03424nam 2200613 a 450 991097091000332120250828230516.01-283-12095-X978661312095390-04-21007-510.1163/ej.9789004202344.i-248(CKB)2670000000092695(EBL)717510(OCoLC)729246438(SSID)ssj0000502866(PQKBManifestationID)11321087(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000502866(PQKBWorkID)10527465(PQKB)10178694(MiAaPQ)EBC717510(nllekb)BRILL9789004210073(Au-PeEL)EBL717510(CaPaEBR)ebr10470659(CaONFJC)MIL312095(PPN)174388640(OCoLC)694238168(EXLCZ)99267000000009269520101220d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPliny the Elder themes and contexts /edited by Roy K. Gibson, Ruth Morello1st ed.Leiden ;Boston Brill20111 online resource (262 p.)Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature,0169-8958 ;v. 329Description based upon print version of record.90-04-20234-X Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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.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.Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava.Supplementum.Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ;v. 329.500Gibson Roy K284512Morello Ruth732503MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970910003321Pliny the Elder2202652UNINA