A major earthquake caused widespread destruction around the Bay of Naples, particularly to Pompeii, on February 5, 62 AD. Some of the … See more

Reconstructions of the eruption and its effects vary considerably in the details but have the same overall features. The eruption lasted for two days. Pliny the Younger, … See more

Apart from Pliny the Elder, the only casualties of the eruption to be known by name were the Herodian princess Drusilla and her son Agrippa, who was born in her marriage with the See more

• Buildings at Pompeii, including
• "Pompeii" (song), a 2013 song by Bastille inspired by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
• Villa of Agrippa Postumus See more

The only surviving eyewitness account of the event consists of two letters by Pliny the Younger, who was 17 at the time of the eruption, written to the historian Tacitus some 25 years after the event. Observing the first volcanic activity from Misenum across the Bay of … See more

Vesuvius and its destructive eruption are mentioned in first-century Roman sources, but not the day of the eruption. For example, Josephus in his Antiquities of the Jews mentions that the eruption occurred "in the days of Titus Caesar." Suetonius, a second-century … See more

• Sigurðsson, Haraldur (2002). "Mount Vesuvius Before the Disaster". In Jashemski, Wilhelmina Mary Feemster; Meyer, Frederick … See more