Pliny the Elder : themes and contexts / / edited by Roy K. Gibson, Ruth Morello.
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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| Superior document: | Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, v. 329 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ;
v. 329. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pliny the Elder's attitude to warfare / Rhiannon Ash
- Roman's burden / Andrew Fear
- Luxury and the creation of a good consumer / Eugenia Lao
- Imperialism, mirabilia, and knowledge: some paradoxes in the Naturalis historia / Valerie Naas
- Curious eye of the Elder Pliny / Mary Beagon
- Philosophy and science in the Elder Pliny's Naturalis historia / Ernesto Paparazzo
- Science and aesthetics of names in the Naturalis historia / Aude Doody
- Pliny on Apion / Cynthia Damon
- Pliny and the encyclopaedic addressee / Ruth Morello
- Encylcopaedic exemplarity in Pliny the Elder / Clemence Schultze
- Elder and better: the Naturalis historia and the letters of the younger Pliny / Roy K. Gibson
- Vita Plinii / Michael Reeve.