{"product_id":"the-shadow-of-vesuvius-a-life-of-pliny-9781631496394","title":"The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Daisy Dunn\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Shadow of Vesuvius\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eNatural History\u003c\/em\u003e, Daisy Dunn paints a vivid, compellingly readable portrait of two of antiquity's greatest minds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47780136485015,"sku":"9781631496394","price":3130.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781631496394.webp?v=1778042680","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-shadow-of-vesuvius-a-life-of-pliny-9781631496394","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}