Pompeii Study Day

Pompeii: The City of Life and Death

The Adult Education Program of Sydney University Museums presents our inaugral Study Day, on the archeology of the Roman city of Pompeii. Presented in conjunction with the Nicholson Museum exhibition Classical Fantasies: The art of South Italy, this course in a day will examine various aspects of the city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August AD79.

This course will present a number of short lectures looking at the events of that fateful day and their impact upon the archaeological record. Talks will focus on the history of archaeological excavations at the city, and of their impact on modern scholarship and culture since the 18th Century. They will also examine what Pompeii can tell us about daily life in the first-century Roman Empire - frmo the houses, bars, brothels and streets of an ancient town destroyed and preserved as a result of Vesuvius' fury.

The course includes a tour of the exhibition Classical Fantasies, the chance to handle artefacts from Pompeii held in the Nicholson collection, as well as a catered lunch and morning and afternoon tea.

Cost: $100 per head (inclding lunch and refreshments)
Bookings essential: (02) 9351 2812 or m.turner@usyd.edu.au

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