Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts

Jacqueline M. Carlon

Jun 2025 · Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

About this ebook

Designed for the new AP® Latin syllabus, this volume includes ALL required letters by Pliny the Younger. Ten additional epistles round out the prescribed passages. Companion texts encompass a variety of “teacher choice” selections (3,541 words) from Latin prose that complement Pliny’s work, from inscriptions to the letters of Cicero to the history of Eutropius. Short excerpts from the eighteenth-century poetic work Rusticatio Mexicana further illuminate Pliny’s subject matter and themes. Features: General introduction on Pliny’s life, works, and influence; Bibliography • Pliny’s Letters unadapted Latin passages: 1.6; 2.6; 6.4, 7, 16, 20; 7.5, 24, 27; 9.6; 10.5, 6, 7, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 90 with same-page vocabulary and notes; Introductory notes for each letter; Companion texts with introductory notes and running commentary: Eutropius, Breviarium Historiae Romanae 8.1–2, 4–5; Rafael Landívar, Rusticatio Mexicana 2.67–75, 114–27; Seneca, Epistulae Morales 79.1–4; Augustus, Res Gestae 19–21; Cicero, Ad Familiares 14.3; Inscriptions; Latin-English glossary

About the author

Jaqueline Carlon is a Pliny scholar of international stature, who has written the forthcoming new textbook, Pliny: 20 Letters and Suggested Companion Texts, designed to address the required and suggested Pliny selections for AP Latin. Carlon's work includes other suggested readings that pair nicely with the prescribed Pliny letters. She is also coauthoring A Pliny Workbook with Gregory P. Stringer for the new curriculum. Carlon is the author of Pliny’s Women: Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Selected Letters from Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae,, Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentaries (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Carlon is Professor Emerita from the University of Massachusetts Boston where she has served as department chair and director of graduate studies. She has worked extensively with Latin teacher candidates and is an expert in Latin pedagogy. Carlon’s experience as a high school teacher and language department chair at Academy of Notre Dame has served her well, especially with teacher preparation. Carlon earned the 2017 Society for Classical Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Collegiate Level. She is the 2008 recipient of the Classical Association of New England’s prestigious Barlow-Beach Award for Distinguished Service. She served as president of CANE in 2005. She is also the recipient of the Rallis Award from the Boston University Humanities Foundation. Carlon is an expert on the application of Second Language Acquisition Theory to the teaching of classical languages. She spearheaded establishing the Conventiculum Bostoniense in 2006.