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@Gizmodo @science-Gizmodo
@ai6yrWhy is this debate framed as "new"?? It's not new at all!
It might also have been helpful to tell readers where the August date comes from: It's from the famous letter of Pliny the Younger who witnessed the famous eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
BUT, we don't have his original letter. His letter - like almost all written texts from antiquity - is preserved because it was copied later, especially in the Middle Ages (mostly by monks). And they made mistakes while copying. So one theory goes: What if a monk made a mistake (only several letters) and originally the letter mentioned a date in autumn?
But I guess we will get texts that claim "New developments! Was the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius really in August?" for the next decades. Like we did in the last decades.
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Pliny the Younger defined #humanitas as the capacity to win the affections of lesser folk without impinging on greater.
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A Minute-By-Minute Account Of The Pompeii Eruption, Revealed In Agonizing Detail
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https://www.science.org/content/article/minute-minute-account-pompeii-eruption-revealed-agonizing-detail <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2024-071 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2024-072 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #timeline #reconstruction #model #modeling #Italy #Naples #Roman #79CE #eruption #volcanic #volcano #geology #engineeringgeology #Campanian #Pompeii #Herculaneum #ancienthistory #eyewitness #history #risk #hazard #naturalhazard #naturaldisaster #publicsafety #Vesuvius #debris #pyroclastic #gas #nueeardente #deposition #Pliny #PlinyTheYounger #geologicmapping #fieldwork #romanempire #impact #cost #economics #infrastructure #lossoflife #deaths -
There's important context missing in this article. It wasn't Pliny the Younger himself who was "accused" of getting the date of Vesuvius' eruption wrong - after all, he was close and his uncle died.
However, we don't have his original letters. Like other texts from antiquity, it was preserved because it was copied over centuries.
And when people copy texts, they make mistakes. Often, editors of ancient texts have to work with several medieval manuscripts that differ in several ways and must then decide on a version they think is closest to the original text, which is then published.
In the case of this famous letter, the text edition said "nonum kal. septembres" (nine days before the Kalendae of September = August 24th) but when archaeological findings gave hints on a later date, classics researchers started to wonder whether someone in the Middle Ages had made a copying mistakes - after all, that mistake would only need 3-4 letters to be different (for instance, december instead of september). That's where this theory comes from. Researches have always assumed that Pliny himself knew the correct date, for obvious reasons. -
Coming up in two weeks, Binghamton University's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host another #Pliny-focused colloquium - "Pliny the Elder and Traditions of Natural Histories" #PlinytheElder https://www.binghamton.edu/cemers/conference/index.html
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Some exciting events aligned with the bi-millennium of #Pliny the Elder are coming up. This week the Villa Vergiliana in Bacoli is hosting the Symposium Vesuvianum 2023 "Reading Pliny the Elder in the 21st Century" October 13-15, 2023 https://www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium_cumanum/symposium-vesuvianum/
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Picked myself up a treat last time I was in SF! Perfect night for it.
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Riddle:
My mate and I, we look the same
And dwell in holes by family name.
Attested in Old Pliny’s words,
I won the title, “King of Birds”
For flying higher than the Eagle.
My methods weren’t exactly legal:
I hid myself, a tiny thing,
Within the plumage of his wing.What am I?
#riddlepoems #poetry #smallpoems #poetrycommunity #birds #birding #birdwatching #passerines #songbird #ancientgreece #classics #naturalhistory #pliny #fable #legend #mythology
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War #elephant, #illustration in a late 12th century #English #bestiary.
The accompanying #Latin text quotes Gaius Julius #Solinus (early 3rd century compiler, commonly known as Solinus Polyhistor), himself quoting the description of elephants in the "Naturalis Historia" of #Pliny the Elder (23/24 CE - 79 CE).
In the #British #Library, #manuscript Add MS 11283, f.4r.
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Very important publication for Petrarchan studies and the history of #humanism: huge critical edition of #Petrarch’s annotations to #Pliny’s #NaturalisHistoria @renaissance @neolatin @italianstudies @histodons @medievodons
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Please say hi to my newest #bot: @pliny
a Pliny the Elder click-bait generator based on his book of questionable facts "The Natural History" #pliny #PlinyTheElder
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Always carry a #book with you wherever you go, for with one ready-at-hand even in otherwise wasted moments you may discover knowledge and wisdom surpassing all you had previously known, as I recently did whilst waiting in queue at an Xfinity shop.
#bookstodon @bookstodon #classics #Latin #Pliny #NaturalHistory #theology #philosophy
https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2023/01/even-with-god-all-things-are-not-possible/
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This is the oldest natural history book in the museum. It is the ‘Historia Naturalis’, written by Gaius Plinius Secundus, or Pliny the Elder. It was published in 1469!!
The grey bindings are brass, and if you look close you can see black dots. These are pig hair follicles! The binding is pig skin. It was the first publication to cover all areas of natural history (zoology, botany, geography, mineralogy, human physiology, metallurgy). The book itself is a work of art.
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@horrowfide @chucknorrisfacts #buoys and #gulls and indistinguishable guests... lolz.
Well #folks, here is a painting of #Pliny the Younger documenting the destruction of #Pompeii on my birthday, 24 August 79. (no, not 1979, just plain old 79AD).
If you zoom in and look really closely, you can see Pliney the Elder's ship being buried beneath the rubble and Ash from #Vesuvius' eruption.
☠️ Stop using #Twatter
☠️ Stop using #Faceplant
Stop posting links there too.
Bury them!