elcano writes:
The description of this eruption is made using the words of two witnesses of it:
Question; how do you decide to believe these witnesses and not to believe Pliny? That is the problem with this type of research...it is cafeteria style history, where you can pick out the witnesses YOU like.
At Herculaneum, the palace of the Archbishop
According to Wikipedia, no town has gone by the name of Herculaneum since 79. I am sure if we put our heads together we can discover why your witnesses say there was a town of Herculaneum. It might be simple...notice they say 'at' Herculaneum, and not 'in' Herculaneum. Almost like it was a site they were talking about, as in 'at the site of Herculaneum'. They DO say 'in' Naples. Here I WOULD like to see the original Italian (not Latin, btw! on this important document).
Edited by anastasia, : No reason given.