"This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters
The surviving body of ancient letters offers the reader a stunning variety of material, ranging from the everyday letters preserved among the Oxyrhynchus papyri to imperial rescripts, New Testament Ep
Scholars have long mined Pliny's (23-79 AD) Naturalis Historia for insights into thinking about nature in Roman times, but few have considered it as a work of literature itself. Here European and Amer
