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Pliny the Elder
1st-century Roman military commander and writer
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| Born | AD 23/24 Novum Comum, Italia, Roman Empire |
| Died | AD 79 (aged 55) Stabiae, Italia, Roman Empire |
| Citizenship | Roman |
| Education | Rhetoric, grammar |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, author, natural philosopher, historian, naturalist, military commander,provincial governor |
| Notable work | Naturalis Historia |
| Children | Pliny the Younger (nephew, later adopted son) |
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Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24–79), known in English as Pliny the Elder (PLIN-ee),[1] was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperorVespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), a comprehensive thirty-seven-volume work covering a vast array of topics on human knowledge and the natural world, 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.
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Pliny the Elder or Gaius Plinius Secundus (23-79): Roman officer and encyclopedist, author of theNatural History.
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Gaius Plinius Secundus - or, to use his English name: Pliny - was born in 23 or 24 CE in Novum Comum (modern Como), a small city in the region known as Gallia Transpadana. We do not know much about his family, except for the fact that he had a sister, and that his father was wealthy enough to be a member of the equestrian class, which means that he possessed at least 400,000 sesterces.
As a result, Pliny was able to study, and in the 30s he was in Rome. In his Natural History, the encyclopedia that he was to write forty years later, he recalls several incidents he had witnessed. For example, when he describes the statue known as the Apoxyomenos of Lysippus, he tells this.
It was dedicated by Marcus Agrippa in front of his Baths. Tiberius also much admired this statue [...] and removed the Apoxyomenos to his bedroom, substituting a copy. But the people of Rome were so indignant about this that they staged a protest in the theater, shouting 'Bring back the Apoxyomenos!' And so despite his passion for it, Tiberius was obliged to replace the original statue.note[Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.62; tr. J.F. Healy.]