{"id":1802938,"date":"2023-01-11T20:04:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T01:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802938"},"modified":"2023-01-11T20:04:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T01:04:34","slug":"pompeii-home-of-slaves-turned-roman-elite-opens-after-20-year-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pompeii-home-of-slaves-turned-roman-elite-opens-after-20-year-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeii Home Of Slaves Turned Roman Elite Opens After 20-Year Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpompeii-home-of-slaves-turned-roman-elite-opens-after-20-year-restoration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802938&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Two former slaves and wine traders owned the Pompeii house. The restoration is complete. Now, visitors can see a glimpse of the elite at work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/italy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roman<\/a> life, circa 79 AD.<\/p>\n<p>It was known as the House of Vettii. The site was first discovered in late nineteenth century. However, constant flooding and pillaging prevented it from being restored to its original glory until 2002. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/entertainment-europe-4f7d78b61fb39b5fd3f71cd07ff3eded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press Report<\/a>. Intense restoration has now been able to reveal the numerous frescoes \u2014 or watercolor paintings on walls and ceilings \u2014 in the home. Many scenes from Greek mythology are depicted in the paintings, which show elite Roman life&#8217;s values and narratives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe House of the Vetti is like the history of Pompeii and actually of Roman society within one house,\u201d Pompeii\u2019s director, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, said. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing here the last phase of the Pompeian wall painting with incredible details, so you can stand before these images for hours and still discover new details.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aulus Vettius Conviva was the owner of the house, while Aulus Vettius Restitutus was his second name. The fact that they share the first name and have different surnames indicates that the two were likely not related biologically. It is possible that they were slaves, possibly Aulus Vettius. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/10\/astonishing-pompeii-home-of-men-freed-from-slavery-reopens-to-public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to The Guardian<\/a>. Wine trading was believed to be the key to their significant upward economic mobility once they had achieved freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Zuchtriegel claimed that the two men \u201chad an incredible career after [slavery] and reached the highest ranks of local society, at least economically,\u201d Note the incredible domus, garden. \u201cThey evidently tried to show their new status also through culture and through Greek mythological paintings, and it\u2019s all about saying, \u2018We\u2019ve made it and so we are part of this elite.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the living room, you will find a depiction of Hercules crushing two snakes as a child. The garden is surrounded by marble baths and tables.<\/p>\n<p>Arianna Spinosa, Pompeii\u2019s architect director of restoration, called the home \u201ciconic,\u201d It is a statement that it \u201crepresents the Pompeiian domus par excellence, not only because of the frescoes of exceptional importance, but also because of its layout and architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/history\/article\/pompeii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to National Geographic<\/a>Pompeii&#8217;s remains were preserved in large part by thick volcanic ash that was formed from Mount Vesuvius&#8217; eruption in 79 AD. This high level of preservation allows historians and archaeologists to virtually step back in history and study Roman life. One-third of the city is still buried. The real challenge isn&#8217;t finding the rest; it&#8217;s continuing to preserve what is already there, given that it&#8217;s exposed to pollution, weather, and tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restoration of a Pompeii home thought to be owned by two former slaves turned wine traders has just finished after twenty years, and the home is now open for visitors to witness a snapshot of elite Roman life, circa 79 AD. Known as the House of Vettii, it was discovered in the late nineteenth century, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1554,"featured_media":1802941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9824,6202,4069,14501,12829,10311,13393,6195],"class_list":["post-1802938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-20-year","tag-daily","tag-elite","tag-pompeii","tag-restoration","tag-roman","tag-slaves","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}