Raised by Pliny the Elder
Born Gaius Caecilius, he became known as Pliny the Younger. His uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him.
Literature · Politics
Pliny the Younger
His surviving letters, including official correspondence with Emperor Trajan, provide a valuable record of Roman public life and imperial government.
Pliny the Younger was a Roman lawyer, author, and magistrate who lived from 61 to around 113. He held civil and military offices and served as an imperial magistrate under Emperor Trajan. Of the 369 letters he wrote, 247 survive.
Worth knowing
Surviving Letters
Pliny wrote 369 letters, of which 247 survive. They include correspondence with emperors, friends, and figures such as the historian Tacitus.
Correspondence with Trajan
The surviving correspondence includes 121 official letters addressed to Emperor Trajan. They are among the few surviving records of relations between the imperial office and provincial governors.
Contemporary Connections
Pliny was a friend of the historian Tacitus and may have employed the biographer Suetonius. During his time in Syria, he also met the philosophers Artemidorus and Euphrates the Stoic.
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Commemorated here
Como Cathedral
Статуя Плиния Младшего (вместе с Плинием Старшим) на фасаде собора — редчайший случай язычников на фасаде католического храма.
Created here
Roman Baths of Como
Термы построены на дар Плиния Младшего родному городу во второй половине I века.
Commemorated here
Villa Pliniana
Перемежающийся источник виллы описан Плинием Младшим в письмах; вилла названа в его честь.
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