Pliny the Younger (ca. 61-ca. 113) was a Roman author and administrator. He left a collection of letters which offers intimate glimpses into public and private life during the Roman Empire. Born of the wealthy Caecilius family at Comum in northern...

The younger Pliny was seventeen when Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, according to his Epistulae (Epistles, A.D. 103-A.D. 109, 6. 20), a fact that situates his birth in late A.D. 61 or early A.D. 62. He was born in Comum (modern Como), the son of Lucius...

c. A.D. 61-c. 113 Roman scholar and official whose published letters illustrated life during the Roman Empire. Following his father's death, Pliny the Younger was adopted by his uncle, the elder Pliny. He began practicing law at age 18, and...

Gaius or Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius or Caius Plinius Caecilius (61/63 - ca. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, a remarkable writer, an author and a natural philosopher of Ancient...

In the shadow of the volcano Vesuvius is situated five miles east of Naples on the Golfo di Napoli, an area popular with the social elite in Roman times. Pliny spent many holidays here with his family and friends. Pompeii and circumstance...

9780892369003 Ashen sky; the letters of Pliny the Younger on the eruption of Vesuvius. Moser, Barry. Getty Publications 2007 39 pages $19.95 Hardcover NE1112 Pliny the Elder is remembered as a prolific writer who...

In the following essay, Sherwin-White praises the formal, yet simple language used by Pliny to illustrate the major themes and subjects in his Letters,, discusses their chronology and composition, and evaluates their authenticity as correspondence.

In the following essay, Riggsby shows how a comparison between Pliny's letters and those of other Roman authors who concerned themselves with the role of the orator reveals him as an extremely conservative intellectual in terms of his thinking on the relationship between the individual and community.

In the following essay, Jones studies Pliny's Letters as a means of gaining insight into the social conditions and protocols under which Latin name forms were used.