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The 42 pages that link to Pliny the Elder, each with the reason it gives.

• Natural historyRelated: His encyclopedic work gave the tradition its enduring Latin name.

• TemperaRelated: His account provides evidence for ancient pigment-binding and painting methods.

• StraboRelated: Pliny preserved a different encyclopedic approach to geographical information.

• SoapRelated: His account records soap use among some peoples in the Roman world.

• Pliny the YoungerRelated: Pliny the Younger’s uncle died during the Vesuvius eruption, which the younger Pliny described.

• Caucasian AlbaniaRelated: His account records ancient names and groups associated with the eastern Caucasus.

• Trompe-l'œilRelated: His account of Zeuxis and Parrhasius became a famous ancient story about painting that deceives the eye.

• VespasianRelated: His career under Vespasian illustrates the regime’s support for administrative and scholarly service.

• Mount VesuviusRelated: His death near the erupting volcano is recorded by his nephew, Pliny the Younger.

• Roman copies of Greek sculpturesRelated: His accounts guide modern identifications, but do not always map neatly onto surviving replicas.

• PhidiasRelated: Pliny is a major surviving source for the works and reputation attributed to Phidias.

• Encaustic paintingRelated: His account is a key ancient source on wax painting methods.

• EncyclopediaRelated: His Natural History became a major model for later encyclopedic compilations.

• Greek sculptureRelated: His descriptions are a major source for reconstructing sculptures now lost.

• Pedanius DioscoridesCompared with: Pliny’s encyclopedic scope contrasts with Dioscorides’ focused handbook of medicinal substances.

• Roman trade with IndiaRelated: He complained that eastern luxury imports drained Roman wealth, especially through trade with India.

• Flavian dynastyRelated: His death under Titus anchors a major disaster in Flavian history.

• Laocoön and His SonsRelated: His brief account is the principal ancient source for the sculpture’s sculptors.

• Quintus Curtius RufusRelated: Pliny mentions a Curtius Rufus, a possible but unproven identification of the historian.

• Greek artRelated: His text is a major source for Greek art whose original works and makers are otherwise poorly documented.

• LapidaryRelated: His descriptions helped transmit ancient claims about stones into later reference writing.

• MegasthenesRelated: Pliny cited Megasthenes among ancient sources on India.

• PraxitelesRelated: His accounts record Praxiteles's works, patrons, and reputation.

• Amber RoadRelated: His account records Roman knowledge and uses of amber reaching southern markets.

• Colossus of RhodesRelated: His account describes the fallen Colossus and its enormous fragments.

• EssenesRelated: His brief account places an ascetic Jewish community near the Dead Sea.

• LysipposRelated: His accounts transmit key claims about Lysippos's works and artistic innovations.

• Mausoleum at HalicarnassusRelated: His description is a major ancient source for the monument’s design and sculptors.

• SpinelRelated: Ancient gem descriptions contributed to the long-standing confusion between spinel and ruby.

• MyronRelated: Pliny records Myron’s reputation and works centuries after the sculptor’s lifetime.

• Athena PromachosRelated: His writings preserve information about Phidias and the statue’s reputation.

• Long pepperRelated: His Natural History discusses long pepper and its place in Roman trade.

• Pomponius MelaRelated: Pliny offers a contemporary Roman comparison for Mela’s geographic knowledge.

• Roman silk demandRelated: His tally of eastern imports is the main surviving Roman account of how much the silk trade cost.

• Conrad GessnerRelated: Pliny was a central ancient source Gessner quoted, assessed, and organized in his animal encyclopedia.

• Eruption of Mount VesuviusRelated: He sailed toward the eruption to assist people and investigate it.

• History of encyclopediasRelated: His Natural History became a major model for later encyclopedic compilations.

• History of mineralogyRelated: His encyclopedia preserved descriptions and beliefs that shaped mineral knowledge for centuries.

• IaiaRelated: His Natural History is the principal surviving source for Iaia’s life and art.

• Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and ArchitectsRelated: Vasari’s biographical project follows a classical precedent for recording artists’ lives.

• PolygnotusRelated: Pliny transmitted judgments about Polygnotus’s skill and place in painting history.

• White leadRelated: He documented ancient production and uses of white lead.