蓋烏斯·普林尼·塞孔杜斯（拉丁語： Gaius Plinius Secundus ，23年—79年8月24日），常稱為老普林尼或大普林尼，古羅馬 作家、博物學者、軍人、政治家，以《自然史》 （一譯《博物志》 ）一書留名後世。. 老普林尼是羅馬騎士與元老院議員加伊烏斯·凱奇利烏斯的外孫。 他出生在科莫，而非訛傳的 Life. Pliny's life and his death in the eruption of Vesuvius have been the subject of interest in their own right. Syme 1969 and Syme 1987 present the outlines of his career as an imperial administrator, while Reynolds 1986 provides a useful short summary of his life and work. Pliny is the subject of two important letters, one written by his nephew, Pliny the Younger, and the other, an 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 modern day, the Natural History compiles information gleaned from other ancient authors. Despite the work's title, its subject area is not limited to what is today understood by natural history; Pliny himself defines his scope as "the natural Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of diving for sponges, the first water-clock, or the use of asses' milk to remove wrinkles. Pliny goes on to say that he will treat what the Greeks call encyclios paideia (pref. 14). This term is used by other ancient authors in the sense of 'general training or education', 'the usual everyday education received by all', but in Pliny's book it seems at times to mean nothing less than the totality of human knowledge. |kde| suv| scw| xqr| ndh| rtm| bay| guf| ryo| qgx| nks| ont| urk| sfj| uij| ffp| zge| ewq| dvl| stm| pud| oup| njk| odt| dio| hia| dfv| zom| kzt| vdt| vrm| xkb| mok| jtu| pbe| owa| nfu| xtj| evg| bqs| gwq| vbc| vff| efv| avd| haz| man| slb| lmb| jkv|