BBC: 庞培古城的存亡Pompeii: Life.and Death in a Roman Town(2010)

费劲地看完油管上的生肉，所以这个世界是不是个圈，庞贝当年的盛况已经达到了人类文明的顶峰，而我们现在又在去往顶峰的路上。

4.5 行前预习。像所有人一样生（财富、性爱、疾病、饮食、多元文化），像所有人一样死（黑暗中坍缩到只剩一盏油灯），the vulnerability of human beings and the snapshot of time（像是被Mary Beard拉住手扫拭遗迹沉积层，试图追返末日前的生命

火山🌋毁了一座城，我今天才知道这事。原来自然真的可以灭掉人类的如果他们想。（爱奇艺观看，无字幕，英文）她讲得英语好难听懂。可是里面一个男士讲得我就听得懂。怪我了……

一次不够，还想再去。

We are all human beings, rich and poor, ancient and modern, clean and dirty.

“It may have been a male-dominated world where the rich dined in luxury and exploited the poor, but Pompeii was also a place where slaves could earn their freedom, where women could earn wealth, and the ordinary Roman could eat and drink well. It was a place where even the poorest knew something of the world outside.”

读完去看了小普林尼的eyewitness account，好多人跟我一样，关注点在染了梅毒的受害者身上。。。