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- Reading theLettersof Pliny the Younger: An Introduction
- Reading theLettersof Pliny the Younger: An Introduction
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Frontispiece
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Reading a life
- Chapter 2 Reading a book
- Chapter 3 Epistolary models
- Chapter 4 Pliny's elders and betters
- Chapter 5 Pliny's peers
- Chapter 6 Otium
- Chapter 7 Reading the villa letters
- Chapter 8 The grand design
- Appendix 1 A Pliny timeline and the great Comum inscription
- Appendix 2 Letters1–9: Catalogue of contents and addressees
- Appendix 3 Popular topics in theLetters: Bibliographical help
- Appendix 4 List of main characters in theLetters
- References
- Index of passages
- General index
Chapter 4 - Pliny's elders and betters
The Elder Pliny, Vestricius Spurinna, Corellius Rufus, Verginius Rufus (and Silius Italicus)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2012
- Reading theLettersof Pliny the Younger: An Introduction
- Reading theLettersof Pliny the Younger: An Introduction
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Frontispiece
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Reading a life
- Chapter 2 Reading a book
- Chapter 3 Epistolary models
- Chapter 4 Pliny's elders and betters
- Chapter 5 Pliny's peers
- Chapter 6 Otium
- Chapter 7 Reading the villa letters
- Chapter 8 The grand design
- Appendix 1 A Pliny timeline and the great Comum inscription
- Appendix 2 Letters1–9: Catalogue of contents and addressees
- Appendix 3 Popular topics in theLetters: Bibliographical help
- Appendix 4 List of main characters in theLetters
- References
- Index of passages
- General index
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- Reading the Letters of Pliny the YoungerAn Introduction, pp. 104 - 135Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012