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Pompeii Live
Jun. 28th, 2013 08:56 amIt occurred to me that as I have a few things coming up that I shall no doubt want to LJ about, I had better catch up with a couple of posts.
On tuesday 18th June I went to see Pompeii Live at the cinema. It was a live event from the British Museum in conjunction with their Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition. It was basically a glorified documentary, with experts talking about some of the exhibits - but it was amazing to see the details of some things on the big screen. They were 'proper' experts too, unlike the dreadful programme the BBC did with 'her from The Apprentice'.
One of the funniest moments was Peter Snow's face when Andrew Wallace-Hadrill was extolling the virtues of what they found in the sewers of Herculaneum! I could have done with a bit less about sex, and particularly the pan/goat statue. There are other interesting things about Ancient Rome - particularly the information about food and plants that came from the non-historians.
It was definitely worth going to though, and I would definitely go to another one.
On tuesday 18th June I went to see Pompeii Live at the cinema. It was a live event from the British Museum in conjunction with their Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition. It was basically a glorified documentary, with experts talking about some of the exhibits - but it was amazing to see the details of some things on the big screen. They were 'proper' experts too, unlike the dreadful programme the BBC did with 'her from The Apprentice'.
One of the funniest moments was Peter Snow's face when Andrew Wallace-Hadrill was extolling the virtues of what they found in the sewers of Herculaneum! I could have done with a bit less about sex, and particularly the pan/goat statue. There are other interesting things about Ancient Rome - particularly the information about food and plants that came from the non-historians.
It was definitely worth going to though, and I would definitely go to another one.
