La Lidia di Plinio il Vecchio
2018
The essay takes into consideration the encyclopaedic work of Pliny the Elder –his Natural History – as a testcase
to collect and study the information he gives about the region of Lydia, in a double direction: on one side, it
discusses the data he offers about the mythical and historical past of the Lydian kingdom from a “Greek” perspective,
for their historical and historiographical value; on the other side, it takes into account Pliny’s description of Lydian
geography and economy in his times, analysing them from a “Roman” point of view. The aim is to advance some
methodological observations about the value of Latin texts as “cover-texts” for Archaic Greece (and Lydia) history.
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