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NSWAncient HistorySection I (Core Study): Cities of Vesuvius - Pompeii and Herculaneum
Quick questions on Local political life in Pompeii and Herculaneum: HSC Ancient History
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What is the AD 79 electoral campaign?Show answer
Around 2,800 painted electoral notices (programmata) survive on Pompeian walls from the campaign of AD 79 (published counts range from about 2,500 upward, depending on which fragments and overpainted older notices are included). The eruption preserved the campaign mid-stream.
What is women in the campaign?Show answer
Women could neither vote nor hold a magistracy, yet they appear openly as endorsers in the programmata, just over fifty of them by name in Liisa Savunen's count of the corpus.
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