The letters of Pliny the Younger have preserved for posterity a precious portrait of First Century life, detailing the daily routines of the Roman times and the

The Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder’s encyclopaedic ‘Natural History’, composed in 37 books, remains an unrivalled compendium of Roman knowledge. Delphi�

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