Resumen de L'ellébore ou la victoire de la littérature (Pline, Nat. 25,47-61)
Recent studies have laid the foundations for a new reading of Pliny's 'Natural History'. Pliny does not observe and represent nature according to Aristotelian norms, but rather sets forth an original world view in which the categories of the real, fantasy and dream are intimately mixed.
This new conception changes our view of the overall structure of the 'Natural History' as well as its specifie sections. I want to show by a formal analysis of the chapter devoted to hellebore that there is a close relationship between the construction of the world and the composition of the text.
