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Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger : an introduction
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Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger : an introduction

Roy K. Gibson

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Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Reading a life: Letters, Book 1; 2. Reading a book: Letters, Book 6; 3. Epistolary models: Cicero and Seneca; 4. Pliny's elders and betters: the Elder Pliny, Vestricius Spurinna, Corellius Rufus, Verginius Rufus (and Silius Italicus); 5. Pliny's peers: reading for the addressee; 6. Otium: how to manage leisure; 7. Reading the villa letters: 9.7, 2.17, 5.6; 8. The grand design: how to read the collection; Appendix 1. A Pliny timeline, and the great Comum inscription; Appendix 2. Letters 1-9: catalogue of contents and addressees; Appendix 3. Popular topics in the Letters: bibliographical help; Appendix 4. Index of main characters in the Letters.

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Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger : an introduction by Roy K. Gibson. ISBN 9780521842921. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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