The Letters of Pliny. A Historical and Social Commentary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9290359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph A Maurer |
| Year | 1967 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 159-159 |
| Publication date | 1967-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Letters of Pliny: A Historical and Social Commentary, A N Sherwin-White, 1966 |
| Venue | The Classical World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8418 • E-ISSN: 1558-9234 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4346425 |
| OpenAlex | W596314808 |
| Language | EN |
This comprehensive general commentary on the nine books of the younger Pliny's private letters-which cover nearly aspect of Roman life except warfare-offers a self-contained discussion of each letter or group of associated letters and their rich array of information about the author's social, political, and legal life and times
Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods
The Ransom of Captives
Dionysus as Jesus
Pliny Epistulae 4.13
Do As I Say and As I Do
Pliny, Letters 10.98. A Metaphor for the Solution to the Christian Problem
Physicians and the Roman Imperial Aristocracy
Sand for Roman Glass Production
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature
The Latin Language
Life and Date
Miscellaneous Contemporaries
Honoured Orators
Other Values and Interests, Weak Spots, and Blind Spots
Teachers
History
Philosophy
Composition and Purpose
Epilogue
Other Sciences
Roman Orators and Poets
Favorinus
Scholarly Reading
Greek
Presentation and Sources
Language and Style
Was Bedeutet Ordnung - Was Ordnet Bedeutung?
The Book of Memory
The Language of Roman Letters
Women in Flavian Rome
Catullus and Martial
Latin Inscriptions in the Kelsey Museum
Cursus and Vita (II)
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature
The Place of Purity
Biography
Senecan Drama and the Age of Nero
Status and patronage
The new direction in poetry
Lucan
Slaves in Greek literary culture
The emperor and his advisers
Lucan’s Civil War in Nero’s Rome
The Romance of Republican History
Family and household
Hadrian to the Antonines
Greek thorybos , Roman eustatheia
Slavery in the late Roman world
Shaping Buildings into Stories
Slavery in the Roman Republic
The Cities of Bithynia
The slave supply in classical Greece
The Aeneid
Horace
Burning Rome, Burning Christians
Slave labour and Roman society
Local and provincial institutions and government
Staging Nero
Emperor, Senate and magistrates
Keeping/Losing Records, Keeping/Losing Faith
Rebels and outsiders
Caesar
Art and the Decadent City
Slavery and the Greek family
The Helots
Rome and Italy
Resurgences of Nero in the Enlightenment
Slavery in the Hellenistic world
Slavery Under the Principate
Nerva to Hadrian
Archaeology and Greek slavery
Rhetoric and scholarship
History
Seneca and the Quest for Glory in Nero’s Golden Age
Post-Augustan Revisionism
Regulations on Absence and Obligatory Participation in Ancient Associations
Nero’s Women
The growth of administrative posts
Slavery in the ancient Near East
A World Full of Associations
Animal Sacrifice and the Roman Persecution of Christians (Second to Third Century)
Associations’ Regulations from the Ancient Greek World and Beyond
A Formation of a Christian Archive?
Art and architecture
Theocritus and Virgil
Tactical Interactions
Commerce and finance
Minor poetry
Constructing a New Imperial Paradoxography
Nero’s Imperial Administration
Ordo corporatorum
The Danube provinces
Prose and mime
Chaldean Interactions
Livy
The Noise-Lovers
Slavery and economy in the Greek world
Cicero and the relationship of oratory to literature
Martial and Juvenal
Beyond Romans and Others
Resistance among chattel slaves in the classical Greek world
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