The Women of Pliny's Letters

by Jo-Ann Shelton

Pliny's letters offer a significant source of information about the lives of Roman women (predominantly, though not exclusively, upper-class women) during the late first and early second centuries CE. In the 368 letters included in his ten published books of epistles, Pliny mentions over 30 women by name, addresses letters to seven, and refers to well over 40 anonymous women. Many of the references are brief comments in letters whose topics are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138085782
• ISBN13: 9781138085787
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"