The New York Times on Mar. 2, 2025 ran a story about attempting to fix the precise date of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79: consulted with me on the story, and I’m glad to see they represen…| [quem dixere chaos]
Published today, an article led by Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director General of the Pompeii Archaeological Park: It’s a review of recent work on the question of the eruption date; thanks to Dr. Z…| [quem dixere chaos]
Two reviews of Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius have come out, one by Margot Neger in BMCR, and one by Paolo Bernardini in La Provincia di Como (here is the PDF and a translation). I should note …| [quem dixere chaos]
Two talks for the Herculaneum Society, based at Oxford, 26 February 2022, now on YouTube: Professor Pedar Foss, DePauw University, on “Ashy Tuesday-Wednesday: The Date and Sequence of the AD …| [quem dixere chaos]
20-min. lecture from 6 January 2022, Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting. All details and data to be published in March 2022: Three clarifications/corrections: 1) @ 3:40, when I say …| [quem dixere chaos]
Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius (Routledge, March 2022) is in press. Here is how to order for your library at a 20% discount. My blog posts about the Vesuvius eruption are well obsolete, but I w…| [quem dixere chaos]