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2020
AbstractWithin a century of his death, the Younger Pliny was already being confused with his famous uncle, the Elder Pliny. In the 1300s, the two were successfully disentangled, although the error of their origin in Verona (rather than Como) was spread.
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AbstractWithin a century of his death, the Younger Pliny was already being confused with his famous uncle, the Elder Pliny. In the 1300s, the two were successfully disentangled, although the error of their origin in Verona (rather than Como) was spread.
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Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger
2012This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters as an artistically structured collection.
Gibson, Roy, Morello, Ruth
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Phoenix, 1967
DISCUSSING THE FATE of Pliny's correspondence in the late Empire, Alan Cameron has observed that Jerome in letters of 395 and 398 shows a knowledge of letters of Pliny (CQ n.s. 15 [1965] 293-294 and also C. n.s. 17 [1967]). It can be added that another letter of Pliny is echoed in the preface of Jerome's De Viris Illustribus, published in 393 (for the ...
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DISCUSSING THE FATE of Pliny's correspondence in the late Empire, Alan Cameron has observed that Jerome in letters of 395 and 398 shows a knowledge of letters of Pliny (CQ n.s. 15 [1965] 293-294 and also C. n.s. 17 [1967]). It can be added that another letter of Pliny is echoed in the preface of Jerome's De Viris Illustribus, published in 393 (for the ...
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2018
Pliny the Younger—to be distinguished from Pliny the Elder, his maternal uncle and the author of the encyclopedic Natural History—was born in Comum (modern Como) in Transpadane Italy c. 62 ce. His uncle adopted him, probably in his will. Pliny and his mother were living with him at Misenum when Vesuvius erupted in 79 ce.
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Pliny the Younger—to be distinguished from Pliny the Elder, his maternal uncle and the author of the encyclopedic Natural History—was born in Comum (modern Como) in Transpadane Italy c. 62 ce. His uncle adopted him, probably in his will. Pliny and his mother were living with him at Misenum when Vesuvius erupted in 79 ce.
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The Praetorship of the Younger Pliny
Journal of Roman Studies, 1935In attempting to fix the date of Pliny's praetorship there are three passages from his works which we must bear in mind:—1. Ep. 3, II, 2–3: ‘equidem, cum essent philosophi ab urbe summoti, fui apud ilium (the philosopher Artemidorus) in suburbano et, quo notabilius, hoc est periculosius, esset, fui praetor, pecuniam etiam, qua tunc illi ampliore opus ...
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The Finances of the Younger Pliny
Papers of the British School at Rome, 1965The financial affairs of the younger Pliny are of particular interest for the social and economic history of the Roman Empire, because Pliny was one of the largest municipal benefactors in-the West (almost the largest known) and because unusually full information has survived about both his gifts and the resources that lay behind them.
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The younger Pliny and Ammianus Marcellinus
The Classical Quarterly, 1998The investigations of Fletcher and Owens have documented the breadth of Ammianus’ familiarity with Latin literature; however, neither scholar was able to demonstrate a debt to Pliny the Younger. At the same time Alan Cameron has shown that in the later fourth century the Letters of Pliny ...
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