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The ruins of the Roman city of Pompeii provide us with exceptional evidence about the life and art of an ancient Roman rural town. We can walk through the skeletal structure of its streets and enter its houses, civic and religious buildings, coming to understand what the town originally looked like, as many of its artworks and colorful walls remain. This course will investigate the life and art of Pompeii and the other sites and towns buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, including evidence for the daily lives of Romans of different classes: women and men, young and old, rich and poor.