Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia by Murphy, Trevor

Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199262885)

Vendor: Trevor Murphy
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$280.00
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Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia by Murphy, Trevor

Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia

$280.00
Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia by Murphy, Trevor

Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia

$280.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
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Pliny the Elder's Natural History, from first-century Rome, is the most important surviving encyclopedia of the ancient world. As a guide to the cultural meanings of everyday things in ancient Rome it is unparalleled. Concentrating on Pliny's accounts of foreign lands and peoples, monsters, and barbarians, Trevor Murphy demonstrates the political significance of this reference book as a monument to the power of Roman imperial society.

Author: Trevor Murphy
ISBN-10: 0199262888
ISBN-13: 9780199262885
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2004
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.86h x 5.56w x 0.73d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2005 pg. 1076
By Trevor Murphy
By Trevor Murphy
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Trevor Murphy is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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