Pliny''s Encyclopedia : The Reception of the Natural History
by
Aude Doody
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521491037
ISBN-13
9780521491037
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 11th, 2010
Print length
204 Pages
Weight
470 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.70 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
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This book examines responses to Pliny the Elder's Natural History over the last two millennia, making a major contribution not only to the study of the work itself, which has usually been characterised as an encyclopedia, but also to our understanding of the reception of classical literature and ideas since antiquity.
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 of the cultural processes of ordering knowledge widespread in the Roman Empire and to the reception of classical literature and ideas.
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