Pliny the Elder

Helmuth Von Moltke and the Battle of the Marne Introduction By August, 1914 Europe had reached a boiling point. Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire prepared themselves for an inevitable war against France and Russia. Germany had been planning for war for nearly two decades. Helmuth Johann Ludwig Von Moltke, German Chief of Staff, placed the fate of the entire German army into the success of the Schlieffen Plan, a grand mobilization plan he had inherited from his predecessor, which…

Mission Command An army officer who in charge of leading military mission must understand that his commanding style contribute a lot for success in battlefield. The typical way through which an officer is more successful which will be discussed through the entire of this paper is the mission command system. This decentralized command system increases the performance of the commander at a wide range. In fact, this evolving concept, which also suit the current operational environment, suffer from…

written by Pliny the Younger, an equestrian orator and writer, who wrote the letter to the prominent historian Tacitus. In the letter Pliny the Younger depicts how is Uncle Pliny the Elder, a commander of a roman fleet, approaches the eruption and is killed by the toxic fumes. Pliny the Elders intention for approaching the eruption might have been because ,evidently, he was a…

Pliny the Younger who, like his uncle Pliny the Elder was a writer, served as the governor of the Roman province Bithynia in modern day Turkey in the 2nd century during the reign of Emperor Trajan. In his letter to the Emperor, Pliny asks for advice on how to deal with the increasing number of Christians being brought to him on basis of anonymous accusations by citizens. At this time Rome happened to be enjoying a period of peace and prosperity when the Empire entered Pax Romana which lasted for…

Pliny the Younger, nephew of Pliny the Elder, was a civil servant that governed Bithynia. He was the first to encounter Christians, and was confused on how to adapt to it. So, he wrote a letter to Trajan asking for assistance. This is the soonest inner record demonstrating the Roman Empire's demeanor and arrangement towards the congregation. In addition, Pliny does students of history the immense support of portraying what he has found about the way Christians venerated. Thus, this bit of…

Zoology is the branch of biology and science that has to do with the animal kingdom. Zoology includes both living and extinct animals that are on Earth. Zoologists figure out how animals interact with their ecosystems, the structure of ecosystems, and the evolution. Zoologists also study the interactions between animals and their biotic and abiotic environments. Humans throughout history have wondered and been interested in the animal kingdom. When humans first roamed the land, animals were…

"The number of corpses that lay in piles everywhere was indeed a horrible sight...The number of Jews who died of famine in the city was prodigious, their sufferings unspeakable." In "Letter to Tacitus" in Document 7.2, Pliny the Younger, nephew of the naturalist Pliny the Elder, wrote of his Uncle's death by inhalation of Mount Vesuvius' volcanic fumes. In his "Letter to Trajan," he asked Emperor Trojan of Rome (from…

In 2004, the Cleveland Museum of Art purchased Apollo the Python-Slayer (figure one) which they believe to be the only surviving piece from the Greek sculptor Praxiteles. After the purchase, questions arose regarding the authenticity of the museum’s claims as well as the murky history of how this piece was procured and how it was found in Germany in the 1980’s. Scholars agree that Apollo is ancient, but are irresolute of the label the sculpture should don. Two arguments sprung from the display…

Rome: a place of architecture, beauty, and culture; in A.D. 79 an event of unspeakable terror happened. One that destroyed an entire city. In the quiet village of Pompeii, children run about. Merchants sell their goods. Nobility feast upon delectable foods. The day before had been Vulcanalia, the festival for Vulcan, the god of fire, which was ironic considering what would happen next. Mount Vesuvius started spurting tephra and several gases, blasting 33 kilometers into the air creating…

erupted 172 AD, 203 AD, and 222 AD, there are more than twenty-nine eruptions total. Pompeii was hosting about 20,000 people at the time of the most famous eruption. It was also the first eruption, of any volcano, to be described by an eye witness. Pliny the Younger. First, the volcano shot ash and other debris into the sky for twelve miles; that’s more than twice the size of Mt. Everest. Then blazing hot ash, and other debris, that got to temperatures upwards of 1300 degrees Fahrenheit, was…