• reconstructing individuals from Oplontis A and B (slaves, wealthy owners, commerce)
  • cloth elements to reveal people in skeletal positions
  • narrative vignettes + interpretive transitional elements
  • characters in gallery ---> further elements in graham to end w/ eruption
  • object-oriented
  • dialogue (and Q&A?)
  • who do we need? writers, performers
  • auditions
  • draw in 5-college people
  • draw from roman comedy
  • end w/ modern discovery?
  • Villa A eruption phases, alternating layers of pumice and surges topped off by hardened ash
  • women property owners
  • damage and recovery from 62 earthquake
  • black sand sediments found in Oplontis B refuge room suggests material from tsunami
  • Villa A discovered in 1592 during construction of Sarno canal, Villa B discovered in 1973 during construction of gymnasium for local middle school
  • owner of Villa A possibly selling its marbles after it was abandoned following 62 earthquake
  • L. Crassius Tertius' family prominent in Pompeiian politics
feb 17 2017 ∞
may 24 2017 +