First-Hand Account of the Destruction of Pompeii // Pliny The Younger, Primary Source @VoicesofthePast

Uploaded August 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Here we have Pliny the Younger's account of the heroic death of his famous uncle Pliny the Elder in the chaos of a volcanic eruption, the same that flattened Pompeii - as related to the legendary Roman historian Tacitus in one of his numerous letters.

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