The colony
In the 80 B.C. Silla sent his nephew to Pompeii to transform the municipium in colony, attributing it the name of COLONIA CORNELIA VENERIA POMPEIANORUM and counting it in the Menenia tribe. With the advent of Augustus, in the 27 B.C., Pompeii gained progressively a Roman spirit; in fact new Augustan gentes arrived here and they made promoting of the Roman cult.
Luckily for the city, it was made the lacing to the aqueduct of Serino, built by Agrippa, son-in-low of Augustus, for its fleet placed at Capo Miseno. Towards the end of the empire of Caligula, in 40 A.D. it verified a crisis in Pompeii, that finished with the advent of Nero and the life of the city proceeded quietly up to 59 A.D., when in the Amphitheater it burst the bloody battle between Nucerian and Pompeians, that brought Nero to suspend the games for ten years.
Luckily for the city, it was made the lacing to the aqueduct of Serino, built by Agrippa, son-in-low of Augustus, for its fleet placed at Capo Miseno. Towards the end of the empire of Caligula, in 40 A.D. it verified a crisis in Pompeii, that finished with the advent of Nero and the life of the city proceeded quietly up to 59 A.D., when in the Amphitheater it burst the bloody battle between Nucerian and Pompeians, that brought Nero to suspend the games for ten years.
In 62 A.D. a catastrophic earthquake struck Pompeii and other cities of Campania (Herculaneum). Pompeii suffered many damages; in fact, at the moment of the volcanic eruption that buried it completely, some restaurations and reconstructions were still in progress.
Afterwards midday of August, the 24th of 79 A.D., the Pompeians saw a pine-shaped cloud fluttering on the Vesuvius; immediately after the gigantic stratum of solidified lava that obstructed the mouth of the crater exploded under the push of the gases and it flew in air shattering and transforming itself in lapilli that deposited on the city at a varying height of 2 or 6 meters and for a ray of 70 kms.
Afterwards midday of August, the 24th of 79 A.D., the Pompeians saw a pine-shaped cloud fluttering on the Vesuvius; immediately after the gigantic stratum of solidified lava that obstructed the mouth of the crater exploded under the push of the gases and it flew in air shattering and transforming itself in lapilli that deposited on the city at a varying height of 2 or 6 meters and for a ray of 70 kms.