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Episode 91. Pompeii and Herculaneum: The Preserved Cities (opens the original)
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Works Cited Primary Sources Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Volume IV. Edited by Karl Zangemeister with Richard Schoene, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1871; supplementary volumes throughout the twentieth century. The principal printed source for the Pompeian graffiti, with over eleven thousand individual inscriptions catalogued. Specific items cited in the episode include CIL IV 1645 (Successus the weaver and Iris), CIL IV 1880 (the latrine inscription), CIL IV 1928 (Marcellus and Praenestina), CIL
Episode 90. The Eruption of Vesuvius (opens the original)
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Works Cited Primary Sources Cassius Dio. Roman History , Books 66.21–66.23. The eruption account, surviving only through the eleventh-century epitome by John Xiphilinus. Includes legendary elements about giants emerging from Vesuvius and visions in the air, which should be read as later cultural processing of the event rather than primary testimony. Pliny the Younger. Letters , 6.16 and 6.20. The two letters to Tacitus describing the death of Pliny the Elder and the flight from Misenum. Eyewitne
Episode 89. Vespasian's Reign (opens the original)
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Works Cited Primary Sources Cassius Dio. Roman History , Books 65–66. Surviving only through the eleventh-century epitome compiled by the Byzantine monk John Xiphilinus. The narrative continuity for the reign depends substantially on Xiphilinus's selection and compression, and is flagged where relied on. Cassius Dio's original treatment was almost certainly considerably more extensive than what Xiphilinus preserved. Epictetus. Discourses , 1.2.19–21. Used for the exchange between Vespasian and H
Episode 88. Josephus (opens the original)
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Works Cited Primary Sources Cassius Dio. Roman History . Greek narrative of the early Flavian period. Includes brief reference to Josephus's prediction at Dio 66.1. Josephus, Flavius. Antiquitates Judaicae , or Antiquities of the Jews. The twenty-book history of the Jewish people from creation through the outbreak of the war in 66 CE. Composed across the 80s and early 90s and published in 93 or 94 CE under Domitian. The principal source for substantial portions of Second Temple Jewish history, a
Episode 87. The Destruction of Jerusalem (opens the original)
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Works Cited Primary Sources The Arch of Titus. The triumphal arch on the Sacred Way in the Roman Forum, completed under Domitian after Titus's death in 81 CE. The relief panels on the inner walls preserve the visual representation of the triumph including the spoils from the Temple. Cassius Dio. Roman History , Books 65 and 66. Greek narrative of the early Flavian period preserved in epitome form. Includes material on the Jewish War and its conclusion. Josephus, Flavius. Antiquitates Judaicae ,
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