Pliny the Elder : themes and contexts / / edited by Roy K. Gibson, Ruth Morello
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| Titolo: |
Pliny the Elder : themes and contexts / / edited by Roy K. Gibson, Ruth Morello
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 500 |
| Altri autori: |
GibsonRoy K
MorelloRuth
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pliny the Elder |
| ISBN: | 1-283-12095-X |
| 9786613120953 | |
| 90-04-21007-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910970910003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. . -Supplementum. . -Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; ; v. 329.