What is Pliny the Younger?
{{Infobox person |name = Pliny the Younger (''Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus'') |image = Como - Dome - Facade - Plinius the Elder.jpg |caption = Medieval statue of Pliny the Younger on the façade of Cathedral of S. Maria Maggiore in Como. |birth_date = 61 AD |birth_place = [[Como]] |death_date = c. 112 AD (aged 51) |death_place = [[Bithynia]] |occupation = Politician and Author |spouse = |parents = Lucius Caecilius Cilo and Plinia Marcella |children = }} '''Gaius''' or '''Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus''', born '''Gaius''' or '''Caius Plinius Caecilius''' ([[61]]/[[63]] in [[Como]] - ca. [[113]]), better known as '''Pliny the Younger''', was a [[lawyer]], a remarkable [[writer]], an [[author]], and [[natural philosopher]] of [[Ancient Rome]]. Pliny's uncle, [[Pliny the Elder]], helped raise and educate him and they were both witnesses to the eruption of [[Vesuvius]] on August 24th, 79 AD. == Other websites == * [http://www.historywalker.com/public2/02/pliny_letter1.html Pliny's first Letter to Tacitus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518111054/http://www.historywalker.com/public2/02/pliny_letter1.html |date=2008-05-18 }} Describes how his uncle sailed across the bay to save some people * [http://www.historywalker.com/public2/02/pliny_letter2.html Pliny's second letter to Tacitus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518111102/http://www.historywalker.com/public2/02/pliny_letter2.html |date=2008-05-18 }} Tells how Pliny himself barely escaped. * [http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistularum_liber_VI_(Gaius_Plinius_Caecilius_Secundus)#16_C._PLINIUS_TACITO_SUO_S. First letter, latin original] (Letters, Book 6, Letter 16), in Wikisource * [http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistularum_liber_VI_(Gaius_Plinius_Caecilius_Secundus)#20_C._PLINIUS_TACITO_SUO_S. Second letter, Latin Original] (Letters, Book 6, Letter 20), in Wikisource {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pliny the Younger}} [[Category:61 births]] [[Category:110s deat