Name: 6.赫庫蘭尼姆的生境和早期羅馬的內部裝飾 (6. Habitats at Herculaneum and Early Roman Interior Decoration)
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As you can see from the title of today's lecture,

"Habitats at Herculaneum and Early Roman Interior

Decoration," we're going to be concentrating

once again, at least in the first half of

We're going to look at several houses in Herculaneum,

and then we're going to move from there to begin our

discussion of early Roman interior decoration,

namely the First and Second Styles of Roman wall painting.

And what you'll see makes them particularly relevant to what

we've been discussing thus far this term is the fact that in

architecture is depicted in these paintings,

and we're going to see some very interesting relationships

between that and the built monuments that we've talked

Just to remind you of the location of Herculaneum,

which is usually called the sister city of Pompeii,

Herculaneum is to the northeast of Pompeii, closer to Naples

almost equidistant -- a little bit closer to Pompeii than

And I point it out to you now because we're going to look at

from the city of Boscoreale today as well.

Here you see a view, a Google Earth flyover,

It's very helpful because you can see a couple of things here

that I want you to keep in mind, as we look at this city.

One, that although most of the city of Pompeii has been

twenty-five percent of the city of Herculaneum has been

So we have much less at Herculaneum than we do for

Pompeii, and what we're missing, for the most part,

We don't have a great amphitheater from Herculaneum.

We don't have a theater and a music hall complex.

We think we might have part of the basilica,

We don't have the great large forum space that we have in

So we're missing a lot of that public architecture at

Herculaneum, which gives us less of a sense

at least in its public face, although there's no doubt that

that material still lies beneath the ground.

So we have only a quarter of the city, mostly the residential

part of the city, or part of the residential part

But there are several houses there that are extremely--

give us, provide information, especially about what was going

on between the earthquake and the eruption of Vesuvius,

62 to 79, that are extremely valuable in terms of giving us a

sense again of the evolution of Roman domestic architecture.

The other issue that this particular view raises is the

reason why Herculaneum is less well excavated than Pompeii,

and the reason for that has to do--and you can see it well

the modern city grew up on top of the ancient city.

And they were able at one point to clear part of it,

for excavation, but they have not been able to

It's a political nightmare to have to deal--

you have to relocate all the people who live in this area and

have lived in this area for a very long time.

That's politically a very difficult thing to do.

So thus far only twenty-five percent of Herculaneum revealed.

Let's all hope that at some point someday Italy can sort

this out and find a way to excavate the rest of this

You can see from this view that I took as--this is one of the

views that you get as you enter the site, the current location

But I think you can see very well here again what I'm talking

about: the relationship between the ancient city,

lower ground level, that has been unearthed through

You can see a peristyle court of one of the houses here,

But you can see the way in which the modern city rings the

would be to remove that modern city and to reveal the rest of

Here's another view where you can also see some of the remains

of the ancient city, of these residences and so on,

and their relationship to the rest of the town.

With regard to the history of Herculaneum, it is very similar

One difference is that the city of Herculaneum was supposedly

founded by Hercules, hence its name Herculaneum.

But in other respects the history again is quite