ISBN10: 0198144350, ISBN13: 9780198144359, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1985. (Reissued ed.with corrections). XV,808p. Original red gilt titled cloth. Spine slightly bumped. It might be possible that the (blank) page before the title page has been torn out. Signature on free endpaper. Else fine. May require extra shipping costs: weight including packing from 1 - 2 Kg. 'If this review concentrates upon a small part, by bulk, of Mr. Sherwin-White's large and splendid new book, namely the introductions to the whole work and to the correspondence with Trajan, that is merely because (a) everyone concerned with the history of the Roman empire must go to the commentators on the individual letters, and the riches there to be found cannot be catalogued in a review, and (b) the introduction are a foundation for, and a summing-up of, the work of the commentary. (.) Sherwin-White convincingly defends the authenticity of Pliny's Letters as correspondence. (.) The question of authenticity leads on naturally to their chronology. (.) There is a special excursus on the chronology of the extortion trials, in which a matter comes up which is much more important than chronology. (.). An interesting section of the introduction is devoted to who Pliny's correspondents were - what kind of people, of what status or background. The conclusion, with which there need be no quarrel, is that Pliny was no snob or name-dropper; the circ ...

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1985. (Reissued ed.with corrections). XV,808p. Original red gilt titled cloth. Spine slightly bumped. It might be possible that the (blank) page before the title page has been torn out. Signature on free endpaper. Else fine. May require extra shipping costs: weight including packing from 1 - 2 Kg. 'If this review concentrates upon a small part, by bulk, of Mr. Sherwin-White's large and splendid new book, namely the introductions to the whole work and to the correspondence with Trajan, that is merely because (a) everyone concerned with the history of the Roman empire must go to the commentators on the individual letters, and the riches there to be found cannot be catalogued in a review, and (b) the introduction are a foundation for, and a summing-up of, the work of the commentary. (...) Sherwin-White convincingly defends the authenticity of Pliny's Letters as correspondence. (...) The question of authenticity leads on naturally to their chronology. (...) There is a special excursus on the chronology of the extortion trials, in which a matter comes up which is much more important than chronology. (...). An interesting section of the introduction is devoted to who Pliny's correspondents were - what kind of people, of what status or background. The conclusion, with which there need be no quarrel, is that Pliny was no snob or name-dropper; the circle of friends is not particularly illustrious (though some rose high later), and is just what ...

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ISBN10: 0198144350, ISBN13: 9780198144359, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover 0198144350
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