Pliny the Younger
Roman epistolary author
Pliny the Younger was a Roman author and administrator of the first and second centuries AD, nephew of the naturalist Pliny the Elder.
He is remembered for his published letters, which offer detailed glimpses of Roman life, and especially for his eyewitness account of the eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and killed his uncle.
- PompeiiVolcano-buried Roman city
- HerculaneumRoman town buried by eruption
- letterWritten symbol or message
- letter writingComposing written messages
- eruptionViolent sudden release
Imperial Rome · Roman Empire · ancient Rome · early Christians · eyewitness · Christians · Roman senator · historiography · civic duty · Trajan · pyroclastic flow · ash cloud · correspondence · Latin literature · volcanic ash · panegyric · Stoicism · disaster relief
- Ancient RomansJulius Caesar, patricians, consuls, Marcus Aurelius, Nero
- Latin authorsVirgil, Cicero, Ovid, Horace, Livy
- PompeiiPompeii, Vesuvius, Mount Vesuvius, Herculaneum, eruption
- Silver LatinSeneca, Tacitus, Martial, Histories, Natural History
- Ancient ThinkersAristotle, Plato, Socrates, Confucius, Thales
- Early Christianityearly church, church fathers, church councils, Nicene Creed, Constantine
familial/generational contrast
Pliny the YoungerPliny the Elder
encyclopedist · Vitruvius · systematizer · compiler · encyclopedists