Roy K Gibson

Man of High Empire

The Life of Pliny the Younger

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E) - senator and consul in the Rome of Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 C.E., early "persecutor" of Christians on the Black Sea - remains the best documented Roman individual, other than emperors, between Cicero and Augustine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 168mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780199948192
• ISBN-10: 0199948194
• Artikelnr.: 58567174

Autorenporträt

Roy K, Gibson is Professor of Classics at Durham University. His publications include Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction, with Ruth Morello, and, as editor with Tristan Power, Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps and Figures
References and Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Pliny the Younger: Life and Letters
Chapter 2: Writing a Modern Biography of an Ancient Roman
Chapter 3: Comum
Chapter 4: Campania
Chapter 5: Rome
Chapter 6: Umbria and the Laurentine Shore
Chapter 7: Return to Comum
Chapter 8: Pontus-Bithynia
Envoi
Appendix 1: Timeline
Appendix 2: Guide to Pliny's Italy and Bithynia
Bibliography
Indexes