Description
Product ID: | 9780521491037 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Pliny's Encyclopedia |
Subtitle: | The Reception of the Natural History |
Authors: | Author: Aude Doody |
Page Count: | 204 |
Subjects: | Ancient history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, History of ideas, History of science, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, History of ideas, History of science |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2010-02-11 |