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 ...

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 ...

Where can you buy Pliny the Elder? Part of the appeal of Pliny the Elder is its scarcity. It’s one of those beers, like The Alchemist’s Heady Topper, that has beer lovers from far and wide lining up ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

What we do know for certain is that Gaius Plinius Secundus — today known as Pliny the Elder — did reside in a villa in the area of Bacoli. The letters of his nephew, Pliny the Younger, provide ...

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 ...