Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004210073
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2011
Content:
Preliminary Material /R. Gibson and R. Morello -- Chapter One. Pliny The Elder’s Attitude To Warfare /Rhiannon Ash -- Chapter Two. The Roman’s Burden /Andrew Fear -- Chapter Three. Luxury And The Creation Of A Good Consumer /Eugenia Lao -- Chapter Four. Imperialism, Mirabilia, And Knowledge: Some Paradoxes In The Naturalis Historia /Valérie Naas -- Chapter Five. The Curious Eye Of The Elder Pliny /Mary Beagon -- Chapter Six. Philosophy And Science In The Elder Pliny’s Naturalis Historia /Ernesto Paparazzo -- Chapter Seven. The Science And Aesthetics Of Names In The Natural History /Aude Doody -- Chapter Eight,. Pliny On Apion /Cynthia Damon -- Chapter Nine. Pliny And The Encyclopaedic Addressee /Ruth Morello -- Chapter Ten. Encyclopaedic Exemplarity In Pliny The Elder /Clemence Schultze -- Chapter Eleven. Elder And Better: The Naturalis Historia And The Letters Of The Younger Pliny /Roy K . Gibson -- Chapter Twelve. The Vita Plinii /Michael Reeve -- Bibliography /R. Gibson and R. Morello -- General Index /R. Gibson and R. Morello -- Index Of Passages /R. Gibson and R. Morello.
Content:
Pliny's Naturalis Historia – a brilliant and sophisticated encyclopaedia of the scientific, artistic, philosophical, botanical and zoological riches of the ancient world – has had a long career in the footnotes of historical studies. This is a phenomenon born of the sense that the work was there to consult, or to ‘use’, as a resource to aid investigation of specific technical issues or passages, of Quellenforschung, or of delimited topic areas. The contributors to the present volume both represent and join a new generation of critics who have begun to try to ‘read’ this monumental text, and – by examining the dominant motifs which give shape and order to the work – to construct frameworks within which we may understand and interpret Pliny’s overarching agenda
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-240) and indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004202344 (alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 900420234X (alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004210073 (electronic book)
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004202344(alk.paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 900420234X(alk.paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004210073(electronicbook)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/ej.9789004202344.i-248
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