Found during excavation at Pompeii in 1831, the mosaic depicts the Battle of Issus between Alexander the Great and king Darius III of Persia in 333 BCE, although some argue that it actually shows the Battle of Guagamela in 331, but between the same actors. Pompeii began as a settlement of small fishing and agricultural communities.

For mosaics which are not sure where they are, please see: Category:Ancient Roman mosaics of Pompeii . Perhaps the most famous of the Pompeii mosaics is the so-called Alexander Mosaic. English: Roman mosaic representing the Wheel of Fortune which, as it turns, can make the rich (symbolized by the purple cloth on the left) poor and the poor (symbolized by the goatskin at right) rich; in effect both states are very precarious, with death never far and life hanging by a thread: when it breaks, the soul (symbolized by the butterfly) flies off. The Roman cities around the bay of Naples were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, thereby preserving their buildings and artefacts until extensive archaeological excavations began in the 18th century.

Mosaic copies of the original from Pergamum, granted that the one found in Villa Adriana might actually be the Sosos work itself, have been found at Delos, Pompeii (VIII 2, 34; this is the liveliest both for the number of doves that have been depicted and for the fact that one of them is still flying), Ostia and Rabat, not to mention the more than thirty-six garden-painting variations that have been enumerated so far.

For mosaics that were found in Pompeii but now are preserved elsewhere please see Category:Ancient Roman mosaics from Pompeii instead.

Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum has been both exhibited as art and censored as pornography. See more ideas about Pompeii, Pompeii and herculaneum, Roman art. Oct 19, 2017 - Explore vintageonstage's board " Pompeii Mosaics ", followed by 159 people on Pinterest.

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