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Print Price: $90.00

Format:
Paperback
537 pp.
138 mm x 216 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199277018

Publication date:
April 2005

Imprint: OUP UK

The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal

Natural History Book 7

Mary Beagon

Series : Clarendon Ancient History Series

Readership : Scholars and students of classics, of literature, of comparative folklore and anthropology, of the history of science; cultural historians.

1. Introduction
A. The author: Pliny's career and its problems
B. The Flavian background
C. The intellectual background
D. The nature of the Natural History
E. HN 7: themes and approaches
2. Translation
3. Commentary

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Mary Beagon is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Manchester.

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Special Features

A study of a key book in Pliny's Natural History: his account of the human race
Includes an in-depth historical commentary, focusing on culture, ideas, and beliefs, an up-to-date English translation, and a substantial introduction to Pliny and his work