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Pliny the Elder : themes and contexts / edited by Roy K. Gibson, Ruth Morello.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; v. 329.
- Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 0169-8958 ; v. 329
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia.
- Pliny.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-12095-X
- 9786613120953
- 90-04-21007-5
- OCLC:
- 729246438
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004202344.i-248 DOI
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