Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

Even in Roman times, hundreds of votive statues remained, described by Pliny the Younger and seen by Pausanias.

After his death, Domitian's memory was condemned to oblivion by the Roman Senate, while senatorial authors such as Tacitus, Pliny the Younger and Suetonius published histories propagating the view of Domitian as a cruel and paranoid tyrant.

Furthermore, contemporary historians such as Pliny the Younger, Tacitus and Suetonius all authored the information on his reign after it had ended, and his memory had been condemned to oblivion.

Other influential 2nd century authors include Juvenal and Pliny the Younger, the latter of whom was a friend of Tacitus and in 100 delivered his famous Panygericus Traiani before Trajan and the Roman Senate, exalting the new era of restored freedom while condemning Domitian as a tyrant.

Also often advanced as a possible context for 1 Peter is the trials and executions of Christians in the Roman province of Bithynia-Pontus under Pliny the Younger.

The letters of Pliny the Younger described Roman life of the period.

Trajan's program brought acclaim from many, including Pliny the Younger.

* Pliny the Younger

* Pliny the Younger is flamen Divi Augusti ( priest in the cult of the Emperor ).

* Pliny the Younger, Roman author and statesman ( d. c. 112 )

* Pliny the Younger is sevir equitum Romanorum ( commander of a cavalry squadron ).

* Pliny the Younger is named a tribunus plebis.

* Pliny the Younger is named a Praetor.

* Pliny the Younger advances to consulship, giving his panegyric on Trajan in the process.

* Pliny the Younger becomes a member of the college of Augurs ( 103 – 104 ).

* Pliny the Younger is a member of the college of Augurs ( 103 – 104 ).

* Pliny the Younger is legate to Bithynia.

* Emperor Trajan sends Pliny the Younger as governor ( legatus Augusti ) to Bithynia.

* Pliny the Younger probably died in this year

* Pliny the Younger, Roman lawyer and scientist ( approximate date )

** Calpurnia, third and last wife of Pliny the Younger and grand-daughter of Calpurnius Fabatus

* Epistulae ( Pliny ), the letters of Pliny the Younger

Pliny's father died at an early age when his son was still young ; as a result, Pliny probably lived with his mother.

When Pliny the Younger was 18, his uncle Pliny died attempting to rescue victims of the Vesuvius eruption, and the terms of the Elder Pliny's will passed his estate to his nephew.

Pliny is thought to have died suddenly during his appointment in Bithynia-Pontus, around 112 AD, since no events referred to in his letters date later than that.

Cape Verde may be referred to in the works " De choreographia " by Pomponius Mela ( died 45 CE / AD ) and " Historia naturalis " by Pliny the Elder ( died 79 CE / AD ).

Pliny the Elder, who later died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, dedicated his Naturalis Historia to Titus.

Pliny records that Arria's son died at the same time as Caecina Paetus was quite ill. She apparently arranged and planned the child's funeral without her husband even knowing of his death.

* Aphrodite Anadyomene (" Aphrodite Rising from the Sea "), showing the goddess rising from the sea ( not the painting he was working on when he died, but an earlier painting ), for which Pliny the Elder relates the tradition he used a former mistress of Alexander, Campaspe, as his model for Aphrodite.

Observations by Pliny the Elder noted the presence of earthquakes preceded an eruption ; he died in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE while investigating it at Stabiae.

His nephew, Pliny the Younger gave detailed descriptions of the eruption in which his uncle died, attributing his death to the effects of toxic gases.

The prototypical latifundia were the Roman estates in Magna Graecia ( the south of Italy ) and in Sicily, which distressed Pliny the Elder ( died AD 79 ) as he travelled, seeing only slaves working the land, not the sturdy Roman farmers who had been the backbone of the Republic's army.

Pliny the Elder notes he died in the reign of Augustus ( Natural History IX. 39, X. 23 ).

According to Pliny, when the child fell ill and died, the dolphin died of broken heart also.

Pliny the Younger provided an account of his death, and suggested that he collapsed and died through inhaling poisonous gases emitted from the volcano.

Neartius Marcellus was married twice ; firstly to Corellia Hispulla, the daughter of Pliny ’ s elderly friend who had been suffect consul in AD 78 and who had died around AD 103, Quintus Corellius Rufus, and later to Domitia Vettilla.

Pliny, who tells the anecdote, adds that he won his wager, for he reached a great age and died at last from an accident.

Pliny the Younger ( 63 – c. 113 ), who was not a Christian himself, mentions not only fixed times of prayer by believers, but also specific services — other than the Eucharist — assigned to those times: “ they met on a stated day before it was light, and addressed a form of prayer to Christ, as to a divinity ... after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble, to eat in common a harmless meal.

Hispellum is mentioned in Pliny ( III. xiv. 113 ), Strabo ( V. 2. 10 ), and Ptolemy's Geography ( III. 1 ), but apparently by no earlier author: the town seems to have been established by Augustus, who at any rate founded a colony there ( Colonia Julia Hispellum ) as a reward for soldiers who fought on his side in the Perusine War.

Later, there is a reference in Pliny who writes to the emperor Trajan ( 61 – 113 ) asking for advice about how to prosecute the Christians in Bithynia, and describing their practice of gathering before sunrise and repeating antiphonally ' a hymn to Christ, as to God '.