Books Quote by Kathryn Schulz

Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be…

— Will Cuppy

I think when people think of Pompeii, they think it was just destroyed by the volcano. Yes, it was the eruption of the volcano…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

“ Rumbling Mountains Four active volcanoes shake the southern Apennines. One of these, Mount Vesuvius, lies on the shore of the Bay of Naples.…

— Jean F. Blashfield

A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think…

— Gordon Korman

“There was good in him. Raw, molten goodness, bubbling deep in his core. But he didn’t possess the charm or manners to control it.…

— Tessa Dare

“Niccolo Machiavelli folded his arms across his chest and looked at the alchemyst. “I always knew we would meet again,” he said in French.…

— Michael Scott

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

— Stephen Greenblatt

Pompeii was an incredibly corrupt city. Pompeii was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

“Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about…

— Anonymous

Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was irresistible.

— Paul W. S. Anderson

“though masters of air currents, had never encountered such a beast before. They hadn’t the faintest clue what it was, let alone how it…

— Aaron Gilbee

Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to…

— Empedocles