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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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Pliny The Younger & Mt. Vesuvius [PDF]

, 2020
Pliny the Younger\u27s letters painted a beautiful picture of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. His letters are thought to have allowed modern volcanoligists to discover information about the eruption and the destruction of Pompeii.
Huxlrey, Taylor
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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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Pliny and the Christians

, 1948
Many inferences have been drawn by liturgical scholars from the letter of Pliny to Trajan, Epist. x. 96, in the year 112. The purpose of this note is to suggest that such inferences are at least partly invalid.
Robert M. Grant
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Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki [PDF]

, 2008
Book Review of Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki / John Onians.--ISBN: 978-0-300-12677-8.
Lee Sorensen
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Pecunia otiosa i ryzykowny plan biznesowy Pliniusza Młodszego (ep. 10.54)

Acta Iuris Stetinensis
Two letters that have survived in a collection of correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan constitute a fascinating source for the study of the financial policies of the Roman state at the beginning of the second century AD.
Maciej Jońca
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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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Pliny: Four perspectives

, 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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CONSIDERACIONES SOBRE EL PANEGÍRICO XI(3) DEL CORPUS PANEGYRICORUM LATINORUM

Myrtia, 1996
The author elucidates to what extent follows Julian’s panegyrist, Claudius Mamertinus, the panegyric genre rules, exposed by the greek rhetor Menander of Laodicea in the third century A.D. On the other hand we have considered of prime interest to compare
Rebeca Orihuela Sancho
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Pliny Earle letter to Thomas Rotch, Leicester, 9th mo 23rd 1818

Pliny Earle sends an invoice for material shipped to Thomas Rotch, he states that he is ready to supply others who may be interested in his products, namely his carding machines.
Earle, Pliny
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