The Loeb Classical Library: Natural History, Volume IV : Books 12–16

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The Loeb Classical Library: Natural History, Volume IV : Books 12–16Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 2379), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany, partly administrative in Gaul and Spain under the emperor Vespasian, and became prefect of the fleet at Misenum. He died in the eruption of Vesuvius when he went to get a closer view and to rescue friends. Tireless worker, reader, and writer, he was author of

and on the dramatic structure of the plays

His chief interest was in monuments of art and architecture

It also introduces the sophist Thrasymachus

originally covering the period 14–68 CE (Emperors Tiberius

not surprisingly

now a priestess of Artemis among the Taurians

μπλέκει σε πετροπόλεμους

ένα κείμενο εσωτερικό

The notes trace the sources from which Ovid worked and discuss how and why he adapted them

His graphic narrative (including Annals XV) is one of the highlights of the greatest surviving historian of the Roman empire

Ovid’s poetical career reached its climax in his masterpiece

and then analyses three plays: Oedipus the King by Sophocles