{"title":"Pliny the Elder","description":"Luca Grillo is the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Collegiate Professor of Classics at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of several books, including The Art of Caesar's \"Bellum Civile,\" and the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar.","products":[{"product_id":"how-to-make-money-an-ancient-guide-to-wealth-management-hardcover","title":"How to Make Money: An Ancient Guide to Wealth Management - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn enriching collection of classical writings about how ancient Romans made--and thought about--money\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAncient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Roman economy was dominated by agriculture, but it was surprisingly modern in many ways: the Romans had companies with CEOs, shareholders, and detailed contracts regulated by meticulous laws; systems of banking and taxation; and a wide range of occupations, from merchant and doctor to architect and teacher. The Romans also enjoyed a relatively open society, where some could start from the bottom, work, invest, and grow rich. \u003ci\u003eHow to Make Money \u003c\/i\u003egathers a wide variety of ancient writings that show how Romans thought about, made, invested, spent, lost, and gave away money. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Roman elite idealized farming and service to the state but treated many other occupations with suspicion or contempt, from money lending to wage labor. But whatever their attitudes, \u003ci\u003epecunia\u003c\/i\u003e made the Roman world go round. In the \u003ci\u003eSatyricon\u003c\/i\u003e, Trimalchio brags about his wealth. Seneca accumulated a fortune--but taught that money can't buy happiness. Eumachia inherited a brick factory from her father, married well, and turned to philanthropy after she was widowed. \u003ci\u003eHow to Make Money\u003c\/i\u003e also takes up some of the most troubling aspects of the Roman economy, slavery and prostitution, which the elite deemed unrespectable but often profited from. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing lively new translations, an illuminating introduction, and the original Latin and Greek texts on facing pages, \u003ci\u003eHow to Make Money \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a revealing look at the Roman worlds of work and money.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368259125471,"sku":"9780691239125","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KZZNrw9FLM9780691239125.webp?v=1789125128"},{"product_id":"natural-history-an-illustrated-selection-hardcover","title":"Natural History - An Illustrated Selection - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGaius Plinius Secundus was a first century Roman writer, known by the name Pliny the Elder to differentiate him from his nephew and adopted son Pliny the Younger. His best known work, and the only one preserved in its entirety, is \u003cem\u003eNaturalis Histori \u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eNatural History.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePliny belonged to the equestrian order and held various military and administrative positions throughout his life, combining them with studies and research on natural, ethnographic and geographical phenomena compiled in his work \u003cem\u003eNatural History\u003c\/em\u003e, which is possibly the first encyclopedia that antiquity bequeathed to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePliny's \u003cem\u003eNatural History\u003c\/em\u003e offers us a fascinating vision of the world as the Romans saw it 2000 years ago, covering a vast field ranging from cosmology, geography, zoology, botany, medicine, mineralogy to various superstitions of his time, and much more, developed in 37 books, which in Bostock and Riley's translation occupy some 3000 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition condenses this masterpiece into a single volume, including all the 37 Books of the original work, preserving as much as possible the 19th century English wording of its original translators, with minimal changes to improve its readability.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369499754719,"sku":"9781989586693","price":43.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4e2g6-aIsh9781989586693.webp?v=1789142507"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/pliny-the-elder.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}