| #535955 in Books | Harvard University Press | 1942-01-01 | 1942-01-31 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 | 6.00 x1.00 x4.00l,.90 | File type: PDF | 672 pages | ||15 of 18 people found the following review helpful.| An ancestor of Borges, Kafka and Calvino|By Martin Monreal|It is ridiculous to dismiss Pliny on account of his many mistakes and factual errors and so on.
The way to read this book is the way in which you read that kind of fantastic literature that gives the "illusion" of fact; Borges and Italo Calvino come to mind - the first one had plans for making an edition of
Pliny the Elder, tireless researcher and writer, is author of the encyclopedic Natural History, in 37 books, an unrivaled compendium of Roman knowledge. The contents of the books are as follows. Book 1: table of contents of the others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the known world; 7: anthropology and the physiology of man; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture, and horticultu...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Pliny: Natural History, Volume II, Books 3-7 (Loeb Classical Library No. 352) | Pliny.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
