Table of Contents

Introduction: Encyclopedia as artefact
Part I: Reading the Natural History
1: The Shape of the Natural History
2: Knowledge as a commodity
Part II: The Ethnographies of the Natural History
3: Reading the Ethnographies
4: Triumphal Geography
5: After Rome: the Ends of the World
Conclusion: Encyclopedias and Monuments

About the Author

Trevor Murphy is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

Murphy takes a provocative new approach as he concentrates on ethnography and geography in Pliny. Murphy argues persuasively that reference works are a kind of institutional knowledge, and that military, political, and commercial power of Rome provided subject matter for Pliny.... Highly recommended.
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