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MINERVA ON THE SURREY DOWNS: READING PLINY (AND HORACE) WITH JOHN TOLAND
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John Toland'sDescription of Epsom(1711) is one of the most remarkable creative responses, ancient or modern, to Pliny'sEpistles. Drawing on the villa letters and the collection as a whole for both topographical description and self-styling, Toland moulds himself after an intensely ruralist – and strikingly Horatian – Pliny. This article readsEpsomtogether with Toland's translations from theEpistles(1711–12) as a case study in reception which can also shed fresh light on Pliny's own epistolary self-portraiture.
Title: MINERVA ON THE SURREY DOWNS: READING PLINY (AND HORACE) WITH JOHN TOLAND
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John Toland'sDescription of Epsom(1711) is one of the most remarkable creative responses, ancient or modern, to Pliny'sEpistles.
Drawing on the villa letters and the collection as a whole for both topographical description and self-styling, Toland moulds himself after an intensely ruralist – and strikingly Horatian – Pliny.
This article readsEpsomtogether with Toland's translations from theEpistles(1711–12) as a case study in reception which can also shed fresh light on Pliny's own epistolary self-portraiture.
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