Pliny the Younger : a life in Roman letters / Rex Winsbury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winsbury, Rex.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pliny, the Younger--Criticism and interpretation.

Pliny.

Pliny, the Younger. Correspondence.

Letter writing, Latin--History--To 1500.

Letter writing, Latin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pliny the Younger who lived c. 100 AD, left a large collection of letters, thanks to which we know him better than almost any other Roman. He is best known as witness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 that destroyed Pompeii, and for his dealings with the early Christians when a regional governor. He was not an emperor or general, but a famous lawyer of his time specialising in private finance and later a senior state official specialising in public finance. His life straddled both a ''bad''; emperor (Domitian) and a ''good''; emperor (Trajan), so his life and letters are relevant to perennia

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes on conventions; 1 Your witness, your defendant; 2 Reading the evidence: Are Pliny's letters what they seem?; 3 Youth, class and that Plinian eruption; 4 Starring in the noisy Court of One Hundred Men; 5 Sparring with Regulus and 'the most immoral fraud'; 6 Pliny the prosecutor: Corruption and the limits of Roman justice; 7 Surviving Domitian: Among the flames of thunderbolts?; 8 Tactically praising Trajan: 'You tell us to be free: We will be'; 9 Love letters to Calpurnia: Marriages but no children

10 How rich was Pliny? Assets, income and expenses11 His posh country villas: A literary house and garden tour; 12 A fine crop of poets: Pantomime in the salon; 13 His literary circle - who's in, who's out, where's Juvenal?; 14 Nervous in Bithynia: Those quarrelsome little Greeks; 15 Christians - what is the crime and what is the punishment?; 16 Meeting Pliny; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Place Names; Index of Latin Terms; Index of Subject Matter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 02, 2013).

ISBN:

9781472514042

1472514041