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Pliny the Elder: The Natural History Book VII (with Book VIII 1-34) (Latin Texts) Paperback – May 21, 2015

by Pliny the Elder (Author)
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Pliny the Elder's Natural History is a vast encyclopaedia, surveying natural phenomena from cosmology to biology, medicine to magic. Direct observation, informed speculation and common knowledge are combined to present a key snapshot of ancient thought and the Romans' perspective on the world around them. Book VII of The Natural History provides a detailed examination of the human animal and is crucial to understanding the work as a whole. In Pliny's eyes, mankind 'for whose sake nature was created’, represents the basis for which the natural world was founded and structured. As a result, the book provides valuable insight into the extraordinary complex of ideas and beliefs that were current in Pliny's era. One of the most interesting transitions of subject in The Natural History is that from man to animals (between Books VII and VIII) and for this reason the section on elephants at the beginning of Book VIII is included here, to show how Pliny moves on to his account of the animal he considers ‘nearest to the human disposition’. This edition provides the full Latin text accompanied by commentary notes that provide linguistic help and explanations, plus vocabulary lists of Latin terms and an index of proper names. The in-depth introduction provides valuable details about the work’s historical, scientific and literary context, as well as an overview of the work's legacy and reception.
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    370 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Bloomsbury Academic
  4. Publication date
    May 21, 2015
  5. Dimensions
    5.51 x 0.84 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1472535669
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1472535665
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[Travillian] supplies the Latin, a commentary with helpful, school-style grammatical as well as generous background information ... [and] extensive notes on [Pliny's] style; his later reception, and further reading ... [A]n admirably wide-ranging edition, well-suited to introducing to a wide audience both Pliny himself and the realisation that, for a Roman, the world was a place of wonders. -Classics for All Reviews

"[Travillian] supplies the Latin, a commentary with helpful, school-style grammatical as well as generous background information ... [and] extensive notes on [Pliny's] style; his later reception, and further reading ... [A]n admirably wide-ranging edition, well-suited to introducing to a wide audience both Pliny himself and the realisation that, for a Roman, the world was a place of wonders." -Peter Jones, Classics for All Reviews

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Latin text with an introduction, commentary, and glossaries of vocabulary, numerals, proper names, and Greek terms.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Academic (May 21, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 370 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1472535669
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1472535665
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.11 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 0.84 x 8.5 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars and it's an excellent edition for advanced Latin students
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I used this book in a class on Pliny the Elder, and it's an excellent edition for advanced Latin students. The notes on context are thorough, giving context for pretty much every proper name that shows up in the text, as well as helping untangle some convoluted syntax or unusual word choices. And the preface that covers Pliny's stylistic quirks, and how to read them, is absolutely invaluable to anyone wanting to translate anything from his Natural History. I can't recommend this book highly enough; after a class using this text, I went from complete indifference to the author to being a huge fan. And the book it covers, about man, is certainly one of the more interesting ones available in the text! Weird slightly supernatural distant tribes, diatribes about the uselessness of infants, anecdotes about virtuous and wicked people and how they represent the extremes of human possibility... It's a lot of fun.
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