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Pliny the Elder: The Natural History Book VII (with Book VIII 1-34)

By: Pliny the Elder

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Pliny the Elder: The Natural History Book VII (with Book VIII 1-34)

By: Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder's Natural History is a vast encyclopaedia, surveying natural phenomena from cosmology to biology, medicine to magic. Direct observation, informed speculation and common knowledge are combined to present a key snapshot of ancient thought and the Romans' perspective on the world around them. Book VII of The Natural History provides a detailed examination of the human animal and is crucial to understanding the work as a whole. In Pliny's eyes, mankind 'for whose sake nature was created', represents the basis for which the natural world was founded and structured. As a result, the book provides valuable insight into the extraordinary complex of ideas and beliefs that were current in Pliny's era. One of the most interesting transitions of subject in The Natural History is that from man to animals (between Books VII and VIII) and for this reason the section on elephants at the beginning of Book VIII is included here, to show how Pliny moves on to his account of the animal he considers 'nearest to the human disposition'. This edition provides the full Latin text accompanied by commentary notes that provide linguistic help and explanations, plus vocabulary lists of Latin terms and an index of proper names. The in-depth introduction provides valuable details about the work's historical, scientific and literary context, as well as an overview of the work's legacy and reception.

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1472521013

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Natural History

A Selection

By: Pliny the Elder,Pliny (the Elder.)

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A Selection

By: Pliny the Elder,Pliny (the Elder.)

Pliny’s Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of diving for sponges, the first water-clock, or the use of asses’ milk to remove wrinkles. Pliny himself died while investigating the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii in AD 79, and the natural curiosity that brought about his death is also very much evident in the Natural History — a book that proved highly influential right up until the Renaissance and that his nephew, Pliny the younger, described ‘as full of variety as nature itself’. John F. Healy has made a fascinating and varied selection from the Natural History for this clear, modern translation. In his introduction, he discusses the book and its sources topic by topic. This edition also includes a full index and notes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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0140444130

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The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal

Natural History Book 7

By: Pliny (the Elder.)

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Natural History Book 7

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The Selected Letters of Pliny

By: Pliny the Younger,William Melmoth,F. C. T. Bosanquet

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The Selected Letters of Pliny

By: Pliny the Younger,William Melmoth,F. C. T. Bosanquet

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Younger was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Born of the equestrian rank, the lower of the two Roman aristocratic orders, Pliny would ascend to the higher rank, the senatorial order, by being elected Quaestor in his late twenties. The nephew of Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger would have correspondence with numerous important Roman figures throughout his lifetime, including the Emperor Trajan, of which the latter portion of this work focuses on. This representative selection of Pliny the Younger's letters serves as an important first hand document of Roman life and politics during the first century AD.

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1420934589

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Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles'

By: Pliny the Younger,Pliny (the Younger.)

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Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles'

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The first modern literary commentary on Pliny the Younger's Epistles II, essential reading for students and scholars of Roman literature.

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1107006899

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Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles' Book II

By: Pliny the Younger

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Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles' Book II

By: Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger's nine-book Epistles is a masterpiece of Roman prose. Often mined as a historical and pedagogical sourcebook, this collection of 'private' letters is now finding recognition as a rich and rewarding work in its own right. The second book is a typically varied yet taut suite of miniatures, including among its twenty letters the trial of Marius Priscus and Pliny's famous portrait of his Laurentine villa. This edition, the first to address a complete book of Epistles in over a century, presents a Latin text together with an introduction and commentary intended for students, teachers and scholars. With clear linguistic explanations and full literary analysis, it invites readers to a fresh appreciation of Pliny's lettered art.

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1316102149

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Pliny the Elder: The Natural History Book VII (with Book VIII 1-34)

By: Pliny the Elder

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The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal

Natural History Book 7

By: Pliny (the Elder.)

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Correspondence with Trajan from Bythinia (Epistles X)

By: Pliny (the Younger.)

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Correspondence with Trajan from Bythinia (Epistles X)

By: Pliny (the Younger.)

Pliny's letters sent to Trajan from Bithynia, and Trajan's replies are the only surviving file of letters between a provincial governor and his emperor. The edition makes this record accessible to even those with no knowledge of Latin.

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0856684082

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Complete Letters

By: Pliny (the Younger.)

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Complete Letters

By: Pliny (the Younger.)

In the introduction to his new translation, P.G. Walsh examines the background to these often intimate and enthralling letters."--Jacket.

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Book's by The Elder Pliny

Pliny the Elder: The Natural History Book VII (with Book VIII 1-34)

Pliny the Elder: The Natural History Book VII (with Book VIII 1-34)

Natural History

Natural History

The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal

The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal

The Selected Letters of Pliny

The Selected Letters of Pliny

Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles'

Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles'

Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles' Book II

Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles' Book II

Pliny the Elder: The Natural History Book VII (with Book VIII 1-34)

Pliny the Elder: The Natural History Book VII (with Book VIII 1-34)

The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal

The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal

Correspondence with Trajan from Bythinia (Epistles X)

Correspondence with Trajan from Bythinia (Epistles X)

Complete Letters

Complete Letters

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