AFTER TWO THOUSAND YEARS.
A house in Italy where a man entertained his friends nearly two thousand years ago has opened its doors again to visitors, and people to-day admire—as they did—a painting still on its walls of a Greek dramatist whose words are quoted in the Bible. For twenty centuries the house has lain beneath an embalming shroud of dust and ashes. It is a little bit of ancient Italy, hidden until recently by the appalling flood of cinders and ash with which Vesuvius covered Pompeii. Pompeii was a gay and prosperous this*house belonged to one of its noblecity of probably 20,000 people, and men, a lover of art and literature. The picture of Menander he had painted on his wall has given this age a name for the nobleman’s house—the House of Menander,
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19758, 27 March 1934, Page 10
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135AFTER TWO THOUSAND YEARS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19758, 27 March 1934, Page 10
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