Selected Letters from Pliny the Younger's Epistulae

Commentary by Jacqueline Carlon
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-934061-3
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

This anthology offers a comprehensive introduction to Pliny the Younger's Epistulae for intermediate and advanced Latin students, with the grammatical, lexical, and historical support to enable them to read quickly and fluidly. As the only selection of the letters with extensive commentary, it provides instructors with a unique and complete resource for students.

ABOUT THE SERIES

The Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentaries is designed for students in intermediate or advanced Greek or Latin. Each volume includes a comprehensive introduction. The placement, on the same page, of the ancient text, a running vocabulary, and succinct notes focusing on grammar, syntax, and distinctive features of style provides students with essential learning aids.

Series Editors: Barbara Weiden Boyd, Bowdoin College, Stephen Esposito, Boston University, and Mary Lefkowitz, Wellesley College

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Carlon, Jacqueline

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Map

- Acknowledgments

- Introduction

- Commentary Abbreviations

- Glossary of Rhetorical and Grammatical Terms

- Frequent Vocabulary

- Book I

- I Dedication of the Epistulae

- VI Hunting and more

- IX City life vs. country life

- XIII Promising poets and middling audiences

- XVIII Interpreting ominous dreams

- XXIV A farm for Suetonius

- Book II

- IV Helping a female relative

- VI How to treat dinner guests

- XIII Recommending an old friend

- XVII Pliny's Laurentian Villa

- XX Regulus the legacy hunter

- Book III

- III Recommending a tutor

- VI Dedicating a statue

- XIV Slaves murder their master

- XV Evaluating a friend's poetry

- XXI In tribute to Martial

- Book IV

- II Regulus the contemptible mourner

- VIII Becoming an augur like Cicero

- XI Domitian executes the Vestal Cornelia

- XIX Calpurnia, the ideal wife

- XXIII Proper retirement

- XXV Electoral misbehavior

- Book V

- XVI Minicia Marcella, the ideal betrothed

- XIX Pliny's freedman Zosimus

- Book VI

- IV 1st love letter to Calpurnia

- VII 2nd letter to Calpurnia

- X Disgrace of an unfinished tomb

- XI Praise of Pliny's protégés

- XVI Eruption of Vesuvius and the Elder Pliny

- XX Eruption of Vesuvius and the Younger Pliny

- XXVII How to praise Trajan

- Book VII

- XVIII Creating lasting generosity

- XIX Fannia, the ideal matron

- XXIV Ummidius Quadratus' feisty grandmother

- XXVII Do ghosts exist?

- Book VIII

- XII Literary obligations

- XVI Humane treatment of slaves

- Book IX

- III Pursuing immortal fame

- VI Chariot racing's allure

- XVII To each his own taste

- XIX Quest for immortality

- XXIII Achieving literary fame

- XXXVI A day away from Rome

- XXXIX Rebuilding the Temple of Ceres

- Book X

- XXXIX Shoddy building practices

- XL Trajan responds

- LXV Status of freeborn foundlings

- LXVI Trajan responds

- XCVI How to deal with Christians

- XCVII Trajan responds

Über Autor(innen)

Jacqueline Carlon is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Pliny's Women: Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World (2009).