The shadow of Vesuvius, a life of Pliny, Daisy Dunn
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The shadow of Vesuvius, a life of Pliny, Daisy Dunn
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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individual biography
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non fiction
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The shadow of Vesuvius
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1086337568
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Daisy Dunn
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a life of Pliny
Summary
When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder's notebooks-filled with pearls of wisdom-and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would go on to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire from the days of terror under Emperor Domitian to the gentler times of Emperor Trajan. A biography that will appeal to lovers of Mary Beard books, it is also a moving narrative about the profound influence of a father figure on his adopted son. Interweaving the younger Pliny's Letters with extracts from the Elder's Natural History, Daisy Dunn paints a vivid, compellingly readable portrait of two of antiquity's greatest minds"--, Provided by publisher
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