Introduction

Minerva on the Surrey Downs: Reading Pliny (And Horace) With John Toland

“…Ep. 2.5–7 with Whitton (2013) 111; also Gibson and Morello (2012) 188 on Pliny's ‘daisy-chain’ sequences.…”

“… 7 Du Prey (1994) offers a wide-ranging survey, with particular attention to the age of neoclassicism and the Grand Tour. For introductions to the two villa letters and bibliography, see Gibson and Morello (2012) 200–33 and 306–7; Whitton (2013) 218–22. …”

“…See Whitton and Gibson (forthcoming), and cf. Gibson and Morello (2012) 1–3 on ‘the anthologizing habit’.…”

“… 48 See especially Bütler (1970) 41–57 (‘Der otium–negotium –Konflikt’), Méthy (2007) 319–442 and further references in Whitton (2013) 89. On Pliny's epistolary balancing of otium and negotium see also Gibson and Morello (2012) 217–21 and Whitton (2013) 13–14. …”

“… 138 A contrived effect: social life at both villas was far livelier than Pliny implies (cf. Gibson and Morello (2012) 207, 231–3; Whitton (2013) 238). …”