UID:
almahu_9949702501502882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004210073
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2011
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.
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Preliminary Material /
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Chapter One. Pliny The Elder's Attitude To Warfare /
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Chapter Two. The Roman's Burden /
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Chapter Three. Luxury And The Creation Of A Good Consumer /
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Chapter Four. Imperialism, Mirabilia, And Knowledge: Some Paradoxes In The Naturalis Historia /
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Chapter Five. The Curious Eye Of The Elder Pliny /
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Chapter Six. Philosophy And Science In The Elder Pliny's Naturalis Historia /
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Chapter Seven. The Science And Aesthetics Of Names In The Natural History /
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Chapter Eight,. Pliny On Apion /
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Chapter Nine. Pliny And The Encyclopaedic Addressee /
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Chapter Ten. Encyclopaedic Exemplarity In Pliny The Elder /
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Chapter Eleven. Elder And Better: The Naturalis Historia And The Letters Of The Younger Pliny /
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Chapter Twelve. The Vita Plinii /
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Bibliography /
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General Index /
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Index Of Passages /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004202344 (alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 900420234X (alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004210073 (electronic book)
Language:
English
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