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Letters

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Much information about Rome in the first century AD has come down to us through the letters of Pliny the Younger (c. 61-113/114). After the early death of his father, he was adopted by his uncle, Pliny the Elder, creator of the famous Natural History. The young man received an excellent education, which later enabled him to hold significant positions in Rome and the provinces. He practiced as a lawyer under three emperors - Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. With the latter he was in correspondence, as well as with his learned contemporaries Suetonius, Marcial, and Tacitus. Pliny the Younger himself grouped the letters into books for publication, probably realizing the importance of these testimonies for history. So the inquisitive reader even today, almost two thousand years later, can learn from them about the first communities of Christians, about the eruption of Vesuvius in August 79, which cost Pliny the Elder his life, about the everyday minutiae of Roman life, about the structure of state power, and much more.

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