Due to an organic view of Nature, the Plinian world is perceived as a living organism with its boundaries acting as joints that simultaneously separate and unite the territories. This anatomical perspective aids in conceptualizing the space governed by Rome as a ‘de-fragmented’ entity within which a potentially homogeneous humanity unfolds. For this reason, Pliny’s geography is constructed as a non-ethnographic discourse, wherein curiosities and marvelous details are documented primarily to demarcate the frontiers of the world, beyond which lies either the unknowable or the untamed.
Parti del mondo: logiche del confine e della frontiera nella sezione geografica della Naturalis Historia di Plinio il Vecchio / LI CAUSI, Pietro. - In: CLASSICO CONTEMPORANEO. - ISSN 2421-4744. - (2023), pp. 1-35.
Parti del mondo: logiche del confine e della frontiera nella sezione geografica della Naturalis Historia di Plinio il Vecchio
Li Causi Pietro
2023
Abstract
Due to an organic view of Nature, the Plinian world is perceived as a living organism with its boundaries acting as joints that simultaneously separate and unite the territories. This anatomical perspective aids in conceptualizing the space governed by Rome as a ‘de-fragmented’ entity within which a potentially homogeneous humanity unfolds. For this reason, Pliny’s geography is constructed as a non-ethnographic discourse, wherein curiosities and marvelous details are documented primarily to demarcate the frontiers of the world, beyond which lies either the unknowable or the untamed.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.