The Latin reading blog

Fuscus, a good friend of Pliny, asks how Pliny spends his day at his summer-house in Toscana. What follows is an elaborate list of activit...

Being a patronus in ancient Rome implied that you had to sustain your clientes and invite them for dinner. In return the clientes suppo...

Romans had another view of suicide than we do: it was seen as a heroic act in case no other possibility remained. This letter by Pliny i...

Pliny (61-113) spent his final years as imperial governor of Bithynia and Pontus, a Roman province located in Anatolia on the Black Sea...