The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder. The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the...

(Pliny's Natural History) Pliny the Younger (died 113), ancient Roman statesman, orator, writer, and Pliny the Elder's nephew and adopted son Pliny Chase...

Secundus (AD 23/24–79), known in English as Pliny the Elder (/ˈplɪni/ PLIN-ee), was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, and naval and army commander...

History may also refer to: Natural History (Pliny), Naturalis Historia, a 1st-century work by Pliny the Elder Natural History, a 16th-century work by Adam...

Robert Lowell History of Armenia of Moses of Chorene Natural History (Pliny) (Naturalis Historiae) of Pliny the Elder History (band), or HISTORY, South Korean...

Pliny the Elder. "xxxi.46.(10.)—The Various Kinds of Nitrum". The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. "xxxii.26.—Remedies for Tooth-ache". The Natural History...

earliest of these works are those by Diodorus Siculus, Strabo (Geographica), Pliny, and Arrian (Indica). Megasthenes' Indica can be reconstructed using the...

I Pliny the Elder, however, refers to a Fabius Dossennus as the author of "Acharistio," one of the Atellanae Fabulae, in his Natural History. Pliny writes:...

translated as 'Worship of Wisdom/Mazda' in English. The encyclopedia Natural History (Pliny) claims that Zoroastrians later educated the Greeks who, starting...

(1855). The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. London: Taylor and Francis. "Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, Book XII. The Natural History of Trees,...

philosophers who analyzed the diversity of the natural world. Natural history was understood by Pliny the Elder to cover anything that could be found...

77–79, the classical writer Pliny the Elder published his thirty-seven volumes of encyclopedic works known as the Natural History containing entries of both...

century AD, including Lucretius, Seneca and Pliny the Elder, wrote treatises that dealt with the rules of the natural world in varying degrees of depth. Many...

medicinally in ancient civilizations and in the Middle Ages. In his Natural History, Pliny described it as a diuretic and is capable of treating jaundice and...

glue papyrus. The extraction of starch is first described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder around 77–79 CE. Romans used it also in cosmetic creams...

to a genre of literature was prompted by a line that Pliny used in the preface of Natural History: "My object is to treat of all those things which the...

whose work "On the Ocean" is lost, but was referenced by Pliny, according to whose Natural History: Pytheas says that the Gutones, a people of Germany, inhabit...

Northern European island appears in the work of Roman Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia of c. AD 77. Pliny described "Scandia" as an island located north of...

Museum, Los Angeles. pp 24-25 CHAP. 42.—PUMICE; NINE REMEDIES. The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London...

doi:10.15227/orgsyn.042.0062. Pliny the Elder with John Bostock and H.T. Riley, trans., The Natural History of Pliny (London, England: Henry G. Bohn...

Elder, Pliny. "Chapter 2. Aconite, Otherwise Called Thelyphonon, Cammaron, Pardalianches, or Scorpio; Four Remedies.". The Natural History of Pliny, Book...

rural classes (Virgil, Eclogues ii. 11), and, according to Pliny the Elder (Natural History xix. 32), by the African peasantry. Garlic was placed by the...

Anaxandrides refers to Thracians as boutyrophagoi, "butter-eaters". In his Natural History, Pliny the Elder calls butter "the most delicate of food among barbarous...

(Herakleotikon hamma) and is still used extensively in medicine. In his Natural History, Pliny relates the belief that wounds heal more quickly when bound with...

square mile) and had an estimated population of 200,000. In his Natural History, Pliny the Elder celebrated it as "by far, the most famous of the cities...

century AD, the Roman sewage system was very efficient. In his Natural History, Pliny remarked that of all the things Romans had accomplished, the sewers...

military campaign by order of Augustus (Cassius Dio 54.18.2; Pliny the Elder, Natural History (Pliny) 36.59-60). Very little is mentioned of the theatre in...

leaves In cultivation Leaf adaxial side. Leaf abaxial side. In his Natural History, Pliny the Elder claims betony was "a plant more highly esteemed than any...

Aristotle's History of Animals, Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Dioscorides's De materia medica, one of the most important books of natural history written...

achievements of Alexander had he become emperor. In book eight of his Natural History, Pliny connects Germanicus, Augustus, and Alexander as fellow equestrians:...