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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So, ocean levels have always been rising, and my SUV has nothing to do with it?
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Maybe if you’d quit driving near the volcanoes...
Sounds like Seneca was jealous.
The remaining ruins of Baiae on dry land are still impressive. Including an ancient dome intact over a cistern.
“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.
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What happens in Baiae, stays in Baiae.
What happens in Baiae, stays in Baiae.
Don’t ignore the sovereignty of God. He is full of grace and mercy. But also has many surprises....
GMTA
Or perhaps, just perhaps, there was actually something wrong with engaging wanton drunkenness when you should be tending to your responsibilities?
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.
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.
The whole Bay of Naples was pretty wild during Roman days, for example, Pompey. Imagine how much more this city amped up the hedonism.
It was a joke, dumb dumb. Lighten up.
Did they recover the slot machines and the black jack table yet? I think I left my wrist sundial there! 🤓
Bkmk
There are no oceans near Puteoli/Pozzuoli...just the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Now there's a fine work of translation!
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