Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Christopher Whitton and Roy Gibson: Readers and Readings of Pliny's Epistles
Pliny in History
2: A. R. Birley: Pliny's Family, Pliny's Career
3: R. Syme: Pliny's Less Successful Friends
4: R. Duncan-Jones: The Finances of a Senator
5: Edward Champlin: Pliny's Other Country
Reading Epistles 1-9
6: Henry W. Traub: Pliny's Treatment of History in Epistolary Form
7: Charles E. Murgia: The Chronology and Arrangement of Pliny's Letters
8: Jo-Ann Shelton: Pliny the Younger, and the Ideal Wife
9: Umberto Eco: A Portrait of the Elder as a Young Pliny
10: Bettina Bergmann: Visualizing Pliny's Villas
11: Andrew M. Riggsby: Self and Community in the Younger Pliny
12: Matthew Roller: Pliny's Catullus: The Politics of Literary Appropriation
13: Stanley E. Hoffer: Models of Senators and Emperors: Regulus, the Bad Senator
14: Peter Schenk: Forms of Intertextuality in the Epistles of Pliny the Younger
15: Miriam Griffin: Pliny and Tacitus
16: John Henderson: Knowing Someone Through Their Books: Pliny on Uncle Pliny (Epistles 3.5)
Epistles 10: A Case Apart?
17: Fergus Millar: Trajan: Government by Correspondence
18: Greg Woolf: Pliny's Province
Pliny's Afterlife
19: Alan Cameron: Pliny's Afterlife
20: L. D. Reynolds: The Transmission of Pliny's Epistles

About the Author

Roy Gibson is Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester. His publications include Ovid: Ars Amatoria Book 3 (Cambridge, 2003) and (with R. Morello) Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2012). He is currently completing a biography of Pliny (Man of High Empire) and a commentary on Pliny, Letters Book 6.
Christopher Whitton is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College. His publications include articles on literary, historical and linguistic aspects of Pliny's works and a commentary on Epistles Book 2 (Cambridge, 2013).