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About this place

A port city on the Black Sea coast of the Roman province of Bithynia and Pontus. Pliny the Younger governed the province around 110–112 and wrote to Trajan about Amastris. Where he wrote Letter 10.96 on the Christians is not stated; its position in the collection suggests his tour of the Pontic coast, and Amastris is one scholarly guess.

Where to start

Pliny the Younger, Letters, Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
Witnesses Outside the ChurchPliny the Younger and Trajan, Letters 10.96–97: on the trials of Christiansc. AD 111–112 · Pliny the Younger and the Emperor Trajan

Written or found here

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  1. AD 112c. AD 111–112

    Pliny the Younger and Trajan, Letters 10.96–97: on the trials of Christians

    Pliny the Younger and the Emperor Trajan

    A Roman governor’s report to the emperor on the Christians of Bithynia-Pontus: their dawn meetings, a hymn ‘to Christ, as though he were a god’, their oath and shared meal, and Trajan’s rule that they are not to be hunted out.

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Every mention

5 writings
  1. AD 85The Acts of the ApostlesThe New Testament1×
  2. AD 85The First Letter of PeterThe New Testament1×
  3. AD 112Pliny the Younger and Trajan, Letters 10.96–97: on the trials of ChristiansWitnesses Outside the Church1×
  4. AD 320Eusebius, Church History, Book IIIThe Early Church3×
  5. 2026The documentary record of Jesus and the movements that interpreted himThe Dossier1×