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The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

Author : Daisy Dunn
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631496409
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny written by Daisy Dunn and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world.”—Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder’s notebooks—filled with pearls of wisdom—and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire from the dire days of terror under Emperor Domitian to the gentler times of Emperor Trajan. A biography that will appeal to lovers of Mary Beard books, it is also a moving narrative about the profound influence of a father figure on his adopted son. Interweaving the younger Pliny’s Letters with extracts from the Elder’s Natural History, Daisy Dunn paints a vivid, compellingly readable portrait of two of antiquity’s greatest minds.

Pliny's Natural History. In Thirty-seven Books

Author : Pliny (the Elder.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Pliny's Natural History. In Thirty-seven Books written by Pliny (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Natural History of Pliny

Author : Pliny (the Elder.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of Pliny written by Pliny (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pearls for the Crown

Author : Mónica Domínguez Torres
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271097221
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Pearls for the Crown written by Mónica Domínguez Torres and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613

Author : Jonathan P.A. Sell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000152375
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613 written by Jonathan P.A. Sell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613, shows how rhetorical invention, elocution and ethos combined to create plausible representations by generating intellectual and emotional significances which, meaningful in consensual terms, were 'consensually' true. However, some traveller-writers betrayed an unease with such representation, rooted as it was in a metaphorical epistemology out of kilter with an increasingly empiricist age. This book throws new light onto the episteme shift that ushered in modernity with its distrust of metaphor in particular and rhetoric's 'wordish descriptions' in general. In response to the empirical desiderata of scientific rationalism, traveller-writers textually or physically made their own bodies available as evidence of their encounters with wonder, thus transforming themselves into wonderful objects. The irony is that, far from dispensing with rhetoric, they merely put the accent on its more dramatic arts of gesture and action. The body's evidence could still be doctored, but its illusory truths were better able to satisfy the empirical demand for 'ocular proof'. The author's main purposes here are to complement, and sometimes counter, recent work on early modern travel literature by concentrating on its use of rhetoric to communicate meaning; and to suggest how familiarity with the workings of rhetoric and its communicative and epistemological premises may enhance readings of early modern English literature generally.

Picture Ecology

Author : Alan C. Braddock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691236011
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Picture Ecology written by Alan C. Braddock and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. Picture Ecology brings together scholars whose contributions extend chronologically and geographically from 11th-century Chinese painting to contemporary photography of California wildfires. The book's 17 interdisciplinary essays provide a dynamic, cross-cultural approach to an increasingly vital area of study, emphasizing the environmental dimensions inherent in the content and materials of aesthetic objects. Picture Ecology provides valuable new approaches for considering works of art, in ways that are timely, intellectually stimulating, and universally significant.

The Boys' and Girls' Pliny

Author : The Elder Pliny
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Boys' and Girls' Pliny written by The Elder Pliny and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Boys' and Girls' Pliny" by The Elder Pliny. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Natural History of Pliny (Vol. 1-6)

Author : Pliny the Elder
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3991 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of Pliny (Vol. 1-6) written by Pliny the Elder and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 3991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Pliny's definition, Natural History is a book about the natural world or life. It is the first encyclopedic work in history and a model for later encyclopedias. It is also the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern days. In this book, Pliny covers topics including astronomy, mathematics, geography, ethnography, anthropology, human physiology, zoology, botany, agriculture, horticulture, pharmacology, mining, mineralogy, sculpture, art, and precious stones. In total, the book consists of 10 volumes which contain 37 books. For Pliny, nature was divine. It was a pantheistic concept inspired by the Stoic philosophy. Also, according to this philosophy, the components of nature are described with a view to their role in human life. Pliny devotes a number of the books to plants, focusing on their medicinal value; the books on minerals include descriptions of their uses in architecture, sculpture, art, and jewelry.

The Australian Museum Magazine

Author : Charles Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Australian Museum Magazine written by Charles Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Edible Mollusks of Great Britain and Ireland

Author : M. S. Lovell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Edible Mollusks of Great Britain and Ireland written by M. S. Lovell and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Natural History of Pliny

Author : Pliny the Elder
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368902369
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of Pliny written by Pliny the Elder and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts

Author : Roy Gibson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900420234X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts written by Roy Gibson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pliny's Naturalis Historia is a sophisticated encyclopaedia of the riches of the ancient world. The contributors to the present volume represent and join a new generation of critics who have begun to examine the dominant motifs which give shape to the work.

Roman Mysteries Complete Collection

Author : Caroline Lawrence
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1444009990
Total Pages : 3808 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Roman Mysteries Complete Collection written by Caroline Lawrence and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 3808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bumper eBook collection of all 17 Roman Mysteries adventures including The Thieves of Ostia, The Secrets of Vesuvius, The Pirates of Pompeii, The Assassins of Rome, The Dolphins of Laurentum, The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina, The Enemies of Jupiter, The Gladiators From Capua, The Colossus of Rhodes, The Fugitive From Corinth, The Sirens of Surrentum, The Charioteer of Delphi, The Slave-Girl From Jerusalem, The Beggar of Volubilis, The Scribes From Alexandria, The Prophet From Ephesus and The Man From Pomegranate Street. Packed with action, mystery and adventure!

All the Year Round

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book All the Year Round written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Culture of Animals in Antiquity

Author : Sian Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351782495
Total Pages : 771 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Animals in Antiquity written by Sian Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to a key area of study in ancient history: the part played by animals in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. It brings new ideas to bear on the wealth of evidence – literary, historical and archaeological – which we possess for the experiences and roles of animals in the ancient world. Offering a broad picture of ancient cultures in the Mediterranean as part of a wider ecosystem, the volume is on an ambitious scale. It covers a broad span of time, from the sacred animals of dynastic Egypt to the imagery of the lamb in early Christianity, and of region, from the fallow deer introduced and bred in Roman Britain to the Asiatic lioness and her cubs brought as a gift by the Elamites to the Great King of Persia. This sourcebook is essential for anyone wishing to understand the role of animals in the ancient world and support learning for one of the fastest growing disciplines in Classics.

American Baroque

Author : Molly A. Warsh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469638983
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book American Baroque written by Molly A. Warsh and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearls have enthralled global consumers since antiquity, and the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella explicitly charged Columbus with finding pearls, as well as gold and silver, when he sailed westward in 1492. American Baroque charts Spain's exploitation of Caribbean pearl fisheries to trace the genesis of its maritime empire. In the 1500s, licit and illicit trade in the jewel gave rise to global networks, connecting the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean to the pearl-producing regions of the Chesapeake and northern Europe. Pearls—a unique source of wealth because of their renewable, fungible, and portable nature—defied easy categorization. Their value was highly subjective and determined more by the individuals, free and enslaved, who produced, carried, traded, wore, and painted them than by imperial decrees and tax-related assessments. The irregular baroque pearl, often transformed by the imagination of a skilled artisan into a fantastical jewel, embodied this subjective appeal. Warsh blends environmental, social, and cultural history to construct microhistories of peoples' wide-ranging engagement with this deceptively simple jewel. Pearls facilitated imperial fantasy and personal ambition, adorned the wardrobes of monarchs and financed their wars, and played a crucial part in the survival strategies of diverse people of humble means. These stories, taken together, uncover early modern conceptions of wealth, from the hardscrabble shores of Caribbean islands to the lavish rooms of Mediterranean palaces.

Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology

Author : John F. Healy
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198146872
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology written by John F. Healy and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elder Pliny's Natural History provides a wide-ranging account of human achievement in the arts and sciences in the first century AD. This book re-examines Pliny's work for the first time since the 1920s. Modern experiments, simulating the techniques described by Pliny, and an in-depth study of his development of a technical language, confirm his unique contribution to our knowledge of science in early imperial Rome.