The Letters of the Younger Pliny av The Younger Pliny

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<p>Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, <i>The Letters of the Younger Pliny </i>also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Betty Radice.<br><br>A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny 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.<br><br>Betty Radice''s definitive edition was the forst complete modern translation of Pliny''s letters. In her intro