Roman Nature the Thought of Pliny of Elder

Name: Roman Nature the Thought of Pliny of Elder
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By Mary Beagon

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Pliny's Natural History has too often been regarded as simply a quarry for quaint stories--a view which has tended to overshadow its overall structure and purpose. In this book, Dr. Beagon redresses the balance and illuminates the Natural History as the work of an author with an identifiable mode of thinking and a coherent attitude towards his clearly-stated theme, Nature. Taking its cue from Pliny, the book examines his cosmology and in particular his portrayal of the relationship between nature and the creation he considered her greatest, Man. Author and work are also placed in their wider literary and historical context. Pliny himself emerges no longer as a faceless compiler but as a character with a valuable contribution to make to an understanding of intellectual attitudes in the first century AD. A more typical Roman than most of the intellectual authors studied today, he can offer a much more accurate picture of the Roman in his natural setting.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 272
Release Date:: 1992-07-23
Publication Date:: 1992-04-06
Publisher:: OUP Oxford
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0198147260
ISBN13:: 9780198147268
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 518 g
Height:: 14.5 cm
Width:: 22.2 cm
Thickness:: 2 cm

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