The Younger Pliny

The Letters of the Younger Pliny (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Radice, Betty

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141915944
• Artikelnr.: 38140530

Autorenporträt

A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer.
Betty Radice was an honorary fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and vice-president of the Classical Association. She was a renowned translator of both Latin and Greek.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
BOOK ONE BOOK TWO BOOK THREE BOOK FOUR BOOK FIVE BOOK SIX BOOK SEVEN BOOK
EIGHT BOOK NINE BOOK TEN
Appendix A: Inscriptions Appendix B: Plan of Pliny's House at Laurentum
Appendix C: Table of Events Appendix D: Key to Technical Terms Map of
Central and Northern Italy Map of Bithynia and Pontus Bibliography Index of
Proper Names and Places