This volume brings together some of the influential work to be published on the Epistles of Pliny the Younger. Covering historical, (auto)biographical, and literary aspects of the Epistles and their reception, the articles offer a wide and representative range of approaches to Pliny.
This volume brings together some of the influential work to be published on the Epistles of Pliny the Younger. Covering historical, (auto)biographical, and literary aspects of the Epistles and their reception, the articles offer a wide and representative range of approaches to Pliny.
Roy Gibson is Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester. His publications include Ovid: Ars Amatoria Book 3 (Cambridge, 2003) and (with R. Morello) Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2012). He is currently completing a biography of Pliny (Man of High Empire) and a commentary on Pliny, Letters Book 6. Christopher Whitton is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College. His publications include articles on literary, historical and linguistic aspects of Pliny's works and a commentary on Epistles Book 2 (Cambridge, 2013).
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* Introduction * 1: Christopher Whitton and Roy Gibson: Readers and Readings of Pliny's Epistles * Pliny in History * 2: A. R. Birley: Pliny's Family, Pliny's Career * 3: R. Syme: Pliny's Less Successful Friends * 4: R. Duncan-Jones: The Finances of a Senator * 5: Edward Champlin: Pliny's Other Country * Reading Epistles 1-9 * 6: Henry W. Traub: Pliny's Treatment of History in Epistolary Form * 7: Charles E. Murgia: The Chronology and Arrangement of Pliny's Letters * 8: Jo-Ann Shelton: Pliny the Younger, and the Ideal Wife * 9: Umberto Eco: A Portrait of the Elder as a Young Pliny * 10: Bettina Bergmann: Visualizing Pliny's Villas * 11: Andrew M. Riggsby: Self and Community in the Younger Pliny * 12: Matthew Roller: Pliny's Catullus: The Politics of Literary Appropriation * 13: Stanley E. Hoffer: Models of Senators and Emperors: Regulus, the Bad Senator * 14: Peter Schenk: Forms of Intertextuality in the Epistles of Pliny the Younger * 15: Miriam Griffin: Pliny and Tacitus * 16: John Henderson: Knowing Someone Through Their Books: Pliny on Uncle Pliny (Epistles 3.5) * Epistles 10: A Case Apart? * 17: Fergus Millar: Trajan: Government by Correspondence * 18: Greg Woolf: Pliny's Province * Pliny's Afterlife * 19: Alan Cameron: Pliny's Afterlife * 20: L. D. Reynolds: The Transmission of Pliny's Epistles
* Introduction * 1: Christopher Whitton and Roy Gibson: Readers and Readings of Pliny's Epistles * Pliny in History * 2: A. R. Birley: Pliny's Family, Pliny's Career * 3: R. Syme: Pliny's Less Successful Friends * 4: R. Duncan-Jones: The Finances of a Senator * 5: Edward Champlin: Pliny's Other Country * Reading Epistles 1-9 * 6: Henry W. Traub: Pliny's Treatment of History in Epistolary Form * 7: Charles E. Murgia: The Chronology and Arrangement of Pliny's Letters * 8: Jo-Ann Shelton: Pliny the Younger, and the Ideal Wife * 9: Umberto Eco: A Portrait of the Elder as a Young Pliny * 10: Bettina Bergmann: Visualizing Pliny's Villas * 11: Andrew M. Riggsby: Self and Community in the Younger Pliny * 12: Matthew Roller: Pliny's Catullus: The Politics of Literary Appropriation * 13: Stanley E. Hoffer: Models of Senators and Emperors: Regulus, the Bad Senator * 14: Peter Schenk: Forms of Intertextuality in the Epistles of Pliny the Younger * 15: Miriam Griffin: Pliny and Tacitus * 16: John Henderson: Knowing Someone Through Their Books: Pliny on Uncle Pliny (Epistles 3.5) * Epistles 10: A Case Apart? * 17: Fergus Millar: Trajan: Government by Correspondence * 18: Greg Woolf: Pliny's Province * Pliny's Afterlife * 19: Alan Cameron: Pliny's Afterlife * 20: L. D. Reynolds: The Transmission of Pliny's Epistles
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