About the Mount Vesuvius, Gulf of Naples, Italy:
In the Gulf of Naples, Italy Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano of Naples about 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) east and from the shore within a short distance. Which form the Campanian volcanic arc. it is one of the several volcanos. A large cone partially encircled consists the Mount Vesuvius of a summit caldera by the steep rim, of an earlier and much higher structure originally caused by the collapse of a summit caldera.
In 79 AD for the eruption Mount Vesuvius is well known of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum which led to burying and for the destruction. A cloud of ash, stones and fumes about a height of 33 kilometers (20.5 miles) ejected that eruption, the molten rock spewing and per second at the rate of 1.5 million tons pulverized pumice, released by the Hiroshima bombing the thermal energy a hundred thousand times ultimately releasing. Due to the hydrothermal pyroclastic flows an estimated 16,000 people died. By the Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus consists of two letters account of the event the only surviving eyewitness.
Since the ancient time many times Mount Vesuvius has erupted and within the last hundred years to have erupted on the European mainland is the only volcano. Today in the world as one of the most dangerous volcanoes it is regarded because nearby living of 3,000,000 people of the population and towards explosive eruptions its tendency. In the world among the volcanic region it is the most populated area.
Mythology of the Mount Vesuvius:
A long literary and historic tradition has the Mount Vesuvius. At the time of the eruption of 79 AD a divinity of the Genius type it was considered, in the decorative frescos of many Iararia as a serpent it appears under the inscribed name or surviving from the Pompeii the household shrines. From Capua to IOVI VESVVIO an inscription indicates that is Jupiter Vesuvius, as a power of Jupiter he was worshipped.
A tradition relates the historian Diodorus Siculus that, the Hercules of his labors in the performance, of nearby Cumae on his way to the Sicily passed through the country and a place called ‘the Phlegraean Plain’ found there (phlegraion pedion means ‘plain of fire’)anciently which vomited the fire from a hill now known as the Mount Vesuvius. By the bandits it was inhabited, who were giants according to the mythology and they are the sons of the Earth. He pacified the region and went on his way with the assistance of the gods. Behind the tradition the fact is that, if remain unknown any was named after it as does whether the Herculaneum. In 88 AD by the poet Martial an epigram suggested that, devastated by the eruption of 79 in the region both were worshiped the Hercules and the Venus who was the patroness of Pompeii. Whether of the volcano itself is debatable some sort of patron Hercules was ever considered.
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