Selections from Roman Letters
Latin 496 -- syllabus revised 9.ix.99
1 Cicero
Textbook: D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Cicero: Select Letters, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1980.
Important Dates in Cicero's Life
Cicero's Letters on the Web:
- Cicero's Letters to Atticus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=Cic.+Att.+1.1.
- Cicero's Letters to his Friends http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=Cic.+Fam.+1.1.
- Cicero's Letters to Brutus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=Cic.+ad+Brut.+1.1.
The Cicero Home Page of Andrew M. Riggsby, UT Austin Classics http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/Cic.html (unfortunately only one entry in the bibliography for Cicero's letters)
Bibliography: Gnomon -- Bibliographische Datenbank http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/cgi-bin/Desk.pl?d=Epistulae+Ciceronis
2 Seneca
- L. Annaei Senecae ad Lucilium Epistulae http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/sen.ep1.html
Selected Letters with notes:
3 Pliny the Younger
- Pliny Bibliography http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p2latein/personal/plinbib.html
- Gnomon -- Bibliographische Datenbank http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/cgi-bin/Desk.pl?d=Plinius+Minor
- Select Bibliography for Latin 496
- C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera http://patriot.net/~lillard/cp/pliny.html
Selected Letters with notes:
- letter 1 (I.1)
- letter 2 (I.3)
- letter 3 (I.4)
- letter 4 (I.5)
- letter 5 (I.6)
- letter 6 (I.9)
- letter 7 (I.11)
- letter 8 (I.15)
- letter 9 (I.24)
- letter 10 (III.5)
- letter 11 (IV.13)
- letter 12 (VII.5)
- letter 13 (VI.16)
- Pliny's verbs, letters 1-13
- letter 14 (VI.20)
- letters 15-16 (X.88-89)
- letters 17-18 (X.97-98)
- letter 19 (II.1)
4 The letters of "Cornelia" (Nepos, frag. 59)
6 AVGVSTI EPISTVLA AD GAIVM (Aulus Gellius 15.7.3) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6946/literature/aug_epistula.html EPISTULAE AD LIVIAM (Suetonius, Divus Claudius 4)