Pliny the Younger (61-112 CE) was the nephew of Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE), theauthor of the 37-volume Natural History. He had a remarkable political career, gained a reputation as an excellent lawyer and orator, but he is most famous for his writings. ...
Pliny the Younger wrote a letter to the emperor in order to find out how to handle the superstition held by Christians. Some Contemporary Texts Go to theChronological Listof all Early Christian Writings Pleasebuy the CDto support the site, view it without ads, and get bonus stuff!
Celer, but assumed his own, Secundus. As his adopted son took the same cognomen, Pliny founded a branch, the Plinii Secundi. The family was prosperous; Pliny the Younger's inherited estates combined made him so wealthy that he could found a school and a library, endow a fund to feed t...
The story of his last hours is told in an interesting letter addressed twenty-seven years afterwards to Tacitus by the Elder Pliny's nephew and heir, the Younger Pliny (Epp. vi. 16), who also sends to another correspondent an account of his uncle's writings and his manner of life (iii...
Pliny the Younger (61/62 CE–c. 113 CE) was a Roman author and administrator who left a collection of private letters that intimately illustrated public and private life in the heyday of the Roman Empire. These letters enable the reconstruction of a peri
The Natural History Pliny the ElderMiniature by Andrea da Firenze from an edition ofNatural Historyby Pliny the Elder,c.1457–58, showing Pliny writing in his study, with landscape and animals; in the British Library. Seven writings are ascribed to him, of which only theNatural Historyisextant...