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Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia Murphy, Trevor (, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley)
Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia
Murphy, Trevor (, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley)
'Pliny the Elder's Natural History', from first-century Rome, is a guide to the cultural meanings of everyday things in ancient Rome. Concentrating on Pliny's accounts of foreign lands and peoples, monsters, and barbarians, Trevor Murphy demonstrates the political significance of this reference as a monument to the power of Roman imperial society.
244 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 20, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199262885 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 244 |
| Dimensions | 222 × 147 × 26 mm · 435 g |
| Language | English |