Archaeologists discovered paintings, food residue, animal bones, skeletons of victims of the volcanic eruption and, surprisingly, some homophobic graffiti. (Pompeii Sites)
Archaeologists who have been excavating an Ancient Roman snack bar in Pompeii, Italy, have discovered “homophobic” graffiti scrawled on the walls.
According to a press release from Pompeii Sites, the colourful Thermopolium of Regio V was one of the snack bars at Pompeii, and it has finally been revealed in its entirety by archaeologists.
After years of work, they discovered paintings, food residue, animal bones, skeletons of victims of the volcanic eruption and, surprisingly, some homophobic graffiti.
On the last side of the snack bar’s counter to be excavated, above a painting of a dog, an ancient vandal has carved the words: “NICIA CINAEDE CACATOR.”
A ghost in clanking chains is an image indelibly linked with
A Christmas Carol. Now a historian claims that Charles Dickens lifted the description of Marley s ghost from a story written 1700 years earlier by Pliny the Younger. Daisy Dunn, who has written a biography of the Roman senator, explains here for
The Daily Telegraph how she was struck by the similarity between Dickens s description of hearing the ghost, and a passage in Pliny s tale of Athenodorus. She found that Dickens owned a book,
The Philosophy of Mystery, by W C Dendy. Published in 1841, two years before
A Christmas Carol, it featured Pliny s ghost story.
The great Victorian author may have taken Marley and the three spirits from ideas in Classical writings
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Reginald Owen s Scrooge meets Leo Carroll s ghostly Morley in the 1938 film version of A Christmas Carol
Credit: Everett
A ghost in clanking chains is an image indelibly linked with A Christmas Carol
. Now a historian claims that Charles Dickens lifted the description of Marley’s ghost from a story written 1,700 years earlier by Pliny the Younger.
Daisy Dunn, who has written a biography of the Roman senator, explains here for The Telegraph how she was struck by the similarity between Dickens’s description of hearing the ghost, and a passage in Pliny’s tale of Athenodorus.