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Pompeii, italy, was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79 AD, and now only a ruin remains.
▲ Oil painting "Ruins of Pompeii" (1779)
By the German classicist painter Jay Fi Hackett
Private collections
One of Pompeii's most famous specialties is called the Mirage Fish Sauce, which is a sauce similar to today's shrimp sauce and fish sauce. Archaeologists have found such fish sauce workshops in the ruins of Pompeii. This Pompeii fish sauce also has a famous advertising slogan: "Mirage fish sauce, no matter how thick the volcanic ash can not bury these two thousand years of fishy."
▲ Pompeii mural "Mars, God of War" (1st century AD)
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Discover the ruins of Pompeii "House of Venus"
It is recorded that the Roman Nero (37-68) also visited the mirage of Pompeii. In order to welcome the holy car, the owner of the mirage, Lucretius, specially asked the painter to paint a new set of murals on the south wall of the backyard colonnade garden, just west of the small dark room where the fish are stored. Guarding the wall of the entrance to the dark room was Mars, the god of war, who was wearing a helmet and a cloak, holding a shield in his left hand, a spear in his right hand, bare-chested, naked, and next to Mars was Venus, the goddess of beauty.
▲ Pompeii mural "Mars and Venus, god of love"
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Discover the ruins of Pompeii "House of Mars and Venus"
Many of Pompeii's mansions are decorated with sweet photos of Venus, Pompeii's patron goddess, and her lover Mars. The most famous story of the red apricot out of the wall in Western mythology, since ancient Greece, has been a popular entertainment headline for the masses, and in ancient Roman times, thousands of households were decorated through fresco art.
▲ Pompeii mural "The Love of Mars and Venus" (1st century AD)
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Discover the ruins of Pompeii "Youth House"
▲ Pompeii mural "Mars and Venus" (1st century AD)
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Discover the ruins of Pompeii "House of Mele Agios"
▲ The Bel Mural "The Love of Mars and Venus" (1st century AD)
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Discover the ruins of Pompeii "House of Apollo playing the chirpedo"
Mars, the god of war, was Venus's lover, and Vulcan (meaning "volcano") was the husband of Venus, the goddess of Pompeii. Pompeii also has a specialty - Wuer overlook pottery oil lamp, the appearance is wearing a free pointed hat of the long face hanging eye Vulcan, oil injection mouth on the top of the pointed hat, long chin stretched out of the distance, spitting out thousands of lights. Since Vulcan is the husband of the guardian goddess, and his name "Vulcan" means "volcano", everyone in Pompeii wants to have a Vulcan pottery oil lamp.
▲ Oil painting "Eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79 AD"
(1813) By the French painter Valenciennes
It is now in the collection of the Augustinian Museum in Toulouse, France
On August 24, 79 A.D., on the night of Wuer's anger, the poor Pompeians, in addition to holding a key to the door of the house that could no longer be locked, also held up this lost oil lamp, and Wuer looked at the fire and led them into the underworld one by one.
▲ Oil painting "Nero Caesar" (1620)
By the Flemish Baroque painter Abraham Janssen van Neussen
It is now in the collection of Kapt Castle in Brandenburg
The Roman Caesar Nero came to Pompeii for a visit in the summer two years after the great earthquake of 62 AD. So, why did Nero come here? See below.