Introduction: Encyclopedia as artefact
Part I: Reading the Natural History
1: The Shape of the Natural History
2: Knowledge as a commodity
Part II: The Ethnographies of the Natural History
3: Reading the Ethnographies
4: Triumphal Geography
5: After Rome: the Ends of the World
Conclusion: Encyclopedias and Monuments
Trevor Murphy is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Murphy takes a provocative new approach as he concentrates on
ethnography and geography in Pliny. Murphy argues persuasively that
reference works are a kind of institutional knowledge, and that
military, political, and commercial power of Rome provided subject
matter for Pliny.... Highly recommended.
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