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Historical person

Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger was a Roman senator and letter writer of the late first and early second centuries. His correspondence describes elite society, provincial government, the eruption of Vesuvius and official dealings with Christians under Trajan.

In non-fiction, Pliny the Younger is discussed in Pliny the Younger’s The Letters of Pliny the Younger and Mary Beard’s Pompeii. Pliny the Younger’s The Letters of Pliny the Younger approaches the subject through social change and the pressures of ordinary life, religion, belief and institutional authority, and political ambition and government.

Non Fiction

Non Fiction featuring Pliny the Younger (2 books)

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