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Pliny the Younger wanted to convey that Pliny the Elder was a "good Roman", which means that he maintained the customs of the great Roman forefathers. This statement would have pleased Tacitus. Two inscriptions identifying the hometown of Pliny the Younger as Como take precedence over the Verona theory.
He was a contemporary of the elder Plinius. [136] [137] [138] Licinius Caecina, a senator attached to the party of Otho in AD 69; he may be the same as the Licinius Caecina of praetorian rank mentioned by the elder Pliny. [139] [140] Licinius Proculus, a friend of Otho, who raised him to the rank of praefectus praetorio. His bad advice and lack ...
PLINIVS (プリニウス, Puriniusu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mari Yamazaki and Miki Tori.The series is a biography of Pliny the Elder.It was initially serialized in Shinchosha's Shinchō 45 magazine from December 2013 to September 2018.
The American Homebrewer's Association has voted Russian River Brewing Company's Pliny The Elder as the number one beer in the US for the seventh year in a row. AHA members were asked to list their ...
Born in 107 BC, [1] Decimus Junius M. f. D. n. Silanus was the son of a Marcus Junius Silanus, presumably Decimus had an elder brother named Marcus, but he might have died young. [ 2 ] Marriage
Reconstructed plan of Pliny's villa in Tuscis (Robert Castell 1728) reconstruction by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1842 Excavations ot Colle Plinio. The Villa of Pliny in Tuscis was a large, elaborate ancient Roman villa-estate that belonged to the Plinys (Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger). [1] It is located at Colle Plinio near San Giustino ...
Plinia Marcella, the sister of Pliny the elder, married Gaius Caecilius, and was the mother of Gaius Caecilius Cilo, afterward Pliny the Younger. After her husband's death, she lived with her brother. Together with her brother and her son, she witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. (It was she who pointed out the eruption to her brother)
Amidst the ongoing disaster, Pomponianus and Pliny waited in the town overnight for the wind to change, after which their party was forced to decide whether to remain inside and risk the collapse of the roof above them due to the build-up of falling pumice and ash, or to attempt to escape outside and risk being buried. Pliny the Elder ...