Yep. And his letters proved Christians weren't persecuted by Rome. Cracks me up how academia ignores so much. Just as they called Pliny's accounts of the eruption lies until the eruption of Mt st Helen's proved the scholars arrogant parrots whom merely regurgitate the same nonsense as the PhDs before them. They even like to pretend they didn't know they were living at the foot of a volcano. They did. Pliny's writings proved it. However, just as people in the Hawaiian islands,, Indonesia, etc know they live at the foot of volcanos and do it anyway. Just as those whom live in tornado alley our live song the largest fault line in the USA, Tennessee and the entire Mississippi delta. Yet, knowing this, people still choose beauty and law over debauchery and freebies of cities without threat of natural disaster. I also especially love how they proclaimed doomsday nonsense then just as the wilfully ignorant still do today.
"Her age and size made escape impossible." This is one of the most human moments in the letters - realizing that big Italian mamas existed 2,000 years ago.
I’ve seen the movies and documentaries, I’ve seen museum pieces. But it’s so different to hear first person with relatable language. The feeling, as you put it, of shared human experience is impactful. Please keep doing lots more of these!!
What a horrific experience, dramatically, yet honestly and accurately reported by such a fine writer. Thank you for your reading this rendition. 79AD, just a few years after the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans - I wonder if anyone felt at the time that it was related, either cosmically or karmically.
Just think, academics and scholars called Pliny a liar. Claiming it absolutely impossible for the type of eruption Pliny described. Even after the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum scholars and academia still called the ancients illiterate Liars. They even calling the accounts of the years of the long summer where England became great wine makers and the people would chant, winter is coming every year, even that they called lies. Until the eruption of Mt st Helen's in 83 proved academia wrong in every way.
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Fascinating.
Not to worry Pliny, it was certainly worthy of entering our history books.
Thank you for sharing!
Listening to Pliny’s account, you are suddenly transported back. I think he would have approved that we can read his words nearly 2000 years later.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Yep. And his letters proved Christians weren't persecuted by Rome. Cracks me up how academia ignores so much. Just as they called Pliny's accounts of the eruption lies until the eruption of Mt st Helen's proved the scholars arrogant parrots whom merely regurgitate the same nonsense as the PhDs before them.
They even like to pretend they didn't know they were living at the foot of a volcano. They did. Pliny's writings proved it. However, just as people in the Hawaiian islands,, Indonesia, etc know they live at the foot of volcanos and do it anyway. Just as those whom live in tornado alley our live song the largest fault line in the USA, Tennessee and the entire Mississippi delta. Yet, knowing this, people still choose beauty and law over debauchery and freebies of cities without threat of natural disaster.
I also especially love how they proclaimed doomsday nonsense then just as the wilfully ignorant still do today.
Reading a book while the world ends around you has to be one of the most Roman things I've ever heard.
"Her age and size made escape impossible." This is one of the most human moments in the letters - realizing that big Italian mamas existed 2,000 years ago.
Pliny’s uncle: he ran TO the disaster not from it. Hero.
outstanding story, outstanding narration
I’ve seen the movies and documentaries, I’ve seen museum pieces. But it’s so different to hear first person with relatable language. The feeling, as you put it, of shared human experience is impactful. Please keep doing lots more of these!!
This channel is gold. Thank you.
What a horrific experience, dramatically, yet honestly and accurately reported by such a fine writer.
Thank you for your reading this rendition. 79AD, just a few years after the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans - I wonder if anyone felt at the time that it was related, either cosmically or karmically.
Thank you sir,my heart weeps for the sad fate of those long ago 😢
Just think, academics and scholars called Pliny a liar. Claiming it absolutely impossible for the type of eruption Pliny described. Even after the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum scholars and academia still called the ancients illiterate Liars. They even calling the accounts of the years of the long summer where England became great wine makers and the people would chant, winter is coming every year, even that they called lies. Until the eruption of Mt st Helen's in 83 proved academia wrong in every way.
im about to watch every video, this stuff is great
This is incredible! Thank you!
Completely fascinating.
Cool. Thanks
James Cameron, you need to make movie with this boy's account like Titanic....
Brilliant
Great video!
That was so sad, esp Pliny Sr's failed rescue attempt. 😢
The thumbnail makes Pliny the elder look like Methusala. He was 56 when he died.
10.08 "The eternal unending night we've heard of"
Seems the Romans had their own end time eschatology