The Last Days of Pompeii

Roman imperial polity and its institutions from the rule of Augustus onward; the conventional end date of 476 CE concerns Western imperial rule, while the Eastern Roman Empire continued beyond that date.

Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, burying Pompeii and nearby settlements under volcanic material and causing widespread destruction in the Bay of Naples region.

Roman prefect of Judea who presided over the authority responsible for Jesus’s crucifixion.

The volcano whose 79 CE eruption devastated Pompeii, Herculaneum, and surrounding villas.

Pompeii was a Roman city in Campania near the Bay of Naples, destroyed and buried during the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius.