We continue our Earth Month series with a blog post from Dr. Jessica Venner. Here, Jessica discusses how evidence for urban agricultural practices in the gardens of Pompeii can provide us with insights into environmental resilience in the ancient world.
Tag Archives: Earthquakes
Blog #120: Artificial Lighting Systems in Pompeian Gardens and Baths with Emily Lime
We continue our Earth Month series with a blog post from graduate student Emily Lime. Here, Emily discusses how Pompeians engineered light to address the aesthetic, social, and practical concerns of the home, in environments where darkness, smoke, and fire posed real challenges.
Blog Post #21: Grad Student Feature with Amanda Gaggioli
In this instalment of our graduate student feature, we hear from Amanda Gaggioli, whose work focuses on human-environment relationships with respect to earthquakes and associated seismic phenomena in the Greco-Roman world.
Peopling the Past 