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Pliny opens the letter (sections 1–4) with questions to Trajan concerning trials of Christians brought before him, since he says he has never been present at any trials of Christians. This may indicate that previous trials had taken place and that Pliny was unaware of any existing edicts under Trajan for prosecuting Christians. [ 15 ]
Pliny's career as a young man is very fully described in the earlier letters, which include tributes to notable figures such as Marcus Valerius Martialis, Pliny's protégé (3.21). Advice is offered to friends, references are given, political support is discussed and Pliny comments on many other aspects of Roman life, using established literary ...
Pliny the Younger wrote hundreds of letters, of which 247 survived, and which are of great historical value. Some are addressed to reigning emperors or to notables such as the historian Tacitus . Pliny served as an imperial magistrate under Trajan (reigned 98–117), [ 2 ] and his letters to Trajan provide one of the few surviving records of ...
Pliny was a popular author in the late 4th century—Quintus Aurelius Symmachus modeled his letters on Pliny's, for example [29] —and the whole collection might have been designed as an exemplum in his honor. [30] He later revised and considerably expanded the work, which for this reason is by far the longest of the whole collection.
In the first letter of his famous collection of correspondence, the Epistulae, Pliny the Younger credits Septicius’ constant urgings for motivating him to publish his letters. The intimate friendship between the two is evident in another letter where Pliny playfully chides Septicius for not appearing at a lavish dinner party. [2]
The Letters of the Younger Pliny [6] The Letters of Abelard and Heloise [7] Rome and Italy: Books VI-X of the History of Rome from Its Foundation [8] by Livy; The Comedies [9] by Terence; Who's Who in the Ancient World [10] Phormio & Other Plays [11] by Terence; Praise of Folly [12] by Erasmus
Pliny's Comedy and Tragedy villas were two of the several villas owned by Pliny the Younger during the 1st century in the area surrounding Lake Como in northern Italy. [a] In one of Pliny's letters to his boyhood friend Voconius Romanus (Book 9, Epistle 7), he named them as his favourites. In his letter, Pliny wrote that the Tragedy villa was ...
The existing letter is a reply to explain his estate is located in a desirable region of Etruria, and includes an extensive description of Pliny's villa at Tifernum (the modern Città di Castello). [8] In this letter, Pliny makes a pointed allusion to the location of his three rural estates, since we know through one of Martial's poems ...