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  • Published: 1 January 1964
  • ISBN: 9780140441277
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99

The Letters of the Younger Pliny




Pliny's letters provide a series of fascinating views on imperial Rome

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.

  • Published: 1 January 1964
  • ISBN: 9780140441277
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99

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