The Natural History of Pliny
Author | : Pliny (the Elder.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Pliny (the Elder.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2005-03-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191518352 |
As a detailed study of the human animal, described by its author as the raison d'etre of nature, Book Seven of the elder Pliny's Natural History is crucial to the understanding of the work as a whole. In addition, however, it provides a valuable insight into the extraordinary complex of ideas and beliefs current in Pliny's era, many of which have resonances for other eras and cultures. The present study includes a substantial introduction examining the background to Pliny's life, thought, and writing, together with a modern English translation, and a detailed commentary which emphasizes the importance of Book Seven as possibly the most fascinating cultural record surviving from early imperial Rome.
Author | : Pliny (the Elder.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : The Elder Pliny |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781015639522 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Pliny the Elder |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2015-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472521013 |
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.
Author | : Pliny (the Elder.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : American Museum of Natural History |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Illustrated books |
ISBN | : 9781454912149 |
Highlights 40 masterworks of illustrated scientific art from the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History.
Author | : Kathryn Olivarius |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 0674241053 |
Introduction: A rising necropolis -- Patriotic fever -- Danse macabre -- Immunocapital -- Public health, private acclimation -- Denial, delusion, and disunion -- Incumbent arrogance -- Epilogue: Fever and folly.
Author | : Pliny (the Elder) |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1847 |
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Author | : Kathryn Gin Lum |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2022-05-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0674275799 |
Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians “A fascinating book...Gin Lum suggests that, in many times and places, the divide between Christian and ‘heathen’ was the central divide in American life.”—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker “Offers a dazzling range of examples to substantiate its thesis. Rare is the reader who could dip into it without becoming much better informed on a great many topics historical, literary, and religious. So many of Gin Lum’s examples are enlightening and informative in their own right.”—Philip Jenkins, Christian Century “Brilliant...Gin Lum’s writing style is nuanced, clear, detailed yet expansive, and accessible, which will make the book a fit for both graduate and undergraduate classrooms. Any scholar of American history should have a copy.” —Emily Suzanne Clark, S-USIH: Society for U.S. Intellectual History In this sweeping historical narrative, Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the idea of the heathen has been maintained from the colonial era to the present in religious and secular discourses—discourses, specifically, of race. Americans long viewed the world as a realm of suffering heathens whose lands and lives needed their intervention to flourish. The term “heathen” fell out of common use by the early 1900s, leading some to imagine that racial categories had replaced religious differences. But the ideas underlying the figure of the heathen did not disappear. Americans still treat large swaths of the world as “other” due to their assumed need for conversion to American ways. Race continues to operate as a heathen inheritance in the United States, animating Americans’ sense of being a world apart from an undifferentiated mass of needy, suffering peoples. Heathen thus reveals a key source of American exceptionalism and a prism through which Americans have defined themselves as a progressive and humanitarian nation even as supposed heathens have drawn on the same to counter this national myth.