Herculaneum (John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester)

Herculaneum is one of the classics of Rochesterian literature, so appreciated by a wide audience, spiritualist or not. With his peculiar style, Rochester chooses as his setting the glorious Roman Empire, at the time of his incarnation as Cáius Lucilius, in the first century of the Christian era, masterfully describing the landscapes and customs of the inhabitants of the ancient city of Herculaneum, which, together with Pompeii, is destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 AD.
In a captivating narrative, h...