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Pliny's Defense of Empire (Paperback)
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Pliny's Defense of Empire (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
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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
understanding of the text traceable to its initial reception in
ancient Rome. Recognition of the text's true structure reveals that
Pliny's encyclopedia is in fact a first-rate work of political
philosophy constituting an apology for Roman imperial expansionism
grounded in a sophisticated account of human nature. Correcting the
accreted errors and prejudices of nearly 2,000 years of faulty
Plinian scholarship, Laehn critically examines one of the most
persuasive apologies for the Roman Empire ever written and succeeds
in rehabilitating the Elder Pliny as one of the world's greatest
political thinkers. An excellent resource and a must read for
scholars in political theory, philosophy, and classical studies.
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