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A.D. 23 – 79
Pliny the Elder
Worth knowing
- A Roman commander and administrator who compiled the Natural History, an encyclopaedia of everything then known about the world.
- He names his sources, which was not standard practice, and he repeats a great deal that is not true, which was.
- He died at Vesuvius in A.D. 79, having sailed toward the eruption to get a closer look and to take people off the shore.
The book
Who else was alive
Pliny the Elder against everyone else in the game.