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Pliny the Younger and Vesuvius
26 February 2022 @ 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Saturday 26 February 2:30-4:30 p.m. GMT: the Society is pleased to host two distinguished speakers to present the latest research on Pliny the Younger’s letters and the eruption of Vesuvius.
Prof. Pedar Foss, De Pauw University: “Ashy Tuesday-Wednesday: The date and sequence of the AD 79 Vesuvian eruption.” Prof. Foss is author of the forthcoming Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius (Routledge 2022), co-editor, with John J. Dobbins, of The World of Pompeii (Routledge 2007).
Prof. Roy Gibson, Durham University: “From Como to the bay of Naples: Pliny’s epistolary Italy.”. Prof. Gibson is author of Man of High Empire: The Life of Pliny the Younger (OUP 2020) and is preparing an edition of Pliny’s Letters book 6 for the Cambridge “Green and Yellow” series.
For details of how to connect by Zoom please contact the Society at herculaneum@classics.ox.ac.uk.