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Recovering a Late-Antique Edition of Pliny's Natural History" (Hardcover, New edition)
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Recovering a Late-Antique Edition of Pliny's Natural History" (Hardcover, New edition)
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Half a dozen authors quote a total of over forty extracts from
Pliny's Natural History that are absent from our manuscripts of
Pliny. These extracts have been virtually ignored by scholars, and
never studied systematically. This book demonstrates that the
half-dozen sources, Latin writers of the fifth to thirteenth
centuries CE, are reliable, and argues that their extracts should
be received as good evidence of a hitherto unsuspected augmented
edition of Pliny, probably produced around 300 to 350 CE. Greek
writers of the same era produced augmented versions of scientific
texts to update, expand, and "complete" the work of the original
authors. Pliny's own work is composed in such a way as to invite
augmentation. Paul T. Keyser's efforts to recover the augmented
Natural History suggest that late-antique Latin writers were also
renovators of their scientific literature. The unknown augmentor,
Keyser argues, was aiming to "complete" Pliny with new data, and to
organize Pliny's sometimes scattered presentations, all with the
aim of making Pliny's work more useful. The evidence shows that
even in unfavorable times, some Latin writers were able to continue
practicing science.
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