Pliny's Catalogue of Culture
Subtitle: Art and Empire in the Natural History (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 15, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780199207657
First sentence: Despite the practice, from the Renaissance onwards, of recognizing famous literary figures from the ancient world in the surviving portraiture, no ancient portrait has ever been identified as Pliny the Elder.