Pliny the Elder themes and contexts /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Gibson, Roy K., Morello, Ruth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; v. 329.
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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.