By Barbara Levick Abstract: In this article, Levick discusses Pliny the Younger’s posting to Bithynia, a Roman province south of the Black Sea. She contests that this sought to address the mismanagement of urban…
By Victoria E. Pagán Article in The Classical Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 1, 2010, pp. 194–201. View on JSTOR
By Roy K. Gibson and Ruth Morello Abstract: This is the first general introduction to Pliny’s Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative…
By Ruth Morello Abstract: This paper examines Pliny’s habit of “evasive display,” a practice which exploits the recusatio to the full and produces the sense of endless deferral in the letters. Letters are generically…
By Debra Hershkowitz Abstract: In letter 4.14, Pliny the Younger remarks that he doesn’t worry too much about criticism of his poetry since he’s not planning to give up the day job…This well sums up Pliny’s basic…
Translated by Betty Radice Abstract: Pliny started his career at the Roman bar at the age of eighteen. He moved through the regular offices in a senator’s career, held two treasury appointments and a priesthood, and…