Letters of Pliny: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Letters of Pliny, credited to Pliny the Younger, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Letters of Pliny by Pliny the Younger. (Translated by William Melmoth.) Read in English by Andrew Coleman The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and the Emperor Trajan. These letters are a unique testimony of Roman administrative history and everyday life in the 1st century CE. Especially noteworthy among the letters are two in which he describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79, during which his uncle Pliny the Elder died (65 and 66 in this edition), and one in which he asks the Emperor for instructions regarding official policy concerning Christians (Trajan Letter 97). Other letters include a ghost story, a story about a dolphin, descriptions of Pliny's villa, and Pliny's opinions on legacy-hunting, the treatment of slaves and the decline in respect for orators. - Summary by Wikipedia revised by Andrew Coleman

Recording facts

• Recording title: Letters of Pliny
• Author credits: Pliny the Younger
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 10:36:57

Catalogue topics

• Christianity
• Romans
• Epistles
• Roman Empire
• persecution
• letters
• Vesuvius
• christian martyrs

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 5:45
2. 01 - Letters 1-7 — 32:09
3. 02 - Letters 8-14 — 35:57
4. 03 - Letters 15-21 — 30:25
5. 04 - Letters 22-25 — 30:24
6. 05 - Letters 26-31 — 30:27
7. 06 - Letters 32-39 — 28:29
8. 07 - Letters 40-49 — 32:46
9. 08 - Letters 50-53 — 33:28
10. 09 - Letters 54-64 — 33:08
11. 10 - Letters 65-66 — 21:23
12. 11 - Letters 67-76 — 36:22
13. 12 - Letters 77-83 — 34:41
14. 13 - Letters 84-89 — 33:22
15. 14 - Letters 90-96 — 29:41
16. 15 - Letters 97-105 — 32:46
17. 16 - Letters 106-110 — 26:06
18. 17 - Letters T1-27 — 28:56
19. 18 - Letters T28-51 — 27:50
20. 19 - Letters T52-70 — 21:13
21. 20 - Letters T71-96 — 24:17
22. 21 - Letters T97-98 — 7:50
23. 22 - Letters T99-122 — 19:32

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