A Self Portrait in Letters

These letters of Pliny the Younger, written in the late first and early second centuries, form a portrait of a senatorial career under Trajan. Pliny writes to friends about advocacy in the courts, patronage, his villas at Laurentum and in Tuscany, and the etiquette of gifts and offices. Two letters to Tacitus describe the eruption of Vesuvius and the death of his uncle. The tenth book is official correspondence from Bithynia, including the exchange on how to treat Christians. The collection is arranged as short pieces, not as a continuous autobiography.

Three-quarter bound in dark green buckram with colour picture printed paper cover. Map endpapers printed dark green on light green. Dark green slipcase.