Man of High Empire: The Life of Pliny the Younger - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197654835ISBN-10:197654835UPC:9780197654835Book Category:History, LawBook Subcategory:Ancient, Social History, Legal HistoryBook Topic:RomeSize:9.34 x 6.12 x 0.74 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SC3BJQC8S6
Man of High Empire: The Life of Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, and early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black Sea--remains Rome's best documented private individual between Cicero and Augustine. No Roman writer, not even Vergil, ties his identity to the regions of Italy more successfully than Pliny. His...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197654835ISBN-10:197654835UPC:9780197654835Book Category:History, LawBook Subcategory:Ancient, Social History, Legal HistoryBook Topic:RomeSize:9.34 x 6.12 x 0.74 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SC3BJQC8S6
Roy K. Gibson is Professor of Classics at Durham University. His publications include Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction, with Ruth Morello, and, as editor with Tristan Power, Suetonius the Biographer: Studies in Roman Lives.
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