Pliny the Elder themes and contexts /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| 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.