TRAINA Giusto, VIAL-LOGEAY Anne.
Pliny the Elder's Inventory of the World. From the Pillars of Hercules to the confines of Africa and Asia. Scripta Antiqua 165.
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| N° d'inventaire | 26138 |
| Format | 17 x 23.5 |
| Détails | 200 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782356135247 |
| The texts gathered here propose to provide new material to support the interpretation of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, a key text for understanding the Roman Principate. In fact, this "encyclopedia" can be considered a true inventory of the Roman world around the 1st century AD. In his scholarly and astute compilation work, Pliny did not limit himself to collating information from Roman and "foreign" authors (in fact, Greeks); he regularly highlighted the former, in order to free himself from the weight of Greek authorities and present the world as seen by a Roman, giving priority to the geographical dimension: from North Africa to the Caucasus and Iran, via Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt. Without neglecting, of course, Rome or Italy. |
| The texts gathered here propose to provide new material to support the interpretation of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, a key text for understanding the Roman Principate. In fact, this "encyclopedia" can be considered a true inventory of the Roman world around the 1st century AD. In his scholarly and astute compilation work, Pliny did not limit himself to collating information from Roman and "foreign" authors (in fact, Greeks); he regularly highlighted the former, in order to free himself from the weight of Greek authorities and present the world as seen by a Roman, giving priority to the geographical dimension: from North Africa to the Caucasus and Iran, via Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt. Without neglecting, of course, Rome or Italy. |