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Pliny's Women
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Table of Contents

1. Pliny: enemy of tyrants; 2. Pliny: model protégé; 3. Pliny: champion of the vulnerable; 4. Pliny: creator of the ideal wife; 5. Pliny: arbiter of virtue.

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Pliny's Women provides a comprehensive consideration of the many women who appear in the letters of Pliny the Younger.

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Jacqueline Carlon is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. In addition to awards for her teaching, Dr Carlon has received the Rallis Award from the Boston University Humanities Foundation and the 2008 Barlow-Beech Award for Distinguished Service to the Classical Association of New England, of which she was president in 2005.

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'Jacqueline Carlon's book on Pliny's women will surely become an important point of reference for any study on the role of elite women in Imperial times as well as on Pliny's character.' Arctos

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