The studies collected in this book represent the newest research being done on this important and difficult figure. If Rome is not always regarded as the most natural home for the scientific spiritothat seeming rather to characterize Greeceoparticular problems are raised by the effort Pliny had to make to transfer his Greek sources into a Roman form and context. The papers seek to locate Pliny in his social and intellectual milieu, to survey his approach to particular sciences such as astronomy, mineralogy, botany and pharmacopoeia. Two papers consider the response to his work in the Renaissance.
- ISBN10 0389206342
- ISBN13 9780389206347
- Publish Date 1 June 1986
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 8 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Imprint Barnes & Noble Books-Imports, Div of Rowman & Littlefield Pubs., Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English