Format:
Online-Ressource (233 p)
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22 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0199262888
Content:
The most important surviving encyclopedia from the ancient world, Pliny the Elder's Natural History is unparalleled as a guide to the cultural meanings of everyday things in first-century Rome. As part of a new direction in classical scholarship, Trevor Murphy reads the work not just for the information it contains, but to understand how and why Pliny collects and presents information as he does. Concentrating on the geographic and ethnographic information in Pliny, Murphydemonstrates the work's political importance. The selection and arrangement of the encyclopedia's material show that it is
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index
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Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: Encyclopedia as Artefact; I. Reading the Natural History; II. The Ethnographies of the Natural History; Conclusion: Encyclopedias and Monuments; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Print version Pliny the Elder's Natural History : The Empire in the Encyclopedia
Language:
English
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