The letters of Pliny the Younger provide gripping insight into Roman life -- and the last hours of a city ...

Pliny the Younger, who became governor of the province in the year 111, reported that he forced people accused of being Christian to worship an image of the Emperor Trajan and curse the name of ...

Seventeen-year-old Pliny the Younger was visiting the town of Misenum, across the Bay of Naples from the eruption, with his family at the time. His letters detailing the exploits of his uncle have ...

The letters of the younger Pliny; literally translated by John Delaware Lewis by Pliny, the Younger; Lewis, John Delaware, 1828-1884 Publication date 1879 Publisher London Trübner Collection robarts; ...

In these letters, Pliny the Younger describes his observations from Misenum, which is about 25 kilometers from Vesuvius, and the rescue mission of his uncle Pliny the Elder, a scholar who was a ...

That’s nearly two months after August 24, the fatal eruption’s official date, which originated with a letter by Pliny the Younger, an eyewitness to the catastrophe, to the Roman historian ...

In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii and other towns. For centuries, the city lay preserved under ash. Starting in the 1700s, archaeologists began unearthing the ...

NARRATOR: The explosion is visible over 100 miles away. Roman writer Pliny the Younger witnessed the event from a nearby town across the Bay of Naples. Pliny says it's like a pine tree.

The letters of Pliny the Younger, for example, are concerned not with heroic struggles or lofty idealism, but with, in the words of historian Ronald Syme, “Betrothal and matrimony, wills and ...

Pliny the Younger was an eyewitness to the disaster. A lot of what we know about the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius comes from two letters written by Pliny the Younger to the Roman historian Tacitus.