Pliny the Younger

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Pliny the Younger was a Roman lawyer, author, and magistrate best known for his surviving letters, which provide a vivid picture of Roman administrative life and include eyewitness accounts of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

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instanceOf Roman author
Roman lawyer
Roman magistrate
consul of the Roman Empire
epistolographer
human
senator of the Roman Empire
adoptedBy Pliny the Elder
alsoKnownAs Plinius Minor
linked to: Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Younger of Comum
linked to: Pliny the Younger
birthName Gaius Caecilius
citizenship Roman Empire
correspondent Emperor Trajan
linked to: Trajan

Tacitus
culture Ancient Rome
linked to: Roman Antiquity
dateOfBirth c. 61 CE
dateOfDeath c. 113 CE
educatedBy Quintilian
eyewitnessTo eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE
familyName Plinius
linked to: Pliny the Younger
fullName Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
linked to: Pliny the Younger
genre biographical writing
letter
oratory
givenName Gaius
influenced later historians of Roman society
languageOfWorkOrName Latin
notableWork Epistulae
Letters to Trajan
linked to: Epistulae
notedFor eyewitness accounts of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
vivid descriptions of daily life in the Roman Empire
occupation author
lawyer
magistrate
orator
placeOfBirth Comum
Roman Italy
placeOfDeath Bithynia et Pontus
linked to: Bithynia
positionHeld Roman senator
governor of Bithynia et Pontus
suffect consul
religiousTopicAddressed early Christians in Bithynia
spouse Calpurnia
timePeriod 1st century CE
2nd century CE
uncle Pliny the Elder
wroteAbout Roman provincial administration
legal practice in the Roman Empire
social life of Roman elite

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Trajan associatedWith Pliny the Younger
Trajan correspondence Pliny the Younger
Misenum mentionedIn Pliny the Younger’s letters
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Suetonius contemporaryOf Pliny the Younger
Suetonius correspondedWith Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Younger familyName Plinius
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Pliny the Younger fullName Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
linked to: Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Younger alsoKnownAs Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Younger alsoKnownAs Plinius Minor
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Pliny the Younger alsoKnownAs Pliny the Younger of Comum
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Pliny the Elder relative Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Elder uncleOf Pliny the Younger
Stabiae mentionedBy Pliny the Younger
Imperial court of Trajan hasMember Pliny the Younger
Gaius Caecilius alsoKnownAs Pliny the Younger
Gaius Caecilius alsoKnownAs Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
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Epistulae author Pliny the Younger
Calpurnia spouse Pliny the Younger
early Christians in Bithynia knownFrom Pliny the Younger’s letters
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early Christians in Bithynia investigatedBy Pliny the Younger
early Christians in Bithynia governor Pliny the Younger
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus alsoKnownAs Pliny the Younger
subject linked to: Gaius
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus alsoKnownAs Gaius Pliny the Younger
subject linked to: Gaius
linked to: Pliny the Younger
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus nomen Plinius
subject linked to: Gaius
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Gaius nameOf Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
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Κόμανα Ποντική mentionedBy Πλίνιος ο Πρεσβύτερος
linked to: Pliny the Younger