Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia

Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-320

  Murphy, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

1st century rome; Classical scholarship; Pliny the elder; Roman imperialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920702233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199262885.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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