Pliny the Younger

Ever wondered where your ancestors came from? What were they like? What did they become? Well for Cathy Song, her heritage was the success of her life. As a young girl, Song grew up as Chinese-Korean American and knew that she wanted to write about her family’s history. Song has taken her written career serious and tries to educate her readers with the terrible lives of arranged marriage women, through the art of poetry. Not only does she write about her family’s ancestry, but she loves to…

was 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…

One in particular, The Amityville Horror, a book by Jay Anson, and later made into a movie, is a particularly frightening story because it is reported to be true. The story I chose to read for this week’s assignment is, Letter to Sura, by Pliny the Younger. The letter is a request for the opinion of whether or not the recipient, one Lucius Licinius Sura, believes in the existence of ghosts. Three stories are related, one of them being a personal depiction, that take place in the household…

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 thrown down…

Jerusalem. "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…

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…

practices incest and cannibalism in private . The criminal levied against Christians superseded their doctrines that were in line with pagan culture. Pliny the Younger states that the Christians do not commit themselves to doing crime, they actually take an oath against criminal activity, such as theft, murder and adultery . The admission of Pliny the Younger suggests that the pagans did not have a valid reason to fear Christianity, but their reputation as immoral and superstitious persons did…

localized and rare. Pliny the Younger states that the Christians do not commit themselves to crime; they actually take an oath against criminal activities, such as theft, murder and adultery . The admission of Pliny the Younger suggests that the pagans did not have a valid reason to fear Christianity, but their reputation as immoral and superstitious persons overshadowed the fact that Christians live by moral tenants that were in line with Rome’s. The letters from Pliny the Younger to the…

The Italian Renaissance garden incorporates the villa they are stationed near into its design. Many aspects of the garden reflect the ideals of the Renaissance flooding through society; this flooding led to overflow into homes and, subsequently, gardens. Such aspects include the revival of classical antiquity, evident in the typical appearance of statues portraying characters from classical Grecian or Roman mythology, and archways and columns, and in La Pietra’s case, even a mini temple and…