# The letters of the younger pliny #### (2003) - The Younger Pliny **Link**:: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=awH1TPYkKqMC **DOI**:: **Links**:: **Tags**:: #paper **Cite Key**:: [@The_Younger_Pliny2003-yh] ### Abstract ``` A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family. His 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 extravagant lengths' - from descriptions of everyday life in Rome, with its scandals and court cases, to Pliny's life in the country. ``` ### Notes