Pliny’s Natural History

Book XXXVI: Stones

The Marble Trade

• Any preliminary text you’d like to have? (if not we can just put a generic picture of some marble here or something whilst keeping the title if you’re okay with that?

Map of the Mediterranean

Map Showing Marble Quarries of the Empire

Map Showing Trade Routes during Empire

Sculpture and Art

Porticus Octaviae, RomeFounded in late 1st Century BC by Emperor Augustus

Venus of Cnidus (Roman Copy)

Phidias’ Olympian Zeus (reconstruction)

Phidias’ Athena Parthenos (reconstruction)

Representation of architecture and how it reflects political change in Rome

• Any preliminary text?

SINEAD

Representation of medicine

• Wide array of different stones and minerals being used for medical purposes

• Medicine or superstition?

• Naturalis Historia- self-help manual or riveting read?

“Medical marvels”

Conclusion

• …..ermmmmmm. Gotta work on that one.