Pliny elder themes contexts (5 résultats)

Large octavo (245 x 165 mm), publisher's illustrated hardcover, XIV, 248 pp., a well preserved copy. [MnS - Mnemosyne Supplements; 329]. - ISBN: 9789004202344. - Contents/Inhalt : 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. Description based upon print version of record.; Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; English ||| Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia - Plinius, der Ältere. Naturalis historia - [00B | SOD | oR ] 590 g.…

Etat : new.

Hardcover. Etat : Brand New. 248 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Etat : New. &Uumlber den AutorRoy K Gibson, Ph.D. (1993) in Classics, University of Cambridge, is Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester. He has published extensively on Augustan poetry, and is co-editor with Ruth Morello of Re-imaginin.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 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.…