The Natural History Volume 1 by PLINY THE ELDER read by Various Part 2/2 | Full Audio Book

The Natural History Volume 1 by PLINY THE ELDER (23 - 79), translated by Henry Thomas RILEY (1816 - 1878)
Genre(s): Animals, Nature, Reference

Read by: ontheroad, Lektor, Linda Dodge, Peter Zinn, Christina Vasilevski, Anna Simon, Bianca Kramer, Timothy Ferguson, Joyce Martin, Kalynda, Charles Bice, Leni in English

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - 23 - 23 - Book 4, Chapters 1-10 Epirus; Acarnania; Aetolia; Locris and Phocis; The Peloponnesus; Achaia; Messenia; Laconia; Argolis; Arcadia
00:20:47 - 24 - 24 - Book 4, Chapters 11-18 Attica; Boeotia; Doris; Phthiotis; Thessaly Proper; Magnesia; Macedonia; Thrace; The Aegean Sea
00:48:21 - 25 - 25 - Book 4, Chapters 19-25 The islands which lie before the lands already mentioned; Crete; Euboeia; The Cyclades; The Sporades; The Hellespont - The lake Maeotis; Dacia, Sarmatia
01:19:24 - 26 - 26 - Book 4, Chapters 26-30 Scythia; The islands of the Euxine; The islands of the northern ocean; Germany; Ninety-six islands of the Gallic Ocean; Britannia
01:41:39 - 27 - 27 - Books 4, Chapters 31-37 and Summary Gallia Belgica; Gallia Lugdunensis; Gallia Aquitanica; Nearer Spain, its coast along the Gallic Ocean; Lusitania; The islands in the Atlantic Ocean; The general measurement of Europe; Summary; Roman authors quoted; Foreign authors quoted
01:59:55 - 28 - 28 - Book 5, Chapters 1-3 The two Mauritanias; Numidia; Africa
02:23:55 - 29 - 29 - Book 5, Chapters 4-8 The Syrtes; Cyrenaica; Libya Mareotis; the islands in the vicinity of Africa; Countries on the other side of Africa
02:44:34 - 30 - 30 - Book 5, Chapters 9-13 Egypt and Thebais; The River Nile; The cities of Egypt; The coasts of Arabia, situate on the Egyptian sea; Syria
03:06:03 - 31 - 31 - Book 5, Chapters 14-19 Idumaea, Palaestina and Samaria; Judaea; Decapolis; Phoenice; Syria Antiochia; The remaining parts of Syria
03:21:05 - 32 - 32 - Book 5, Chapters 20-28 The Euphrates; Syria upon the Euphrates; Cilicia and the adjoining nations; Isauria and the Homonades; Pisidia; Lycaonia; Pamphylia; Mount Taurus; Lycia
03:39:37 - 33 - 33 - Book 5, Chapters 29-32 Caria; Lydia; Ionia; Aeolis
03:58:05 - 34 - 34 - Book 5, Chapters 33-39 Troas and the adjoining nations; The islands which lie in front of Asia; Cyprus; Rhodes; Samos; Chios; Lesbos
04:16:33 - 35 - 35 - Book 5, Chapters 40-44 and Summary The Hellespont and Mysia; Phrygia; Galatia and the adjoining nations; Bithynia; The islands of the Propontis; Summary; Roman authors quoted; Foreign authors quoted

Naturalis Historia is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire field of ancient knowledge, based on the best authorities available to Pliny. The work became a model for all later encyclopedias in terms of the breadth of subject matter examined, the need to reference original authors, and a comprehensive index list of the contents. The scheme of his great work is vast and comprehensive, being nothing short of an encyclopedia of learning and of art so far as they are connected with nature or draw their materials from nature. The work divides neatly into the organic world of plants and animals, and the realm of inorganic matter, although there are frequent digressions in each section. He is especially interested in not just describing the occurrence of plants, animals and insects, but also their exploitation by man, especially Romans. The description of metals and minerals is particularly detailed, and valuable for the history of science as being the most extensive compilation still available from the ancient world. This volume one includes the first five books, covering the following subjects:Book 1- DedicationBook 2 - An account of the world and the elementsBooks 3 to 5 - An account of countries, nations, seas, towns, havens, mountains, rivers, distances, and peoples who now exist or formerly existed

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1:32:18 Northern Europe.
1:34:08 Germany.
1:35:50 Germany.

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Appreciate the time these people put in to record this for free, but often inevitably English speakers have very poor pronunciation of Latin words.

Chauci, by the reader, is pronounced "chassis". However if you ask me it is supposed to be pronounced like "(x)oukee. The 'ou' as in 'loud' and the (x) as in the Dutch fricative 'ch' that you will find in German as well as Polish. And the stress on the first syllable.
This then makes it much more obious 'chauc' is the same as the Dutch word 'hoog', English cognate 'high'.
So the name then means 'high ones'.

This is why pronunciation matters.

P.S. In Swabian (the very same Suebi that are also mentioned in this book) it is pronounced ''hauch", which is the closest you'll get to how it was pronounced 2000 years ago.