The Natural History of Pliny
Author : Pliny (the Elder.)
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Page : 576 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Science
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Author : Pliny (the Elder.)
Publisher :
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Science
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191518352
As a detailed study of the human animal, described by its author as the raison d'etre of nature, Book Seven of the elder Pliny's Natural History is crucial to the understanding of the work as a whole. In addition, however, it provides a valuable insight into the extraordinary complex of ideas and beliefs current in Pliny's era, many of which have resonances for other eras and cultures. The present study includes a substantial introduction examining the background to Pliny's life, thought, and writing, together with a modern English translation, and a detailed commentary which emphasizes the importance of Book Seven as possibly the most fascinating cultural record surviving from early imperial Rome.
Author : Pliny (the Elder.)
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Page : 544 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Science
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Author : Pliny the Elder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1472521013
Pliny the Elder's Natural History is a vast encyclopaedia, surveying natural phenomena from cosmology to biology, medicine to magic. Direct observation, informed speculation and common knowledge are combined to present a key snapshot of ancient thought and the Romans' perspective on the world around them. Book VII of The Natural History provides a detailed examination of the human animal and is crucial to understanding the work as a whole. In Pliny's eyes, mankind 'for whose sake nature was created', represents the basis for which the natural world was founded and structured. As a result, the book provides valuable insight into the extraordinary complex of ideas and beliefs that were current in Pliny's era. One of the most interesting transitions of subject in The Natural History is that from man to animals (between Books VII and VIII) and for this reason the section on elephants at the beginning of Book VIII is included here, to show how Pliny moves on to his account of the animal he considers 'nearest to the human disposition'. This edition provides the full Latin text accompanied by commentary notes that provide linguistic help and explanations, plus vocabulary lists of Latin terms and an index of proper names. The in-depth introduction provides valuable details about the work's historical, scientific and literary context, as well as an overview of the work's legacy and reception.
Author : Gaius Plinius Secundus
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2015-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781298984678
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Author : Daisy Dunn
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1631496409
“A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world.”—Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder’s notebooks—filled with pearls of wisdom—and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire from the dire days of terror under Emperor Domitian to the gentler times of Emperor Trajan. A biography that will appeal to lovers of Mary Beard books, it is also a moving narrative about the profound influence of a father figure on his adopted son. Interweaving the younger Pliny’s Letters with extracts from the Elder’s Natural History, Daisy Dunn paints a vivid, compellingly readable portrait of two of antiquity’s greatest minds.
Author : Pliny (the Elder.)
Publisher :
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Natural history
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Author : Pliny (the Elder.)
Publisher :
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Science
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Author : Peter Fane-Saunders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 1316419096
The Naturalis historia by Pliny the Elder provided Renaissance scholars, artists and architects with details of ancient architectural practice and long-lost architectural wonders - material that was often unavailable elsewhere in classical literature. Pliny's descriptions frequently included the dimensions of these buildings, as well as details of their unusual construction materials and ornament. This book describes, for the first time, how the passages were interpreted from around 1430 to 1580, that is, from Alberti to Palladio. Chapters are arranged chronologically within three interrelated sections - antiquarianism; architectural writings; drawings and built monuments - thereby making it possible for the reader to follow the changing attitudes to Pliny over the period. The resulting study establishes the Naturalis historia as the single most important literary source after Vitruvius's De architectura.
Author : The Elder Pliny
Publisher :
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 13,45 MB
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781372146084