Recovering a Late-Antique Edition of Pliny's Natural History

ISBN-13: 9781433168260 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 282 str.

Paul T. Keyser

Opis

This book studies extracts from Pliny's Natural History, made by several Latin writers in the fifth to seventh centuries CE, that are not found in extant manuscripts of Pliny, arguing that these extracts derive from a hitherto unsuspected augmented edition of Pliny, probably produced around 300-350 CE.

Spis treści

Pliny - Augments and Epitomes - Augmented Editions in Late Antiquity - The Nature of the Natural History and Its Fitness for Augmentation - Recorders of the Augmented Pliny - Bibliography - Index of Quotations of Plinius Auctus - Topic Index - Passages Cited.

O autorze

Paul T. Keyser studied physics and classics at St. Andrew's School, Duke University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder (where he obtained a Ph.D. in physics and another in classics). He taught at Edmonton, Cornell, and Tuscaloosa before becoming a software engineer at IBM and Google. He now works as a site-reliability engineer and publishes on ancient Greco-Roman science and technology. He has co-edited three books: Greek Science (2002); Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists (2008); and the Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World (2018).