Pliny's Natural History (In Our Time)
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Pliny's Natural History.Some time in the first century AD, the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder published his Naturalis Historia, or Natural History, an enormous reference work which attempted to bring together knowledge on every subject under the sun. The Natural History contains information on zoology, astronomy, geography,
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- Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE)
- Crucifixion of Jesus (33)
- Reign of Marcus Aurelius (161)
- Reign of Nero (54)
- Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (70)
- Reign of Trajan (98)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
- Saint Paul (5)
- Reign of Tiberius (14)
- Paul's missionary journeys (48)