TEXTS
R. A. B. Mynors: Letters I-X. Oxford, 1963 (Oxford Classical Text)
A. M. Guillemin: Lettres I-IX (with notes and French translation), 3 vols. Budé edition, Paris, 1927–8
M. Durry: Lettres X et Panégyrique (with notes and French translation). Budé edition, Paris, 1959
COMMENTARIES
E. G. Hardy: Pliny’s Correspondence with Trajan. London, 1889
A. M. Guillemin: Notes in Bade edition (see above)
A. N. Sherwin-White: The Letters of Pliny. Oxford, 1966
Fifty Letters of Pliny. Oxford, 1966
The following lists are selective, containing generally accessible books and recent articles in which information relative to Pliny can be found.
BOOKS
Cambridge Ancient History Vol. XI: The Imperial Peace. Cambridge, 1936 (esp. Ch. V by R. P. Longdon ‘Nerva and Trajan’)
J. Carcopino: Daily Life in Ancient Rome. London, 1941 (Penguin Books, 1962)
G. E. F. Chilver: Cisalpine Gaul Oxford, 1941
J. Crook: Consilium Principis. Cambridge, 1955
H. Dessau: Inscriptions Latinae Selectae. Berlin, 1892, 1916
A. M. Guillemin: Pline et la Vie littéraire de son Temps. Paris, 1929
G. Highet: Juvenal the Satirist. Oxford, 1954
A. H. M. Jones: The Greek City. Oxford, 1940
H. Matringly: Catalogue of Roman Coins in the British Museum. Vol. III, Nerva-Trajan. 1936
M. McCrum and A. G. Woodhead: Documents of the Flavian Emperors. Cambridge, 1961
A. N. Sherwin-White: Roman Citizenship. Oxford, 1939
Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament. Oxford, 1963
E. M. Smallwood: Documents of Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian. Cambridge, 1966
R. Syme: Tacitus. 2 vols. Oxford, 1958
ARTICLES
P. A. Brunt: ‘Charges of Provincial Maladministration’. Historia X, 1961
R. T. Bruyère: ‘Tacitus and Pliny’s Panegyricus’. Class. Phil. XLIX, 1954
A. Cameron: ‘The Fate of Pliny’s Letters in the Late Empire’. C. Q. XV, 1965
R. Duncan-Jones: ‘The Finances of the Younger Pliny’. P.B.S.R. XXXIII, 1965
G. P. Gould: Review of O.C.T. of Letters. Phoenix XVIII, 1964
J. C. Hainsworth: ‘Verginius and Vindex’. Historia XI, 1962
M. Hammond: ‘Pliny the Younger’s views on government’. Class. Phil. XLIX, 1954
T. F. Higham: ‘Dolphin Riders’. Greece & Rome VII, 1, 1960
S. Jameson: ‘Cornutus Tertullus and the Plancii of Perge’. J.R.S. LV, 1965
C. J. Kraemer: ‘Pliny and the early church service’. Class. Phil. XXIX, 1934
H. Last: ‘The study of the persecutions’. J.R.S. XXVII, 1937
R. P. Longdon: ‘Notes on the Parthian campaigns of Trajan’. J.R.S. XXI, 1931
S. L. Mohler: ‘Bithynian Christians’. Class. Phil. XXX, 1935
B. Radice: ‘A fresh approach to Pliny’s letters’. Greece & Rome IX, 2, 1968 ‘Pliny and the Panegyricus’. Greece & Rome XV, 2, 1968
G. E. M. de Ste Croix: ‘Why were the Early Christians Persecuted?’ Past and Present, 26, 1963
‘Rejoinder to A. N. S-W’s Amendment’. Past and Present, 27, 1964
A. N. Sherwin-White: ‘The date of Pliny’s Praetorship’.1J.R.S. XLVII, 1957
‘Trajan’s replies to Pliny: authorship and necessity’.J.R.S. LII, 1962
‘Early persecutions and the Roman Law’.2 J. Theol. Studies, N.S. III (2), 1952
1. Appendix iv in Letters of Pliny
2. Appendix v in Letters of Pliny
S. E. Stout: “The Coalescence of the Two Plinies’. Trans. Am. Phil. Ass. LXXXVI, 1955
F. A. Sullivan, S.J.: ‘Pliny Epistulae VI, 16 and 20 and modem Volcanology’. Class. Phil. LXIII, 3, 1968
R. Syme: ‘The Imperial Finances of Domitian, Nerva and Trajan’. J.R.S. XX, 1930
“The Friend of Tacitus’. J.R.S. XLVII, 1957
“The Lower Danube under Trajan’. J.R.S. XLIX, 1959
‘Pliny’s less Successful Friends’. Historia X, 1961
‘Pliny and the Dacian War’. Latomus XXIII, 1964
G. B. Townend: “The Hippo Inscription and Career of Suetonius’. Historia, X, 1961.
H. W. Traub: ‘Pliny’s Treatment of History in Epistology Form’. Trans. Amer. Phil. Ass. LXXXVI, 1955
K. W. Waters: “The Character of Domitian’. Phoenix XVIII, 1964