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Pliny´s Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History
Aude Doody
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Description for Pliny´s Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History
Hardcover. This book examines responses to Pliny the Elder's encyclopedic Natural History over the last two millennia. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 470.
The Elder Pliny's Natural History is one of the largest and most extraordinary works to survive from antiquity. It has often been referred to as an encyclopedia, usually without full awareness of what such a characterisation implies. In this book, Dr Doody examines this concept and its applicability to the work, paying far more attention than ever before to the varying ways in which it has been read during the last two thousand years, especially by Francis Bacon and Denis Diderot. This book makes a major contribution not just to the study of the Elder Pliny but to our understanding ... Read more
The Elder Pliny's Natural History is one of the largest and most extraordinary works to survive from antiquity. It has often been referred to as an encyclopedia, usually without full awareness of what such a characterisation implies. In this book, Dr Doody examines this concept and its applicability to the work, paying far more attention than ever before to the varying ways in which it has been read during the last two thousand years, especially by Francis Bacon and Denis Diderot. This book makes a major contribution not just to the study of the Elder Pliny but to our understanding ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521491037
SKU
V9780521491037
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About Aude Doody
Aude Doody is Lecturer in Classics at University College Dublin. She has published articles on Pliny the Elder and his Natural History and on Latin literature, and has co-edited (with Liba Taub) Authorial Voices in Greco-Roman Technical Writing (2009).
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