Solder, lawyer and writer, Pliny the Elder’s (23 – 79 AD ... His most famous work, however, was “Historia Naturalis” (Natural History), an encyclopedia of natural science that spanned ...

Its name comes from the ancient Greek word for green, “smaragdus.” Rome’s Pliny the Elder described emerald in his Natural History, published in the first century AD: “…nothing greens greener” was his ...

Pliny the Elder was a wealthy commander of the Misenum fleet, which protected the coast from pirates, and a prolific writer, primarily known for his compendium on natural history. Mount Vesuvius's ...

Focusing on a passage from Pliny the Elder's Natural History (arguably the urtext of classical art history), this paper explores the perennial question of how the material stuff of antiquity can be ...

His own father died when Pliny was still very young and he was adopted by his uncle, Pliny the Elder. This was clearly ... mixing philosophy and history with poetry. Other letters gave advice ...

When Pliny the Elder or one of his contemporaries admired a valuable piece of amber, the first thing to strike their eyes would have been the suggestion of fire (imagine igneam) or the material’s ...

Pliny the Younger), and natural history (Pliny the Elder). She is co-author and editor of the Wiley textbook A History of Rome (4th edition), by Marcel Leglay et al. At USF she teaches Latin and ...