{"id":16961,"date":"2023-06-21T09:44:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T13:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=16961"},"modified":"2024-02-17T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T14:09:11","slug":"guide-pliny-the-elder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/06\/guide-pliny-the-elder\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Pliny the Elder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is aimed at providing a guide for reading sequentally through ethnographic passages dealing with peoples other than Greeks or Italians in Pliny the Elder&#8217;s <em>Natural History<\/em>. Books 3-6 are focussed primarily on geography and peoples, but there are other ethnographically important sections as well:<\/p>\n<p><em>Geographic \/ ethnographic survey section (books 3-6):<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Framing the ethnographic section &#8211; Europeans (claimed as superior), Asians, Africans &#8211; 3.1-6 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/06\/europeans-asians-and-africans-pliny-the-elders-on-the-framework-for-his-ethnographic-survey-and-on-the-superiority-of-europeans-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Gauls \/ Celts with three Roman subdivisions &#8211; 4.17-19 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/06\/celts-gauls-pliny-the-elder-on-three-main-sub-divisions-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Scythians and Germanic peoples &#8211; 4.80-83, 88 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/06\/scythians-germans-and-others-pliny-the-elder-on-peoples-north-of-the-black-sea-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Hyperboreans &#8211; 4.89-91 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/06\/hyperboreans-herodotos-hekataios-diodoros-and-others-on-a-legendary-northern-people-four-century-bce-to-third-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Libyans \/ Africans &#8211; 5.1-48 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/12\/libyans-africans-pliny-on-various-peoples-and-strange-customs-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Judeans and Essenes specifically &#8211; 5.70-73 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/07\/judeans-pliny-the-elder-and-julius-solinus-on-the-essenes-beside-the-dead-sea-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Sarmatians, Sauromatians and others along the eastern coast of the Black Sea in &#8220;Asia&#8221; &#8211; 6.19-22 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/06\/sarmatians-and-others-in-asia-pliny-the-elder-on-peoples-of-northwestern-asia-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Asian Albanians, Iberians, Mardians and others &#8211; 6.28-52 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=17093&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Serians (Chinese), Ottorokorians and others &#8211; 6.53-56 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/05\/serians-ottorokorians-and-others-pliny-the-elder-on-the-savage-silk-people-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Indians, Taprobanians (Sri Lankans), and Serians (Chinese) &#8211; 6.56-91 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/06\/indians-taprobanians-and-serians-pliny-the-elder-on-peoples-and-customs-in-india-and-beyond-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Peoples of Arachosia and Ariana &#8211; 6.92-95 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/06\/peoples-of-arachosia-and-ariana-pliny-the-elder-on-peoples-between-baktria-and-india-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Karmanians, Gedrosians, Ichthyophagians and others around the Persian Gulf &#8211; 6.96-101, 108-111 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/06\/karmanians-ichthyophagians-and-others-nearchos-onesikritos-juba-and-pliny-on-the-area-around-the-persian-gulf-fourth-century-bce-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Various other sections with ethnographic interests:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indians, Ethiopians and other &#8220;unbelievable&#8221; peoples &#8211; 7.6-32 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/11\/indians-ethiopians-and-others-pliny-the-elder-on-unbelievable-peoples-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Eastern peoples subjected by Pompeii &#8211; 7.95-98 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/03\/mediterranean-peoples-diodoros-and-pliny-on-pompeys-subjugation-of-peoples-mid-first-century-bce-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Peoples around the world characterized as inventors &#8211; 7.191-215 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/02\/mediterranean-peoples-pliny-the-elder-on-inventors-around-the-world-first-century-ce\/\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Persians and Magians &#8211; parts of books 28, 30, and 37 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2023\/01\/magians-magi-among-persians-pliny-on-the-dissemination-of-magian-skill-to-the-peoples-of-the-world-first-century-ce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is aimed at providing a guide for reading sequentally through ethnographic passages dealing with peoples other than Greeks or Italians in Pliny the Elder&#8217;s Natural History. Books 3-6 are focussed primarily on geography and peoples, but there are other ethnographically important sections as well: Geographic \/ ethnographic survey section (books 3-6): Framing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,299,296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11-guides-ethnographic-passages-ancient-author","category-ancient-ethnography-ethnographic-culture","category-ethnicity-ancient-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16961"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18220,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961\/revisions\/18220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}