The Letters of Pliny A History and Social Commentary Tapa dura - 1985

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1985. (Reissued ed.with corrections). XV,808p. Original red gilt titled cloth. Spine slightly bumped. Pencil underlinings from pp.85-152. 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… Leer más

London: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, page edges smudged, . jacket lightly soiled.. 1968. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0198144350 . Red cloth. xvi, 808pp. Abbreviations list, biographical summaries, appendices, notes, and index. This book tries to set each letter in its social, political, legal or literary context, and present a conspectus of modern opinion about them. (from the front jacket panel); 8vo 8" - 9" tall .