Want to read Pliny the Elder, Natural History Book 36 in its entirety?
Open in Reader
Explore More
Looking for more content like this? Explore other texts in the Classical collection or try searching for similar themes in our tag library.
Summary
Date: 77 C.E.
Pliny the Elder was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire. His work The Natural History was the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day. The work is divided into 37 books, organized into 10 volumes. These cover topics including astronomy, mathematics, geography, ethnography, anthropology, human physiology, zoology, botany, agriculture, horticulture, pharmacology, mining, mineralogy, sculpture, art, and precious stones. The English text is based on John Bostock and H. T. Riley’s 1855 translation, with archaic language lightly modernized.
More Books
In the same collection