Pliny the elder: themes and contexts

by Gibson, Roy K.

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Full title :Pliny the elder : themes and contexts / ed. by Roy K. Gibson ...

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:XIV, 248 Seiten.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004202344, 900420234X
oclc:ocn723539630
LC Classification:PA6614

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.