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== Legacy ==

== Legacy ==

 

Due to its pervasive immorality, prior to or shortly after the destruction of Pompeii, someone wrote "Sodom and Gomorrah" onto a wall near the cities central crossroads.<ref>Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence, ''Pompeii'', p. 284</ref> The early church leader Tertullian defended Christians against the charge that their neglect of pagan worship resulted in  pagan gods causing natural disasters, by indicating that no Christians lived in Pompeii when it was destroyed. Many Christians have since invoked the destruction of Pompeii as an example of God's judgment against rampant immorality.<ref>John William Fletcher, ''The whole works of ... John Fletcher'', p. 328</ref><ref>Alexander John Scott, ''Discourses'', p. 41</ref><ref>[http://www.spurgeon.org/s_and_t/voicesfp.htm C. H. SpurgeonVoices From Pompeii]</ref>

Due to its pervasive immorality, prior to or shortly after the destruction of Pompeii, someone wrote "Sodom and Gomorrah" onto a wall near the cities central crossroads.<ref>Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence, ''Pompeii'', p. 284</ref> The early church leader Tertullian defended Christians against the charge that their neglect of pagan worship resulted in  pagan gods causing natural disasters, by indicating that no Christians lived in Pompeii when it was destroyed. Many Christians have since invoked the destruction of Pompeii as an example of God's judgment against rampant immorality.<ref>John William Fletcher, ''The whole works of ... John Fletcher'', p. 328</ref><ref>Alexander John Scott, ''Discourses'', p. 41</ref><ref>[http://www.spurgeon.org/s_and_t/voicesfp.htm C. H. SpurgeonVoices From Pompeii]</ref>

It did so by compelling a personal identification with its victims. Because it was obliterated in the midst of life, Pompeii revealed to the modern world disturbing images of pathetic individuals stopped in recognizable domestic activities by the volcanic ash. Pompeii became a symbolic code word for what Madame de Stael calls "death's abrupt invasion." It fostered a dark literature of premature burial, natural calamity, and universal extinction.<ref>Centennial Review. 23 (1979): 229</ref>.

It did so by compelling a personal identification with its victims. Because it was obliterated in the midst of life, Pompeii revealed to the modern world disturbing images of pathetic individuals stopped in recognizable domestic activities by the volcanic ash. Pompeii became a symbolic code word for what Madame de Stael calls "death's abrupt invasion." It fostered a dark literature of premature burial, natural calamity, and universal extinction.<ref>Centennial Review. 23 (1979): 229</ref>.

==See Also==

==See also==

*''[http://www.archaeology.co.uk/world-features/visiting-pompeii.htm  Current Archaeology; Visiting Pompeii]''  

*''[http://www.archaeology.co.uk/world-features/visiting-pompeii.htm  Current Archaeology; Visiting Pompeii]''