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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>

==External links==

==External links==

*[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]