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092    BIO|bPLINY 
100 1  Dunn, Daisy,|eauthor. 
245 14 The shadow of Vesuvius :|ba life of Pliny /|cDaisy Dunn. 
250    First American edition. 
264  1 New York ;|aLondon :|bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a 
       division of W.W. Norton & Company,|c2019. 
300    xiv, 318 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
336    cartographic image|bcri|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "First published in Britain under the title In the shadow 
       of Vesuvius : a life of Pliny" -- Verso title page. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and 
       index. 
520    ""A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging 
       portrait of the two Plinys and their world."-Sarah 
       Bakewell, author of How to Live. 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"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 00 Pliny,|cthe Younger. 
600 00 Pliny,|cthe Elder. 
650  0 Authors, Latin|vBiography. 
650  0 Lawyers|zRome|vBiography. 
650  0 Naturalists|zRome|vBiography. 
775 08 |iReproduction of (manifestation):|aDunn, Daisy.|tIn the 
       shadow of Vesuvius|dLondon : William Collins, 2019|hxiv, 
       338 pages : 24 cm|w(OCLC) 1090419717|z9780008211097