Pliny the Elder gives vivid examples of the popularity of gladiator portraiture in Antium and an artistic treat laid on by an adoptive aristocrat for the solidly plebeian citizens of the Roman Aventine:

Pliny gives the circuitus reported by Pytheas as 4875 Roman miles.

" The passage does not give enough information to determine which cubit Pliny meant ; however, any cubit gives the same general result.

Strabo speaks of it as one of the places on the north coast of Sicily which, in his time, still deserved the name of cities ; and Pliny gives it the title of a Colonia.

The account which Pliny gives of it is that Agoracritus contended with Alcamenes ( another distinguished disciple of Phidias ) in making a statue of Venus ; and that the Athenians, through an undue partiality towards their countryman, awarded the victory to Alcamenes.

Pliny the Elder also gives us some statements about Abnoba ( Natural History, 4. 79 ).

A summary of Classical sources on the Seres ( Greek and Roman name of China ) ( essentially Pliny and Ptolemy ) gives the following account:

On the other hand, Pliny, who also drew from Megasthenes ' work, gives even larger numbers of 600, 000 infantry, 30, 000 cavalry, and 9, 000 war elephants:

Pliny gives a list of female artists and their paintings.

Pliny the Elder gives a good account of the methods used in Spain, presumably based on his own observations.

It is no coincidence that he gives numerous references to the earlier author, Pliny the Elder and his Naturalis Historia.

Pliny the Elder, in his book " Natural History " writes: " The physician Apollodorus, in the work in which he wrote recommending King Ptolemy what wines in particular to drink -- for in his time the wines of Italy were not generally known -- has spoken in high terms of that of Naspercene in Pontus, next to which he places the Oretic, and then the Aeneatian, the Leucadian, the Ambraciotic, and the Peparethian, to which last he gives the preference over all the rest, though he states that it enjoyed an inferior reputation, from the fact of its not being considered fit for drinking until it had been kept six years.

Although much of the work was compiled by judicious use of written sources, Pliny gives an eye witness account of gold mining in Spain where he was stationed as an officer.

A summary of Classical sources on the Seres ( essentially Pliny and Ptolemy ) gives the following account:

Pliny the Elder gives a dramatic account in his Naturalis Historia of the method, possibly derived from his experiences in Spain.

Pliny the Elder gives us the names of nine of these islands — Aegialia, Cotonis, Thyatira, Geoaris, Dionysia, Cyrnus, Chalcis, Pinara, Mystus.

The Roman geographer Pomponius Mela ( 2, i ) and the historian Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, also list the Agathyrsi among the steppe tribes.

The first concrete reference is made Pliny the Elder who includes Alwa on his list of towns in Nubia.

The Germanic list, whom Pliny describes as

Pliny does not simply list materials and objects but also seeks explanations of phenomena.

Pliny the Elder provides a list of his works including a cavalry battle, a Theseus, and the feigned madness of Odysseus among the paintings ; and Paris, Leto with her children Apollo and Artemis, and Philip and Alexander in chariots among the statues.

Urbinum Hortense was an ancient Roman town of central Italy, of uncertain location, mentioned by Pliny the Elder in a roughly alphabetical and contextless list ( NH 3. 114 ).

Until the mid-20th century, it was sometimes assumed to have been the ancestor of the modern town of Urbino ; but that city is on the Metauro River and in the same list Pliny mentions an Urbinum Mataurense, a better fit: most topographers therefore did not make the identification.

However, it is clear he was familiar with the works of Virgil and with Pliny the Elder's Natural History, and his monastery also owned copies of the works of Dionysius Exiguus.

The earliest bestiary in the form in which it was later popularized was an anonymous 2nd century Greek volume called the Physiologus, which itself summarized ancient knowledge and wisdom about animals in the writings of classical authors such as Aristotle's Historia Animalium and various works by Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, Solinus, Aelian and other naturalists.

Aelian's anecdotes on animals rarely depend on direct observation: they are almost entirely taken from written sources, often Pliny the Elder, but also other authors and works now lost, to whom he is thus a valuable witness.

One of the earliest encyclopedic works to have survived to modern times is the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder, a Roman statesman living in the 1st century AD.

Pliny makes clear the fact in the preface to his work that he had checked his facts by reading and comparing the works of others, as well as referring to them by name.

One example of such a midwife is Salpe of Lemnos, who wrote on women ’ s diseases and was mentioned several times in the works of Pliny.

Pliny the Elder, a notable Roman naturalist, compiled the ichthyological works of indigenous Greeks, including verifiable and ambiguous peculiarities such as the sawfish and mermaid respectively.

Cape Verde may be referred to in the works " De choreographia " by Pomponius Mela ( died 45 CE / AD ) and " Historia naturalis " by Pliny the Elder ( died 79 CE / AD ).

Possibly the first evidence for the use of an odometer can be found in the works of the ancient Roman Pliny ( NH 6.

It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire field of ancient knowledge, based on the best authorities available to Pliny.

While no indubitably attributable sculpture by Praxiteles is extant, numerous copies of his works have survived ; several authors, including Pliny the Elder, wrote of his works ; and coins engraved with silhouettes of his various famous statuary types from the period still exist.

However, in this telling Boccaccio apparently conflated many of the women described by Pliny and attributed many more works to Eirene.

Major antiquarian Latin writers with surviving works include Varro, Pliny the Elder, Aulus Gellius, and Macrobius.

Most missing works are described by works or compilations that survive, such as the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder or the De Architectura by Vitruvius.

Madurai finds mention in the works of Roman historians Pliny the Younger ( 61 – ca.

The works of Nicander were praised by Cicero ( De oratore, i. 16 ), imitated by Ovid and Lucan, and frequently quoted by Pliny and other writers.

He was thoroughly familiar with the works of Greek and Latin authors, especially those of Pausanias and Pliny the Elder, which bore upon the subject in which he was most interested ; but he had little taste for the minutiae of verbal criticism.

Later writers such as Arrian, Strabo, Diodorus, and Pliny refer to Indica in their works.

Although older writings exist which deal with herbal medicine, such as Edwin Smith Papyrus in Egypt, Pliny ’ s pharmacopoeia and De Materia Medica ( Περί ύλης ιατρικής ), a five volume book originally written in Greek by Pedanius Dioscorides, are considered the major initial works in the field.

References to St. Elmo's fire can be found in the works of Julius Caesar ( De Bello Africo, 47 ), Pliny the Elder ( Naturalis Historia, book 2, par.

She was well read in the works of Greek and Roman scholars such as Pliny and Herodotus and was diligent in her study of religion.

According to Pliny, he produced more than 1, 500 works, all of them in bronze.