Pliny the Elder: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
The role of Pliny in the preservation and interpretation of the early views of the natural world is assessed in Roger French and Frank Greenaway (eds.), Science in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Elder, His Sources and Influence (1986), a collection of informative, authoritative essays. Worthwhile books about Pliny include Mary Beagon, Roman Nature: The Thought of Pliny the Elder (1992); and John F. Healy, Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology (1999).
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Jerry Stannard
Professor of History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1967–88.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Pliny the Elders discourse on Roman gold mining: The ecological approach of his gold metaphor and the personification of Nature. | May 14, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: UCL Discovery - An aspect of the object habit: Pliny the Elder, audience and politics (PDF). | Jul 25, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Pliny the Elder on Early Rome (PDF). | Feb 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - Isaac Asimov and Science Fiction. | Aug 14, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cornell University - Pliny the Elder: Art and Nature in Ancient Rome. | Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: UNRV - Pliny the Elder. | Nov 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - The Illustrious Life of Pliny the Elder, Ancient Historian and Roman Commander. | Oct 31, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Biography of Pliny the Elder. | Feb 14, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient History Encyclopedia - Biography of Pliny the Elder. | Feb 14, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 22, 2019 | ||
| Replaced media. | May 24, 2018 | ||
| Changed title of the "Assessment" section to "Legacy." | Nov 15, 2017 | ||
| Added new Web site: Strange Science - Biography of Pliny the Elder. | Apr 16, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Biography of Pliny The Elder And Pliny The Younger. | Nov 13, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Wolfram Research - Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography - Pliny the Elder. | Apr 30, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Kidipede History for Kids - Biography of Pliny the Elder. | Apr 30, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Livius - Biography of Pliny the Elder. | Apr 30, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Jeanette MacDonald. | Apr 30, 2008 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Aug 28, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 16, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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