Selected Letters from Pliny the Younger's Epistulae

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 proteges 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