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Pliny the Elder's Natural History
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Trevor Murphy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-11 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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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 every
The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal
Language: en
Pages: 538
Authors:
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-03-17 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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As a detailed study of the human animal, described by its author as the raison d'etre of nature, Book Seven of the elder Pliny's Natural History is crucial to t
Natural History
Language: en
Pages: 606
Authors: Pliny the Elder
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-12-03 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Pliny’s Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with of
The Letters of The Younger Pliny
Language: en
Pages: 355
Authors: the younger Pliny
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-06-17 - Publisher: Lebooks Editora

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The Letters of Pliny the Younger, also known as the Epistles of Pliny the Younger, have been studied for centuries, as they offer a unique and intimate glimpse
Ordering the Heavens
Language: en
Pages: 478
Authors: Bruce Eastwood
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: BRILL

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Based on scores of medieval manuscript texts and diagrams, the book shows how Roman sources were used in the age of Charlemagne to reintroduce and expand a qual