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Title Pliny the Elder : themes and contexts / edited by Roy K. Gibson, Ruth Morello
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages)
Series Mnemosyne supplements, 0169-8958 ; volume 329. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 329. 0169-8958
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.
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
Summary Pliny's Naturalis Historia is a sophisticated encyclopaedia of the riches of the ancient world. The contributors to the present volume represent and join a new generation of critics who have begun to examine the dominant motifs which give shape to the work
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia.
SUBJECT Naturalis historia (Pliny, the Elder) fast
Subject SCIENCE -- Essays.
SCIENCE -- Reference.
Form Electronic book
Author Gibson, Roy K., editor.
Morello, Ruth, editor.
ISBN 9789004210073
9004210075
128312095X
9781283120951