WebbThe letters, on which today his fame mainly rests, were largely written with a view to publication, ... He wrote part of a history of Rome, which was continued by the elder Pliny; also an account of the German war, to which Quintilian makes allusion (Inst. x. 103), pronouncing him, as a historian, ... WebbPliny the Younger was governor of Pontus/Bithynia from 111-113 AD. We have a whole set of exchanges of his letters with the emperor Trajan on a variety of administrative political matters. These two letters are the most famous, in which P. encounters Christianity for the first time. Pliny, Letters 10.96-97 Pliny to the Emperor Trajan
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WebbPliny’s Letters within a Roman epistolographical tradition dominated by Cicero and Seneca. Chapters 4 to 7 study thematic letter cycles within the collection, including those on Pliny’s famous country vil-las and his relationships with Pliny the Elder and Tacitus. The final chapter focuses on the ‘grand design’ that unifies and ... Webbbook i. book ii. an account of the world and the elements. book iii. an account of countries, nations, seas, towns, havens, mountains, rivers, distances, and peoples who now exist or formerly existed. Webb30 quotes from Pliny the Younger: 'An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.', 'So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.', and '[Pliny the Elder] used to say … how to set up a jewelry business