Sheets of Fire and Leaping Flames
Thomas Jones, 24 September 2020
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny
by Daisy Dunn.
Collins, 338 pp., £9.99, August,978 0 00 821112 7 Show More
by Daisy Dunn.
Collins, 338 pp., £9.99, August,
“... in the dangerous later years of Nero’s reign, when he wrote his eight-volume Dubii Sermonis (in Daisy Dunn’s translation, ‘The Ambiguities of Grammar’; it too has been lost) and – unlike Seneca, Lucan or Petronius – avoided being implicated in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate the emperor in 65 ad. In the 70s, under Vespasian, he was ... ”