Empire and invention: the Elder Pliny's heurematology ("Nat." VII 191–215)

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dc.contributor.authorMistrella, Marco Romani
dc.date.issued2020-07-12
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on the catalog of inventions and inventors that concludes book VII of Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia ( Nat . VII 191-215). While the list is certainly a fundamental source for the largely lost tradition of Greek invention-catalogs, the literary, rhetorical, and intellectual-historical importance of Pliny’s heurematography has, to date, rarely been appreciated for its own merits. I argue that, in spite of the seemingly irregular and heterogeneous character of the catalog, the underlying rhetorical strategy of Pliny’s heurematography allows the list to become a teleological narrative. As I argue, Pliny’s main goal is to show the Romans’ historical merit in unifying the whole Mediterranean world through the appropriation of its cultural and technological patrimony.en
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dc.identifier.citationActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Vol. 54 (2018) , 123–135
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.22315/ACD/2018/7
dc.identifier.eissn2732-3390
dc.identifier.issn0418-453X
dc.identifier.jatitleActa Class. Univ. Sci. Debr.
dc.identifier.jtitleActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/317266en
dc.identifier.volume54
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/classica/article/view/7879
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis
dc.subjectPliny the Elderen
dc.subjectinventionen
dc.subjectheurematographyen
dc.subjectempireen
dc.subjectteleologyen
dc.titleEmpire and invention: the Elder Pliny's heurematology ("Nat." VII 191–215)en
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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