The Letters of Pliny the Younger
A Ancient History, Classics, History book. Let me into the secrets you would prefer no one to know. Pliny the Younger, The Letters of...
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So when you 3 go hunting you can adopt my advice, and carry your tablets as well as your food-basket and flask, for you will find that Minerva roams the mountains no less than Diana. Pliny the Younger, Complete Letters Let me into the secrets you would prefer no one to know. Pliny the Younger, The Letters of the Younger Pliny An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. Pliny the Younger, The Letters of the Younger Pliny
While this book does contain a lot of first hand information about life in Imperial Rome - especially the legal system and the elaborate network of favors, obligations, and patronage in the Senatorial class - it's not especially readable, being a collection of letters written by Pliny (and, near the end, by the Emperor Trajan to Pliny).... This collection offers a rare, personal take on life in the late classical world. Pliny the Younger writes on everything from political issues to etiquette advice to love and social issues. One of my favorite letters is the one in which he relates a ghost story (complete with rattling chains). Although the real gem of this collection... A window into the world of the upper-class Roman of Pliny's day.I felt the most fascinating letters were:Correspondence with Trajan on various matters when Pliny was governor of Bithynia. Most important to us is the correspondence on treatment of Christians, in which Trajan gave his approval to Pliny's treatment of them. Description...
