🎧 The Eruption of Vesuvius and the Two Plinys with Daisy Dunn
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Dan talks to Daisy Dunn, a historian and classicist, about the lives of the two Plinys in the shadow of Vesuvius. The younger Pliny witnessed the eruption and would later write an account of the eruption. The elder Pliny, actually the uncle of the younger Pliny, would die in the blaze. Producer: Peter Curry
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