Author: C. Plinius Caecilius SecundusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Pliny, Correspondence with Trajan from Bithynia (Epistles X)
Author: C. Plinius Caecilius SecundusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Correspondence with Trajan from Bythinia (Epistles X)
Author: Pliny (the Younger.)Publisher:
ISBN: 0856684082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
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.
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.
Correspondence with Trajan from Bithynia
Author: Wynne WilliamsLetters of Pliny
Author: The Younger PlinyPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Letters of Pliny" by The Younger Pliny. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Pliny, Correspondence with Trajan from Bithynia (Epistles X)
Author: Pline le JeuneThe Christians as the Romans Saw Them
Author: Robert Louis WilkenPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300098396
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.
Letters of Pliny
Author: Gaius Plinius Caecilius SecundusPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497391475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Letters of Pliny Including Correspondence with the Emperor Trajan By Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus Translated by William Melmoth Revised by F. C. T. Bosanquet GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, usually known as Pliny the Younger, was born at Como in 62 A. D. He was only eight years old when his father Caecilius died, and he was adopted by his uncle, the elder Pliny, author of the Natural History. He was carefully educated, studying rhetoric under Quintilian and other famous teachers, and he became the most eloquent pleader of his time. In this and in much else he imitated Cicero, who had by this time come to be the recognized master of Latin style. While still young he served as military tribune in Syria, but he does not seem to have taken zealously to a soldier's life. On his return he entered politics under the Emperor Domitian; and in the year 100 A. D. was appointed consul by Trajan and admitted to confidential intercourse with that emperor. Later while he was governor of Bithynia, he was in the habit of submitting every point of policy to his master, and the correspondence between Trajan and him, which forms the last part of the present selection, is of a high degree of interest, both on account of the subjects discussed and for the light thrown on the characters of the two men. He is supposed to have died about 113 A. D. Pliny's speeches are now lost, with the exception of one, a panegyric on Trajan delivered in thanksgiving for the consulate. This, though diffuse and somewhat too complimentary for modern taste, became a model for this kind of composition. The others were mostly of two classes, forensic and political, many of the latter being, like Cicero's speech against Verres, impeachments of provincial governors for cruelty and extortion toward their subjects. In these, as in his public activities in general, he appears as a man of public spirit and integrity; and in his relations with his native town he was a thoughtful and munificent benefactor. The letters, on which to-day his fame mainly rests, were largely written with a view to publication, and were arranged by Pliny himself. They thus lack the spontaneity of Cicero's impulsive utterances, but to most modern readers who are not special students of Roman history they are even more interesting. They deal with a great variety of subjects: the description of a Roman villa; the charms of country life; the reluctance of people to attend author's readings and to listen when they were present; a dinner party; legacy-hunting in ancient Rome; the acquisition of a piece of statuary; his love for his young wife; ghost stories; floating islands, a tame dolphin, and other marvels. But by far the best known are those describing the great eruption of Vesuvius in which his uncle perished, a martyr to scientific curiosity, and the letter to Trajan on his attempts to suppress Christianity in Bithynia, with Trajan's reply approving his policy. Taken altogether, these letters give an absorbingly vivid picture of the days of the early empire, and of the interests of a cultivated Roman gentleman of wealth. Occasionally, as in the last letters referred to, they deal with important historical events; but their chief value is in bringing before us, in somewhat the same manner as "The Spectator" pictures the England of the age of Anne, the life of a time which is not so unlike our own as its distance in years might indicate. And in this time by no means the least interesting figure is that of the letter-writer himself, with his vanity and self-importance, his sensibility and generous affection? his pedantry and his loyalty.
Pliny's Tenth Book of Letters
Author: Alicia Mae HoefkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roman provinces
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian
Author: Alice KönigPublisher:
ISBN: 1108420591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138). Authors treated include Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus. Key topics and approaches include recitation, allusion, intertextuality, 'extratextuality' and socioliterary interactions.