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The Making of the Vindolanda Wooden Writing Tablets: A Noninvasive Multianalytical Protocol for the Characterisation of Black Roman Inks. [PDF]
J Anal Methods ChemWithin the ‘Making History’ project, the British Museum investigated the materiality of the Vindolanda ink writing tablets for the first time, with a particular focus on the possible differentiation of the ink sources employed. Thanks to the application of complementary scientific techniques, it was possible to develop an analytical protocol for the ...
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THE GERUND AND GERUNDIVE IN THE WORKS OF TACITUS AND PLINY THE YOUNGER
Filolog, 2021 The gerund is a defective verbal noun and the gerundive is a passive verbal adjective in -ndus, -a, -um with necessitative meaning. This paper presents some results obtained from a comparison of the various uses gerunds and gerundives in the ...
Slobodanka S. Prtija
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Cato the Younger, Seneca the Younger, Pliny the Younger: conflict between norm and reality [PDF]
Античный мир и археология, 2023 The article is devoted to three politicians and intellectuals – the republican leader Cato of Utica, Neroʼs tutor Seneca and Trajanʼs friend Pliny the Younger. An uncompromising fighter against tyranny, Cato chose to commit suicide rather than
Nikishin, Vladimir Olegovich
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Pliny the Younger: citizen, landowner, intellectual
RUDN Journal of World History, 2023 Pliny the Younger is a statesman, writer and lawyer, the author of the only correspondence between the governor of the province and the emperor that has survived to this day.
Vladimir Olegovich Nikishin
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Open Journal of Humanities, 2021 The article proposes a linguistic analysis of the two epistles of Pliny the Younger, addressed to the historian Tacitus, in which the author recalls and describes the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 AD.
Edoardo Scarpanti
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History of Controlled Environment Horticulture: Ancient Origins
HortScience, 2022 In the first century CE, two Roman agricultural writers, Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella and Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), referred to proto-greenhouses (specularia) constructed for the Emperor Tiberius (42 BCE–37 CE) presumably adjacent to
Jules Janick, Harry Paris
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HOUSES IN THE ENGLISH NOVEL: MODERNISMS, EKPHRASES, AND THRESHOLDS [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2022 The paper analyses diegetic techniques in set-piece descriptions of houses and gardens in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novels and stories (Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Middlemarch, The Awakening, Prelude, Howards End, The Rainbow ...
Michael Hattaway
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Networking in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Younger
Journal of Historical Network Research, 2020 Living during the heyday of the Roman Empire, the senator Pliny the Younger (ca. AD 61/62 – 113/114) was in contact with the social and political elite of his time: several Emperors, fellow senators like Cornelius Tacitus, Sosius Senecio, and Arulenus ...
Fabian Germerodt
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Právněhistorické studie, 2023 The correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan provides examples of legal issues which Pliny had to face as an imperial magistrate sent to the province of Bithynia and Pontus by the emperor. The aim of the article is to determine the way
Izabela Leraczyk
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Pliny On Cicero And Oratory - Self-Fashioning In The Public Eye [PDF]
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Riggsby, Andrew M.
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