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Naturalis Historia, Reconstructed [PDF]
, 2013 When Pliny the Elder wrote Naturalis Historia around 70 A.D., the idea of natural history contained and connected biology, geology, and mineralogy with the history of painting and sculpture. Art was an extension of the natural world as its materials were
Briland, Sarah
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Codex Sinaiticus as a Window into Early Christian Worship [PDF]
, 2014 Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest and most complete New Testament in Greek known to exist. Its two colophons at the end of 2 Esdras and Esther indicate a possible connection with Pamphilus’ famous library at Caesarea in Palestine.
Mitchell, Timothy N
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La nouvelle science et la science antique : l’échec d’un désaveu de paternité ?
Diciottesimo SecoloOne of the effects of the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and the polemics against the Ancients was to detach from the Belles Lettres the sciences and arts where the «progress of the human spirit» surely overcomes.
Chantal Grell
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Morsures, piqûres et empoisonnements dans l’Histoire Naturelle de Pline l’Ancien [PDF]
, 2010 This article aims to explain the large amount of space devoted by Pliny in his Natural History to remedies for the effects of bites and poisonous substances. Pliny is a compiler and reports a medical tradition known from the Alexandrian age. The interest
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Pliny’s “Role models of both sexes”: gender and exemplarity in the Letters [PDF]
, 2016 PublishedArticleThe Letters of Pliny the Younger are notable both for their portraits of outstanding women and for their thoughtful treatment of exemplarity.
Langlands, Rebecca
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Clientelas y amistades femeninas en Plinio El Joven
Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2009 RESUMEN: En sus cartas, Plinio presenta una imagen en su mayor parte amable de las mujeres: la caracterización que practica con esas mujeres es claramente positiva, en más de un 70% del total.
Juan Luis POSADAS SÁNCHEZ
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, 2019 Around 1480, when he was 28 years old, Leonardo da Vinci recorded what may have been a seminal event in his life. In writing of his travels to view nature he recounted an experience in a cave in the Tuscan countryside: Having wandered for some distance ...
Etheridge, Kay
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Secundum Naturam Vivere: Stoic Thoughts of Greco-Roman Antiquity on Nature and Their Relation to the Concepts of Sustainability, Frugality, and Environmental Protection in the Anthropocene. [PDF]
Philos Manag, 2023 Müller H.
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Cicero under censorship: again on the erotic epigram to Tiro (Plin. «Epist.» VII 4)
GriseldaonlineThe article discusses an alleged homoerotic epigram by Cicero, dedicated to his freedman Tiro and mentioned in a letter by Pliny the Younger. Most critics have censured this writing, considering it a forgery made in the 1st century ad to discredit Cicero
Tommaso Ricchieri
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