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Author Shelton, Jo-Ann

Title The Women of Pliny's Letters
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (446 pages)
Series Women of the Ancient World
Women of the ancient world.
Summary 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 the activities of Pliny's male acquaintances. Nonetheless his letters inform us about the roles of women in Roman families, marriages, and household
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Subject Pliny, the Younger -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Pliny, the Younger fast
Subject Women -- Rome -- History
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin.
Women
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History
Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136225680
1136225684