A Select Bibliography to Pliny's Letters
I. Basic Tools
Editions
*Mynors, R.A.B. 1963. C. Plini Caecili
Secundi Epistularum Libri Decem. Oxford.
(OCT) The standard edition. [Reviewed
by G. P. Goold in Phoenix
18 (1964).] [On reserve]
Keil, H. and Th. Mommsen 1870. Leipzig. (Teubner)
Guillemin, A.-M. 1927-28. Pline le Jeune.
Lettres I-IX, vols. 1-2 (1927), 3
(1928). Paris. (Budé) The helpful notes function almost like a brief
commentary.
Durry, M. 1959. Lettres X et Panegyricus. Paris. (Budé)
Schuster, M. rev. R. Hanslik 1958 . Leipzig.
(Teubner)
Stout, S. E. 1962. Letters I-X. Indiana. "Something of a disaster," M. Reeves
in Reynolds 1983.
*Radice, B. 1969. Cambridge, Mass. (Loeb) A
well-done translation (from which the Penguin edition is taken), with helpful
indices and notes. [In reference section]
Commentaries
*Sherwin-White, A.N. 1966. The Letters of Pliny. A
Historical and Social Commentary.
Oxford. [Though the
fundamental commentary, to be used with reserve. See the often critical reviews:
Crook, J.A. 1967. CR
17: 311-14. ¶ Veyne, P. 1967. "Autour d'un
commentaire de Pline le Jeune," Latomus 26: 723-51. ¶
Jones, C.P. 1968. "A New Commentary on the Letters of Pliny," Phoenix 22: 111-42. ¶
Millar, F. 1968. JRS
58: 218-224. ¶ Syme, R. 1968. "People in
Pliny," JRS 58:
135-51 [= Roman Papers
2.694-723]. ¶ Lepper, F.A. 1970. Gnomon 42: 560-72.] [On reserve]
Förtsch, R. 1993. Archäologischer Kommentar
zu den Villenbriefen des Jüngeren Plinius. Mainz
am Rhein.
Hardy, E.G. 1889. Pliny's Correspondence with
Trajan. London.
Lehmann-Hartleben, Karl 1936. Plinio il
giovane, Lettere scelte con commento archeologico. Florence.
Textual History
*Introduction to Mynors 1963 OCT (above).
Charming as well as authoritative synopsis of the manuscript traditions. [On
reserve]
Reynolds, L. D. 1983. Texts and Transmission:
A Survey of the Latin Classics. Oxford.
Robbins, F.E. 1910. "Tables of Contents in
the MSS of Pliny's Letters," CP
5: 476-87.
Carlsson, Gunnar 1922. "Zur Textkritik der
Pliniusbriefe," LundsUniversitets Arsskrift.
Lowe, E.A. and E.K. Rand 1922. A
Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger. Washington.
Barwick, K. 1936. "Zwei antike Ausgaben der
Pliniusbriefe?" Philologus 91,
423-48.
Stout, S.E. 1954. Scribe and Critic at Work
in Pliny's Letters. Bloomington.
___ 1958. "The Origin of the
Ten-Book Family of Pliny's Manuscripts," CP 53: 171-73.
___ 1967. "Pliny's Own
Manuscript," TAPA 98: 481-82.
Cameron, A. 1965, 1967. "The Fate of
Pliny's Letters in the Late
Empire," CQ n.s. 15: 289-98; 17:
421-22.
Indices sim.
Jacques, Xavier and J. van Ooteghem 1968. Index
de Pline le Jeune. Namur.
PHI CDROM 5.3 of Classical Latin Authors, 1991.
Packard Humanities Institute.
Bibliography
Surveys by R. Hanslik, Anz. Alt. 8 (1955), 1-18 [1942-54], J. Beaujeu, Lustrum 6 (1961), 272-303 [1955-60], and P.V. Cova, BSL 4 (1974) 274-91 [1966-1973].
Aubrion, E. 1989. "La correspondance de Pline le Jeune," in Aufstieg und Niedergang
der römischen Welt, H. Temporini and W.
Haase, eds., II.33.1: 304-74.
Standard tools: L'Année philologique, TOCS-IN, etc.
II.
Pliny and Literary Conceptions of Culture (Weeks 1-5)
Bardon, H. 1952, 1956. La littérature latine
inconnue,tome I-II. Paris.
Cugusi, P. 1983. Evoluzione e forme
dell'epistolografia Latina. Rome.
___ 1992. Corpus Epistularum Latinarum
Papyris Tabulis Ostracis Servatarum
(Papyrologica Florentina 23). Florence.
Lilja, S. 1970. "On the Nature of Pliny's
Letters," Arctos 6: 61-79.
Ludolph, Matthias 1997. Epistolographie und
Selbstdarstellung. Untersuchungen zu den Paradebriefen
Plinius des Jüngeren. Classica
Monacensia 17: Tübingen.
Peter, H. 1901. Der Brief in der römischen
Litteratur. Leipzig.
Traub, H.W. 1955. "Pliny's Treatment of
History in Epistolary Form," TAPA
86: 213-32.
Weische, A. 1989. "Plinius d. J. und
Cicero. Untersuchungen zur römischen Epistolographie in Republik und
Kaiserzeit," in ANRW II.33.1:
375-86.
Zelzer, Klaus. 1964, "Zur Frage des
Charakters der Briefsammlung des jüngeren Plinius." Wiener Studien 77: 144-61.
Pliny and literary culture
• General
Barscht, Shadi. 1994. Actors in the
Audience. Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian. Harvard.
Castagna, Luigi and Eckard Lefèvre. 2003. Plinius
der Jüngere und seine Zeit. Munich.
*Fantham, Elaine. 1996. Roman Literary
Culture From Cicero to Apuleius.
Baltimore. [On reserve]
Hershkowitz, Debra, 1995. "Pliny the
Poet," G&R 42: 168-81.
*Guillemin, Anne-Marie 1929. Pline et la vie
littéraire de son temps. Paris. [On
reserve]
Guillemin, Anne-Marie 1937. Le public
et la vie littéraire a Rome. Paris.
Guillemin, Anne-Marie 1946. "La culture de
Pline le Jeune." In Mélanges Felix Grat. 1:77-88. Paris.
*Hoffer, Stanley E. 1999. The Anxieties
of Pliny the Younger. Atlanta. A funny
little book on the "Parade Epistles," sometimes downright fun. [On
reserve]
Reardon, Brian. 1971. Les courants
littéraires grecs des II et II siècles aprés J.-C. Paris.
Sullivan, J. P. 1985. Roman Literature and
Politics in the Age of Nero. Ithaca,
N.Y.
Wallace-Hadrill, A. 1983. Suetonius: A
Scholar and his Caesars. New Haven and
London.
White, Peter. 1978. "Amicitia and the Profession of Poetry at Rome." JRS 68 (1978): 74-92.
White, Peter. 1993. Promised Verse. Harvard.
• Pliny and Martial
Adamik, T. 1976. "Pliny and Martial," Annales
Universitatis Scientiarum Budapestensis Sect.Class. 4: 63-72.
Coleman, K. M. 1998. "The liber
spectaculorum: perpetuating the ephemeral." In Toto Notus in Orbe:
Perspektiven der Martial-Interpretation.
ed. F. Grewing. Stuttgart. On Martial, but the theme touches on Pliny's
viewpoint.
White, Peter 1974. "The Presentation and
Dedication of the Silvae and the Epigrams," JRS 64:
40-61. Not directly on Pliny, but relevant for the issue of dedications and prepublication.
White, Peter. 1975. "The Friends of
Martial, Statius, and Pliny, and the Dispersal of Patronage," HSCP 79: 265-300.
White, Peter. 1996. "Martial and
Pre-Publication Texts," EMC 40
n.s. 15: 397-412 [& cf. Fowler, D. P. 1975. "Martial and the
Book." Ramus. 24: 31-58.]
• Pliny and Statius
G. Arico. 1995. "Plinio il Giovano e la
poesia," in Storia Letteratura e Arte nel Secolo dopo Christo: Atti del
Convengo, Mantova, October 1992,
Florence, Italy, 27-42.
Croisille, J.-M. 1982. Poésie et art figuré
de Neron aux Flaveins: Recherches sur l'iconographie et la correspondence des
arts à l'époque impériale. Bruxelles.
[& cf. review by A. Wallace-Hadrill, "Ut pictura poesis?" JRS 73 (1983) 180-3.] App. a general study of possible
correspondences between art and literature in this period; listed
(recommended?) by Peter Anderson.
Hardie, A. 1983. Statius and the Silvae. Poets, Patrons and Epideixis in the
Graeco-Roman World. Liverpool. A general
book on Statius with much in the analysis and perspective that is relevant to
Pliny studies.
Myers, K. Sara. 2000. "Miranda fides: Poet and Patrons in Paradoxographical Landscapes in
Statius' Silvae." MD 44 (2000) 103-38. Very useful for Statius and Landscape,
with occasional reference to Pliny. I have this in manuscript and am willing to
share.
Newmeyer, S.T. 1979. The Silvae of Statius: Structure and Theme. Leiden.
[Chapter Two on consolatio; Introduction and Chap. 2 inter al. for
"hasty" production; here also see D.F. Bright/ Elaborate Disarray:
The Nature of Statius' Silvae. Meisenheim am Glan, 1980 (esp. 20-49). Further
on the theme of consolatio: Fern, Sister Mary Edmond. The Latin Consolatio as a
Literary Type. St. Louis, 1941. ]
Newmyer, S. T. 1984. "The Triumph of Art
over Nature: Martial and Statius on Flavian Aesthetics." Helios 11:1-7. Not directly on Pliny, but of obvious relevance.
White, Peter 1974. "The Presentation and Dedication of the Silvae and the Epigrams,"
JRS 64: 40-61. Not directly on Pliny,
but relevant for the issue of dedications and prepublication.
White, Peter. 1975. "The Friends of Martial, Statius, and Pliny, and the
Dispersal of Patronage," HSCP
79: 265-300.
• Pliny and Catullus
Gunderson, Eric 1997. "Catullus,
Pliny, and Love-Letters," TAPA
127: 201-231.
Roller, Matthew 1998. "Pliny's Catullus: The Politics of Literary
Appropriation," TAPA 128:
forthcoming.
• Pliny and Cicero
Rudd, Nial 1992. "Stratagems of
Vanity: Cicero ad Familiares 5.12 and Pliny's Letters," in A. J. Woodman
and J. Powell, eds., Author and Audience in Latin Literature (Cambridge):18-32.
Weische, A. 1989. "Plinius d. J.
und Cicero. Untersuchungen zur römischen Epistolographie in Republik und
Kaiserzeit," in ANRW II.33.1:
375-86.
• Pliny and Tacitus
Bruère, Richard T. 1954. "Tacitus and Pliny's Panegyricus", CP 49:
161-179.
Griffin, Mariam T. 1999. "Pliny and
Tacitus," SCI 18: 139-158.
Häussler, R. 1986. "Aktuelle Probleme der Dialogus-Rezeption:
Echtheitserweise und Lückenumfang," Philologus 130: 63-95.
Murgia, C.E. 1980. "The Date of Tacitus' Dialogus," HSCP
84: 99-125.
Murgia, C.E. 1985. "Pliny's Letters and the Dialogus," HSCP
89: 171-206.
Syme, R. 1958. Tacitus. Oxford.
Syme, R. 1979. "Juvenal, Pliny, Tacitus." AJP 100: 250-78.
• Generally on Art and Literature under
the Flavians
Scott, K. The Imperial Cult under the
Flavians. Berlin, 1936. Includes a
discussion of Flavian aesthetics and the triumph of art over nature
Pavlovskis, Z. 1973. Man in an Artificial
Landscape: The Marvels of Civilization in Imperial Roman Literature. (=Mnemosyne Suppl. 25) Leiden.
Pliny,
Presentation and Self Presentation
*Hoffer, Stanley E. 1999. The Anxieties
of Pliny the Younger. Atlanta. [On
reserve]
Foucault, M. Care of the Self (in History of Sexuality, vol. 3).
Leach, Eleanor, W., "The Politics of
Self-Presentation: Pliny's Letters and Roman Portrait Sculpture," CA 9 (1990) 14-39.
Ludolph, Matthias 1997. Epistolographie und
Selbstdarstellung. Untersuchungen zu den Paradebriefen Plinius des Jüngeren. Classica Monacensia 17: Tübingen.
Riggsby, Andrew M. 1995. "Pliny on Cicero
and Oratory: Self-Fashioning in the Public Eye," AJP 116: 123-35.
Riggsby, Andrew M. 1998. "Self and
Community in the Younger Pliny," Arethusa 31: 75-97.
III. Pliny and Spatial
Conceptions of Culture (Weeks 6-9)
Villas
& Landscape: The Negotiation of Space
• On Pliny's villas
Bergmann, B. 1995. "Visualizing Pliny's
Villas." Journal of Roman Archaeology 8: 406-420. A review article of Förtsch 1993 and du Prey
1994.
de Neeve, Pieter W. 1992. "A Roman
Landowner and his Estates: Pliny the Younger," SIFC 10: 335-44.
du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière. 1994. The
villas of Pliny from antiquity to the present. University of Chicago Press (Chicago).
Förtsch, R. 1993. Archäologischer Kommentar
zu den Villenbriefen des Jüngeren Plinius.
Mainz am Rhein.
Hart, G. B. 1928. The Villas of Pliny: A
Study of the Pastimes of a Roman Gentleman.
Boston.
Institut Français d'Architecture. 1982. La
Laurentine et l'Invention de la Villa Romaine. Paris.
Mansuelli, Guido A. 1978. "La villa nelle Epistulae di C. Plinio Cecilio Secondo," Stud. Romagn. 29: 59-76.
McEwen, I. K. 1995. "Housing Fame: In the
Tuscan Villa of Pliny the Younger," Res 27: 11-24.
Porphyrios, D. 1983. "Pliny's Villa at
Laurentum." Architectural Design
53.1-2: 2-7.
Scivoletto, Nevio 1989. "Urbs,
municipia, villae e studia nell' epistolario di Plinio," GIF 41: 179-93
Sundermann, M. 1987. "Villa Laurentium de
Plinius." Architectural Design
57.5-6: 9-13.
Sundermann, M. 1987. "Villa Tuscum de
Plinius." Architectural Design
57.5-6: 14-15. "Pliny's Villa Laurentum 1982." 1984. Architectural
Design 54.7-8: 120-125.
Tanzer, Helen. 1924. Villas of Pliny the
Younger. New York.
• General studies on landscape and
domestic architecture (highly
selective)
Ackerman, A. J. 1990. The Villa: Form and Ideology
of Country Houses. Princeton.
Ashmore, W. and A. B. Knapp (eds.) 1999. Archaeologies
of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives.
Blackwell: Malden, MA. General, theoretical.
Bergmann, B. 1991. "Painted Perspectives of
a Villa Visit: Landscape as Status and Metaphor," in Roman Art in the
Private Sphere. E. K. Gazda, ed. Ann
Arbor.
Bodel, John. 1997. Monumental villas and villa
monuments." Journal of Roman Archaeology 10.
Bradford, J. 1957. Ancient Landscapes. London.
Chambers, D. C. 1991. "The Translation of
Antiquity: Virgil, Pliny, and the Landscape Garden." University of
Toronto Quarterly 60.3: 354-373.
Clarke, J. R. The Houses of Roman Italy.
Coleman, K. M. 1998. "The liber
spectaculorum: perpetuating the ephemeral." In Toto Notus in Orbe:
Perspektiven der Martial-Interpretation.
ed. F. Grewing. Stuttgart.
Conan, M. 1984. "Nature into Art: Gardens
and Landscapes in the Everyday Life of Ancient Rome." Journal of Garden
History 6: 348-356.
Cowell, F. R. 1978. The Garden as a Fine Art,
from Antiquity to Modern Times. Boston.
D'Arms, J. 1970. Romans on the Bay of Naples. Cambridge.
Foss, P. 1995. "Age, gender, and status
distinctions at mealtime in the Roman house." Available at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfoss/hgender.html#ggender.
Francis, M. and R. T. Hester, Jr., eds. 1990. The
Meaning of Gardens: Idea, Place, and Action.
Cambridge.
Geikie, A. 1912. The Love of Nature among the
Romans. London.
Giere, A. 1986. Hippodromus und Xystus:
Untersuchungen zu r_mischen Gartenformen.
Zurich.
Grimal, Pierre. Les Jardins Romains.
Jashemski, W. 1979. The gardens of Pompeii :
Herculaneum and the villas destroyed by Vesuvius. 2 vols. New Rochelle, NY.
Jellicoe, G. and S. Jellicoe. 1982. The
Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day. New York.
Kelso, W. M. and R. Most, eds. 1990. Earth
Patterns: Essays in Landscape Archaeology.
Charlottesville.
*Laurence, Ray. 1997. Space and Text, in Ray Laurence and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, edd. Domestic
Space in the Roman World: Pompeii and Beyond
[JRA Suppl. no. 22.] Portsmouth, TI.
Leach, E. W. 1988. The Rhetoric of Space:
Literary and Artistic Representations of Landscape in Republican and Augustan
Rome. Princeton.
Leach, E. W. 1997. "Oecus on Ibycus:
investigating the vocabulary of the Roman house." In S. Bon and R. Jones, Sequence
and space in Pompeii. Oxford. 50-72.
MacDougall, E. B. and W. F. Jashemski (eds.)
1981. Ancient Roman Gardens.
Dumbarton Oaks.
MacDougall, E. B. 1987. Ancient Roman Villa
Gardens. Dunbarton Oaks.
McKay, A. G. 1975. Houses, Villas, and
Palaces in the Roman World. Ithaca.
Mielsch, H. 1987. Die Römische Villa.
Architektur und Lebensform. Munich.
Miller, N. and K. Gleason (eds.) 1994 The
Archaeology of Garden and Field. U. of
Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia. General, theoretical: from Sarah Harris.
Mansuelli, G. A. 1990. "Die Villen der
Römischen Welt." in Die Römische Villa. ed. F. Reutti. Darmstadt. Pp. 322-364.
Miller, N. P. and K. L. Gleason, eds. The
Archaeology of Garden and Field. Philadelphia.
Pavlovskis, Z. 1973. Man in an Artificial
Landscape: The Marvels of Civilization in Imperial Roman Literature. Leiden. [But cf. J. Öberg, "Some Notes on the
Marvels of Civilization in Roman Literature," Eranos 76 (1978) 145-55.]
Percival, J. 1976. The Roman Villa: An
Introduction. Berkeley.
Rich, John and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. 1991.
City and country in the ancient world.
Routledge.
Riggsby, Andrew. 1997. "'Public' and
'Private' in Roman Culture: the case of the cubiculum." Journal of Roman Archaeology 10: 36-56.
Riikonen, H. 1976. "The Attitude of Roman
Poets and Orators to the Countryside as a Place for Creative Work." Arctos 10: 75-85.
Schneider, K. 1995. Villa und Natur. Quellen
und Forschungen zur antike Welt 18.
Munich.
Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. 1994. Houses and
Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Princeton. A well-known classic, with useful bibliography through ca. 1990.
Wiseman, T. P. 1987. "Conspicui postes
tectaque digna deo: the Public Image of Aristocratic and Imperial Houses in the
Late Republic and Early Empire." In L'Urbs: espace urbain et histoire. Ecole française de Rome. 393-413.
IV. A selection of topics
not directly addressed in the course
Rhetoric and Stylistics
Aubrion, E. 1975. "Pline le Jeune et la
rhétorique de l' affirmation," Latomus 34: 90-130.
Cova, P.V. 1966. La critica letteraria di
Plinio il Giovane. Brescia.
___ 1972. "Arte allusiva e
stilizzazione retorica nelle lettere di Plinio," Aevum 46: 16-36.
Deane, Sidney N. 1918. "Greek in Pliny's
Letters," CW 12: 41-44, 50-54.
Gamberini, F. 1983. Stylistic Theory and
Practice in the Younger Pliny. New York.
Picone, G. 1978. L'eloquenza di Plinio.
Teoria e prassi. Palermo.
Pliszczynska, J. 1955. De elocutione Pliniana. Lublin.
Strube, N. 1964. "Plinius der Jüngere II 7:
Eine sprachliche und stilistische Analyse," WS 77: 185-91.
Winniczuk, L. 1975. "The Ending-phrases in
Pliny's Letters," Eos 63: 319-28.
Chronology and Composition
of Pliny's Books
Asbach, I. 1881. "Zur Chronologie der
Briefe des jüngeren Plinius," RhM
36: 38-49.
Bell, A.A. 1989. "A Note on Revision and
Authenticity in Pliny's Letters," AJP 110: 460-66.
Merwald, G. 1964. Die Buchkomposition des
jüngeren Plinius (Epistulae I-IX). diss.
Erlangen.
Murgia, C.E. 1980. "The Date of Tacitus' Dialogus," HSCP
84: 99-125.
___ 1985. "Pliny's Letters and the Dialogus," HSCP
89: 171-206.
Syme, R. 1985b. "The Dating of Pliny's
Latest Letters," CQ 35: 176-85
[= RP 5.478-89].
Zelzer, K. 1964. "Zur Frage des Charakters
der Briefsammlung des jüngeren Plinius," WS 77: 144-61.
The Life and Times of Pliny
Bütler, H.-P. 1970. Die geistige Welt des
jüngeren Plinius. Heidelberg.
de Neeve, Pieter W. 1992. "A Roman
Landowner and his Estates: Pliny the Younger," SIFC 10: 335-44.
Duncan-Jones, Richard 1982. "The Finances
of a Senator," ch. 1 in R. Duncan-Jones, The Economy of the Roman
Empire, 2nd ed. Cambridge:
17-32.
Hammond, Mason 1954. "Pliny the Younger's
Views on Government", CP 49:
Mommsen, Th. 1869. "Zur Lebensgeschichte
des jüngeren Plinius," Hermes 3:
31-136 [ = Gesammelte Schriften 4.
Berlin. 1906: 366-468].
Nicols, J. 1980. "Pliny and the Patronage
of Communities," Hermes 108:
365-385.
Otto, W. 1919. Zur Lebensgeschichte des
jüngeren Plinius. Munich.
Peter, C. 1872. "Plinius der Jüngere,"
Philologus 32: 698-710.
Prete, S. 1948. Saggi Pliniani. Bologna.
Sherwin-White, A. N. 1969. "Pliny, The Man
And his Letters," G&R 16:
76-90
• Pliny and Women
Dobson, E. S. 1982. "Pliny the Younger's
Depiction of Women." The Classical Bulletin 58: 81-5.
Maniet, A. 1966. "Pline le Jeune et
Calpurnia." L'Antiquité Classique 35:
149-85.
Raepsaet-Charlier, Marie-Therese. Prosopographie
des Femmes de l'Ordre Senatorial (Ier - IIe s.) 2 vols. [Rev. Kajava, Mika. 1988. "A New Catalogue
of Roman Upper Class Women." Arctos
22: 75-93.]
General Studies
*Hoffer, Stanley E. 1999. The Anxieties
of Pliny the Younger. Atlanta. [On
reserve]
Radice, Betty. 1962. "A fresh approach to
Pliny's letters." Greece and Rome
9.
Ussani jr., V. 1970. "Leggendo Plinio il
giovane, I (Historia - nomen inertiae).,"
RCCM 12: 271-348.
___ 1971. "Leggendo Plinio il
giovane, II (Oratio -historia),"
RCCM 13: 70-135.
Talbert, R.J.A. 1980. "Pliny the Younger as
Governor of Bithynia-Pontus," in C. Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin
Literature and History II. Brussels:
412-35.
Tellegen, J.W. 1982. The Roman Law of
Succession in the Letters of Pliny the Younger. Zütphen.
Prosopography (highly selective)
Birley, Anthony Richard. 2000. Onomasticon
to the Younger Pliny: Letters and Panegyric. Munich.
Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR). The fundamental basic resource, now in its 3rd edition.
Jones, F. 1991. "Naming in Pliny's
Letters," SO 66: 147-70.
Raepsaet-Charlier, Marie-Therese. Prosopographie
des Femmes de l'Ordre Senatorial (Ier - IIe s.) 2 vols. [Rev. Kajava, Mika. 1988. "A New Catalogue
of Roman Upper Class Women." Arctos
22: 75-93.]
Radice, B. 1969. Cambridge, Mass. (Loeb):
see "Bibliographical Index" in volume 2.
Syme, R. 1958. Tacitus. Oxford.
___ 1961. "Pliny's less successful
friends." Historia 10.
___ 1968. "People in Pliny", JRS
58: 135-151.
___ 1985a. "Correspondents of Pliny," Historia
34: 324-59 [= RP 5.440-77].
Studies of Individual
Epistles and Passages (highly selective)
Baker, Robert J. 1985. "Pliny, Epistulae 7.31 and the Persistence of a Theme," Maia 37: 49-54.
Gigante, Marcello 1979. "Il racconto
Pliniano dell' eruzione del Vesuvio dell' a. 79," PP 188-189: 321-76.
Häussler, R. 1987. "Abermals: Plinius'
Eberjagden," Philologus 131: 82-85.
Hennig, D. 1978. "Zu Plinius Ep.
7,33," Historia 27: 246-49.
Higham, T.F. 1960. "Nature Note: Dolphin
Riders," G&R 7: 82-86.
Lefèvre, E. 1977-1989.
"Plinius-Studien" I-V Gymnasium
84 (1977) 519-41 (Ep. 2.17, 5.6); 85
(1978) 37-47 (1.6, 9.10); 94 (1987) 247-62 (1.3, 1.24, 2.8, 6.31, 9.36); 95
(1988) 236-69 (4.30, 8.8, 8.20); 96 (1989) 113-28 (3.5, 3.7, 3.21).
Oliva, Allessandra 1993. "Plinio Ep. V,8 e
Tucidide 1.22.4," Athenaeum 81
(1993) 279-83.
Posch, S. 1983. "Eine Eberjagd mit Gänsefusschen
(zu Plinius, Ep. I,6)," in P.
Händel and W. Meid, eds., Festschrift für R. Muth. Innsbruck: 375-83. See also Häussler 1987.
Saylor, Charles 1972. "The Emperor as Insula: Pliny Epist.
6.31," CP 67: 47-51.
Saylor, Charles 1982. "Overlooking Lake
Vadimon: Pliny on Tourism (Epist.
8.20)," CP 77: 139-44.
Scarcia, Riccardo 1984. "Ad tantas opes
processit: Note a Plinio il
Giovane," Labeo 30: 291-316.
Shelton, Jo-Ann. 1987. "Pliny's Letter
3.11: Rhetoric and Autobiography," C&M 38: 121-39.
Shelton, Jo-Ann. 1990. "Pliny the Younger
and the Ideal Wife," C&M 41:
163-86.
Starr, Raymond 1990. Pliny the Younger on
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The electronic (and therefore updated) version of this bibliography is located
at classics.uc.edu/~johnson/pliny.
Parts of
this bibliography were based on the electronic bibliography assembled by J.
Bodel.