Pliny the Younger

Table of Contents

Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics

Images

For Students

Pliny the Younger summary

Read Next

Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger. Hardcover Book first sold: July 16, 1951. Current cover design dated 1991? Previous solid maroon book cover with gold font designed by J.D. Salinger in response to racey pulp paper back book cover. bad books

5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

9 American Countercultural Books

Discover

Secret Service Agent Listens To Earpiece

Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-06; in the Louvre, Paris, France. 77 x 53 cm.

Why Is the Mona Lisa So Famous?

An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Shadow of a man holding large knife in his hand inside of some dark, spooky buiding

7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

Pliny the Younger: Facts & Related Content

Written and fact-checked by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As	Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
Born	61 or 62 • Como • Italy
Died	c.113 • Bithynia • Turkey
Movement / Style	Silver Age

Photos

See All Images →

Cicero

Roman statesman, scholar, and writer

Horace

Roman poet

Titus Pomponius Atticus

Roman author

Magnus Felix Ennodius

Italian bishop and writer

Saint Paulinus of Nola

Roman Catholic saint

Tacitus

Roman historian

Martial

Roman poet

Juvenal

Roman poet

Gaius Petronius Arbiter

Roman author

Seneca

Roman philosopher and statesman [4 BCE – 65 CE]

Pliny the Elder

Roman scholar

Quintilian

Roman rhetorician

Lucan

Roman author

Statius

Roman poet

Gaius Valerius Flaccus

Roman poet

Persius

Roman poet

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Roman author

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

Petrarch

Italian poet

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

British author

Pliny the Younger: Facts & Related Content

Facts

Photos

Related Biographies