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A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family. His lively and very personal letters address an astonishing range of topics from a deeply moving account of his uncle's death in the eruption that engulfed Pompeii and observations on the early Christians 'a desperate sort of cult carried to extravagant lengths' to descriptions of everyday life in Rome, with its scandals and court cases, and of Pliny's life in the country. Providing a series of fascinating views of imperial Rome, his letters also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times.
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