@article{Germerodt_2020, place={Luxembourg}, title={Networking in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Younger}, volume={4}, url={http://jhnr.uni.lu/index.php/jhnr/article/view/79}, DOI={10.25517/jhnr.v4i0.79}, abstractNote={<p class="JHNRAbstract"><span lang="EN-US">Living during the heyday of the Roman Empire, the senator Pliny the Younger (ca. AD 61/62 – 113/114) was in contact with the social and political elite of his time: several Emperors, fellow senators like Cornelius Tacitus, Sosius Senecio, and Arulenus Rusticus, as well as other well-known figures of his time such as Suetonius Tranquillus and Valerius Martialis were part of Pliny’s social network in Rome and his native Transpadana. Letters were a main means of staying in contact. </span><span lang="EN-US">Considering the multi-faceted ties of <em>amicitia</em>, ranging from family ties to friendship and patronage, this chapter endeavors to analyze the <em>Epistulae </em>of Pliny, trying to reconstruct cases where Pliny and/or his associates use their own political and social weight to build political alliances in order to procure positions for themselves and their <em>amici</em>. Social network analysis helps to identify clients, brokers, and patrons not only in each particular situation but in Pliny’s network as a whole, showing who helped whom and the reasons and means how they did it. </span></p>}, journal={Journal of Historical Network Research}, author={Germerodt, Fabian}, year={2020}, month={May}, pages={252–270} }