The Roman World of the Plinys

Graduate / Professional

The Roman world of the Flavian Age and the principate of Trajan (ca. 70–110 C.E.) as seen through the writings of two of its public intellectuals, Pliny the Elder and his nephew Pliny the Younger. The former's encyclopedic Natural History and the latter's Letters and Panegyric . Politics, physical science, history, literature, zoology, magic, patronage, art history, and slavery during the period. TTh 9am-10:15am