - foulestAqua Julia - soft and tepid
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What did Atillius's father die of?
Lead poisoning, before 50
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Capacity of Piscina?
280 quinariae
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One quinariae
Daily requirement of 200 people
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How many in Misenum?
10000
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How much water is in the Piscina?
Enough for two days
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Where are the sulphur springs?
Baiae
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Whose mouth does the Aqua Augusta flow from into the Piscina?
Nepture
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Where does the rider come from to tell Atillius that the water has failed?
Nola
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Statue in the building housing the sluicegate
Egeria - goddess of water spring, consort of Numa
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Admiral
Giaus Plinius - Pliny the Elder
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Pliny's great work
Natural History
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Where is there a copy of the Natural History?
Library at the Porticus of Octavia
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Imperial flagship at Misenum
Victoria
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Pliny's nephew
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus - Pliny the Younger
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Where does Atillius send men to shut off the Augusta?
Abellinum
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Augusta diverted to ...
Beneventum
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Previous earthquake
Nones of February, consulship of Regulus and Verginius, Nero was in Neapolis - Seneca describes
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Pliny's wine
Caecuban
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Sacrificed to Jupiter
White bull
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Fastest ship in the fleet, lent to Atillius
Minerva
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Public holiday
Vulcanalia (appropriate)
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Current emperor
TITUS Caesar Vespasianus Augustus
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Aquaduct built by Atillius's father
Aqua Claudia
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What is the Venus Throw in dice?
Four sixes
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Misenum is named after ...
Misenus, herald of the Trojans, slain by Triton (Virgil)
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What sort of ship is the Minerva?
Liburnum
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Captain of the Minerva
Torquatus
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Two great warships in Misenum harbour
Concordia and Neptune
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Pliny's two greek slaves
Alcman for reading aloudAlexion for dictation
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Emporer who was Pliny's friend
Vespasian
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Pliny's water clock, specifications by ...
Ctesibius of Alexandria
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Ampliatus granted freedom by ...
Popidius
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Commissioner sent to Pompeii by Nero after earthquake
Suedius Clemens
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Soil found around Puteoli that forms the basis for Roman concrete
Puteolanum
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Slave who set up rebel camp on top of Vesusvius
Spartacus
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Greatest villa on the bay
Villa Calpurnia
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Owner of Villa Calpurnia
Pedius Cascus (former consul)
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Pedius Cascus's wife
Rectina
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Pedius Cascus's philosophers
Epicurians
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Letter shown to Attilius after Sabina's death
Servius Sulpicus to Cicero
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Who does the the dice say should go and locate the fault in the aqua?
Corax and Musa
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Where does water enter Pompeii?
By the Vesuvius gate (castellum aquae)
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River flowing through Pompeii
Sarnus
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Horse dealer in Pompeii
Baculus (Horses Swift Enough For The Gods)
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Where are the sluices to the Aqua?
Abellinum (springs rise under a temple dedicated to water goddesses)
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Name of aquarius in charge at Abellinum
Probus
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Slave at Pompeii's castellum aquae
Tiro (blind)
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Magistrates in Pomeii
Marcus HolconiusQuintus Brittius
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Aediles in Pompeii
Lucius Popidius - in charge of waterGaius Cuspius
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Where did Exomnius have rooms in Pompeii?
Africanus's place (brothel)
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Scared day for the men of the aqueducts
Neptunia - 23rd July
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Popidius's doorman
Massavo
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Who is Corelia due to marry?
Popidius
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What is Ampliatus building in Pompeii?
Baths
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Ampliatus's foreman at the baths
Januarius
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Ampliatus's advice to Attilius
No safer investment (in Pompeii) than property
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Man Ampliatus did some debt collecting for
Jucundus
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Salve lucrum
Hail profit
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Lucrum gaudium
Profit is joy
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Ampliatus's (dreary) wife
Celsia
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Lucius Popidius's mother
Taedia Secunda
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The rule of Varro
Guests at dinner party should not be less than the Graces (three) or more than the Muses (nine)
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Oysters bred in ...
Brindisium, fattened in the Lucrine Lake
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Seneca's motto
Eat to vomit, vomit to eat
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Trimalchio
Freed slave of monstrous wealth in satire by Titus Petronius
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Fate of Petronius
Ordered to suicide by Nero - broke fluorspar wine-dipper with 300,000
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Ampliatus's cook
Gargilius
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Centre dish at Ampliatus's feast
Eel
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Capsa
Cheap beechwood document case
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Corelia's birds
Goldfinches
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Surgeon to attest to Corelia's virginity
Pumponius Magonianus
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Exomnius's prostitute "partner"
Zmyrina
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Ex-gladiator on Atillius's team
Brebix
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Why don't the men like being out near Vesuvius after dark?
The giants ...
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Where is the Villa Calpurnia
Herculaneum
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Pliny: In cardiac disease the only relief lies in ...
wine
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What has Pliny decided to call the tremors from the volcano?
Harmonic episodes
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Pliny's widowed sister
Julia
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Pliny the Younger's tutors
Quintilian for literatureNicetes for rhetoric
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Highest aqueduct
Nemausus (Nimes) in Gaul
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What sort of gladiator was Brebix
Murmillo - 30 fights
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Which troop was Brebix in
Alleius Nigidius
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Waves but no ...
wind
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Who is sent to close off the sluices at Abellinium
Corvinius and Becco
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Five neighbourhoods of Pompeii
ForensesCampaniensesSaliniensesUrbananensesPagani
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Ampliatus's temple
Isis
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Population of Pompeii
20000
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Sybil of Pompeii
Biria Onomastia
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God the sybil sacrifices snakes to
Sabazios
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Goddess of the water spring
Egeria
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What does Corelia bring Attilius
Accounts stolen from Ampliatus, accounts of Vesuvius
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Where in Sicily was Exomnius from?
Caetana (near Etna)
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What day does Vesuvius erupt?
Jupiter (August 24)
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From the womb feet first like ...
Agrippa
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Who does Atillius send back to Pompeii with Corelia
Polites
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Where did Pliny serve in the army?
Upper Germany
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Who was Pliny fighting in Upper Germany
Chauci warriors
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Who did Pliny serve with in Upper Germany?
Domitius Corbolo
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Claudius's wife
Lollia Paulina
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Nero's wife
Agrippina
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Who murdered Aggripina in Misenum?
Ancietus
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How often is the Piscina Miribalis emptied for maintenance?
Every ten years
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Pliny's water slave
Dromo
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What does Pliny find in amphora dropped into the reservoir
Silver coins - 250k sesterces
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Which emperor is pictured on the coins found in the reservoir?
Vespasian
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Who's money is found in the reservoir?
Exomnius
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Quattrorviri
Board of four - Popidius, Cuspius, Brittias, Holconius
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Whose name is on notices around Pompeii promising water
Popidius (by the seventh hour)
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The best wine ...
Caecuban
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Samnite fortress
Nola
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Thracian gladiator
Spartacus
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Breeze from the North East
Caurus
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Whose body does Attilius find at the top of Vesuvius
Exomnius
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Who follows Attilius up Vesuvius to kill him
Gavius Corax
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Who has written the greek account of Vesuvius
Strabo
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Who has written the Latin account of the Pompeii earthquake
Seneca
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What's the full ruling council on Pompeii called?
The Ordo - 85 citizens
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How many Hiroshimas?
100000
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Escape route from Pompeii
Stabian Gate
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What rains down on Pompeii first
Pumice
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"People perish ...
... books are immortal" - Rectina
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Island rules by Aeolus, god of Wind
Strongyle
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Universal fuel on various phenomena
Sulphur
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Blind friend of Pliny's who thought eruption was the work of Jupiter
Pomponianus
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Observation platform on ship
Carchesium - "drinking cup"
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Where does the Minerva eventually put to shore?
Stabiae
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Whose villa do they spend the night after the eruption
Pomponianus - Stabiae
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"most courageous man who ever lived" according to Pliny
Marcus Sergius
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Wine produced for dinner in Stabiae
Falernian
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Who gives Attilius his helmet when he sets off for Pompeii from Stabiae (three miles)
Torquatus
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Who does a stranger ask Attilius after?
His wife, Julia Felix
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Who attacks Massavo with a torch?
Corelia
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Where do Attilius and Corelia survive the eruption
The aqueduct
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Where does Pliny die
Stabiae
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Rumoured - a baby made of
Stone
