By Jacqueline M. Carlon
Pliny's ladies deals a accomplished attention of the various ladies who seem within the letters of Pliny the more youthful. Combining certain prosopography with shut literary research, Jacqueline Carlon examines the identities of the ladies whom Pliny contains and the way they and the boys with whom they're linked give a contribution either to this presentation of exemplary Romans and especially to his personal self-promotion. almost the entire named girls in Pliny's nine-book corpus are thought of. They shape six distinctive teams: these linked to competition to the principate; the relations of Pliny's mentor, Corellius Rufus; his circle of relatives contributors; ladies enthusiastic about testamentary disputes; perfect better halves; and ladies of unseemly personality. distinct research of every letter pointing out ladies contains the id of its recipient and everybody named inside, its disposition in the assortment, Pliny's language and elegance, and its value to our notion of the altering social cloth of the early principate.
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13 Syme 1982a: 105. The question of nomenclature in this period is a complex one that Syme deals with at length in a number of articles. It was not unusual for men to take names from both their paternal and maternal lines or, as in this case, to add cognomina based on marriage ties. The determining factor was likely the social and political prominence of the family with which the name was associated. The freedom to modify or expand one’s name often produced incredibly long combinations, making the task of disentangling an individual’s familial connections an extremely complex and uncertain one.
5 Pliny, Ep. 11; Tacitus, Ann. 32. 2 3 22 Pliny: Enemy of Tyrants character of the accused,6 the delatores may have hoped to blacken the defendants’ reputations by associating them with philosophers, a group that was always suspect in Rome; but, of course, none of the opposition members was prosecuted simply for being a Stoic. Subversive or treasonous political activity, sometimes expressed through literary works that seemed to betoken nostalgia for the republic, seems to have been the foremost charge.
The question of nomenclature in this period is a complex one that Syme deals with at length in a number of articles. It was not unusual for men to take names from both their paternal and maternal lines or, as in this case, to add cognomina based on marriage ties. The determining factor was likely the social and political prominence of the family with which the name was associated. The freedom to modify or expand one’s name often produced incredibly long combinations, making the task of disentangling an individual’s familial connections an extremely complex and uncertain one.