Complete Letters

Informationen zum Autor Peter Walsh is best known for his work on Livy and has produced editions and critical books on the author. For OWC he has translated Apuleius, The Golden Ass, Petronius, Satyricon, and Cicero, Nature of the Gods and On Obligations. Klappentext Pliny's letters provide a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. They document politics, social life, religion, the educational system, the treatment of slaves and include a vivid description of the eruption of Vesuvius. This is a lively and sympathetic new translation. Zusammenfassung Pliny's letters provide a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. They document politics, social life, religion, the educational system, the treatment of slaves and include a vivid description of the eruption of Vesuvius. This is a lively and sympathetic new translation.

Product details

• Authors: Pliny the Younger, Pliny Younger
• Assisted by: P. G. Walsh (Translation), P. G. (Emeritus Professor of Humanity (Latin) Walsh (Translation), Walsh P. G. (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2009
• EAN: 9780199538942
• ISBN: 978-0-19-953894-2
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Essays, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form