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Pliny’s Defense of Empire
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, the world’s first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for centuries Pliny has been derided as little more than an inept compiler of facts and marvels...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge