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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