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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge innovations in political theory ;
50. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The structure of Pliny's natural history
- Plinian man
- Pliny's defense of empire
- Conclusion: Pliny's redemption.