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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6)
the Elder, 24?-79 Pliny and John Bostock
Pliny sweeps across the geography of the ancient world in this second volume, from the Euxine shores through Paphlagonia, Cappadocia, and Colica. Nations, coasts, and marvels crowd every chapter. Sprawling, curious, and endlessly digressive. The continuing epic of Roman natural history and geography. Travel the coasts and countries of antiquity with the ancient world's most tireless collector of facts and wonders.
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378 chapters
- 1THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PLINY.
- 2CONTENTS. OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
- 3BOOK VI. AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST, OR FORMERLY EXISTED.
- 4CHAP. 1. (1.)—THE EUXINE AND THE MARYANDINI.
- 5CHAP. 2. (2.)—PAPHLAGONIA.
- 6CHAP. 3. (3.)—CAPPADOCIA.
- 7CHAP. 4.—THE REGION OF THEMISCYRA, AND THE NATIONS THEREIN.
- 8CHAP. 5. (5.)—THE REGION OF COLICA, THE NATIONS OF THE ACHÆI, AND OTHER NATIONS IN THE SAME PARTS.
- 9CHAP. 6.—THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS.
- 10CHAP. 7.—LAKE MÆOTIS AND THE ADJOINING NATIONS.
- 11CHAP. 8. (8.)—THE SITUATION OF CAPPADOCIA.
- 12CHAP. 9. (9.)—THE LESSER AND THE GREATER ARMENIA.
- 13CHAP. 10.—THE RIVERS CYRUS AND ARAXES.
- 14CHAP. 11. (10.)—ALBANIA, IBERIA, AND THE ADJOINING NATIONS.
- 15CHAP. 12. (11.)—THE PASSES OF THE CAUCASUS.
- 16CHAP. 13. (12.)—THE ISLANDS OF THE EUXINE.
- 17CHAP. 14. (13.)—NATIONS IN THE VICINITY OF THE SCYTHIAN OCEAN.
- 18CHAP. 15.—THE CASPIAN AND HYRCANIAN SEA.
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