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Roman Nature

The Thought of Pliny the Elder

Autor: Mary Beagon
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Oxford University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Pliny's Natural History has too often been regarded as simply a quarry for quaint stories - a view w...

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Autor
Mary Beagon
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
1992
Pagini
270
EAN
9780198147268
ISBN
0198147260
Enbook ID
04522032
Editura
Oxford University Press
Greutate
490
Dimensiuni
147 x 226 x 24

Descriere completă

Pliny's Natural History has too often been regarded as simply a quarry for quaint stories - a view which has tended to overshadow its overall structure and purpose. Dr Beagon redresses the balance and illuminates the Natural History as the work of an author with an identifiable mode of thinking and a coherent attitude towards his clearly-stated theme, Nature. Taking its cue from Pliny, the book examines his cosmology and in particular his portrayal of the relationship between Nature and the creation he considered her greatest, Man. Author and work are also placed in their wider literary and historical context. Pliny himself emerges no longer as a faceless compiler, but as a character with a valuable contribution to make to an understanding of intellectual attitudes in the first century AD. A more typical Roman than most of the intellectual authors studied today, he can offer a much more accurate picture of the Roman in his 'natural' setting.

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