Lawyer, author, natural philosopher, historian, naturalist, military commander,provincial governor
Notable work
Naturalis Historia
Children
Pliny the Younger (nephew, later adopted son)
Parent(s)
Gaius Plinius Celer and Marcella
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 – AD 79), called Pliny the Elder (/ˈplɪni/),[1] was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. He spent most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field.
Among Pliny's greatest works was the twenty-volume Bella Germaniae ("The History of the German Wars"), which is no longer extant. Bella Germaniae, which began where Aufidius Bassus' Libri Belli Germanici ("The War with the Germans") left off, was used as a source by other prominent Roman historians, including Plutarch, Tacitus, and Suetonius. Tacitus may have used Bella Germaniae as the primary source for his work, De origine et situ Germanorum ("On the Origin and Situation of the Germans").[2]
Pliny the Elder died in AD 79 in Stabiae while attempting the rescue of a friend and his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.[3]
^Melvyn Bragg (8 July 2010). "Pliny the Elder". In Our Time (Podcast). BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
^Gudeman, Alfred (1900). "The Sources of the Germania of Tacitus". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 31: 93–111. doi:10.2307/282642. JSTOR 282642.
^Katherine J. Wu (27 January 2020). "This 2,000-Year-Old Skull May Belong to Pliny the Elder". Smithsonian Magazine.
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course, and Opici, a dirtier name than the rest. I have forbidden you to deal with doctors. — Quoted by PlinytheElder, Naturalis Historia 29.13–14. Carmen...
to the interactions between South India and Persia, the Middle East, North Africa, and the (Greek and Roman) Mediterranean region. PlinytheElder, in...
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bodies. In AD 77–79, the classical writer PlinytheElder published his thirty-seven volumes of encyclopedic works known as the Natural History containing...
harvest and the unusually high quality of wine produced, some of the vintage's best examples were being enjoyed over a century later. PlinytheElder wrote...
news of PlinytheElder. Pliny's uncle, PlinytheElder, was in command of the Roman fleet at Misenum and had meanwhile decided to investigate the phenomenon...
Count Palatine. Pliny, Natural History, 1476. Printed in Venice by Nicolas Jenson. 1,025 copies (1,000 paper, 25 vellum). ThePlinytheElder text was printed...
with Alexander legends, as in the Alexander Romance, the Syriac Alexander Romance, and the Qissat Dhulqarnayn. PlinytheElder (23 AD – 25 August 79 AD),...
stinging nettle is a poultice soaked in boiled bay leaves. The Roman naturalist PlinytheElder listed a variety of conditions which laurel oil was supposed...
available via Perseus Project. PlinytheElder, Natural History XX.iii Archived 5 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine. PlinytheElder, Natural History XX.iv Archived...
Gracchus, and Cornelius Scipio. Seneca the Younger refers to "adulterers admitted in droves"; PlinytheElder calls her an “exemplum licentiae” (NH 21...
active in the late 1st century AD. He was suffect consul at some yet undetermined nundinium in the first century. According to PlinytheElder, a Glitius...
eruption was described in a letter written by Plinythe Younger, after the death of his uncle PlinytheElder. Plinian/Vesuvian eruptions are marked by columns...
form of its Semitic name, Gadara, edited to "Gazara" in the Loeb edition). c. 78 CE PlinytheElder in his work, Naturalis Historia, Book 5(15) wrote; ['Greater...
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