The Letters of Pliny the Younger (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Pliny the Younger
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Letters
- Subjects: Justice, Slavery or slaves, Marriage, Friendship, Christianity, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Wealth, Greek or Roman times, Rome, Heads of state
Critical Evaluation:
Pliny the Younger, or Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, was the nephew and adopted son of Pliny the Elder, the author of the famous and importantly influential Natural History in thirty-seven books. The younger Pliny, like the elder, was a wealthy aristocrat who devoted himself to a public career. The younger Pliny’s surviving literary achievements are mostly a result of his public life as a lawyer, and public administrator, and landed gentleman; he has left us only one of his many now lost orations, and ten books of letters. His letters are one of...
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