{"id":74192,"date":"2026-07-17T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=74192"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:53:21","slug":"barrett-pompeii-natgeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/barrett-pompeii-natgeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Classics Prof Teams Up with \u2018Loki\u2019 Actor to Explore Pompeii on NatGeo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Caitie Barrett, a longtime researcher at the Roman site, helps Marvel\u2019s Tom Hiddleston guide viewers through ancient history<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This story was adapted from <\/em><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2026\/07\/will-julia-felix-survive-classics-prof-case-pompeii-tv-series\"><em>a feature<\/em><\/a><em> in the <\/em>Cornell Chronicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Kate Blackwood<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">It\u2019s 79 A.D. in the small but affluent Roman city of Pompeii. In the distance, Mount Vesuvius is starting to erupt, and in the streets, life turns upside down: meals left in restaurant kitchens, horses abandoned in harnesses, valuables snatched from homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amidst the chaos, does businesswoman Julia Felix make it out alive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s one of the questions driving \u201c<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7k52aJRs3gA\">Pompeii: Out of Time<\/a>,\u201d a three-episode re-creation set to air on National Geographic at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 22, and stream on Disney+\/Hulu starting July 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignwide is-style-solid-color\"><blockquote><p>\u201cPompeii: Out of Time\u201d is a three-episode re-creation set to air on National Geographic and stream on Disney+\/Hulu.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cornell archaeologist <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/classics.cornell.edu\/caitie-barrett\">Caitie Barrett<\/a>, an expert on ancient daily life and a Pompeii excavation veteran, appears with series host and Marvel Studios \u201cLoki\u201d star Tom Hiddleston on the show as a guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn this series they are following real people,\u201d says Barrett, a classics professor in Arts &amp; Sciences, who has conducted research on a historical Pompeii resident named Julia Felix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe show alternates between scenes set in the present day\u2014Tom Hiddleston and me and other folks with relevant expertise walking around Pompeii and other sites\u2014and then scenes that are trying to reimagine the lives of the ancient people in 79 C.E.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Caitl\u00edn Barrett, right, takes the Casa della Regina Carolina Project group on a tour of Pompeii.\" class=\"wp-image-74191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-296x166.jpg 296w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-632x355.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-316x178.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_barrett.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"rkv-image-credit\">Danielle Vander Horst<\/figcaption><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Barrett (far right) leading a tour of Pompeii several years ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The show brings to life three individuals known from archaeological and textual evidence preserved at Pompeii and Herculaneum, where volcanic ash protected material remains for centuries. A notice written on the wall of one large property offering rooms for rent established Felix as its owner, Barrett says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barrett, who has studied the Felix estate for its depictions of Egyptian themes, helped consult on script development. She answered questions such as what Felix might be wearing in certain situations, and how she might pray at the Isis shrine that once stood in her garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barrett also appears in scenes filmed at Pompeii and Naples. She and Hiddleston walk through Felix\u2019s property, including a bath complex that was open to the public \u201clike a fancy spa,\u201d Barrett says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They visit Casa Bacco, a modern administrative building at Pompeii, to discuss jewelry worn by a person who may have been Felix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignwide is-style-solid-color\"><blockquote><p>The show brings to life three individuals known from archaeological and textual evidence preserved at Pompeii and Herculaneum, where volcanic ash protected material remains for centuries.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The show also follows a teenaged apprentice and a member of the Praetorian Guard\u2014an elite unit of the Roman army\u2014as the city was buried in hot volcanic ash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The series, directed by Tom Barbor-Might and produced by \u201cLoki\u201d executive producer Kevin Wright, makes it clear these are based on a mixture of historical fact and imaginative recreation, Barrett says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese were real people, but we can\u2019t know everything about them,\u201d Barrett says. \u201cArchaeology can tell us a lot, but it can\u2019t tell us everything about what happened in someone\u2019s life or what they were thinking or feeling, so we have to fill in the gaps with informed imaginative reconstruction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barrett was invited to participate in the project in early 2026. A <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/explorers.nationalgeographic.org\/directory\/caitie-barrett\">National Geographic Explorer<\/a>, she has received support from the organization for the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cornell.edu\/crcpompeii\/\">Casa della Regina Carolina Project<\/a>, which she co-directs at Pompeii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_gleason.jpg\" alt=\"Project participants at work at the Casa della Regina Carolina Project site at Pompeii in southern Italy.\" class=\"wp-image-74190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_gleason.jpg 670w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_gleason-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_gleason-632x421.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_gleason-316x210.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_gleason-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_gleason-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/0303_gleason-100x67.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><figcaption class=\"rkv-image-credit\">Danielle Vander Horst<\/figcaption><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Digging at the Casa della Regina Carolina Project site.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although shooting a docuseries was a new experience for Barrett\u2014\u201cthe folks doing the filming are absolute wizards,\u201d she says, making a practical administrative building look \u201clike a temple\u201d\u2014she recognized from her own fieldwork operations the logistics and teamwork involved in getting a crew of 30\u201340 people, each with a different specialty, to work together to accomplish a common goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evidence from Pompeii is not a perfect snapshot of a typical day in the life of the city, Barrett says. As the series points out, there were early warning signs and many people did get out, some taking objects with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, the level of preservation in Vesuvian cities is special, revealing a lot about people\u2019s lives in antiquity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Archaeology can tell us a lot, but it can\u2019t tell us everything about what happened in someone\u2019s life or what they were thinking or feeling, so we have to fill in the gaps with informed imaginative reconstruction.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Prof. Caitie Barrett<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPompeii connects with a wide public because it\u2019s so easy to engage your imagination and your empathy when you\u2019re walking down these streets,\u201d Barrett says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou feel as though you could go into one of these houses and strike up a conversation with the people who used to live in it. There are all these shops and bars and restaurants along the street where it feels as though you could go in and order a glass of wine or a hot meal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barrett hopes viewers come away from \u201cPompeii: Out of Time\u201d with a new empathy and respect for the people whose lives \u201cwere as full and meaningful as ours,\u201d and to learn something about the society in which these individuals lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Says Barrett: \u201cI\u2019d like them to see the variety and diversity of everyday life in a real Roman town.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Top: Prof. Caitie Barrett and host Tom Hiddleston outside the house of Julia Felix during filming of &#8220;Pompeii: Out of Time.&#8221; (Paolo Verzone \/ National Geographic)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Published July 17, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitie Barrett, a longtime researcher at the Roman site, helps Marvel\u2019s Tom Hiddleston guide viewers through ancient history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":74189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Caitie Barrett, a longtime researcher at the Roman site, helps Marvel\u2019s Tom Hiddleston guide viewers through ancient history","alumni_hub_syml_posts":[36629,56909,53459],"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"cornell_year_post":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-74192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-beyond"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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