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105

Letters

Pliny the Younger

A senator's private correspondence covering everything from Vesuvius's eruption to his own administration of a province, giving one of the few surviving first-person pictures of upper-class Roman daily life.

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A selection, not the correspondence. Pliny left ten books; this is a school edition of highlights, so Vesuvius and the exchange with Trajan about the Christians are here and much of the ordinary business is not.
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Filed under Ancient Rome in History.