This project ios due 12/19/08:  you can choose to do either project below (number IV). Use the images for your POWERPOINT or BROCHURE. You may work in groups or on your own.

I. Where is POMPEII?

     1) Maps of Pompeii: 

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pompeii/pmpMain.html 

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pompeii/pmpPomp.html 

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/cwa/issues/cwa4/pompeii/pompeii-map.htm

     2) Read "Pompeii, Italy" from The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0006&layout=&loc=pompeii

     3) Read an account of the Mt. Vesuvius explosion by Pliny the Younger

http://pompeii.virginia.edu/pompeii/pliny.html

     4) View the virtual tour of the Pompeii Baths in the Forum

http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Pompeii/baths/baths.html

II. IMAGES: use the following links below

The Forum

• Pompeii Map with Panoramic Images: click "Forum Map" and use the links to access 360-degree views of the Basilica (lower left), the Temple of Apollo (mid-left), the area between the Temple of Jupiter and the Macellum (top), and the Forum itself (center), along with other sites in this area.
• View of the Forum taken from overhead
  (http://pompeii.virginia.edu/local/pVII_7-9_bal_wj.jpg)
• Basilica image plan map, which allows one to move through the building
  (http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jjd5t/mike/photo2/basilica.html)
• Basilica detailed views
  (http://www.amherst.edu/~classics/class36/
  pompeii/basilica.html)
• Eumachia Building image plan map
  (http://pompeii.virginia.edu/pompeii/eummap.html)
• Temple of Apollo, another view
  (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1999.04.0111)
• The Macellum (ma-sell-um), the city's meat market
  (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1999.04.0115)
• The Macellum, wall paintings within the building
  (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1999.04.0116)
• The Macellum image map, which allows one to move through the site
  (http://pompeii.virginia.edu/pompeii/macmap.html)
• Sanctuary of the Genius of Augustus image map, which allows one to move through this shrine to the emperor's "genius" or life spirit
  (http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jjd5t/mike/photo2/agustus.html)
• Sanctuary of the Genius of Augustus, another view
  (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pompeii/
  local/pVII_9_109-112sw1.jpg)
• Sanctuary of the Genius of Augustus, views of the altar
  (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pompeii/sgamap.html)

Shopping District

• Pompeii Map with Panoramic Images: click "Pompeii Map" and use the links on the map to access views along the Via dell'Abbondanza.
• Thermopolium, another view
  (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1999.04.0126)
• Thermopolium, another view showing a painted shrine to the lares (lare-eez) or guardian spirits of the place
  (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1999.04.0127)
• Bakery, another view showing the oven
  (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1999.04.0122)
• Bakery, another view showing the millstones used to grind flour
  (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1999.04.0138)
• Street Scenes: thermopolium, bakery, latrines and sewers, street signs, and the stepping stone crosswalks that let pedestrians avoid wading through the sewage that flowed through Pompeii's streets
  (http://www.amherst.edu/~classics/class36/
  pompeii/topography.html)
• More Street Scenes
  (http://www.amherst.edu/~classics/class36/
  pompeii/texture.html)

Homes

• House of the Faun, named for a sculpture found in the impluvium
  
  Impluvium, another view
  (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1999.04.0145)
  Garden
  (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1999.04.0147)
  More Images of the House of the Faun
  (http://HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/~jhauser/pictures/history/Rome/
  Pompeii/HouseOfTheFaun.html)
  More Images of the House of the Faun
  (http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jjd5t/region-vi/
  faun/faun-table1.html)
  
  
• House of the Vettii (vet-tee-ee), named for the family of Vettius
  Lararium, another view
  (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/
  image?lookup=1999.04.0143)
  More Images of the House of the Vettii
  (http://HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/~jhauser/pictures/history/Rome/
  Pompeii/HouseOfTheVettii.html)
  More Images of the House of the Vettii
  (http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jjd5t/region-vi/vettii/
  vettii-table1.html)
  Wall Paintings in the House of the Vettii
  (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1999.04.0139)
  More Wall Paintings
  (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1999.04.0140)
  More Wall Paintings
  (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1999.04.0142)