It takes the average reader 7 hours and 46 minutes to read The Women of Pliny's Letters by Jo-Ann Shelton
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Pliny's letters offer a significant source of information about the lives of Roman women (predominantly, though not exclusively, upper-class women) during the late first and early second centuries CE. In the 368 letters included in his ten published books of epistles, Pliny mentions over 30 women by name, addresses letters to seven, and refers to well over 40 anonymous women. Many of the references are brief comments in letters whose topics are the activities of Pliny's male acquaintances. Nonetheless his letters inform us about the roles of women in Roman families, marriages, and households,...
The Women of Pliny's Letters by Jo-Ann Shelton is 456 pages long, and a total of 116,736 words.
This makes it 154% the length of the average book. It also has 143% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 37 minutes to read The Women of Pliny's Letters aloud.
The Women of Pliny's Letters is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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