The shadow of Vesuvius: a life of Pliny

"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 not...

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1. Verfasser: Dunn, Daisy (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Liveright Publishing Corporation 2019
Ausgabe:First American edition
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Zusammenfassung:"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 grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire from the dire 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"--
Beschreibung:"First published in Great Britain under the title In the shadow of Vesuvius : a life of Pliny" -- Verso title page
Beschreibung:xiv, 318 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9781631496394

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