To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Pliny's World offers readers a translation of the Natural History's opening books ...

Solder, lawyer and writer, Pliny the Elder’s (23 – 79 AD ... His most famous work, however, was “Historia Naturalis” (Natural History), an encyclopedia of natural science that spanned ...

In his 37-volume “Natural History,” first published in 77 C.E., the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder explored the minutiae of everyday life. The encyclopedic work describes the places where people ...

His own father died when Pliny was still very young and he was adopted by his uncle, Pliny the Elder. This was clearly ... mixing philosophy and history with poetry. Other letters gave advice ...