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Biologia e nomenclatura in Plinio
Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2008 A careful reading of some books of the Naturalis Historia provides a surprising insight into the naming needs of the zoologist Pliny.
Andrea Guasparri
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Medicine for the Material World
Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 434-439, June 2026.ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
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The Textualization of the Imazighen: A Comparison of Pliny the Elder and Ibn Khaldun [PDF]
This work compares the works of Pliny the Elder and Ibn Khaldun and how they perceived the Imazighen (also known as Berbers) of North Africa in their own contexts.
Barrow, John X
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Erga-Logoi, 2015 In Pliny’s description of Ariana there is a brief mention of the fish-eating Orites, a tribe dwelling on the coast of Makran – the Orites were encountered by Alexander during his march from the Indus river to Persia.
Pierre Schneider
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Estoicismo e imperium: a virtus do homem político romano = Stoicism and imperium: the virtus of the roman political man. [PDF]
Acta Scientiarum. Education, 2011 Esse artigo tem como objetivo estudar as relações entre o Estoicismo e o Principado, a partir da leitura da correspondência pliniana. Plínio, o Jovem era originário de uma família equestre que ascendeu ao senado.
Renata Lopes Biazotto Venturini
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CINNAMON, CASSIA AND ANCIENT TRADE
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2017 : There is a widespread assumption that ancient “cinnamon” and “cassia” were the same as the spices now known by those names; that is, products obtained from trees of the genus Cinnamomum.
Stephen George Haw
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, 2010 The presentation focused on four ways in which the Pliny project was a research project: (1) Pliny is a piece of software that I developed over the past few years as a kind of thought-piece about tools for humanities scholarship, including and ...
John Bradley
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The sandals of Pliny the Elder [PDF]
, 2018 Neste artigo busco apresentar alguns traços que compõem uma breve biografia de Plínio, o Velho. Auxiliado pelos testemunhos de Plínio, o Jovem, construímos duas imagens que se sustentam tão somente se entendidas conjuntamente: Plínio com sandálias e ...
Stadler, Thiago David
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Domitian\u27s Lightning Bolts and Close Shaves In Pliny [PDF]
, 2013 Pliny\u27s portrayal of his public life under Domitian has often come under fire from both those who approach Pliny\u27sLettersfrom a historical perspective and those who study them as a literary production.
Strunk, Thomas E.
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New Light on the Beginning of the Pecos Conference
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 1997 Recently James E. Snead, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, encountered in the department archives a letter from A. V. Kidder to Pliny E. Goddard .
Richard B. Woodbury
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