This week Spenser Starke joins us for the first in a three-part series on Pompeii, Herculaneum, and other acts of God.

We talk about the history of the Pompeii, the science of volcanoes, and the art of archeology

Sources

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79_AD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegraean_Fields

Italia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Etna

https://www.italia.it/en/campania/herculaneum

Visit Pompeii

https://www.visitpompeiivesuvius.com/en/e/herculaneum

Smithsonian Mag

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buried-ash-vesuvius-scrolls-are-being-read-new-xray-technique-180969358/

University of Kentucky 

https://www2.cs.uky.edu/dri/herculaneum-papyrus-scrolls/

History Channel

https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-rome/pompeii

https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-eruption-of-mount-vesuvius-in-79-ad-and-the-destruction-of-pompeii

Pompeii online

https://www.pompeionline.net/en/archaeological-park-of-pompeii/history-of-pompeii

Wellesley 

http://omeka.wellesley.edu/piranesi-rome/exhibits/show/discovery-of-pompeii-and-hercu/founding-pompeii

New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/the-terror-and-the-fascination-of-pompeii

Pompeii Org

http://www.pompeii.org.uk/s.php/tour-the-two-letters-written-by-pliny-the-elder-about-the-eruption-of-vesuvius-in-79-a-d-history-of-pompeii-en-238-s.htm

IGPP

https://igppweb.ucsd.edu/~gabi/sio15/lectures/volcanoes/pliny.html

Pompeii

https://www.pompei.it/pompeii/daily-life-pompeii.htm

Western Australian Museum

https://museum.wa.gov.au/pompeii2010/daily-life/lifestyle/index.html

The Travel

https://www.thetravel.com/what-to-know-about-prehistoric-pompeii-italy/

History Today

https://www.historytoday.com/reviews/brothels-ancient-pompeii

Getty

https://www.getty.edu/news/what-did-ancient-romans-eat/

History Ace

https://thehistoryace.com/the-roman-empires-reaction-to-pompeii/#:~:text=The%20Roman%20Public%20Was%20Devastated%20and%20Grieved&text=This%20was%20because%20of%20two,held%20lots%20of%20Senatorial%20estates.

History Channel
https://www.history.com/news/6-bizarre-natural-disasters

Newspapers

https://blog.newspapers.com/lake-nyos-disaster-august-21-1986/

Pompeii Site

http://pompeiisites.org/en/pompeii-map/analysis/the-casts/

Journal of Geophysical Research
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2002JA009504

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/solar-radiation-storm#:~:text=Solar%20radiation%20storms%20occur%20when,atmosphere%20to%20very%20high%20velocities.

UNESCO

https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/818#:~:text=UNESCO%20and%20Italy%20have%20agreed,World%20Heritage%20List%20in%201997.

Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bracing-for-a-solar-superstorm/

The Herculaneum Society

https://www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk/about-us/story-of-herculaneum

Daily News (Trove)
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/77351480

Science Direct

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117706000160

Solar Storm Risk to the North American Power Grid

https://assets.lloyds.com/assets/pdf-solar-storm-risk-to-the-north-american-electric-grid/1/pdf-Solar-Storm-Risk-to-the-North-American-Electric-Grid.pdf

CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/the-tunguska-event-1.742329

Science Direct
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518305104?via%3Dihub

Gizmodo

https://gizmodo.com/actually-it-was-not-a-surprise-when-the-pompeii-volcan-1528203959

The Theogony by Hesiod

https://users.pfw.edu/flemingd/Hesiod%20Theogony.pdf

HowBig Map Tool
https://hanshack.com/geotools/howbig/

Ranker

https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-pompeii-remains/andy-miller

The Daily Beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/could-women-in-ancient-rome-read

The Conversation

https://theconversation.com/the-explosive-history-of-the-2-000-year-old-pompeii-masturbating-man-180557

The Nation

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/secundus-defecated-here-what-ancient-graffiti-means-today/

Ancient World Magazine

https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/indian-figurine-pompeii

The Collector

https://www.thecollector.com/roman-graffiti-painting-pompeii-herculaneum/

The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/adrienne-was-here/475719/