Review by Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, of Man of high empire: the life of Pliny the Younger, by Roy K. Gibson, at Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
"...Gibson reflects on the objectives of traditional accounts of Pliny’s life and on the most likely contemporary expectations when reading a biography: are we readers interested in his cursus honorum and on the exact administrative status of the province he governed, or are we rather more keen on approaching the man, the person, his motives and circumstances? A major problem then arises: the insurmountable gap between our expectations as twenty-first century readers and what ancient texts tell us about individuals."
See Pliny the Younger, "The Eruption of Vesuvius", from Letters, in Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 6.
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