Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny The Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius
A Nonfiction, History book. There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death. Pliny the Younger, Ashen Sky: The Letters...
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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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 40 pages
- ISBN: 9780892369003 / 892369000
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There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death. Pliny the Younger, Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny The Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius //
Barry Moser's woodcuts illustrate the 2 letters of Pliny the Younger who was a witness to the eruption of Vesuvius when he was a teenager. His description of the destruction is short, but would have won him a Pulitzer had he written it today. Great for disaster junkies. A short book that consists of a few pages of history of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, mini-biographies of Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, and the historian Tacitus. Then follows a translation of the two letters that Pliny the Younger, an eyewitness to the eruption, wrote to his friend Tacitus 25 years later. The thin book is... The facinating, historical letters of Pliny the Younger, writing about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. His uncle, Pliny the Elder, died when he went to investigate the eruption and help the people in it's path. Very interesting to read a first hand report of something that happened almost 2000 years ago.
