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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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
- Preliminary Material /
- R. Gibson and R. Morello
- Chapter One. Pliny The Elder's Attitude To Warfare /
- Rhiannon Ash
- Chapter Two. The Roman's Burden /
- Andrew Fear
- Chapter Three. Luxury And The Creation Of A Good Consumer /
- Eugenia Lao
- Chapter Four. Imperialism, Mirabilia, And Knowledge: Some Paradoxes In The Naturalis Historia /
- Valérie Naas
- Chapter Five. The Curious Eye Of The Elder Pliny /
- Mary Beagon
- Chapter Six. Philosophy And Science In The Elder Pliny's Naturalis Historia /
- Ernesto Paparazzo
- Chapter Seven. The Science And Aesthetics Of Names In The Natural History /
- Aude Doody
- Chapter Eight,. Pliny On Apion /
- Cynthia Damon
- Chapter Nine. Pliny And The Encyclopaedic Addressee /
- Ruth Morello
- Chapter Ten. Encyclopaedic Exemplarity In Pliny The Elder /
- Clemence Schultze
- Chapter Eleven. Elder And Better: The Naturalis Historia And The Letters Of The Younger Pliny /
- Roy K . Gibson
- Chapter Twelve. The Vita Plinii /
- Michael Reeve
- Bibliography /
- R. Gibson and R. Morello
- General Index /
- R. Gibson and R. Morello
- Index Of Passages /
- R. Gibson and R. Morello.