Pliny The Elder and the Description of Rome as Capital of the World (The Mediterranean?)
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v2i2p1-19Keywords:
Pliny the Elder, Rome, Italy, Empire, MediterraneanAbstract
The aims of this paper is to present some of Pliny the Elder’s reflections on the city of Rome as the capital of the w orld and of Italy as the center of the Roman empire, based on readings of the Pliny’s Natural History. It also aims to connect Pliny’s reflections with some historiographical paradigms on the Classical World and the Mediterranean. Part of the thoughts expressed in this paper come from a PhD. level research, called “The Notion of Roman Identity in Pliny the Elder, and the Natural History as Political - Pedagogic ‘Project’” developed at the Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, in the Universidade de São Paulo, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Norberto L. Guarinello. The other part is a result from the debates over the problematic of the boundaries and the processes of integration of Ancient peoples in the History in/of the Mediterranean, that took place at the meetings of the Laboratório de Estudos do Império Romano e Mediterrâneo Antigo, LEIR - MA/USP
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