Pliny the Younger: ''Epistles'' Book II

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Whitton is a University Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College; he is also currently an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Freie Universität zu Berlin. Dr Whitton is a specialist in Latin literature, in particular prose of the early Roman empire. This is his first book. Klappentext The first modern literary commentary on Pliny the Younger's Epistles II, essential reading for students and scholars of Roman literature. Zusammenfassung This edition presents the Latin text of Epistles II together with a full introduction and commentary for the first time in over a century. With clear linguistic explanations and full literary analysis! it invites students! teachers and scholars to a fresh appreciation of Pliny's lettered art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Text; Commentary.

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• Authors: Pliny, Pliny the Younger, Pliny The Younger
• Assisted by: Chris Whitton (Editor), Christopher Whitton (Editor), Christopher (University of Cambridge) Whitton (Editor), Whitton Christopher (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2013
• EAN: 9781107006898
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00689-8
• No. of pages: 338
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient, classical and medieval texts