PLINY THE YOUNGER'S VEsuvIus LETTERS ( AND ) I Around A.D. or ,' the historian Tacitus wrote to Pliny the Younger requesting an account of the death of Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79 (). Pliny responded with . Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. Pliny's 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 /5(). The final 'book' in 'Letters of the Younger Pliny' is solely devoted to the Imperial correspondence between Pliny Roman emperor Trajan following the statesman's promotion to governor over the Bithynia Pontus provinces/5().
Pliny the Younger (8) Pliny the Younger or Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (c): Roman senator, nephew of Pliny the Elder, governor of Bithynia- Pontus (), author of a famous collection of letters. In the bathhouse inscription we mentioned above, we saw that Pliny's full title as governor of Bithynia- Pontus was legatus Augusti. The Letters of Pliny the Younger. This site contains a selection of letters by Pliny the Younger, which I used in teaching Latin (The World of Pliny the Younger) at Bates College in Maine. The introductory pages to this site are: A Brief Summary of All the Letters on this Site. Pliny the Younger. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 AD - ca. AD), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him and they were both witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD.
Pliny the Younger: An Eye Witness to History. Pliny the Younger live from 61AD to AD and his letters to Cornelius Tacitus are the most famous report of the Mt. Vesuvius eruption in 79AD. Pliny, who was only seventeen at the time of the eruption, was living with his mother and his uncle in the north of the Bay of Naples. The final 'book' in 'Letters of the Younger Pliny' is solely devoted to the Imperial correspondence between Pliny Roman emperor Trajan following the statesman's promotion to governor over the Bithynia Pontus provinces. The original source is Pliny the Younger, Epistles and 97, though I understands some sources make those letters and It is abridged and updated by me. It is abridged and updated by me. The epistle was written from Bithynia (on the Black Sea in modern Turkey), probably within a year after Pliny became governor there, which was in or
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