Frescoes, in the latest fashion in Pompeii wall decoration before the flourishing city was buried under volcanic ash spewed from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, have been given fresh life.
POMPEII, Italy — The newly restored remains of an opulent house in Pompeii that likely belonged to two former slaves who became rich through the wine trade offer visitors an exceptional peek at details of domestic life in the doomed Roman city.
It is delighting tourists and rewarding experts with tantalizing fresh insights into the everyday life of what is one of the most celebrated remnants of the ancient world. Previous restoration work, which involved repeated application of paraffin over the frescoed walls in hopes of preserving them,"resulted in them becoming very blurred over time, because very thick and opaque layers formed, making it difficult to 'read' the fresco," said Stefania Giudice, director of fresco restoration.
In the living room, known as the Hall of Pentheus, a fresco depicts Hercules as a child crushing two snakes, an illustration of an episode from the Greek hero's life. According to mythology, Hera, the goddess wife of Zeus, sent snakes to kill Hercules because she was furious that he was born from the union of Zeus with a mortal woman, Alcmena.
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