Pliny the Younger

Epistolography (Blackwell Companion to Ancient Sexuality)

by Owen Hodkinson

draft chapter (currently 1000 words too long). comments only welcome if they involve removing not adding!

Arria Maggiore: una “donna virile” nelle epistole di Plinio? (Ep. III,16), in De tuo tibi, Omaggio degli allievi a I. LANA (Università degli studi di Torino, Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di Filologia, Linguistica e Tradizione classica, 6), Bologna 1996, pp. 317-338

by Ermanno Malaspina

Review of Plinio il Giovane, Lettere scelte, a cura di R. Scarcia, Roma 1967

by Giuseppe Aricò

«Bollettino di studi latini» 1, 1971, pp. 503-504

A propos des "jeux sacerdotaux" (sacerdotales ludi) de Pline le Jeune (Ep. VII.24.6)

by Guy Chamberland

Published in Cahiers des études anciennes 37 (2001) 47-53.

The expression sacerdotales ludi is attested in a letter written by Pliny in 107 (Ep. 7.24) and nowhere else. These... more The expression sacerdotales ludi is attested in a letter written by Pliny in 107 (Ep. 7.24) and nowhere else. These are games which were organized and/or presided over by priests (sacerdotes). It is unlikely that one will ever be able to determine what games exactly were on Pliny's mind since our sources are too selective and lacunose to draw up a reasonably complete list of "priests' games" celebrated in 107 or a little earlier. However, an examination of the terminology applied to the games in Pliny's Letters, and in contemporaneous works such as Tacitus' and Suetonius', shows that some previous attempts at finding a solution must be rejected. Such is the case of Jean Beaujeu's view that Pliny was alluding to the most recent celebration of the Capitolia in 106.

Plinio il Giovane e la poesia

by Giuseppe Aricò

in Storia letteratura e arte a Roma nel secondo secolo dopo Cristo, Atti del Convegno (Mantova 8-10 ottobre 1992), Firenze 1995, pp. 27-41

Leves libelli. Su alcuni aspetti della poetica dei generi minori da Stazio a Plinio il Giovane

by Giuseppe Aricò

«Centopagine» 2, 2008, pp. 1-11
http://musacamena.units.it/iniziative/SCA2008_Arico.pdf

Horace and the Roman Garden

by Eric Gallager

My final paper in my Horace-centric Latin class my second semester of Freshman year which I took with professor Elizabeth Fisher.

This paper shows that the central importance of the Roman garden in the Roman good life was as a place of relaxation. This paper shows that the central importance of the Roman garden in the Roman good life was as a place of relaxation.