Man of high empire : the life of Pliny the Younger

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Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, and early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black Sea--remains Rome's best documented private individual between Cicero and Augustine. No R...

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Main Author: Gibson, Roy K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Pliny, > the Younger
Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius > 61-114
Pliny, > the Younger.
Lawyers > Rome > Biography.
Authors, Latin > Biography.
Lawyers.
Authors, Latin.
Zeithintergrund
Magistrates, Roman.
Rome (Empire)
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Pliny the Younger: life and Letters
  • Writing a modern biography of an ancient Roman
  • Comum
  • Campania
  • Rome
  • Umbria and the Laurentine shore
  • Return to Comum
  • Pontus-Bithynia
  • Envoi
  • Appendix 1: Timeline
  • Appendix 2: Guide to Pliny's Italy and Bithynia.

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