It is early in the morning on a warm day in Roman Italy.Sixteen-year-old Tiro gets the water, makes breakfast, and works inthe kitchen - like he does day after day. Tiro is a slave. He cannever be free, never eat when he wants to eat, or sleep when he wantsto sleep.But today is different. He is going to Pompeii for the first time. Heis excited, but it is AD79: and on Mount Vesuvius, near Pompeii, verybad things are beginning to happen...
It is early in the morning on a warm day in Roman Italy.Sixteen-year-old Tiro gets the water, makes breakfast, and works inthe kitchen - like he does day after day. Tiro is a slave. He cannever be free, never eat when he wants to eat, or sleep when he wantsto sleep.But today is different. He is going to Pompeii for the first time. Heis excited, but it is AD79: and on Mount Vesuvius, near Pompeii, verybad things are beginning to happen...
