The story is well known: in the year 79, an eruption of Vesuvius buried Pompeii, its monuments, its frescoes and some of its inhabitants, under heaps of ash.
Years before succumbing to the assaults of the most formidable forces of nature, the Campanian city had already yielded to the armies of the Eternal City.
Because Pompeii was not always Roman.
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The archaeological site located near Naples carries a long and flourishing past where the little-known upheavals of ancient Italy come to light.
A pre-Roman past, therefore, on which the documentary by Charles-Henri Georget and Hugues Demeude,
Pompeii: the origins
, has set its sights.
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This getaway goes straight to the point.
In the first millennium BC.
J.-C., the fertile country of plenty which extends around this mountain of fire forms the meeting point of a diversity of people.
The Etruscan world poured into it from Latium, to the north, and founded Capua.
The Greek world settled there across the seas and founded Naples.
From the embrace, sometimes violent...
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