Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts

Designed for the new AP® Latin syllabus, this volume includes ALL required letters by Pliny the Younger. Ten additional epistles round out the prescribed passages. Companion texts encompass a variety of “teacher choice” selections (3,541 words) from Latin prose that complement Pliny’s work, from inscriptions to the letters of Cicero to the history of Eutropius. Short excerpts from the eighteenth-century poetic work Rusticatio Mexicana further illuminate Pliny’s subject matter and themes.

Features • General introduction on Pliny’s life, works, and influence • Bibliography • Pliny’s Letters unadapted Latin passages: 1.6; 2.6; 6.4, 7, 16, 20; 7.5, 24, 27; 9.6; 10.5, 6, 7, 37, 90 with same-page vocabulary and notes • Introductory notes for each letter • Companion texts with introductory notes and running commentary: Eutropius, Breviarium Historiae Romanae 8.1–2, 4–5; Rafael Landívar, Rusticatio Mexicana 2.67–75, 114–27; Seneca, Epistulae Morales 79.1–4; Augustus, Res Gestae 19–21; Cicero, Ad Familiares 14.3; Inscriptions • Latin-English glossary

Teacher Choice" Word Counts by Selection

• Suggested Pliny Letters (1,481 words total)
  
  • Pliny 1.6 (111 words)
    
    • Pliny 2.6 (231 words))
      
    • Pliny 7.5 (88 words))
      
    • Pliny 7.24 (297 words))
      
    • Pliny 9.6 (158 words))
      
    • Pliny 10.33 (98 words))
      
    • Pliny 10.34 (73 words))
      
    • Pliny 10.38 (56 words))
      
    • Pliny 10.39 (261 words))
      
    • Pliny 10.40 (108 words)
    • Eutropius (493 words)
      
    • Landívar (160 words)
      
    • Seneca (238 words)
      
    • Augustus (284 words)
      
    • Inscriptions (391 words)