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THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS FROM AN ANCIENT ROMAN’S POINT OF VIEW, NAPOLI

Roman senator and writer, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus otherwise known as Pliny the Younger, who was seventeen years old at the time of the eruption, had witnessed the Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD from the home of his uncle in Misenum and managed to write a very accurate account some 25 years later. Originally intended as letters for historian Tacitus, to describe and perhaps glorify the death of his uncle Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus), his letters were later discovered in the 16th century and had become a crucial primary piece of evidence in unraveling the different stages of the eruption. Narration & photographic reportage of the mount.

Photos by Davide Apicella
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