TY - BOOK ID - 77936482 TI - Pliny the Elder AU - Gibson, Roy K AU - Morello, Ruth PY - 2011 SN - 128312095X 9786613120953 9004210075 9789004210073 9781283120951 9789004202344 900420234X PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Pliny, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77936482 AB - Pliny's Naturalis Historia – a brilliant and sophisticated encyclopaedia of the scientific, artistic, philosophical, botanical and zoological riches of the ancient world – has had a long career in the footnotes of historical studies. This is a phenomenon born of the sense that the work was there to consult, or to ‘use’, as a resource to aid investigation of specific technical issues or passages, of Quellenforschung, or of delimited topic areas. The contributors to the present volume both represent and join a new generation of critics who have begun to try to ‘read’ this monumental text, and – by examining the dominant motifs which give shape and order to the work – to construct frameworks within which we may understand and interpret Pliny’s overarching agenda. ER -