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- catalog abstract ""The most important surviving encyclopedia from the ancient world, Pliny the Elder's Natural History is unparalleled as a guide to the cultural meanings of everyday things in first-century Rome." "Murphy demonstrates the Natural History's political significance by concentrating on Pliny's accounts of foreign lands and peoples, the monstrous, and the barbarian. Furthermore, Pliny's ethnographies and geography demonstrate how Roman power outstrips the rest of the world in the control of the powers of nature." "The selection and arrangement of the encylopedia's material show that it is more than an instrument of reference: it is a monument to the power of Roman imperial society."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b13188188.
- catalog coverage "Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""The most important surviving encyclopedia from the ancient world, Pliny the Elder's Natural History is unparalleled as a guide to the cultural meanings of everyday things in first-century Rome." "Murphy demonstrates the Natural History's political significance by concentrating on Pliny's accounts of foreign lands and peoples, the monstrous, and the barbarian. Furthermore, Pliny's ethnographies and geography demonstrate how Roman power outstrips the rest of the world in the control of the powers of nature." "The selection and arrangement of the encylopedia's material show that it is more than an instrument of reference: it is a monument to the power of Roman imperial society."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "I: Reading the natural history -- The shape of the natural history -- Knowledge as a commodity -- II: The ethnographies of the natural history -- Reading the ethnographies -- Triumphal geography -- After Rome: the ends of the world -- Encyclopedias and monuments.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.".
- catalog extent "233 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0199262888".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.".
- catalog subject "937.06 21".
- catalog subject "Ethnology.".
- catalog subject "Pliny, the Elder. Naturalis historia.".
- catalog subject "QH41 .M87 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "I: Reading the natural history -- The shape of the natural history -- Knowledge as a commodity -- II: The ethnographies of the natural history -- Reading the ethnographies -- Triumphal geography -- After Rome: the ends of the world -- Encyclopedias and monuments.".
- catalog title "Pliny the Elder's Natural history : the Empire in the encyclopedia / Trevor Murphy.".
- catalog type "text".