This eruption has caused me to re-read Pliny the Younger's words on the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD: http://www.pompeii.org.uk/s.php/tour-the-two-letters-writ

This eruption has caused me to re-read Pliny the Younger's words on the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD: http://www.pompeii.org.uk/s.php/tour-the-two-letters-written-by-pliny-the-elder-about-the-eruption-of-vesuvius-in-79-a-d-history-of-pompeii-en-238-s.htm http://www.pompeii.org.uk/s.php/tour-the-two-letters-written.... Words that are worthy of reading both for their extremely vivid and personal description of something that, from our vantage point, happened a very long time ago, and for their eloquence.