Man of High Empire: The Life of Pliny the Younger 9780199948192, 0199948194

Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the er

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Man of High Empire: The Life of Pliny the Younger
9780199948192, 0199948194

Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the er

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Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)―senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eru

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Pliny the Younger's nine-book Epistles is a masterpiece of Roman prose. Often mined as a historical and pedagogical

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The Younger Pliny was born in 61 or 62 CE, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister

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The Younger Pliny was born in 61 or 62 CE, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister

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"Older Man/Younger Man" is a memoir of the relationship between a middle-aged man and a man thirty years his j

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Ash spewed into the sky. All eyes were on Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder sailed towards the phenomenon. A teenage Pliny the Y

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Family -- Early years -- Cato the tribune -- Cato and the formation of the triumvirate -- Cato's Cyprian mission an

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