| Description |
1 online resource (233 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 Pliny's accounts of foreign lands and peoples, the monstrous, and the barbarian. Furthermore, Pliny's ethnographies and geography demonstrate how Roman power outstrips the rest of the world in the control of the powers of nature." "The selection and arrangement of the encyclopedia's material show that it is more than an instrument of reference: it is a monument to the power of Roman imperial society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia.
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| SUBJECT |
Naturalis historia (Pliny, the Elder) fast |
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Ethnology.
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social anthropology.
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ethnology.
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HISTORY -- Ancient.
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Ethnology
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Naturalis historia (Plinius maior)
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115127
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115128
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191532337 |
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0191532339 |
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9780191719004 |
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0191719005 |
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