The Epistles of Pliny
By: edited by Roy Gibson and Christopher Whitton
Edition: First Edition.
Series: Oxford readings in classical studies; Oxford readings in classical studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Oxford, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780199545940
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Correspondence (Pliny, the Younger); Textual Criticism
Description: This volume brings together some of the influential work to be published on the Epistles of Pliny the Younger. Covering historical, (auto)biographical, and literary aspects of the Epistles and their reception, the articles offer a wide and representative range of approaches to Pliny.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-526) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: Readers and Readings of Pliny's Epistles / Christopher Whitton and Roy Gibson; title: Part I: Pliny in History; title: 2: Pliny's Family, Pliny's Career / A. R. Birley; title: 3: Pliny's Less Successful Friends / R. Syme; title: 4: The Finances of a Senator / R.P. Duncan-Jones; title: 5: Pliny's Other Country / Edward Champlin; title: Part II: Reading Epistles 1-9; title: 6: Pliny's Treatment of History in Epistolary Form / Henry W. Traub; title: 7: The Chronology and Arrangement of Pliny's Letters / Charles E. Murgia; title: 8: Pliny the Younger, and the Ideal Wife / Jo-Ann Shelton 9: A Portrait of the Elder as a Young Pliny / Umberto Eco 10: Visualizing Pliny's Villas / Bettina Bergmann; title: 11: Self and Community in the Younger Pliny / Andrew M. Riggsby; title: 12: Pliny's Catullus: The Politics of Literary Appropriation / Matthew Roller; title: 13: Models of Senators and Emperors: Regulus, the Bad Senator / Stanley E. Hoffer; title: 14: Forms of Intertextuality in the Epistles of Pliny the Younger / Peter Schenk; title: 15: Pliny and Tacitus / Miriam Griffin; title: 16: Knowing Someone Through Their Books: Pliny on Uncle Pliny (Epistles 3.5) / John Henderson; title: Part III: Epistles 10: A Case Apart?; title: 17: Trajan: Government by Correspondence / Fergus Millar; title: 18: Pliny's Province / Greg Woolf; title: Part IV: Pliny's Afterlife; title: 19: The Fate of Pliny's Letters in the Late Empire / Alan Cameron 20: The Transmission of Pliny's Epistles / L. D. Reynolds.