Pompeii and the Vesuvius Eruption
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The Exodus of Staby I
The eruption of Vesuvius claimed perhaps its most famous victim, a giant of the Empire. A great many smaller settlements, farms and villas also perish this deadly night on the Vesuvian plain. In recognition of his benefactor, Pliny Younger becomes the Roman historian Tacitus asks him to recount the events of those awful days in August 79 AD. But Pompey is buried beneath some twenty feet of ash and has already been forgotten.
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