Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction

ISBN: 9780521603799 出版年：2012 页码：364 Roy K Gibson Ruth Morello Cambridge University Press

Introduction 1. Reading a life: Letters, Book 1 2. Reading a book: Letters, Book 6 3. Epistolary models: Cicero and Seneca 4. Pliny's elders and betters: the Elder Pliny, Vestricius Spurinna, Corellius Rufus, Verginius Rufus 5. Pliny's peers: reading for the addressee 6. Otium: how to manage leisure 7. Reading the Villa Letters: 9.7, 2.17, 5.6 8. The grand design: how to read a collection Appendix 1. A Pliny timeline, and the great Comum inscription Appendix 2. Letters 1-9: catalogue of contents and addressees Appendix 3. Popular topics in the Letters: bibliographical help Appendix 4. Index of main characters in the Letters.