Pliny the Elder's Natural History, from first-century Rome, is the most important surviving encyclopedia of the ancient world. As a guide to the cultural meanings of everyday things in ancient Rome it is unparalleled. Concentrating on Pliny's accounts of foreign lands and peoples, monsters, and barbarians, Trevor Murphy demonstrates the political significance of this reference book as a monument to the power of Roman imperial society.
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"Murphy takes a provocative new approach as he concentrates on ethnography and geography in Pliny. Murphy argues persuasively that reference works are a kind of institutional knowledge, and that military, political, and commercial power of Rome provided subject matter for Pliny.... Highly recommended."--Choice
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Trevor Murphy is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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In order to examine Pliny's Natural History as a cultural artefact, it is necessary to say something first about the logic on which the encyclopedia is constructed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
encyclios paideia, ancient ethnography, encyclopedic project, monstrous races Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pliny the Younger, Gallic War, Jewish War, Black Sea, Larcius Licinus, Pillars of Hercules, Germanische Urgeschichte, Golden Age, Natural Questions, Pliny the Elder, Roman Nature, Aulus Gellius, Cloaca Maxima, Dead Sea, Alexander the Great, Asia Minor, Creation of Provincial, Diodorus Siculus, Julius Caesar, King Juba, New York, Noctes Atticae, Aelius Gallus, Antiken Ethnographie, Cato the Younger New!
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In order to examine Pliny's Natural History as a cultural artefact, it is necessary to say something first about the logic on which the encyclopedia is constructed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
encyclios paideia, ancient ethnography, encyclopedic project, monstrous races Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pliny the Younger, Gallic War, Jewish War, Black Sea, Larcius Licinus, Pillars of Hercules, Germanische Urgeschichte, Golden Age, Natural Questions, Pliny the Elder, Roman Nature, Aulus Gellius, Cloaca Maxima, Dead Sea, Alexander the Great, Asia Minor, Creation of Provincial, Diodorus Siculus, Julius Caesar, King Juba, New York, Noctes Atticae, Aelius Gallus, Antiken Ethnographie, Cato the Younger New!
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- The Jewish War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Flavius Josephus on 8 pages
- Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature (Sciences of Antiquity Series) by Roger French on 4 pages
- Civil War (Oxford World's Classics) by Lucan on 4 pages
- Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and His Achievement by Leofranc Holford-Strevens on 4 pages
- Noctes atticae by Aulus Gellius on page 54, page 57, and page 91
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