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LETTERS OF PLINY IBD

SANAGE PUBLISHING HOUSE
10 / 2021
9789391560454
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Sinopsis

Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Betty Radice.A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny 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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