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Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius

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Barry Moser's extraordinarily detailed and evocative relief engravings decorate this translation of Pliny the Younger's two famous letters to Tacitus about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the death of his uncle, Pliny the Elder. The text includes a brief description of the eruption of the volcano, concise biographies of Tacitus and of both Plinys, and a summary of how the texts of the two letters have survived until today.

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Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius 2007, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

ISBN-13: 9780892369003

Hardcover