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The Letters of the Younger Pliny
The Younger Pliny
出版
Penguin UK
, 2003-12-04
主題
Literary Collections / Letters
History / Ancient / Rome
History / Ancient / General
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical
ISBN
0141915943
9780141915944
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=awH1TPYkKqMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.