Pliny the Elder themes and contexts /
Pliny's Naturalis Historia - a brilliant and sophisticated encyclopaedia of the scientific, artistic, philosophical, botanical and zoological riches of the ancient world - has had a long career in the footnotes of historical studies. This is a phenomenon born of the sense that the work was ther...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill.
c2011.
Series:
Mnemosyne, Supplements
329.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.
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Call Number: PA6614 .P55 2011
| Summary: | Pliny's Naturalis Historia - a brilliant and sophisticated encyclopaedia of the scientific, artistic, philosophical, botanical and zoological riches of the ancient world - has had a long career in the footnotes of historical studies. This is a phenomenon born of the sense that the work was there to consult, or to 'use', as a resource to aid investigation of specific technical issues or passages, of Quellenforschung, or of delimited topic areas. The contributors to the present volume both represent and join a new generation of critics who have begun to try to 'read' this monumental text, and - by examining the dominant motifs which give shape and order to the work - to construct frameworks within which we may understand and interpret Pliny's overarching agenda. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-240) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004210073 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |