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Roman Nature

Name: Roman Nature
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 04522032
Price: 88971 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: Mary Beagon
ISBN: 9780198147268

The Thought of Pliny the Elder

Mary Beagon

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04522032

Publishers Oxford University Press, June 1992

Pliny's Natural History has too often been regarded as simply a quarry for quaint stories - a view w... Full description

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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.