Empire and invention: the Elder Pliny's heurematology ("Nat." VII 191–215)
| dc.creator | Mistrella, Marco Romani | |
| dc.date | 2020-07-12 | |
| dc.description | This 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. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/classica/article/view/7879 | |
| dc.identifier | 10.22315/ACD/2018/7 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | University of Debrecen. | |
| dc.relation | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/classica/article/view/7879/8973 | |
| dc.rights | Copyright (c) 2018 Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis | |
| dc.rights | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 | |
| dc.source | Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis; Vol. 54 (2018); 123–135 | |
| dc.source | 2732-3390 | |
| dc.source | 0418-453X | |
| dc.subject | Pliny the Elder | |
| dc.subject | invention | |
| dc.subject | heurematography | |
| dc.subject | empire | |
| dc.subject | teleology | |
| dc.title | Empire and invention: the Elder Pliny's heurematology ("Nat." VII 191–215) | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
| dc.type | Peer-reviewed Article |
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