# The Letters of the Younger Pliny

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- Authors: [Plinio Il Giovane](https://www.bookquiver.com/plinio-il-giovane)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-127-7
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2003-12-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.