Pedar W. Foss

Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius is a forensic examination of two of the most famous letters from the ancient Mediterranean world, Pliny the Younger's Epistulae 6.16 and 6.20, which offer a contemporary account of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000557190
• Artikelnr.: 63490677

Autorenporträt

Pedar W. Foss is Professor of Classical Studies at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana (USA). He is co-editor, with John J. Dobbins, of The World of Pompeii (Routledge 2007) and is an archaeologist who works on the ancient Bay of Naples and landscape archaeology. He has done fieldwork in Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, and Italy, and received his Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Lightning
Water
and Fire 1. Two Plinys 2. Two Letters 3. Two Days 4. Epistulae 6.16
The Elder's Story 5. Epistulae 6.20
The Younger's Story Epilogue