Bureaucratic Language in the Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan

Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-)· 2012-09-01· article· 95 citationsclosed

Classical Antiquity Studies Classical Studies and Philology Classical Philosophy and Thought

Abstract

This article identifies and analyzes bureaucratic features in the language employed by Pliny and Trajan in Epistles 10 as an example of communication between two officials of senior but unequal status who were engaged in managing provincial affairs in the Roman empire.

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Kathleen M. Coleman (2012). Bureaucratic Language in the Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan. Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-). https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2012.0013

@article{m2012bureaucratic,
  title  = {Bureaucratic Language in the Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan},
  author = {Coleman, Kathleen M.},
  year   = {2012},
  journal = {Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-)},
  doi    = {10.1353/apa.2012.0013}
}

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