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The Early Reception of Pliny the Younger in Tertullian of Carthage and Eusebius of Caesarea

Corke-Webster, James

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James Corke-Webster



Abstract

In 1967 Alan Cameron published a landmark article in this journal, ‘The fate of Pliny's Letters in the late Empire’. Opposing the traditional thesis that the letters of Pliny the Younger were only rediscovered in the mid to late fifth century by Sidonius Apollinaris, Cameron proposed that closer attention be paid to the faint but clear traces of the letters in the third and fourth centuries. On the basis of well-observed intertextual correspondences, Cameron proposed that Pliny's letters were being read by the end of the fourth century at the latest. That article now seems the vanguard of a rise in scholarly interest in Pliny's late-antique reception. But Cameron also noted the explicit attention given to the letters by two earlier commentators—Tertullian of Carthage, in the late second to early third century, and Eusebius of Caesarea, in the early fourth. The use of Pliny in these two earliest commentators, in stark contrast to their later successors, has received almost no subsequent attention.

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Corke-Webster, J. (2017). The Early Reception of Pliny the Younger in Tertullian of Carthage and Eusebius of Caesarea. Classical Quarterly, 67(1), 247-262. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000983881700009x

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 8, 2016
Online Publication Date Apr 3, 2017
Publication Date May 1, 2017
Deposit Date Aug 1, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Classical Quarterly
Print ISSN 0009-8388
Electronic ISSN 1471-6844
Publisher Classical Association
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 67
Issue 1
Pages 247-262
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s000983881700009x

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This article has been published in a revised form in The Classical Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1017/S000983881700009X. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © The Classical Association 2017.




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