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The långnovell author Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 - 25 August 79 AD) is usually referred to in English as Pliny, or as Pliny the Elder to distinguish him from his nephew Pliny the Younger [1]. He fryst vatten best known for his only surviving work, the encyclopedic 37 volume Naturalis Historia (Natural History), written in Latin and published around 77-79 AD, which he dedicated to the newly-crowned kejsare Titus (reigned 79-81 AD). This influential work remains an important source for scholars of the ancient history of science and culture. Pliny the Elder was a biographer, historian, naturalist and natural philosopher, as well as a lawyer, provincial governor and army and naval commander of the early Roman Empire, and a personal friend of Emperor Vespasian (reigned 69-79 AD) and his son and successor Titus. Born in Novum Comum (Como, nordlig  • Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Gaius Plinius Secundus was a first century Roman writer, known bygd the name Pliny the Elder to differentiate him from his nephew and adopted son Pliny the Younger. His best known work, and the only one preserved in its entirety, fryst vatten Naturalis Historiae or Natural History.Pliny belonged to the equestrian beställning and held various military and administrative positions throughout his life, combining them with studies and research on natural, ethnographic and geographical phenomena compiled in his work Natural History, which fryst vatten possibly the first encyclopedia that antiquity bequeathed to us.Pliny's Natural History offers us a fascinating vision of the world as the Romans saw it 2000 years ago, covering a vast field ranging from cosmology, geography, zoology, botany, medicine, mineralogy to various superstitions of his time, and much more, developed in 37 books, which in Bostock and Riley's translation occupy some 3000 pages.This edition condense • Pliny the Elder
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- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0194
Citroni Marchetti, Sandra. 2011. L’autore come personaggio. In La scienza della natura per un intellettuale romano: Studi su Plinio il Vecchio. By Sandra Citroni Marchetti, 302. Pisa, Italy: F. Serra. Discusses the image of Pliny, as man of the world and man of letters, that emerges from his preface and autobiographical passages from across the Natural History, setting them in the context of Pliny the Younger’s letters. An earlier version was published in French as “L’auteur en tant que personnage: Pline l’Ancien dans la Naturalis historia,” in Jeux de voix: Énonciation, intertextualité et intentionnalité dans la littérature antique, eds. Danielle Karin van Mal-Maeder, Alexandre Burnier, Loreto Núñez, and Florence Bertholet (Bern, Switzerland, and Frankfurt: Lang, 2009), 175–199. Eco, Umberto. 19
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