Pliny the Younger: Epistles Book II Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Younger: Epistles Book II Pliny the Younger Pliny the Younger's nine-book Epistles is a masterpiece of Roman prose. The second book is a typically varied yet taut suite of miniatures,…
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Pliny the Younger: Epistles Book II Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Younger's nine-book Epistles is a masterpiece of Roman prose. The second book is a typically varied yet taut suite of miniatures, including among its twenty letters the trial of Marius Priscus and Pliny's famous portrait of his Laurentine villa. Often mined as a historical and pedagogical sourcebook, this collection of 'private' letters is now finding recognition as a rich and rewarding work in its own right.
With clear linguistic explanations and full literary analysis, it invites readers to a fresh appreciation of Pliny's lettered This edition, the first to address a complete book of Epistles in over a century, presents a Latin text together with an introduction and commentary intended for students, teachers and scholars.