Crossword clues for pompeii
pompeii
- Pageantry with European team in Italian city
- Buried Roman city
- Buried city
- Ancient city's millions held by second religious leader?
- High priest number two holding mass for stricken city
- Translated poem in page 2 that was buried in Italy
- Victim of Vesuvius
- Mount Vesuvius casualty
- Italian archaeological attraction
- Ill-fated city of A.D. 79
- Historic site southeast of Naples
- City destroyed August 24, 79 A.D
- City buried by volcanic eruption, AD 79
- Bulwer-Lytton locale
- 1971 Elstree comedy film — Up ___
- Title location of an 1834 Bulwer-Lytton novel
- Ancient burial place
- Major Italian tourist site
- Italian archaeological locale
- City destroyed by Mount Vesuvius
- Ancient city southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius
- City getting disastrous coverage of display: topsy-turvy one, that is
- City buried in AD 79 by a volcanic eruption
- City buried by Vesuvius eruption
- City buried English couple after ceremony
- City buried by Mt. Vesuvius
- Round mass in pipe irked one? Smoker here blew top!
- Roman city south-east of Naples
- Remains within easy reach of Naples
- Procession with European team in ancient city
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Roman town buried by volcanic eruption 79 C.E., excavated beginning in 1755; the name is from Oscan pompe "five," in reference to its five districts. Related: Pompeian.
Wikipedia
Pompeii is a novel by British author and previous journalist and BBC television reporter Robert Harris published by Random House in 2003. It is a historical fiction with a blend of fictional characters with the real-life eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD that overwhelmed Pompeii and its surrounding towns. Pompeii is especially notable for the author's references to various aspects of volcanology and use of the Roman calendar. A film version of the book, to be directed by Roman Polanski with a budget of US$150M, was cancelled in 2007 due to the threat of the Screen Actors Guild strike.
Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania.
Pompeii, Pompei or Pompeji may also refer to:
Pompeii is an EP by Beirut, released in 2007. It features only the work of Zach Condon and pre-dates the Gulag Orkestar debut album. While initially only available exclusively through eMusic and Rough Trade Digital, it later could be found on iTunes and Amazon. At the moment it only can be found on eMusic. The album cover features Zach Condon (on the left) and his younger brother Ross Condon (on the right).
On the version that was traded through Amazon a third song called "Monna Pomona" could be found. The song can not be legally downloaded currently.
Pompeii is an American indie rock band comprising Dean Stafford (vocals, guitar), Erik Johnson (guitar, keyboards), Colin Butler (bass), and Rob Davidson (drums). Formed in Austin, Texas in 2004, the band is best known for their melodic and ambient rock sound, which features the addition of classical strings. Pompeii's style is noted as having a saturated ambient, elegant sound. Pompeii have received international attention and critical acclaim from outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Chicago Tribune, American Songwriter, Stereogum, NPR, Apple, Under the Radar, and MTV.
Pompeii is the fifth album by German progressive rock group Triumvirat. The band released the album under the name of "The New Triumvirat" due to temporary legal squabbles over the original name. This would be the band's last progressive album, due to the pressure of the record company to do more commercial music, to enhance the record sales. It would also be the last with members Hans Bathelt who was the band's drummer and lyricist since the very beginning in 1972, singer Barry Palmer would also leave after this album.
Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, in the Campania region of Italy, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
Researchers believe that the town was founded in the seventh or sixth century BC by the Osci or Oscans. It came under the domination of Rome in the 4th century BC, and was conquered and became a Roman colony in 80 BC after it joined an unsuccessful rebellion against the Roman Republic. By the time of its destruction, 160 years later, its population was estimated at 11,000 people, and the city had a complex water system, an amphitheatre, gymnasium, and a port.
The eruption destroyed the city, killing its inhabitants and burying it under tons of ash. Evidence for the destruction originally came from a surviving letter by Pliny the Younger, who saw the eruption from a distance and described the death of his uncle Pliny the Elder, an admiral of the Roman fleet, who tried to rescue citizens. The site was lost for about 1,500 years until its initial rediscovery in 1599 and broader rediscovery almost 150 years later by Spanish engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre in 1748. The objects that lay beneath the city have been preserved for centuries because of the lack of air and moisture. These artifacts provide an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city during the Pax Romana. During the excavation, plaster was used to fill in the voids in the ash layers that once held human bodies. This allowed one to see the exact position the person was in when he or she died.
Pompeii has been a tourist destination for over 250 years. Today it has UNESCO World Heritage Site status and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors every year.
"Pompeii" is a song by English indie rock band Bastille. It is the fourth single from their debut studio album Bad Blood and the first to get major airplay and promotion. The song was released as the album's fourth single on 11 January 2013. It reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart, number 4 in Australian ARIA Chart, and number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Alternative Songs chart. Furthermore, according to the Official Charts Company, it was the UK's most streamed song up to June 2014.
Lyrically, the song is about the Roman town of the same name, which met its fate with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It was nominated for British Single of the Year at the 2014 BRIT Awards. A mashup of the song with Rudimental and Ella Eyre's " Waiting All Night" was performed live by Rudimental, Eyre and Bastille at the aforementioned ceremony.
Pompeii (referred to in marketing as Pompeii in 3D) is a 2014 German-Canadian-American 3D historical disaster romance film produced and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. Inspired by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 that destroyed Pompeii, a city of the Roman Empire, the film stars Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas, with Jared Harris, and Kiefer Sutherland. It premiered in France, Belgium, and Russia on February 19, 2014 and was released over the course of the next day in Argentina, Greece, Hungary, Italy and later in many major territories, including the United States, Canada, India, and Australia, The film was released in United States of America and Canada on February 21, 2014.
Usage examples of "pompeii".
You should be the one to ride out and locate the fault, while the aquarius assembles the main expedition in Pompeii.
Three Roman buccinas were found among the ruins of Pompeii and are now deposited in the museum at Naples.
Let men envy Diomed his cook--let the slaves of Pompeii style thee Congrio the great!
He was defeated and slain early in 553 at the battle of Mons Lactarius, not far from Pompeii, and the little remnant of his followers, the last of the Goths, marched northward out ot Italy and disappear from history.
Dreel on Parkatin, Obie had double-crossed Antor Trelig at his demonstration on New Pompeii.
Pompeii converted into baths, and you will then form a notion of the size of the imperial thermae of Rome.
We care nothing about the ancients on Highgate Hill--but at Baiae, Pompeii, by the Virgilian Hades, the ancients are society with which we thirst to be familiar.
Little Attica mourned because no one would let her see her mother, who had to stay in Rome while Atticus sent his daughter and her servants to isolation in his villa at Pompeii.
Until it is over, no one can rest. Quintus Caecilius, find a few reasonably fit men and ride back to Pompeii as fast as you can.
And when Mutilus reached the coast at Crater Bay, the seaports of Stabiae, Salernum and Surrentum declared for Italy, as well as the river port of Pompeii.
The interpretation among those who mattered in Rome was that the Pompeii were Picentines and owned vassals long before Roman influence in that part of Italy, and had bought themselves membership in a better tribe than Velina.
By keeping my mind steadily upon the work, I gradually unfolded the narrative which follows, as the famous Italian antiquary opened one of those fragile carbonized manuscripts found in the ruins of Herculaneum or Pompeii.
There, through a shimmering veil of chainmail, he saw the Pompeii and its new additions, still linked to Challenger and each of the Blood ships with a thin single thread each, as if it were holding kite strings.
Then he had been picked up by one Antor Trelig, who needed a classicist for his neo-Roman library on New Pompeii and addicted him to sponge.
I mean, you know, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the CCNY Alumni Association, the Untouchables of Avenue B, Alcoholics Anonymous, the NAACP, the Anti-Vivisection League, the Washington Heights Democratic Club, the B'nai B'rith, the West 49th Street Pimps and Prostitutes Mutual Legal Fund, the Hungarian Freedom Fighters, the Save-the-Village Committee, the Police Holy Name Society, the Daughters of Bilitis, the Our Lady of Pompeii Championship Basketball Team.