Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Seneca the Younger, Apuleius, Lucan, Aulus Gellius, Quintilian, Martial, Lucius Afranius, Statius, Sextus Julius Frontinus, Tacitus, Juvenal, Silius Italicus, Petronius, Cassius Severus, Persius, Suetonius on Christ, Phaedrus, Aulus Cremutius Cordus, Sulpicia, Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Pomponius Secundus, Marcus Velleius Paterculus, De aquaeductu, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Seneca the Elder, Granius Licinianus, Attius Labeo, Lucilius Junior, Sextus Pompeius Festus, Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus, Marcus Valerius Probus, Scribonius Largus, Caesius Bassus, Aemilius Asper, Flavius Caper, Hyginus Gromaticus. Excerpt: Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD - August 25, 79 AD), better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently. Pliny the Younger, his nephew, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus: For my part I deem those blessed to whom, by favour of the gods, it has been granted either to do what is worth writing of, or to write what is worth reading; above measure blessed those on whom both gifts have been conferred. In the latter number will be my uncle, by virtue of his own and of your compositions.Pliny is referring to the fact that Tacitus relied on his uncle's now missing work on the History of the German Wars. Pliny the Elder died on August 25, 79 AD, while attempting the rescue by ship of a friend and his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that had just destroyed the cities of Pompeii an...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Silver Age Latin Writers: Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Seneca the Younger, Apuleius, Lucan, Aulus Gellius, Quintilian. To get started finding Silver Age Latin Writers: Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Seneca the Younger, Apuleius, Lucan, Aulus Gellius, Quintilian, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Silver Age Latin Writers: Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Seneca the Younger, Apuleius, Lucan, Aulus Gellius, Quintilian
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Seneca the Younger, Apuleius, Lucan, Aulus Gellius, Quintilian, Martial, Lucius Afranius, Statius, Sextus Julius Frontinus, Tacitus, Juvenal, Silius Italicus, Petronius, Cassius Severus, Persius, Suetonius on Christ, Phaedrus, Aulus Cremutius Cordus, Sulpicia, Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Pomponius Secundus, Marcus Velleius Paterculus, De aquaeductu, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Seneca the Elder, Granius Licinianus, Attius Labeo, Lucilius Junior, Sextus Pompeius Festus, Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus, Marcus Valerius Probus, Scribonius Largus, Caesius Bassus, Aemilius Asper, Flavius Caper, Hyginus Gromaticus. Excerpt: Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD - August 25, 79 AD), better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently. Pliny the Younger, his nephew, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus: For my part I deem those blessed to whom, by favour of the gods, it has been granted either to do what is worth writing of, or to write what is worth reading; above measure blessed those on whom both gifts have been conferred. In the latter number will be my uncle, by virtue of his own and of your compositions.Pliny is referring to the fact that Tacitus relied on his uncle's now missing work on the History of the German Wars. Pliny the Elder died on August 25, 79 AD, while attempting the rescue by ship of a friend and his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that had just destroyed the cities of Pompeii an...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Silver Age Latin Writers: Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Seneca the Younger, Apuleius, Lucan, Aulus Gellius, Quintilian. To get started finding Silver Age Latin Writers: Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Seneca the Younger, Apuleius, Lucan, Aulus Gellius, Quintilian, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.