Talk:Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD

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Calendar months aligned with seasons

"(Note that the Julian calendar was in place throughout the first century AD – that is, the months of the Roman calendar were aligned with the seasons.)"

Well, not more "aligned with seasons" than in today's Gregorian calendar. I really have no clue what was meant here, but the remark in the brackets, as is, is absurd. 83.28.217.137 (talk) 14:27, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Can we remove all the “citation needed”?

All the info comes from the well-known two letters by Pliny the Younger, as mentioned in the text. There are no other contemporary sources for the eruption, and all we know about it, we know from Pliny. There is no need to add reference to every sentence. The text transmits Pliny’s information accurately. 76.14.8.195 (talk) 19:14, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I added references to a secondary source (Sigurðsson, et al., 1982). The overall "Nature of the eruption" section is still undersourced: it relies heavily on that source and (Zanella, et al., 2007). I left the "more citations needed" tag at the top of the section. — hike395 (talk) 13:57, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Citations 19 & 36

Citations 19 and 36 are identical, there is no reason for both to be there.

19: Pliny the Younger (1909). "LXV. To Tacitus". In Eliot, Charles W. (ed.). Vol. IX, Part 4: Letters. The Harvard Classics. New York: Bartleby. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved April 30, 2012.

36: Pliny the Younger (1909). "LXV. To Tacitus". In Eliot, Charles W. (ed.). Vol. IX, Part 4: Letters. The Harvard Classics. New York: Bartleby. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved April 30, 2012. 128.210.107.81 (talk) 16:54, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]