Vesuvius
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780674503779
Subjects: Italy, history
Description: The cataclysm that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79 continues to fascinate nearly two thousand years later. Darley’s meditation on a powerful natural wonder touches on pagan beliefs, vulcanology, and travel writing, as it sifts through the ashes of Vesuvius to expose changes in our understanding of cultural and natural environments.