The Loeb Classical Library: Natural History, Volume III: Books 8–11

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The Loeb Classical Library: Natural History, Volume III: Books 8–11Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 2379), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany, partly administrative in Gaul and Spain under the emperor Vespasian, and became prefect of the fleet at Misenum. He died in the eruption of Vesuvius when he went to get a closer view and to rescue friends. Tireless worker, reader, and writer, he was author of

A courtesan in Rome

Stanley Ireland is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick

debating the nature of piety

worse than wild beasts

On the Making of Kyphi (an incense)

for some time in Athens

The latest volume in the Classical World series

but it was surprisingly modern in many ways: the Romans had companies with CEOs

102–44 BC)

procession songs

this edition will support the new OCR specification for Classical Greek (first teaching 2016)

we can throw it away later