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Volume 37 - October 1990

Contents

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Research Article

  • Pliny The Elder and Man's Unnatural History

  • Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 September 2009, pp. 80-96

  • Not everybody shares my enthusiasm for the elder Pliny. We all have a nodding acquaintance with the Natural History, but few wish to pursue the relationship to the level of intimacy. Critics who care for the purity of Latin prose take a particularly dim view of him. Eduard Norden's verdict in Die antike Kunstprosa (i.314) is much cited: ‘His work belongs, from the stylistic point of view, to the very worst which we have’. This negative judgement was firmly endorsed by Frank Goodyear in the Cambridge History of Latin Literature:

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Brief Reviews

Front-matter

Brief Reviews

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Front matter

  • GAR volume 37 issue 1 Front matter

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    07 September 2009, pp. f1-f3
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  • GAR volume 37 issue 1 Back matter

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    07 September 2009, p. b1
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