Roman Nature
The Thought of Pliny the Elder
Seiten
1992
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-814726-8 (ISBN)
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-814726-8 (ISBN)
A study of Pliny's "Natural History", highlighting its overall theme, Nature, especially in her relationship with humans. Author and work are also placed in a literary and historical context. Pliny is seen as a figure with a valuable contribution to make to our understanding of ancient thought.
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. Dr 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 towards 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 the creation he considered her greatest, Man. 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 AD. 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.
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. Dr 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 towards 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 the creation he considered her greatest, Man. 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 AD. 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.
Teacher and researcher
"Divina Natura" - the roots of Pliny's thought; man in nature; man and the gods; man and the animals; land and sea; "Ars Medicinae" - man's use of nature in medicine.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.6.1992 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Classical Monographs |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 145 x 224 mm |
| Gewicht | 464 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-814726-0 / 0198147260 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-814726-8 / 9780198147268 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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