<P> Mount Vesuvius , a volcano in modern - day Italy , erupted in 79 in one of the most catastrophic volcanic eruptions in European history . Historians have learned about the eruption from the eyewitness account of Pliny the Younger , a Roman administrator and poet . The event is the namesake for the Vesuvian type of volcanic eruption . </P>
<P> Mount Vesuvius , a volcano in modern - day Italy , erupted in 79 in one of the most catastrophic volcanic eruptions in European history . Historians have learned about the eruption from the eyewitness account of Pliny the Younger , a Roman administrator and poet . The event is the namesake for the Vesuvian type of volcanic eruption . </P>
who recorded the eruption of mt . vesuvius
who recorded the eruption of mt . vesuvius
Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Younger