Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts

Roy K Gibson, Ph.D. (1993) in Classics, University of Cambridge, is Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester. He has published extensively on Augustan poetry, and is co-editor with Ruth Morello of Re-imagining Pliny the Younger (Arethusa 36.2, 2003), and co-author also with Ruth Morello of Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: an Introduction (Cambridge, 2011).Ruth Morello, Ph.D. (1994) in Classics, Cornell, is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester. She has published extensively on historiographical texts of the early imperial period and - in addition to co-editing with Roy Gibson Re-imagining Pliny the Younger (Arethusa 36.2, 2003), and co-authoring also with Roy Gibson Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: an Introduction (Cambridge, 2011) - has co-edited with Andrew Morrison Ancient Letters (Oxford, 2007).Contributors: Rhiannon Ash, Mary Beagon, Cynthia Damon, Aude Doody, Andrew Fear, Roy Gibson, Eugenia Lao, Ruth Morello, Valérie Naas, Ernesto Paparazzo, Clemence Schultze, Michael Reeve.

• 1. Pliny the Elder’s Attitude to WarfareRhiannon Ash2. The Roman’s BurdenAndrew Fear3. Luxury and the Creation of a Good ConsumerEugenia Lao4. Imperialism, Mirabilia, and Knowledge: Some Paradoxes in the Naturalis HistoriaValérie Naas5. The Curious Eye of the Elder Pliny Mary Beagon6. Philosophy and Science in the Elder Pliny’s Naturalis Historia Ernesto Paparazzo7. The Science and Aesthetics of Names in the Naturalis Historia Aude Doody8. Pliny on Apion Cynthia Damon9. Pliny and the Encyclopaedic Addressee Ruth Morello10. Encylcopaedic Exemplarity in Pliny the Elder Clemence Schultze11. Elder and Better: the Naturalis Historia and the Letters of the Younger Pliny Roy Gibson12. The Vita PliniiMichael Reeve