was “Historia Naturalis” (Natural History), an encyclopedia of natural science that spanned thirty-seven books. In this work, Pliny describes in detail the physical nature of the world.

Pliny in particular devoted one chapter of The Natural History to “The Druids of the Gallic Provinces.” And in the very next chapter, he describes (and dismisses) various forms of magic ...

We may be more obsessed than ever with structures that refuse to grow up—even as their foundations become increasingly ...

Gaius Plinius Secundus, the man we know as Pliny the Elder ... remembered today for just one of those works, his 37-volume Natural History, in which he planned to "set forth in detail all the ...

for writing books and other documents — and was even discussed by Pliny the Elder, the first-century Roman author, in his 37-volume “Natural History” encyclopedia? Vellum Leather Linen ...

His motivation appears to have been simple: Pliny wanted fame. He hoped that these letters would help shape the history of the empire, but most of all he wanted them to make him famous.