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Author
Series
Publisher
H. W. Wilson Co
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
xiv, 490 pages : portraits ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Biographical sketches of 376 Greek and Latin authors covering the years 800 B.C. to 1000 A.D. Includes a list of works of doubtful attribution and a chronological list of authors by century.
Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 113
Publisher
Gale Research
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
xvii, 404 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 145
Publisher
Gale Research
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
xiv, 413 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder's notebooks-filled with pearls of wisdom-and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become...
Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 211
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 443
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
153 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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