Among the achievements of the ancient Roman Empire still acclaimed today, historians list things like aqueducts, roads, legal theory, exceptional architecture and the spread of Latin as the ...

Pliny the Elder’s “Natural History”, a thirty-seven volume encyclopedia, stands as one of the greatest writings of antiquity, covering all branches of knowledge. The book is frequently cited in Sri ...

Solder, lawyer and writer, Pliny the Elder’s (23 – 79 AD) research into the natural world formed the basis of scientific authority for centuries to come. He died during the eruption of Mount ...

Philosopher Pliny the Elder is known for texts like Natural History (77–79 C.E.) and for his role as a naval and army commander in the Roman Empire. Now, researchers have discovered the remains ...

This villa may have been the villa where Gaius Pliny Secundus (Pliny the Elder), known for writing the encyclopedic Natural History, witnessed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that caused his death ...

“ALUMEN” is mentioned frequently in the Historia Naturalis of the elder Pliny, and there has been some controversy about its identity. It is probable that the term was used loosely to describe ...

Which material was popularized in ancient Egypt (and later used by Greece and the Roman Empire) for writing books and other documents — and was even discussed by Pliny the Elder, the first ...

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 ...

pliny the elder, the natural history, book vii. 1 man, his birth, his organization, and the invention of the arts., chap. 7. (9.)—of those who have been cut out of the womb.

Pliny began Book 1 of his Natural History with a dedication to the emperor Titus (Vespasian’s son) and an itemization of what was to follow. First came a book on the universe, heavenly bodies and the ...