Pompeii's Ashes by Moormann Eric

Author:Moormann, Eric [Moormann, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2015-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

Another poetic voice from Britain is that of John Hayter, King George IV’s librarian and an eminent classicist who sojourned in Campania on research two times. A few years before 1800, he was there to study the volcanic phenomena of Vesuvius, and was back in 1802, thanks to a grant of the King, to test a new method of unrolling the papyri, for which he hired “unfolders.” In an appendix to the travel reports, Hayter published a poem that is similar to one of his poems for which he had won a prize from Oxford in 1809.1475 Strongly patriotic epic hexameters praise his Maecenas (King George), who has invited him to liberate Herculaneum for a second time, this time from the occupying French troops in Naples. Thanks to George’s victory over France, the poet is able to travel to the South like a Greek colonist and to shed light on Herculaneum’s finds:1476

On your order, I personally crossed the waters of the long sea to settle finally on the face of the Euboian coast, together with the Saracen and Greek colonists in the Phlaegrean fields, and to go through the Argive remains in the area burnt by Vesuvius. Here I have to bring to light the monuments of the city of HERCULES, held in a grave of pumice, and the learned ashes from the deepest darkness and the giant Typhon.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.