BIBFRAME Work

Title

Pliny 20 letters and suggested companion texts

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Carlon, Jacqueline M., 1953- (author )
• Pliny, ǂc the Younger (author )
• Wallace, Amelia (editor)
• Dean, Bridget (editor)

Subject

• Pliny, the Younger (LCNAF)
• Pliny, the Younger--Criticism and interpretation. (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Personal correspondence (LCGFT)

Language

• English
• Latin

Illustrative Content

• illustrations
• maps

Classification

LCC: PA6638 .A4 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography

Summary

"Designed for the new AP® Latin syllabus, this volume includes ALL required letters by Pliny the Younger. Ten additional epistles round out the prescribed passages. Companion texts encompass a variety of "teacher choice" selections (3,541 words) from Latin prose that complement Pliny's work, from inscriptions to the letters of Cicero to the history of Eutropius. Short excerpts from the eighteenth-century poetic work Rusticatio Mexicana further illuminate Pliny's subject matter and themes. Features: General introduction on Pliny's life, works, and influence, Bibliography, Pliny's Letters unadapted Latin passages: 1.6; 2.6; 6.4, 7, 16, 20; 7.5, 24, 27; 9.6; 10.5, 6, 7, 37, 90 with same-page vocabulary and notes, introductory notes for each letter, Companion texts with introductory notes and running commentary: Eutropius, Breviarium Historiae Romanae 8.1-2, 4-5; Rafael Landívar, Rusticatio Mexicana 2.67-75, 114-27; Seneca, Epistulae Morales 79.1-4; Augustus, Res Gestae 19-21; Cicero, Ad Familiares 14.3; Inscriptions, Latin-English glossary"-- Provided by publisher.

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Pliny, ǂc the Younger. Pliny 20 letters and suggested companion texts

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