Scholarcast 23: Pliny's Encyclopedia: The reception of the natural history UCDScholarcast Lecture In his episode Aude Doody reads from the Introduction to Pliny’s Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History, published by Cambridge University Press. The Elder Pliny's Natural History is one of the largest and most extraordinary works to survive from antiquity. It has often been referred to as an encyclopedia, usually without full awareness of what such a characterisation implies. In this book, Dr Doody examines this concept and its applicability to the work, paying far more attention than ever before to the varying ways in which it has been read during the last two thousand years, especially by Francis Bacon and Denis Diderot. This book makes a major contribution not just to the study of the Elder Pliny but to our understanding of the cultural processes of ordering knowledge widespread in the Roman Empire and to the reception of classical literature and ideas. Aude Doody is a lecturer in Classics at University College Dublin. She has published articles on Pliny the Elders' Natural History and on Latin literature, and has co-edited (with Liba Taub) Authorial Voices in Greco-Roman Technical Writing (2009). UCD, Scholarcast, Art, Culture, English, Drama, Aude Doody, Classics, Pliny, identity, Book, Criticism, literature, Ireland, Irish University College Dublin Doody, Aude, 1977- (Aude Doody) Sound Lectures Podcasts 00:10:38 ; 15.4 MB audio/mpeg uri:info:fedora/ucdlib:22899 ucdlib:22899 http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:22899 Scholarcast 23: Pliny's Encyclopedia: The reception of the natural history--http://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/scholarcast23.html--http://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/scholarcast23.html eng English isMemberOf: info:fedora/ucdlib:22850 hasMember: info:fedora/ucdlib:22900 hasMember: info:fedora/ucdlib:22935 The UCDscholarcast podcast and transcripts are made available by University College Dublin (the owners) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) For additional information regarding use or reproduction of this item please see http://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/conditions.html. University College Dublin will not be liable for any loss or damage, which you may suffer as a result of or connected with the download or use of the UCDscholarcast.