Pompeii and the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
The Ancients
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The Struggle to Escape the Volcano
"The whole thing is beyond words in many ways. I mean reading his letters or you kind of get breathless like reading this and trying to imagine what it was like in those really really desperate moments" "I think the only explanation you could give would be that this was the end of the world," he says. 'You forget there's a real risk with this period in history when you look at things like the castes which have just been produced' The book also includes an extract from Virgil, who describes people weeping over their mothers breasts as if they were in the underworld.
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