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Pliny the Elder
23–79
1 non-fiction
Pliny the Elder was a Roman administrator, naval commander and encyclopaedic writer whose Natural History collects ancient knowledge of the world.
Pliny the Elder wrote the Natural History, an encyclopaedic work covering geography, astronomy, animals, plants, medicine, minerals, art and human invention. He died during the eruption of Vesuvius while commanding the fleet at Misenum.
He belongs in Classical for pages on Roman science, natural history, geography, encyclopaedic learning and the Vesuvian eruption. His work is useful where historical settings depend on ancient explanations of nature and material culture.
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