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Pliny the Younger was the governor of Bithynia and Pontus on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia, having arrived there as the representative of Emperor Trajan between 109 and 111 AD on September 17. [1] Pliny likely wrote the letters from Amisus. [13]
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 ...
The first letter (1.1), addressed to Gaius Septicius Clarus, is also notable for giving Pliny's reasons for collecting his letters. Those that give details of Pliny's life at his country villas are important documents in the history of garden design. They are the world's oldest sources of the information on how gardens were used in the ancient ...
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Suetonius was a close friend of senator and letter-writer Pliny the Younger. Pliny describes him as "quiet and studious, a man dedicated to writing". Pliny helped him buy a small property and interceded with the Emperor Trajan to grant Suetonius immunities usually granted to a father of three, the ius trium liberorum, because his marriage was ...
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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
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