英语听力：自然百科 真实的庞贝—17（在线收听）

In fact, even the lower class citizens have access to a wide range of foods. They benefit directly from the power of the Roman empire, vast trade networks that bring in goods from thousands of miles away. 

When archaeologists looked the drain from one restaurant they found a wide variety of food.

So the people of Pompeii eat well. But this is also a special day.

Oddly enough, the very night before the eruption, at here would have been the festival of thec, this is a festival to appease the god Vulcan. Vulcan is the god of fire. Fire is the force that brings warmth and light into every Roman's life. He's the blacksmith's god, the patron of metal workers, like *.Roman poets imagine volcanoes as the chimneys above his workshop, and so he gives them his name. Vulcan is also a god of destruction. 

Vulcan was that the god of fire and earthquake and volcanoes. And so,what you could imagine, out here, would've been a series of bonfires, as into which were thrown live sacrifices and fish. This is all designed to appease the volcano. Of course the great irony is the very next day, Vesuvius completely obliterated the entire city here.