Read Pliny's account of Isidorus, a territorial landlord whose use of slave labor put the honest peasant farmers of Italy out of business.

Furnishes a collection of quote's attributed to the natural historian Pliny the Elder. Translated into English by J. Bostock and H.T. Riley.

Offers a summary and provides purchasing details for a book by John F. Healy that examines Pliny's contributions to science.

Ancient History Sourcebook provides a section from Pliny's "Natural History" describing life in Rome during the first century AD.