Research Catalog

Title

Complete letters / Pliny the younger ; translated with an introduction and notes by P.G. Walsh.

Author

Pliny, the Younger

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Walsh, P. G. (Patrick Gerard)

Description

xl, 380 p. : ill., map; 20 cm.

Summary

• "In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny provides an insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part autobiography, part social history, they document the career and interests of a senator and leading imperial official whose friends include the historians Tacitus and Suetonius. Pliny's letters cover a wide range of topics, from the contemporary political scene to domestic affairs, the educational system, the rituals and conduct of Roman religion, the treatment of slaves, and the phenomena of nature. He describes in vivid detail the eruption of Vesuvius which killed his uncle, and the daily routines of a well-to-do Roman in the courts, and at leisure, enjoying rural pursuits at his country estates."
• "In the introduction to his new translation, P.G. Walsh examines the background to these often intimate and enthralling letters."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Oxford world's classics

Uniform Title

• Correspondence. English
• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Alternative Title

Correspondence.

Subject

Pliny, the Younger

Genre/Form

Records and correspondence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxviii]-xl) and indexes.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Latin.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Book one -- Book two -- Book three -- Book four -- Book five -- Book six -- Book seven -- Book eight -- Book nine -- Book ten.

ISBN

• 0192806580 (alk. paper)
• 9780192806581 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006011797

OCLC

• 67773607
• SCSB-12644489

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library