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This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context.
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Roy K. Gibson is Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester and the author of a commentary on Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3 (Cambridge, 2003) and Excess and Restraint: Propertius, Horace and Ovid's Ars Amatoria (2007). He is co-editor with Ruth Morello of both Re-imagining Pliny the Younger (Arethusa special number 36.2, 2003) and of Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts (2011). He plans to work next on a commentary on Pliny, Letters Book 6.
Ruth Morello is Lecturer in Latin at the University of Manchester, and co-editor with A. D. Morrison of Ancient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography (2007). Also in collaboration with Roy Gibson, she is co-editor of Re-imagining Pliny the Younger (Arethusa special number 36.2, 2003) and of Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts (2011). She is currently working on a monograph on representations of Julius Caesar in the literature of the triumviral and early imperial periods.
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