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020			_a9781631496394 _q(hardcover)
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050	0	0	_aPA6640 _b.D86 2019
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100	1		_aDunn, Daisy, _eauthor. _996165
240	1	0	_aIn the shadow of Vesuvius
245	1	4	_aThe shadow of Vesuvius : A life of Pliny
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bLiveright Publishing Corporation, _c2019.
300			_axiv, 318 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
500			_a"First published in Britain under the title In the shadow of Vesuvius : a life of Pliny" -- Verso title page.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPart one: Aut-Prologue. Darker than Night -- Roots and Trees; Part two: Winter. Illusions of Immortality -- To Be Alive is to Be Awake -- Solitary as an Oyster -- The Gift of Poison; Part three: Spring. Pliniana -- The Shadow of Verona -- Portrait of a Man -- The Death of Principle; Part four: Summer. The Imitation of Nature -- A Difficult, Arduous, Fastidious Thing -- Head, Heart, Womb -- After the Solstice -- Part five: -umn. Life in Concrete -- Depraved Belief; Epilogue: Resurrection; Timeline.
520			_a""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"--
600	0	0	_aPliny, _cthe Younger. _996160
600	0	0	_aPliny, _cthe Elder. _996161
650		0	_aAuthors, Latin _vBiography. _996166
650		0	_aLawyers _zRome _vBiography. _996167
650		0	_aNaturalists _zRome _vBiography. _996168
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776	0	8	_aDunn, Daisy _tIn the shadow of Vesuvius _dLondon : William Collins, 2019 _hxiv, 338 pages : 24 cm _w(OCLC) 1090419717
942			_2ddc _cBIOG