This
tour (duration 3 hours), guided by our archaeological English-speaking
expert
will lead you to discover not only the Roman ruins of Pompeii but also
the new
exhibition entitled "Pompeii and the Greeks"
which will
take place in the "Large Palaestra" inside the excavations from 14th
April to 27th November 2017.
"Pompeii and the Greeks", two worlds far apart that this exhibition
tries to reconnect. It has been arranged by Massimo Osanna, General
Director of
Pompeii, and by Carlo Rescigno, professor of classical archeology at
the Università degli Studi della Campania
Luigi Vanvitelli. To set up the exhibition it was called Bernard
Tschumi, the
Swiss architect with offices in New York and Paris, famous for having
designed
the new Acropolis Museum in Athens.
More than 600 artifacts from Pompeii, Stabiae, Sorrento, Cuma, Capua,
Poseidonia,
Metaponto, Torre di Satriano will be on display in this exhibition
which aims
to examine the important contacts between an Italic cities like Pompeii
and the
Greek Mediterranean, but more generally the flow of trade and the
circulation
of ideas in the Mediterranean. The exhibition is a journey through the
history
of Pompeii and the surrounding territory, even before the birth of the
town.
Sculptures, ceramics, ornaments, weapons, inscriptions will highlight
for the
first time unknown aspects of Pompeii. In fact many valuable pieces
will be
part of this exhibition including the
bronze statue of the Cumaean Sibyl, 9 cm high, dating back to the end
of the XVIII
century BC. It is the oldest depiction of the Sybil ever found and it
has
recently been discovered in excavations conducted at the upper temple
of the
Acropolis of Cuma: the Sibyl plays the zither and it will be displayed here for the first time; the
wooden pirogue
more than six meters long from Longola, in Poggiomarino, dating back to
the XVIII
century BC; the beautiful stamnos (jar for liquids) with red figures of
Attic
production with the famous scene of Ulysses tied to the mast of his
ship and
the sirens, an object dating back to 480-470 BC from Vulci and on loan
to Pompeii
from the British Museum of London.
This exhibit in Pompeii ruins is the first stage of an exhibition
program
carried out jointly with the Archaeological Museum of Naples: here, in
June, it
will open an exhibition dedicated to the Greek myths in Pompeii and in
the
Roman world, and to the theme of metamorphosis.
THIS PRIVATE GUIDED VISIT OF THREE HOURS (2 HOURS AND HALF IN THE POMPEII RUINS + 30 MINUTES AT THE EXHIBITION POMPEII AND THE GREEKS) WILL OPERATE WITH ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS.
This tour does not include the entrance fee of Pompeii ruins € 13 per person (11€ entrance excavation + 2 extra for exhibition)
