Pompeii: Life Before Disaster | New Feature Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 23 июн 2024
- The story of Pompeii’s destruction is renowned across the world. In 79 AD, this prosperous Roman town was destroyed by a massive, volcanic eruption. Pompeii became frozen in time, only to be rediscovered c.1500 years later.
Vesuvius’ eruption has preserved Pompeii in its final moments. The wealth of archaeology that has been unearthed over the past few centuries here is extraordinary. From gladiator graffiti to political adverts. And amidst all of this archaeology, we even have the names of actual Pompeiians surviving. The stories of everyday people - men and women - who lived and worked all around the town some 2,000 years ago. Not emperors, empresses and generals. But bakers, barmen and prostitutes whose stories are usually lost to history.
Tristan Hughes explores the stories of some of these men and women who called Pompeii home. Wealthy villa owners such as the entrepreneurial businesswoman Julia Felix, who owned a luxurious estate near the amphitheatre and converted part of her property into a restaurant. The plucky bar owner Sextus Amarantus, who imported wines from as far away as Gaza to sell at his establishment. Or the famous freeborn gladiator Marcus Attilius, who defeated a great champion in his very first arena fight.
This documentary explores the lives of the people that made up Pompeii. With access to some of the site’s most extraordinary buildings and interviews with leading experts, it’s a story about everyday life before the eruption.
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Please don't use AI for thumbnails. It makes the show look so much cheaper and lazier than the content deserves.
Edit: They changed it now. For the better.
Very true
So the AI is only in the thumbnail? Not the video itself?
I second this wholeheartedly.
Had to do a double & triple take to make sure it WAS from HHTV with that thumbnail.
I'm so sick of AI!!!
the humans looks so fake. one looks like an AI cara delevigne in a cheapo way.
Absolutely fantastic stories that truly bring these people from Pompeii alive and make it much more palpable. Thank you History Hit for providing us with such amazing free content.
Could not second this more. So sick of AI generated images fronting deep quality content on (social) media!
So well done. Great job by Tristan and everyone else at History Hit.
Amazing storytelling. We've just been to Pompeii yesterday and Herculanum today. This video has brought to life what we've seen in both cities. Than you!!
To those that plan on visiting Pompeii - highly recommend going to Herculanum as well. Its excavated part is way smaller, but so much better preserved!!
Pompeii gives you scale, Herculanum really makes you feel the city as it was in those days.
I visited Rome last year and took a day trip to Pompeii. I'll never forget it. I only saw a portion of the town, as it's really large. I wish I'd visited Julia Felix's house.
Next time you go make sure you visit the museum in Naples where the portable finds from Pompeii are housed you could spend days there exploring the treasures
@@lynnedelacy2841 that's very optimistic of you! I'm 70 and have so much of the world yet to see. It's unlikely I'll return to Italy any time soon. But you never know.
@@lynnedelacy2841we visited Naples few weeks ago, we were only able to do city tour, due to time constraints , I am planning to visit Pompeii in future.
Hopefully it will still be there. Campi Flegrei is acting up and may erupt.
Lucky you!👍💯
Visiting Pompeii 2 years ago will hopefully be stuck in my mind until I die.
What an incredible place to visit and enjoy.
Excited to watch, just starting!
Thankyou HH for this very compelling documentary. I had no idea as to the size and scale of Pompeii. A beautiful place with such a tragic history.
WOWsers, what a great upload. Thank you Team.
I can’t believe they blurred the brothel fresco…!😮
Due to demonetization...but for real these kind of things should be protected under educational content rules. This small part really ruins documentary for those who watch today and many many years in the future.
I visited in 2013. Since then they have uncovered more. I was caught in summer drench during my visit, it got dark so quickly, and seeing how quickly the weather changed and Mount Vesuvius in the distance really made everything quite impactful.
thankyou, for sharing this 🙂 x
That was wonderful!
Excellent
Really enjoyed
My family was just talking about Peter Capaldi and Doctor Who!
"Modern Art!" just rewatched this episode, its such a wonderful one, full of wonderful easter eggs
It was a wonderful historical coverage documentary about Ancient Pompey city.. documentary focused on important figures of that infamous Ancient city...thank you 🙏 ( history Hit) channel for sharing
me seeing this on my subscription list just as I'm currently reading the last book in The Wolf Den Trilogy 🥺🥺
I saw and heard Dawn French when they were sitting in the restaurant.
Wow, that arial view, I didn't realize until now how big Pompeii is.
I've never been to Pompeii, but I did see the aftermath in person years later of what Mount St. Helen's, WA., U.S.A did. It was shocking and amazing, but sad as well.
I loved this, but there are too many advertisements which is very annoying and distracting....
thankyou for saying it
I didn't see that many and suppose it depends when and which country you are watching from
I tried to warn them of the impending doom. Their response: "Wine. Good."
Fantastic story! However some recent Discoveries point to some survivors of Pompeii
Thank you for a very interesting film, was Pliny The Younger really that good looking? Wish I’d met him!
Wouldn’t it make more since if the dining room didn’t look a lot like a bath? Water trickling down to it, mural depicting river culture and maybe last but not least a drain at the bottom of the “table”.
The people are not forgotten. Their lives were not much different than ours. They were business people taking care of their families and building their business connections, although some were despicable, in my opinion.
Never understand why they wanted to lay on their side. Very uncomfortable and not practical to eat.
"The reason for this lifestyle is to show wealth in front of the lower social groups. Lying down while eating was something that mostly the rich and powerful did to show that they were more important and that they should always be comfortable with whatever action they performed."
"This trend, which began in the 7th century BC, was inherited from the Greek ancestors. It was often practiced during feasts or banquets, where a variety of food and drinks were served to those belonging to a higher social class, and their only reason to get up was to go to the restroom to make more space for food.”
Source: Medium
It always makes me wonder how many more ancient cities are buried out there beneath the sands and seas just waiting to be discovered.. to be clear, I’m not talking about imaginary cities like Atlantis, but actual lost cities that have been lost to the earth’s ever changing landscape. There’s got to be hundreds or thousands of them…
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Please refrain from using AI thumbnails, it makes History Hit appear as lazy and unscholarly when it’s anything but!
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This was such an interesting documentary. It does tickle me though how you can say someone f**ked here but can't show artwork showing boobs etc. RUclips being hypocritical at its finest 😂😂😂
A full documentary on the RUclips channel is most appreciated.
Enjoyed with one constructive criticism. The sex work section seemed to be reductive. I feel like the research has come farther than the final sentence summing it up as horrendous and moving on.
Sensationalist and revisionist, however the guest historians included in the documentary are universally good and well informed (unlike the presenter).
I thought that the idea that the "barracks" next to the amphitheater in Pompeii had been debunked as gladiator housing. Due to the artwork under the arcade which they wouldn't have done for a bunch of gladiators.
I am always amazed by how obtuse tour guides and archaeologists can be. Having amphorae from around the Mediterranean didn’t necessarily mean they had brought wine to Pompeii directly. With the abundance of vineyards in the area it’s more likely that the exotic wines had been delivered elsewhere than the containers used wherever until they were broken or worn out.
In vino veritas = if a drunk says horrible things, know that its what they are thinking but not saying when sober.
No way, there's a painting of me in ancient Pompeii!!! @2:23
Pics or it didn’t happen 😂
23:53 umm excuse me what did we just say?
Wild way to say that for a documentary unless I’m the problem
Very interesting but audio on the location is very poor. Lots of clipping.
Why does the presenter insist that Pliny the Elder was merely "determined to have a closer look" while omitting the basic fact that as commander of the Roman navy based at Misenum it was his duty and responsibility to order the ships under his command to both investigate the situation and rescue any survivors of the unfolding disaster. He wasn't just 'some bloke' with a fatal case of curiosity. If the presenter is relying on the representation of Pliny by Suetonius he should know better since that later author is famous for his gossip-laden, fanciful and contradictory representations of the characters of other famous Romans, in particular the Emperors. This so-called historical documentary is full of misleading representations, half-truths and basic omissions. Why?
He didn't know it was a disaster. It looked just like smoke from their vantage point. it was only when he got a message from a friend's wife, describing the danger that he got the whole navy ready to go to the rescue.
@@benjalucian1515 Its the confusing and snide observations made by the presenter, characterising Pliny as a mere 'adventurer' that I objected to, not the idea that he was unsure about what he was dealing with when he ordered his squadron to leave Misenum for Stabia on that fateful day in 79. Just very lazy and disingenuous film making.
@@collectivesartori It's not the best documentary I've seen on the subject.
@@benjalucian1515 very much agree. It was beautiful and there were some very good academic guests, but the grab for eyeballs and sensationalist sound bites is a massive turnoff unfortunately. The dumbing down of popular history is really depressing.,
Mostly Roman until it exploded. How is this a question?
I cant watch censored history. Stop with the blurring, already!
The blurred images of the amazing frescos is nineteenth century anglo prudishness at its finest. Totally pathetic.
wine from Gaza in Pompei ! 17. 35
I see Maureen lipman 😂
It does get warm there. Global warming has not made it any warmer yet.
I lived there in the early 80s, actually near Pisa. It was hot, even hotter near Naples.
17:23 From Gaza! You don’t say
Is this for babies? Stop attaching intent and feelings without evidence.
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OK when he was talking about the people you can have sex with for men he left out that men could have sex with other men
Oh no it’s that same narrator that won’t stop moving his hands now all I can look at are his hands moving. Please make him stop.
Not yt ppl.
Huh?
Hot, I guess.
Could Sophie be wrong?
I think modern historicle revision is historians trying to meke themselves more relivant also why whould you plaster a guy who looks like he has a hangover all over what whold of bedn a nice thumbnail? Why change dates ? Why contest the gender of skeletons ect
I always found Herculaneum more interesting
Indeed far more superior
The presenter represents women as oppressed in this so called documentary on early imperial Rome. While women and men certainly were not equal, the extent of the revisionism on display in this so-called documentary perverts the known historical record about the experience of women in Roman society, in order (presumably) to push a contemporary agenda of some kind. Disappointing and dissembling.
Trouble is, we don't have any writings from women from the time period.
Drink every time they mispronounce "campagnia" 🤦🏻♀️
Please stop using AI art. It really cheapens the image of what you're putting out which is otherwise really good
There is something sad about female archaeologists/historian singling out female historic figures to somehow prove a point that women are special.. Acting like they were key figures or leaders of their age while we all know men were prominent leaders in every culture.
It feels almost like they try to mirror some aspects of people they do not know onto themselves which becomes evident.
A lot of "I'd like to think" and "we do not know for sure but" does not tell me anything and how many catering establishment nowadays are run by a single person? Exactly, none.
Using history always to divide, never to unite. It is the underlying premise of this retelling of history. Revise, revise, revise.
Well, like most societies no matter how draconian, not everyone is a bastard. Roman women were supposed to be controlled by their fathers, then their husbands and if widowed their sons. Were their menfolk ALL strict task masters? Well no. Like modern days, some men were lazy, some indulgent, some knew their wives/daughters were quite capable. LIke the mosaic of the baker and his wife. SHE is holding the tablet and pen. Showing SHE was educated, literate and she did the books for their business instead of being kept pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen. Did women have lovers? Yeah, they did. Did their menfolk care? You bet. Did ALL of them care? Well, no. Especially if the woman was not under direct control and was discreet, yes, they had lovers. If high born, they were above what gossip the riff raf in the street talked about. It's a lot more complicated than what you think.
The real tragedy of some becomes the way of life for others tens, hundreds and even thousands of years later. Yes, history and archeology is important. No, it cannot be more important than the present time, especially when both become distractions that prevent people from seeing that the Gaza tragedy is not just news. Are those innocent children and women murdered, mistreated, tortured, raped and starved by the Nazi Zionist troops of Israel closer to us than the inhabitants of Pompeii? Are we human enough to be less outraged by the genocide that the volcano caused in Pompeii than by the genocide of Palestinians committed by Israelis with the help of Americans and Europeans?
Nobody is saying that.
Why does he keep calling Pompeii a "town"? This is an ignorant statement. Pompeii was home to at least 12,000 people at the time of its destruction in 79. This is a significant number for an urban area in the Roman era. It was a modestly-sized provincial city or civitas in Roman terms, not a town. Why minimise it?
Good documentary but next time please use “enslaved people” rather than slaves. “Slaves” removes the humanity and exploitative nature of these people who were owned -enslaved- by other people.
Who else can be a 'slave' but a person?
The wamenist language in this is nauseating. It doesn’t describe Roman culture at all, since it didn’t exist at all then.
But wamen rage to try to rewrite history.
what on earth are you yapping about
@@doom3798wamen
@@accidentalcoleslaw what does your misogyny have to do with the facts relayed in this video
@@doom3798 … The strong, independent wamen babble.🤢
It’s nauseating. Nearly every British show is on about that.
Even Hollywood is destroying itself with quiet rules about that agenda to replace men, which will land them in court for Title 7 discrimination.
On and on and on. It’s not about a single item, but the agenda prattle.
People generally like strong, independent individuals. BUT don’t get caught talking like a broken record about any particular thing. Let people figure that out for themselves by examples, without saying it directly.
“Current day” productions are collapsing in viewers and revenue because of terrible writing and agendas defying the public interest.
Wamen - strong victims.
This documentary pops off! I love History Hit 🩵