Roman Nature - The Thought of Pliny the Elder (Hardcover, New)

Pliny's Natural History has too often been regarded as simply a quarry for quaint stories--a view which has tended to overshadow its overall structure and purpose. In this book, Beagon redresses the balance and illuminates the Natural History as the work of an author with an identifiable mode of thinking and a coherent attitude toward his clearly-stated theme, Nature. Taking its cue from Pliny, the book examines his cosmology and in particular his portrayal of the relationship between nature and what he considered nature's greatest creation, Humankind. Author and work are also placed in their wider literary and historical context. Pliny himself emerges no longer as a faceless compiler but as a character with a valuable contribution to make to an understanding of intellectual attitudes in the first century A.D. A more typical Roman than most of the intellectual authors studied today, he can offer a much more accurate picture of the Roman in his "natural" setting.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Classical Monographs
Release date:	June 1992
First published:	July 1992
Authors:	Mary Beagon
Dimensions:	224 x 145 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	270
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-814726-8
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Promotions
LSN:	0-19-814726-0
Barcode:	9780198147268

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