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Author Roller, Duane W., author.

Title A guide to the geography of Pliny the Elder / Duane W. Roller, Ohio State University
Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents Pliny's list of sources -- Cosmology -- Southern Europe -- The Greek peninsula and interior Europe -- Africa and Western Asia -- The remainder of Asia
Summary "One of the features of the Natural History is the catalogue of topics and sources that comprises Book 1, a rare component of an ancient text. It provides the subjects of each book, followed by a list of the number of items within it. For Book 2 this is limited to "facts, investigations, and observations," but for books 3-6 there is the number of "towns and peoples, famous rivers, famous mountains, islands, towns and peoples that have perished," and then the summary, "facts, investigations, and observations." The actual numbers for Books 3 and 4 are missing. Only the number of islands (118) survives for Book 5, and Book 6 has the complete sequence of numbers"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia.
Pliny, the Elder.
SUBJECT Naturalis historia (Pliny, the Elder) fast
Subject Geography, Ancient -- Early works to 1800
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Geography, Ancient
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108693660
1108693660
9781108617307
1108617301