Pliny the Elder's natural history [[electronic resource] ] : the empire in the encyclopedia / / Trevor Murphy
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| Autore: |
Murphy Trevor Morgan
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| Titolo: |
Pliny the Elder's natural history [[electronic resource] ] : the empire in the encyclopedia / / Trevor Murphy
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 937.06 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethnology |
| Soggetto geografico: | Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: Encyclopedia as Artefact; I. Reading the Natural History; II. The Ethnographies of the Natural History; Conclusion: Encyclopedias and Monuments; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pliny the Elder's Natural history |
| ISBN: | 1-280-75917-8 |
| 9786610759170 | |
| 0-19-153233-9 | |
| 1-4237-8666-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996217850203316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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