Roy K. Gibson

Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139334044
• Artikelnr.: 52929962

Autorenporträt

Roy K. Gibson is Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester and the author of a commentary on Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3 (Cambridge, 2003) and Excess and Restraint: Propertius, Horace and Ovid's Ars Amatoria (2007). He is co-editor with Ruth Morello of both Re-imagining Pliny the Younger (Arethusa special number 36.2, 2003) and of Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts (2011). He plans to work next on a commentary on Pliny, Letters Book 6.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Reading a life: Letters, Book 1
2. Reading a book: Letters, Book 6
3. Epistolary models: Cicero and Seneca
4. Pliny's elders and betters: the Elder Pliny, Vestricius Spurinna, Corellius Rufus, Verginius Rufus
5. Pliny's peers: reading for the addressee
6. Otium: how to manage leisure
7. Reading the Villa Letters: 9.7, 2.17, 5.6
8. The grand design: how to read a collection
Appendix 1. A Pliny timeline, and the great Comum inscription
Appendix 2. Letters 1-9: catalogue of contents and addressees
Appendix 3. Popular topics in the Letters: bibliographical help
Appendix 4. Index of main characters in the Letters.