Letters, Volume I: Books 1–7

About the author

Betty Radice (1912–1985) was Editor of Penguin Classics.

Summary

The letters of Pliny the Younger (ca. AD 61–ca. 112), a polished social document of his times, include descriptions of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 and the earliest pagan accounts of Christians. The Panegyricus is an expanded, published version of Pliny’s oration of thanks to the emperor Trajan in AD 100.

Product details

• Authors: Pliny, Pliny the Younger
• Assisted by: Betty Radice (Editor), B. Radice (Translation), Betty Radice (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1969
• EAN: 9780674990616
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99061-6
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 116 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 422 g
• Illustrations: 1 map
• Series: Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [e-mail]
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity