The 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius is one of the most fabled natural disasters in history. The eye-witness account of the Roman diplomat Pliny the Younger, as recorded by Tacitus, became a crucial source in Roman and environmental history. Today, Mount Vesuvius is the last active volcano on the European mainland.
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- Pliny. Letters and Panegyricus I, Books 1–7. Translated by Betty Radice. Cambridge: Loeb Classical Library, 1969.
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