{"id":500,"date":"2022-06-09T12:44:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T10:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seepompeii.com\/luoghi\/casa-del-menandro-di-pompei\/"},"modified":"2023-11-04T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T07:31:07","slug":"the-house-of-menander-in-pompeii","status":"publish","type":"luoghi","link":"https:\/\/seepompeii.com\/en\/luoghi\/the-house-of-menander-in-pompeii\/","title":{"rendered":"The House of Menander in Pompeii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The House of Menander<\/strong> is one of the domus in Pompeii<\/strong> that remained buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
It was brought back to light only in 1928 after intense years of excavations begun in 1748 by Charles III of Bourbon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That brought to light part of the city of Pompeii that had been imprisoned for centuries under ash and lapilli like other Vesuvian cities.
The eruption of 79 AD was violent, devastating and gave Pompeiians no time to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly, on a day that began like so many others, first ash and then lapilli began to pour out of Vesuvius; it was the plug that had formed inside the volcano and was escaping under the thrust of the magma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within hours Pompeii was inundated with more than 3 meters of lava rock and ash that destroyed everything and buried many of its inhabitants. Later came the pyroclastic flow that invaded Pompeii and devastated everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pompeii and the house of Menander remained imprisoned for centuries under the blanket of ash and lapilli, and it was not until 1748 that work began to bring the ancient Roman city back to life.<\/p>\n\n\n