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Archival Data Profile
- Page Count 40
- Publication Year 2007
- Publisher J. Paul Getty Museum
- ISBN-13 9780892369003
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Archival Summary & Scope
Barry Moser's extraordinarily detailed black-and-white relief engravings visually immerse readers in Pliny the Younger's two renowned letters to Tacitus. These iconic accounts vividly describe the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the death of Pliny the Elder. The volume also includes a concise history of the eruption, biographies of Tacitus and both Plinys, and a summary of the letters' textual survival.Archival Categorization Notes
This literature has been indexed under the primary pillar of Ancient Rome. It was manually vetted for the Read For Truth database because it provides educational insights into Everyday Life, assisting researchers in locating established secondary research within this specific taxonomy.
