Talk:Epistulae (Pliny)

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Reinstating questioned authenticity of Book 10

I had added the information that there are doubts about the authenticity of Book 10, the Trajan correspondence. I had read this in a book by Hermann Detering, and it had a proper reference. This referenced information was removed by User:Smeat75 in edit, as a "fringe theory". I admit that Detering's opinion is not generally accepted, but Smeat has not refuted the main point: Book 10 was not known in the Middle Ages, and the publisher Giovanni Giocondo is dubious. According to Detering, there is no medieval manuscript, and all scholarship seems to agree on this. Unless Smeat75 can convince me that Detering was shown to be wrong, I will revert his edit. /Pieter Kuiper (talk) 16:02, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Manuscript history?

The article could benefit from a section on the manuscript history of the text, as far as it is known. -- 176.94.112.129 (talk) 12:19, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done. -- llywrch (talk) 00:47, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Statue based on contemporary statue, or on fantasy only?

Is the pictured renaissance statue know to be based on an antique statue or bust and thus likely to show Pliny's actual facial features? Or is it more likely to be purely a figment of the artist's imagination? If the latter, this should be noted in the article. -- 176.94.112.129 (talk) 12:22, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

More importantly, the picture currently on the page is not the one of Pliny the Younger, but the one of Pliny the Elder, at least according to the respective pages.--2001:760:2C00:8011:B806:9538:AF5A:AC8E (talk) 09:00, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]