The shadow of Vesuvius : a life of Pliny
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- ISBN: 9781631496394
- ISBN: 1631496395
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xiv, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019.
Contents / Notes
General Note: | "First published in Britain under the title In the shadow of Vesuvius : a life of Pliny" -- Verso title page. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part 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. |
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Subject: | Pliny the Younger Authors, Latin Biography Lawyers Rome Biography Pliny the Elder Naturalists Rome Biography |
Genre: | Biographies. |
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