Ebook: The shadow of Vesuvius: a life of Pliny
Author: Dunn Daisy, the Elder. Pliny, the Younger. Pliny
- Tags: Authors Latin, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Lawyers, Lawyers--Rome, Naturalists, Naturalists--Rome, Biographies, Biography, Pliny -- the Younger, Authors Latin -- Biography, Lawyers -- Rome -- Biography, Pliny -- the Elder, Naturalists -- Rome -- Biography, Rome (Empire)
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
- City: Rome (Empire
- Edition: First American edition
- Language: English
- epub
"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"--;Part one: Aut-Prologue. Darker than Night -- Roots and Trees; Part two: Winter. Illusions of Immortality -- To Be Alive is to Be Awake -- Solitary as an Oyster -- The Gift of Poison; Part three: Spring. Pliniana -- The Shadow of Verona -- Portrait of a Man -- The Death of Principle; Part four: Summer. The Imitation of Nature -- A Difficult, Arduous, Fastidious Thing -- Head, Heart, Womb -- After the Solstice -- Part five: -umn. Life in Concrete -- Depraved Belief; Epilogue: Resurrection; Timeline.
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