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Nolan Pliny Jacobson Papers - Accession 304 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
The Nolan Pliny Jacobson Papers consists of material on Oriental religions and philosophy and its interaction with the West. The collection is an extremely valuable source on academic life and professional relationships between scholars of the world as ...
Jacobson, Nolan Pliny
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Saliva: indicazioni terapeutiche, modalità di impiego e lessico nella Naturalis Historia di Plinio tra fonti e ricezione

open access: yesPallas, 2020
In this report the testimonies of Pliny concerning the term saliva (28, 35, 1-39, 8) are examined. Moreover at this «monographic» moment, which presents about 19 cases of therapeutic or magical application of human saliva, the other passages in the ...
Livia Radici, Paola Radici Colace
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Acque reflue e rischio ambientale: inquinamento fluviale nella Roma imperiale

open access: yesErga-Logoi, 2021
The paper intends to examine a specific area of research concerning the pollution of large rivers – the Tiber above all but not exclusively – and the resulting contamination of water and air as well as the depletion of fish fauna and related food risks ...
Gaetano Arena
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Nolan Pliny Jacobson Papers - Accession 24 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1975
The Nolan Pliny Jacobson Papers consist of biographical data, professional and personal correspondence, and other papers relating to Dr. Jacobson’s research; his relationship with other philosophers, and his interest in oriental religion, philosophy, and
Jacobson, Nolan Pliny
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Pliny’s “Role Models of Both Sexes”: Gender and exemplarity in the Letters

open access: yesEugesta, 2014
The Letters of Pliny the Younger are notable both for their portraits of outstanding women and for their thoughtful treatment of exemplarity. This article explores Pliny’s innovative portrayal in his Letters of women as moral exempla within his new
Rebecca Langlands
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Aquitani stantes noctibus diebusque…Pline le Naturaliste (Hist. Nat., 33, 97) et l'épuisement de l'eau dans les mines d'Hispanie

open access: yesPallas, 2010
Underneath its easy surface, Pliny the Elder’s text quoted in the title contains an indication which begs reflection : the Aquitani who in the mines, of the Iberian peninsula worked at pumping out the water from the mines did it standing (Aquitani ...
Claude Domergue
doaj   +1 more source

Pliny the Elder and Mucianus

open access: yesEmerita, 1995
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Barry Baldwin
doaj   +1 more source

Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jewelled Byzantine and Medieval Reliquaries of the True Cross: Peridots and Other Gemstones in Material and Symbolic Perspective

open access: yesJournal of Raman Spectroscopy, EarlyView.
An interdisciplinary in situ study of jewelled reliquaries of the True Cross integrates gemmology and portable analytical techniques, revealing new evidence on the identification and symbolic role of peridots and other gemstones. ABSTRACT Jewelled crosses containing relics of the True Cross occupy a central position in the devotional, artistic and ...
Stefania Martiniello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A New Painting of Calypso in Pliny the Elder

open access: yesEugesta, 2017
At Naturalis Historia 35.147, Pliny offers precious information on female artists of Greece and Rome. This article emends Pliny’s text, thereby attributing a more precise subject to a painting by a Greek woman.
Anthony Corbeill
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