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* SpiritualSequel: ''Krakatoa'' (2005), a similar BBC docudrama fictionalizing the 1883 eruption, and ''Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend'' (2011), which fictionalizes the Minoan Eruption from around 1600 BC.

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* DeathOfAChild: A little girl and her father huddle together in one of the final scenes, sobbing as ash clouds engulf them. There is also the baby and female slave who are killed when a large pyroclastic flow hits Herculaneum.



* InfantImmortality: Averted. A little girl and her father huddle together in one of the final scenes, sobbing as ash clouds engulf them. There is also the baby and female slave who are killed when a large pyroclastic flow hits Herculaneum.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The mission to rescue Rectina from the foot of Mount Vesuvius. Partially justified however, as it is unknown if she survived the eruption or not.
* YourCheatingHeart: Fortunata is aware that her husband Stephanus is sleeping with the slave girl Hedone but is too afraid to say anything about it. Later, she abandons her husband and seeks refuge in the gladiator barracks, where she falls for Celadus the Thracian.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The mission to rescue Rectina from the foot of Mount Vesuvius. Partially justified however, as it is unknown if she survived the eruption or not.
* YourCheatingHeart: Fortunata is aware that her husband Stephanus is sleeping with the slave girl Hedone but is too afraid to say anything about it. Later, she abandons her husband and seeks refuge in the gladiator barracks, where she falls for Celadus the Thracian.
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* BlackBestFriend: Africanus to Celadus.

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Pliny the Younger, Pliny the Elder and Plinia as well as arguably Celadus, whose character was constructed based on graffiti found on the walls of Pompeii ('Celadus the Thracian makes all the girls sigh').

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Pliny the Younger, Pliny the Elder and Plinia as well as arguably Celadus, whose character was constructed based on graffiti found on the walls of Pompeii ('Celadus the Thracian makes all the girls sigh').sigh').
** Technically everyone who dies, as they are based on bodies from the sites and what information can be gathered from them and their surroundings. For example, Polybius's name is known because it is written on an election slogan in the house's walls, and he (and his relatives) were identified by testing their DNA. This is why they know the younger man is the older man's son in law and not his son.
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* SpiritualSequel: ''Krakatoa'' (2005), a similar BBC docudrama fictionalizing the 1883 eruption, and ''Atlantis: Ed of a World, Birth of a Legend'' (2011), which fictionalizes the Minoan Eruption from around 1600 BC.

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* SpiritualSequel: ''Krakatoa'' (2005), a similar BBC docudrama fictionalizing the 1883 eruption, and ''Atlantis: Ed End of a World, Birth of a Legend'' (2011), which fictionalizes the Minoan Eruption from around 1600 BC.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Despite the eruption appearing to be harmless at first as well as the people around the volcano thinking that it isn't one (and thus ''greatly'' underestimate and downplay it), the volcano made a good enough point that the majority of Pompeii's inhabitants decided to book it and flee to the south before the eruption got any worse.



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Despite the eruption appearing to be harmless at first as well as the people around the volcano thinking that it isn't one (and thus ''greatly'' underestimate and downplay it), the volcano made a good enough point that the majority of Pompeii's inhabitants decided to book it and flee to the south before the eruption got any worse.


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* SpiritualSequel: ''Krakatoa'' (2005), a similar BBC docudrama fictionalizing the 1883 eruption, and ''Atlantis: Ed of a World, Birth of a Legend'' (2011), which fictionalizes the Minoan Eruption from around 1600 BC.
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** Polybius does it again when he reasures people that his house's walls are strong and they'll be safer inside, praying to the gods to spare them. Immediately, the roof over the altar room collapses under the weight of the accumulating volcanic ash and rocks.

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