| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature,
0169-8958 ;
329
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ;
v. 329.
0169-8958
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and indexes. |
| 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 : 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia.
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Naturalis historia (Pliny, the Elder) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gibson, Roy K.
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Morello, Ruth.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pliny the Elder. Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004202344 (DLC) 2010052744 (OCoLC)694238168 |
| ISBN |
9789004210073 (electronic book) |
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9004210075 (electronic book) |
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128312095X |
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9781283120951 |
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9789004202344 |
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900420234X |
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