Wild Muse Notes » octopus https://wildmuse.net Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:18:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 Undersea Dreaming, Pompeii https://wildmuse.net/undersea-dreaming-pompeii/ https://wildmuse.net/undersea-dreaming-pompeii/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:50:00 +0000 http://wildmuse.net/undersea-dreaming-pompeii/ Continue reading →]]> In 79 AD, the Roman city of Pompeii was completely buried in ash by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, then completely forgotten until it was rediscovered in the mid-18th Century. Many of its citizens attempted to flee but few made it.

This image is a fanciful telling of a fugitive from Pompeii who dove into the sea and was changed by Neptune into an octopus. He now drifts in the depths, dreaming of his former life.

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