02483nam 2200577 a 450 99621785020331620230617041151.01-280-75917-897866107591700-19-153233-91-4237-8666-1(CKB)1000000000375209(EBL)728960(OCoLC)70222051(SSID)ssj0000088778(PQKBManifestationID)11127203(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000088778(PQKBWorkID)10083212(PQKB)11629863(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073786(MiAaPQ)EBC728960(MiAaPQ)EBC7036843(Au-PeEL)EBL7036843(EXLCZ)99100000000037520920040614d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPliny the Elder's natural history[electronic resource] the empire in the encyclopedia /Trevor MurphyOxford Oxford University Press20041 online resource (244 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-171900-5 0-19-926288-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: Encyclopedia as Artefact; I. Reading the Natural History; II. The Ethnographies of the Natural History; Conclusion: Encyclopedias and Monuments; Bibliography; IndexThe 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 EthnologyRomeHistoryEmpire, 30 B.C.-284 A.DEthnology.937.06Murphy Trevor Morgan622371MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996217850203316Pliny the Elder's Natural history1105680UNISA