PompeiiPPT课件

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However, much more than buildings and objects, it is the forms of the people (who were caught in the disaster) that have made the city a monument to human history. One can only feel sorrow and deep sympathy for these once living statues.
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People gathered together for protection in their last hours of life.
One person, sitting alone, looks like he was praying.
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The man, lying on his side, looks as if he was trying to get up.
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Pompeii is an ancient Italian city on the Bay of Naples. Founded in the 7th century BC by a tribe called the Oscans, it was later taken over by the Romans in the first century, and became a prosperous city until completely buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
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A market and meeting place in ancient Roman towns in Italy. In modern usage, the word may mean the meeting itself – usually a discussion, or an exchange of views.
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Gladiators(格斗士) are a class of professional and commercial fighters, who fought each other for the amusement of the spectators in ancie- nt Rome. The combats usually took place in amphitheaters(竞技6 场).
the 5th century BC, he was
frequently identified with the
sun god. In art he was portrayed
as the perfection of youth and
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beauty.
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Originally, an ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility(丰 饶女神). But as time went on, she became regarded as a beneficent(行善的) mother goddess in ancient Rome.
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This volcanic eruption made Pompeii a time capsule, a frozen moment in history. The eruption buried Pompeii under 4 to 6 meters of ash and pumice, and the long-forgotten site of the city was rediscovered in 1748 and has been excavated (挖掘) since that time. Now, four fifths of the city has been discovered.
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Around the end of the first century AD, a Roman writer called Pliny wrote about a terrible volcanic eruption that he had witnessed as a young man. This particularly sad event left a deep impression on Pliny who lived in Misenum at that time. Thanks to him, we can know more about this disaster, but at that time, few people believed his word about it until the city’s rediscovery.
aspects of life.
注:罗马文化或许是跟希腊文 化很像,但是在罗马文化的朱 庇特代表的並不是爱神,而是 代表希腊文化的主神宙斯
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In the religion of the ancient
Greeks, Apollo is one of the
most important Olympian gods,
a symbol of light, of youthful
manly beauty and of reason. He
is also d with
prophecy(预言), medicine,
music, poetry and the care of
flocks and herds(牛羊). After
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Jupiter is the supreme god
in the religion of ancient
Roman. Originally a god
associated with rain and
culture, he became the great
father god concerned with all