Pliny the Younger's letters

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:library
gptkbp:author Pliny the Younger
gptkbp:contains letters to family
letters to friends
letters to officials
letters to the emperor
gptkbp:dateWritten late 1st century AD
gptkbp:firstPublished 1471
gptkbp:genre epistolary literature
gptkbp:historicalName primary source for early Roman Empire
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Pliny the Younger's letters
gptkbp:influenced historical understanding of Roman Empire
gptkbp:language gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:locationWritten gptkb:Rome
gptkb:Bithynia
gptkbp:notable_for description of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
letters on Christians in Bithynia
gptkbp:notableContributor gptkb:Suetonius
gptkb:Tacitus
gptkb:Calpurnia
gptkb:Emperor_Trajan
gptkb:Septicius_Clarus
gptkbp:numberOfBooks 10
gptkbp:preservedIn manuscripts
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Roman
Roman society
Roman politics
daily life in Ancient Rome
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Gaius_Suetonius_Tranquillus
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5