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The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Author: Plinio (El joven.)
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 0140441271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family. His lively and very personal letters address an astonishing range of topics, from a deeply moving account of his uncle's death in the eruption that engulfed Pompeii, to observations on the early Christians - 'a desperate sort of cult carried to extravagant lengths' - from descriptions of everyday life in Rome, with its scandals and court cases, to Pliny's life in the country.
Complete Letters
Author: Pliny (the Younger.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-02-26
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 0199538948
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In the introduction to his new translation, P.G. Walsh examines the background to these often intimate and enthralling letters."--Jacket.
The Women of Pliny's Letters
Author: Jo-Ann Shelton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 0415374286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The large collection of letters by Pliny the Younger includes a number of women among its addressees, and Pliny also gives us plentiful information about many women of his acquaintance. This book brings together this material to build up a portrait of a peer-group of women in their social setting.
Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger
Author: Roy K. Gibson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-22
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 110737703X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters as an artistically structured collection. Chapter 1 traces Pliny's autobiographical narrative throughout the Letters; Chapter 2 undertakes detailed study of Book 6 as an artistic entity; while Chapter 3 sets Pliny's letters within a Roman epistolographical tradition dominated by Cicero and Seneca. Chapters 4 to 7 study thematic letter cycles within the collection, including those on Pliny's famous country villas and his relationships with Pliny the Elder and Tacitus. The final chapter focuses on the 'grand design' which unifies and structures the collection. Four detailed appendices give invaluable historical and scholarly context, including a helpful timeline for Pliny's life and career, detailed bibliographical help on over 30 popular topics in Pliny's letters and a summary of the main characters mentioned in the Letters.
Selected Letters
Correspondence with Trajan from Bythinia (Epistles X)
Author: Pliny (the Younger.)
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 0856684082
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pliny's letters sent to Trajan from Bithynia, and Trajan's replies are the only surviving file of letters between a provincial governor and his emperor. The edition makes this record accessible to even those with no knowledge of Latin.
Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger
Author: Roy K. Gibson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-22
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0521842921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Situates Pliny's Letters within the letter-writing tradition, offers new readings of favourite letters, and emphasises the importance of understanding letters within the context of original books or informal 'cycles'. For advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in the study of ancient letters and imperial Latin literature.
The Art of Pliny's Letters
Author: Ilaria Marchesi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521296977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book on intertextuality in Pliny the Younger, Professor Marchesi invites an alternative reading of Pliny's collection of private epistles: the letters are examined as the product of an authorial strategy controlling both the rhetorical fabric of individual units and their arrangement in the collection. By inserting recognisable fragments of canonical authors into his epistles, Pliny imports into the still fluid practice of letter-writing the principles of composition and organisation that for his contemporaries characterised other writings as literature. Allusions become the occasion for a metapoetic dialogue, especially with the collection's privileged addressee, Tacitus. An active participant in the cultural politics of his time, Pliny entrusts to the letters his views on poetry, oratory and historiography. In defining a model of epistolography alternative to Cicero's and complementing those of Horace, Ovid and Seneca, he also successfully carves a niche for his work in the Roman literary canon.
Selected Letters of the Younger Pliny
