A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family. His lively and very personal letters address an astonishing range of topics, from a deeply moving account of his uncle's death in the eruption that engulfed Pompeii, to observations on the early Christians - 'a desperate sort of cult carried to extravagant lengths' - from descriptions of everyday life in Rome, with its scandals and court cases, to Pliny's life in the country.
Titel
Letters of the Younger Pliny
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Übersetzer
EAN
9780141915944
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E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
04.12.2003
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Adobe-DRM
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1.98 MB
Anzahl Seiten
320
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