The letters of the Younger Pliny.
By: Translated with an introd. by Betty Radice.
Contributors: Radice, Betty, tr.
Series: The Penguin classics,; L127
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Pliny, the Younger -- Correspondence.; Latin letters -- Translations into English.
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: Pliny, a prominent lawyer, administrator and landowner, left not only one of the most complete Roman self-portraits we possess, but also a quarry of informaton on the social and political history of Rome at the turn of the first century. These letters contain his famous account of the destruction of Pompeii and his celebrated correspondence with the Emperor Trajan about the early Christians.