Pliny the Elder
Subtitle: themes and contexts
By: edited by Roy K. Gibson, Ruth Morello
Series: Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman latin language and literature -- 329
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9789004202344
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-240) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Pliny the Elder's attitude to warfare / Rhiannon Ash; title: Roman's burden / Andrew Fear; title: Luxury and the creation of a good consumer / Eugenia Lao; title: Imperialism, mirabilia, and knowledge: some paradoxes in the Naturalis historia / Valerie Naas; title: Curious eye of the Elder Pliny / Mary Beagon; title: Philosophy and science in the Elder Pliny's Naturalis historia / Ernesto Paparazzo; title: Science and aesthetics of names in the Naturalis historia / Aude Doody; title: Pliny on Apion / Cynthia Damon; title: Pliny and the encyclopaedic addressee / Ruth Morello; title: Encylcopaedic exemplarity in Pliny the Elder / Clemence Schultze; title: Elder and better: the Naturalis historia and the letters of the younger Pliny / Roy K. Gibson; title: Vita Plinii / Michael Reeve.