CLAS 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Como, Mount Vesuvius, Before Sunrise

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25 Mar 2016
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C. ad 23 79 (when pompeii volcano erupts) >rich people from rome had country homes there. How many things are judged impossible before they actually happen? . To a man of another race a foreigner barely passes for a human being! . >racist, but his curiosity about the rest of the world speaks to an open-mindedness. >either intense persistent of othering or a persistence to believe in a magical world or both. Human saliva from a fasing man is poisonous to snakes. Pliny then talks a lot about monsters similar to humans. Then he talks about childbirth including births of monsters. Wrote leters about pliny the elder"s death in pompeii. *bay of naples is really a resort area. Think about this in the fact that no one is prepared for tragedy to happen. Pliny tells us that pliny dies from toxic gases. Tremors had been going on for 3-4 days.

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