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Pliny, the Younger
Pliny, the Younger
c. 61 CE–c. 113 CE · Rome
Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, c. 61-c. 113 CE) was a Roman lawyer, senator, and administrator celebrated for his published Letters, a collection of polished correspondence that offers a vivid window onto Roman society, politics, and daily life. Among the most famous are his letters describing the eruption of Vesuvius (in which his uncle and adoptive father, Pliny the Elder, died) and his exchange with the emperor Trajan about the treatment of early Christians. He is distinct from his uncle the naturalist.
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About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
In Rome at the same time
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Pliny, the Elder, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Petronius Arbiter
Across the traditions, in Rome at the same time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Pliny, the Younger’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
- Peter the Apostle· Rome
- Paul the Apostle· Rome
- John the Apostle· Rome
- Aquila· Rome
- Priscilla· Rome
- Berenice· Rome
- Josephus· Rome
- Rabbi Yehoshua· Rome
- Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh· Rome
- Eleazar ben Azaryah· Rome
- Alexander I, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Evaristus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Anacletus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Linus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Ignatius of Antioch· Rome
- Mark the Evangelist· Rome
- Luke the Evangelist· Rome
- Clement of Rome· Rome
In the same tradition
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Pliny, the Elder, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Petronius Arbiter, Musonius Rufus, Persius, Quintilian, Titus, Lucan, Martial, Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius), Plutarch, Domitian, Epictetus, Juvenal
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Pliny, the Younger’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.