Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts by Roy Gibson
Pliny's Naturalis Historia – a brilliant and sophisticated encyclopaedia of the scientific, artistic, philosophical, botanical and zoological riches of the ancient world – has had a long career in the footnotes of historical studies. This is a phenomenon born of the sense that the work was there to consult, or to ‘use’, as a resource to aid investigation of specific technical issues or passages, of Quellenforschung, or of delimited topic areas. The contributors to the present volume both represent and join a new generation of critics who have begun to try to ‘read’ this monumental text, and – by examining the dominant motifs which give shape and order to the work – to construct frameworks within which we may understand and interpret Pliny’s overarching agenda.-
Sophocles’ Eurypylus and Other Tragic Fragments in P.Oxy. IX 1175 + XVII 2081(b)
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Valerius Flaccus and the Rewriting of the Argonautica
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Greek Lyric and the Sacred
- Recommendation Letters of Libanius and Other Late Antique Letter Writers
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Cyprus in Texts from Graeco-Roman Antiquity
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Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past
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Shifting Social Imaginaries in the Hellenistic Period
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A Commentary on Selected Speeches of Isaios
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Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature
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Die dramatische Zeit in Senecas Tragödien
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Images of Eternal Beauty in Funerary Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods
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Parthenope, The Interplay of Ideas in Vergilian Bucolic
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Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity
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Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica
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Society, Medicine and Religion in the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides
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Space in Ancient Greek Literature
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Plato and Myth
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Commenter la Thébaïde (16e-19e s.)
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Aristotle Poetics
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Plato and the Poets
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Poetry as Window and Mirror
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Virgil, Aeneid 2
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Time in Ancient Greek Literature
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Politics of Orality
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Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar
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Justice as an Aspect of the Polis Idea in Solon's Political Poems
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Annaeana Tragica
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Sophrosyne and the Rhetoric of Self-Restraint
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Ovid, Fasti 1
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The Ancient Novel and Beyond
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The Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre
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The Narrative Voice in the Theogony of Hesiod
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Sophocles and the Greek Language
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Xerxes' Greek Adventure
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Oikistes
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Lucans Poetische Technik
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Clause Combining in Ancient Greek Narrative Discourse
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Flavian Poetry
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Andreia
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Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book I
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Virgil, Aeneid 3
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Free Speech in Classical Antiquity
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Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean
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Converging Truths
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Virgil, Aeneid 11
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L. Annaeus Seneca Troades
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Ethics in Aesop's Fables: The Augustana Collection
Roy K Gibson, Ph.D. (1993) in Classics, University of Cambridge, is Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester. He has published extensively on Augustan poetry, and is co-editor with Ruth Morello of Re-imagining Pliny the Younger (Arethusa 36.2, 2003), and co-author also with Ruth Morello of Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: an Introduction (Cambridge, 2011).
Ruth Morello, Ph.D. (1994) in Classics, Cornell, is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester. She has published extensively on historiographical texts of the early imperial period and - in addition to co-editing with Roy Gibson Re-imagining Pliny the Younger (Arethusa 36.2, 2003), and co-authoring also with Roy Gibson Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: an Introduction (Cambridge, 2011) - has co-edited with Andrew Morrison Ancient Letters (Oxford, 2007).
Contributors: Rhiannon Ash, Mary Beagon, Cynthia Damon, Aude Doody, Andrew Fear, Roy Gibson, Eugenia Lao, Ruth Morello, Valérie Naas, Ernesto Paparazzo, Clemence Schultze, Michael Reeve.
Ruth Morello, Ph.D. (1994) in Classics, Cornell, is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester. She has published extensively on historiographical texts of the early imperial period and - in addition to co-editing with Roy Gibson Re-imagining Pliny the Younger (Arethusa 36.2, 2003), and co-authoring also with Roy Gibson Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: an Introduction (Cambridge, 2011) - has co-edited with Andrew Morrison Ancient Letters (Oxford, 2007).
Contributors: Rhiannon Ash, Mary Beagon, Cynthia Damon, Aude Doody, Andrew Fear, Roy Gibson, Eugenia Lao, Ruth Morello, Valérie Naas, Ernesto Paparazzo, Clemence Schultze, Michael Reeve.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789004202344 |
| ISBN 10 | 900420234X |
| Title | Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts |
| Author | Roy Gibson |
| Series | Mnemosyne Supplements |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2011-04-11 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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