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Lost Temple Swallowed by Ocean Discovered Near Roman Empire's 'Las Vegas'
Newsweek ^ | November 30, 2022 | Aristos Georgiou

Posted on 11/30/2022 9:53:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv

Marine archaeologists have located a "unique" ancient temple lost beneath the seabed close to the site of what has been dubbed the "Las Vegas" of the Roman Empire.

The temple, thought to date to around 2,000 years ago, is positioned on the opposite side of the Gulf of Pozzuoli to Rome's "Sin City."

This ancient city, known as Baiae, was the playground of the Roman elite in its heyday. A fashionable coastal resort, Rome's rich and powerful built luxurious villas at the site—including the emperors Julius Caesar, Nero, and Hadrian—attracted by its beautiful setting and healing natural hot springs, not to mention its reputation for hedonistic partying.

Seneca, the famous Roman stoic philosopher, summed up the atmosphere, writing in a letter after visiting Baiae that the city had become a resort of "vice" while bemoaning that it was a "place to be avoided."

"Though it has certain natural advantages, luxury has claimed it for her own exclusive resort... To witness persons wandering drunk along the beach, the riotous reveling of sailing parties, the lakes a-din with choral song, and all the other ways in which luxury, when it is, so to speak, released from the restraints of law not merely sins, but blazons its sins abroad—why must I witness all this?" he wrote.

But Baiae's partying eventually came to end thanks to an unfortunate choice of location. The Gulf of Pozzuoli—which itself forms the western part of the much larger Gulf of Naples—lies in the caldera of a super-volcano known as the Phlegrean Fields, or Campi Flegrei in Italian.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: baiae; campiflegrei; godsgravesglyphs; gulfofnaples; gulfofpozzuoli; naples; phlegreanfields; romanempire; seneca; volcano; volcanoes; westernitaly
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1 posted on 11/30/2022 9:53:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

2 posted on 11/30/2022 9:54:14 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

So, ocean levels have always been rising, and my SUV has nothing to do with it?


3 posted on 11/30/2022 9:58:27 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.)
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4 posted on 11/30/2022 10:00:53 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Maybe if you’d quit driving near the volcanoes...


5 posted on 11/30/2022 10:01:38 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sounds like Seneca was jealous.


6 posted on 11/30/2022 10:07:25 AM PST by nitzy
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To: SunkenCiv

The remaining ruins of Baiae on dry land are still impressive. Including an ancient dome intact over a cistern.


7 posted on 11/30/2022 10:09:29 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative )
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To: SunkenCiv

“Though it has certain natural advantages, luxury has claimed it for her own exclusive resort... To witness persons wandering drunk along the beach, the riotous reveling of sailing parties, the lakes a-din with choral song, and all the other ways in which luxury, when it is, so to speak, released from the restraints of law not merely sins, but blazons its sins abroad—why must I witness all this?” he wrote.

What happens in Baiae, stays in Baiae.


8 posted on 11/30/2022 10:17:44 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: hinckley buzzard

What happens in Baiae, stays in Baiae.


9 posted on 11/30/2022 10:18:32 AM PST by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Don’t ignore the sovereignty of God. He is full of grace and mercy. But also has many surprises....


10 posted on 11/30/2022 10:18:58 AM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: Flick Lives

GMTA


11 posted on 11/30/2022 10:20:34 AM PST by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: nitzy
Just as you are jealous of our government masters?

Or perhaps, just perhaps, there was actually something wrong with engaging wanton drunkenness when you should be tending to your responsibilities?

12 posted on 11/30/2022 10:26:05 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Ocean levels during the ice age were 300-400 feet lower than they are today. It’s only been about 11,000 years since they rose to today’s levels.

Geologic history puts a lot of things in perspective.


13 posted on 11/30/2022 10:28:04 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: SunkenCiv

Today I learned (probably forgot and relearned) that some of these sunken Roman cities were caused by movement of magma. The magma simply moved somewhere else and the land sunk.

What I do not know is if this happened slowly or suddenly. I hope someone here can tell me how fast this happened.


14 posted on 11/30/2022 10:34:52 AM PST by Doctor Congo
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To: SunkenCiv

The whole Bay of Naples was pretty wild during Roman days, for example, Pompey. Imagine how much more this city amped up the hedonism.


15 posted on 11/30/2022 10:38:13 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

It was a joke, dumb dumb. Lighten up.


16 posted on 11/30/2022 10:40:17 AM PST by nitzy
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To: SunkenCiv

Did they recover the slot machines and the black jack table yet? I think I left my wrist sundial there! 🤓


17 posted on 11/30/2022 10:40:35 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: SunkenCiv

Bkmk


18 posted on 11/30/2022 11:12:50 AM PST by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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To: SunkenCiv

There are no oceans near Puteoli/Pozzuoli...just the Tyrrhenian Sea.


19 posted on 11/30/2022 11:35:39 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: SunkenCiv
the lakes a-din with choral song

Now there's a fine work of translation!

20 posted on 11/30/2022 4:15:52 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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