Empty dreams….
The courtyard, or perhaps an atrium, stands empty. The columns reach upward but no longer have anything to support. In Pompeii “the upper classes mainly lived in domus, large houses sometimes covering an area of about 3,000 sq. m. The domus were usually based on the same main structure. The front door led into the atrium, a large central hall open at the roof. Around the atrium the other rooms of the house were located: the bedrooms (cubicula), the servants’ quarters, the dining rooms (triclinia) and living rooms.” In AD 79, over the course of two days, the lives of the wealthy and the common people changed forever. Mount Vesuvius revealed itself as a volcano, not as a peaceful mountain as the people thought. Up until that time, there was no word for “volcano”….
Empty dreams….
The courtyard, or perhaps an atrium, stands empty. The columns reach upward but no longer have anything to support. In Pompeii “the upper classes mainly lived in domus, large houses sometimes covering an area of about 3,000 sq. m. The domus were usually based on the same main structure. The front door led into the atrium, a large central hall open at the roof. Around the atrium the other rooms of the house were located: the bedrooms (cubicula), the servants’ quarters, the dining rooms (triclinia) and living rooms.” In AD 79, over the course of two days, the lives of the wealthy and the common people changed forever. Mount Vesuvius revealed itself as a volcano, not as a peaceful mountain as the people thought. Up until that time, there was no word for “volcano”….