โ Scribed by Dunn, Daisy;the Younger. Pliny
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Ash spewed into the sky. All eyes were on Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder sailed towards the phenomenon. A teenage Pliny the Younger waited. His uncle did not come back. In a dazzling new literary biography, Daisy Dunn introduces Pliny the Younger, the survivor who became a Roman lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, curator of drains, and representative of the Emperor. He was confidant and friend to the great and good, an unparalleled chronicler of the Vesuvius catastrophe, and eyewitness to the terror of Emperor Domitian. The younger Pliny was adopted by his uncle, admiral of the fleet and author of the Natural History, an extraordinary compendium of knowledge and the world's first full-length encyclopaedia. The younger Pliny inherited his uncle's notebooks and carried their pearls of wisdom with him down the years. Daisy Dunn breathes vivid life back into the Plinys. Reading from the Natural History and the Younger Pliny's Letters, she resurrects the relationship between the...
Number of Words in Auth: 2
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All Identifiers : urnisbn/9780008211103:9780008211103
Single Author : Daisy Dunn
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Title Length : 025
Title Parm D : In the Shadow of Vesuvius
Title Parm F : In the Shadow of Vesuvius
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ES Lib Name : NIRC 2019-07
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Uncomma Author : Daisy Dunn
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Rome (Empire)
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