Author: Pliny (the Younger.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Letters of Pliny the Consul
Author: Pliny (the Younger.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Letters of The Younger Pliny
Author: the younger PlinyPublisher: Lebooks Editora
ISBN: 6558942380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The Letters of Pliny the Younger, also known as the Epistles of Pliny the Younger, have been studied for centuries, as they offer a unique and intimate glimpse into the daily life of Romans in the 1st century AD. Through his letters, the Roman writer and lawyer Pliny the Younger (whose full name was Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) discusses philosophical and moral issues; but he also talks about everyday matters and topics related to his administrative duties. One of these letters, Letter 16 from Book VI, addressed to Tacitus, holds unparalleled historical value. In it, Pliny describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which destroyed the city of Pompeii. Many scholars claim that with his letters, Pliny invented a new literary genre: the letter written not only to establish pleasant communication with peers but also to publish it later. Pliny compiled copies of every letter he wrote throughout his life and published those he considered the best in twelve books. This edition presents selected letters chosen for their various characteristics and covering several books, focusing mainly on Books I, II, and III. The work is part of the famous collection: 501 Books You Must Read.
The Letters of Pliny the Consul
Author: Pliny (the Younger.)Publisher:
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Category : Authors, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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The Letters of Pliny the Consul: with Occasional Remarks. By William Melmoth, Esq; The Ninth Edition, Revised and Corrected
Author: Pliny (the Younger.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Letters of Pliny the Consul: with Occasional Remarks. By William Melmoth Esq. The Eighth Edition, Revised and Corrected
Author: Pliny (the Younger.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Man of High Empire
Author: Roy K. GibsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199948194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, and early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black Sea--remains Rome's best documented private individual between Cicero and Augustine. No Roman writer, not even Vergil, ties his identity to the regions of Italy more successfully than Pliny. His individuality can be captured by focusing on the range of locales in which he lived: from his hometown of Comum (Como) at the foot of the Italian Alps, down through the villa and farms he owned in Umbria, to the senate and courtrooms of Rome and the magnificent residence he owned on the coast near the capital. Organized geographically, Man of High Empire is the first full-scale biography devoted solely to the Younger Pliny. Reserved, punctilious, occasionally patronizing, and perhaps inclined to overvalue his achievements, Pliny has seemed to some the ancient equivalent of Mr. Collins, the unctuous vicar of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Roy K. Gibson reveals a man more complex than this unfair comparison suggests. An innovating landowner in Umbria and a deeply generous benefactor in Comum, Pliny is also a consul who plays with words in Rome and dispenses summary justice in the provinces. A solicitous, if rather traditional, husband in northern Italy, Pliny is also a literary modernist in Rome, and--more surprisingly--a secret pessimist about Trajan, the 'best' of emperors. Pliny's life is a window on to the Empire at its zenith. The book concludes with an archaeological tour guide of the sites associated with Pliny.
The Letters of Pliny the Consul
Author: Pliny (the Younger.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Letters of Pliny the Consul
Author: Pliny (the Younger.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles'
Author: Pliny the YoungerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107006899
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The first modern literary commentary on Pliny the Younger's Epistles II, essential reading for students and scholars of Roman literature.
The Letters of Sidonius
Author: Saint Sidonius ApollinarisPublisher:
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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