The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, 79 AD In one of the greatest natural disasters of the ancient world, the Bay of Naples in Italy was devastated by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, destroying the towns of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae, and others. In a set of letters to his friend, the historian Tacitus, the Roman writer and politician Pliny the Younger recalls his memories of the eruption in living detail, as an eyewitness and victim of the catastrophe.
A story from Roman history, based on the Letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger), epistles 6.16 and 6.20, featuring: Pliny the Younger, Pliny the Elder, Plinia Marcella, Cornelius Tacitus
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Thumbnail Images: View of Vesuvius Erupting (Pierre-Jacques Volaire, 18th century)
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