Pliny the Elder's Natural history : the Empire in the encyclopedia /

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." "Murphy demonstrates the Natural History's political significance by concentrating on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Murphy, Trevor Morgan
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:	Pliny, > the Elder. > Naturalis historia. Pline, > l'Ancien. > Naturalis historia. Naturalis historia (Pliny, the Elder) Ethnology. Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Ethnologie. Rome > Histoire > 30 av. J.-C.-476 (Empire) Rome > Histoire > 30 av. J.-C.-284 (Empire) social anthropology. ethnology. HISTORY > Ancient. Ethnology Rome (Empire) Naturalis historia (Plinius maior) 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Electronic books. History
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

I: Reading the natural history
The shape of the natural history
Knowledge as a commodity
II: The ethnographies of the natural history
Reading the ethnographies
Triumphal geography
After Rome: the ends of the world
Encyclopedias and monuments.