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✓ Published: 10-Mar-2014
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3 June 2013nn‘A catastrophe which destroyed the loveliest regions of the earth’ was how Pliny the younger described the volcanic eruption which killed his uncle and buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79. Ironically, the disaster preserved for posterity traces of life in some ordinary Roman towns that might otherwise have been lost altogether. But how do we interpret those traces? In this special lecture for British Museum Friends and members of The Folio Society, which was ti
3 June 2013nn‘A catastrophe which destroyed the loveliest regions of the earth’ was how Pliny the younger described the volcanic eruption which killed his uncle and buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79. Ironically, the disaster preserved for posterity traces of life in some ordinary Roman towns that might otherwise have been lost altogether. But how do we interpret those traces? In this special lecture for British Museum Friends and members of The Folio Society, which was ti
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