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 ...

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 ...