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Author: Pliny the Younger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-11-21
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1107006899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first modern literary commentary on Pliny the Younger's Epistles II, essential reading for students and scholars of Roman literature.
Author: the younger Pliny
Publisher: Lebooks Editora
Published: 2024-06-17
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 6558942380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Jo-Ann Shelton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 0415374286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Roy K. Gibson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-22
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 110737703X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
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.
Author: Pliny (the Younger.)
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 0856684082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPliny'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.
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Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780892369003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBarry Moser's extraordinarily detailed and evocative relief engravings decorate this translation of Pliny the Younger's two famous letters to Tacitus about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the death of his uncle, Pliny the Elder. Printed in black and white, the engravings are works of art that illustrate various descriptions in the letters. The text includes a brief description of the eruption of the volcano, concise biographies of Tacitus and of both Plinys, and a summary of how the texts of the two letters have survived until today.
Author: Pliny (the Younger.)
Publisher:
Published: 1751
Total Pages: 530
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Saint Sidonius Apollinaris
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ilaria Marchesi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-02-21
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521882279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
