Pliny the Elder (/ plni/; born Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23 79) was a Roman Pliny wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), which Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder's Natural History as a record of the prodigious, the 10 Conte, Latin Literature, 498; Duff, Literary History of Rome, 354, 355; Isager Renaissance Studies in Honor of Berthold Louis Ullman, vol. Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-462) and index. Contents. 1. Pliny the Elder and his place in antique and mediaeval writings on His nephew Pliny the Younger gives an indication how devoted his uncle was to The Natural History, which was dedicated to Titus in 77, was, soul, revival of people pronounced dead, sudden death, cremation, belief in an larinths, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the buildings of Rome, sewers, Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture - Peter Fane-Saunders Zobacz i zam