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Pliny's defense of empire /

Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, the world's first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for centuries Pliny has been derided as little more than an inept compiler of facts and marvels int...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Laehn, Thomas R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, New York : Routledge, 2013.
Colección:Routledge innovations in political theory ; 50.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, the world's first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for centuries Pliny has been derided as little more than an inept compiler of facts and marvels intellectually incapable of formulating a cogent argument supported through the selective marshaling of his materials. In Pliny's Defense of Empire, Laehn offers a radical reinterpretation of the architecture of Pliny's encyclopedia, exposing fundamental errors in the inherited understand.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (1 volume)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781136676246
1136676244
9780203581209
0203581202