[HN Gopher] Cities on the Bay: The Ancient Roman Predecessor of ...
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       Cities on the Bay: The Ancient Roman Predecessor of Naples (2015)
        
       Author : DyslexicAtheist
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2023-04-01 10:16 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | wolverine876 wrote:
       | How does this Internet Archive page, apparently from the Wayback
       | Machine, not have the Internet Archive header?
        
       | ilamont wrote:
       | For anyone interested in this topic: Author Robert Harris really
       | did his homework for his historical fiction novel _Pompeii_ ,
       | which follows the story of a water engineer in many of the towns
       | around the bay and on the slopes of Vesuvius just before the
       | eruption. Besides the archaeological and geological records,
       | there are several surviving eyewitness accounts including that of
       | Pliny the Younger not to mention Roman histories of various
       | emperors who spent time in this area and events such as the
       | revolt of Spartacus.
        
       | inciampati wrote:
       | I love mentions of Cuma. It's a sublime, simple site, definitely
       | worth an afternoon's stroll.
       | 
       | It's also the birthplace of the alphabet that we are writing and
       | reading here! That inspires me for no good reason. It's just
       | amazing that this came out of a tiny colonial city on the edge of
       | paradise.
       | 
       | p.s. The bay of Naples in general is just overwhelming with dense
       | human history. As this article notes, the city center has
       | basically been under continuous inhabitation for 3000 years. You
       | can feel it everywhere!
        
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