While researchers are not quite ready to use the date Pliny the Younger claimed Pompeii was destroyed, they believe it could ...

Academics have spent centuries debating over the real date on which Vesuvius decimated Pompeii. Now, the park itself has ...

Describe the scene for me if you will in the courtroom of Pliny the Younger. What happened? About the year 112 an important event takes place that bring us on the stage in a new way in the history ...

Pliny's World offers readers a translation of the Natural History's opening books unprecedented for its completeness, accuracy and accessibility. Here, in quirky, often breathless style, Pliny lays ...

The squirting cucumber shoots its seeds so fast that scientists had to use techniques like high-speed videography to record ...

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In the year 112, Pliny the Younger was faced with a dilemma. He was the governor in the Roman province of Bithynia (modern day Turkey) when a number of Christians were brought into his court.

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Pliny's Epistles are full of literary artistry. This volume of essays by an impressive international team of scholars showcases this by ...

Sure, the ancients went on holidays for a rest and to cure illnesses. But they didn’t always come back healthy.

After the inaugural sold-out event of 'Tales of Mystery', the program for the fourth edition of the artistic-cultural ...