A Tale of Two Fires & the Fall of Old Rome
Jan 11th 2022 9:09am EST
J. M. W. Turner, Vesuvius in Eruption, 1817-20 6,722 words It was the summer of 79 AD. The celebrated naturalist and Roman navy admiral Pliny the Elder sat on an outcrop and looked toward the western sea, lit with the fires of a setting Sun as if he was taking stock of a life well-lived, […]
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