Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia is one of the most ambitious works to survive from antiquity — a vast encyclopaedia encompassing geography, zoology, botany, medicine, and mineralogy. Volume 3 of this six-volume translation covers topics ranging from exotic animals to medicinal plants, offering an unparalleled window into what educated Romans believed about the natural world in the first century AD.
This free EPUB edition of Volume 3 has been cleaned and formatted for modern e-readers. Together with the other volumes, it forms an essential primary source for students of Roman science, culture, and intellectual history.