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Dunn, Daisy, author.
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Pliny, the Younger.
Pliny, the Elder.
Authors, Latin -- Biography.
Lawyers -- Rome -- Biography.
Naturalists -- Rome -- Biography.
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The shadow of Vesuvi...
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The shadow of Vesuvius : a life of Pliny / Daisy Dunn.
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Dunn, Daisy, author.
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Subjects
Pliny, the Younger.
Pliny, the Elder.
Authors, Latin -- Biography.
Lawyers -- Rome -- Biography.
Naturalists -- Rome -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781631496394 (hardcover) :
1631496395 (hardcover) :
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xiv, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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First American edition.
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"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"--
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Hawaii Kai Public Library
Adult Biography
B Pliny Du
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188 Pliny Du
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Kailua-Kona Public Library
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