Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia is the most ambitious encyclopaedic work to survive from the ancient world — 37 books covering cosmology, geography, ethnography, zoology, botany, mineralogy, and art history. Volume 1 of this six-volume translation opens with the preface, the cosmological books, and the geographical survey of Europe, laying the framework for the entire vast enterprise.
Download this free EPUB edition of Volume 1, formatted for modern e-readers. Together the six volumes of this translation constitute an indispensable resource for classical scholars and anyone fascinated by what a well-educated Roman of the first century AD believed about the world.