Solder, lawyer and writer, Pliny the Elder’s (23 – 79 AD ... he wrote extensively on subjects as varied as grammar, the history of Rome, and military history and skills.

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered an inscription they say may show that the history books have been ... of his even more famous uncle, Pliny the Elder. "On the 24th of August, about one ...

The myths surrounding mandrake are as old as the first century AD, with mentions in writings by Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides. According to legend, mandrakes would scream when uprooted, and their ...

As Pliny, the Elder famously said, "There's truth in wine." At the high point in the empire's history of wine, experts estimate that a bottle of was being consumed each day for every citizen.