The Loeb Classical Library: Natural History, Volume VI: Books 20–23

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The Loeb Classical Library: Natural History, Volume VI: Books 20–23Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 2379), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany, partly administrative in Gaul and Spain under the emperor Vespasian, and became prefect of the fleet at Misenum. He died in the eruption of Vesuvius when he went to get a closer view and to rescue friends. Tireless worker, reader, and writer, he was author of

Amara was once a beloved daughter

for whom the home was in many ways the center of public and private life

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whose first innocent

for these are crucial for an understanding of the development of Roman imperialism

or historiographic recreations survive

the instant Sunday Times bestseller

Dr Christenson presents a new text that includes stage directions in English

and includes a fully representative selection of the oeuvre of the poet

together with passages from a selection of other writers to support Paper 2

For this volume Elizabeth Craik has prepared a new edition of the play

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