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Research interests
My main research interests include the following:
- Intellectual and cultural history of the Graeco-Roman world, in particular from the first century BC to the second century AD.
- The Elder Pliny.
- Ancient attitudes to the natural world.
- Wonders and wonder-literature.
- Cicero.
Mary Beagon is a specialist on Pliny the Elder on whom she has published a book, Roman Nature: the Thought of Pliny the Elder (Oxford, 1992) and on Roman attitudes to the natural world.
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Science and Medicine in the Roman Encyclopaedists: patronage for praxis
Beagon, M., 2018, The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World. Keyser, P. T. & Scarborough, J. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 655-76 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Variations on a Theme: Isidore and Pliny on Human and Human-Instigated Anomaly
Beagon, M., Jul 2016, Isidore of Seville and his Reception in the Early Middle Ages: Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge. Fear, A. & Wood, J. (eds.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 57-74 18 p. (Late antique and early medieval Iberia; vol. 2).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Peter Martyr's Use of Pliny
Beagon, M., 29 Jul 2014, In: International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 21, 3, p. 223-244 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Wondrous Animals in Classical Antiquity
Beagon, M., Sept 2014, The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life. Campbell, G. L. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 414-440 26 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Labores pro Bono Publico: the Burdensome Mission of Pliny's Natural History
Beagon, M., 17 Oct 2013, Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Koenig, J. & Woolf, G. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 84-107 24 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter