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Author:   Roy Gibson (Professor of Latin, Professor of Latin, University of Manchester) ,  Christopher Whitton (Senior Lecturer in Classics and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.864kg
ISBN:  

9780199545940

ISBN 10:   0199545944
Pages:   546
Publication Date:   02 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction 1: Christopher Whitton and Roy Gibson: Readers and Readings of Pliny's Epistles Pliny in History 2: A. R. Birley: Pliny's Family, Pliny's Career 3: R. Syme: Pliny's Less Successful Friends 4: R. Duncan-Jones: The Finances of a Senator 5: Edward Champlin: Pliny's Other Country Reading Epistles 1-9 6: Henry W. Traub: Pliny's Treatment of History in Epistolary Form 7: Charles E. Murgia: The Chronology and Arrangement of Pliny's Letters 8: Jo-Ann Shelton: Pliny the Younger, and the Ideal Wife 9: Umberto Eco: A Portrait of the Elder as a Young Pliny 10: Bettina Bergmann: Visualizing Pliny's Villas 11: Andrew M. Riggsby: Self and Community in the Younger Pliny 12: Matthew Roller: Pliny's Catullus: The Politics of Literary Appropriation 13: Stanley E. Hoffer: Models of Senators and Emperors: Regulus, the Bad Senator 14: Peter Schenk: Forms of Intertextuality in the Epistles of Pliny the Younger 15: Miriam Griffin: Pliny and Tacitus 16: John Henderson: Knowing Someone Through Their Books: Pliny on Uncle Pliny (Epistles 3.5) Epistles 10: A Case Apart? 17: Fergus Millar: Trajan: Government by Correspondence 18: Greg Woolf: Pliny's Province Pliny's Afterlife 19: Alan Cameron: Pliny's Afterlife 20: L. D. Reynolds: The Transmission of Pliny's Epistles

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Roy Gibson is Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester. His publications include Ovid: Ars Amatoria Book 3 (Cambridge, 2003) and (with R. Morello) Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2012). He is currently completing a biography of Pliny (Man of High Empire) and a commentary on Pliny, Letters Book 6. Christopher Whitton is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College. His publications include articles on literary, historical and linguistic aspects of Pliny's works and a commentary on Epistles Book 2 (Cambridge, 2013).

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