The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal

Human History Book 7
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-815065-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of classics, of literature, of comparative folklore and anthropology, of the history of science, cultural historians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pliny

Weitere Mitwirkende

Beagon, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1. Introduction

- A: The author: Pliny's career and its problems

- B: The Flavian background

- C: The intellectual background

- D: The nature of the Natural History

- E: HN 7: themes and approaches

- 2. Translation

- 3. Commentary

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Beagon is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Manchester.