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Humanitas, 2020 The asàrotos òikos or “unswept floor” is a decorative theme found in Roman mosaics. The theme depicts scraps of food along other items, as if scattered across the room’s floor. According to Pliny the theme was first created by Sosus in Pergamon.
Ehud Fathy
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Modeling the Sources and Topics of Pliny’s Natural History
Umanistica Digitale, 2022 Pliny’s Natural History, a large-scale encyclopedia containing more than 1.1 million words from the first century CE, provides a snapshot of scientific knowledge in the Roman Empire with sections devoted to topics such as geography, geology, zoology ...
Jeff Rydberg-Cox
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Resemblance and camouflage in Graeco-Roman antiquity
Sign Systems Studies, 2010 In the twenty-eighth book of the Naturalis Historia Pliny the Elder claims that, if a chameleon’s left leg is roasted together with a herb bearing the same name, and everything is mixed with ointment, cut in lozenges, and stored in a wooden little box ...
Massimo Leone
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT The article examines the history of phonographic recordings from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902), a venture that shaped the methods of Siberian and Arctic anthropology for decades. The authors—a historical anthropologist, a curator, and an Indigenous Sakha scholar—trace how audio recordings made during the expedition have moved ...
Dmitry Arzyutov +2 more
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 659-673, August 2026.ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
Beatrijs de Groot +2 more
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Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2017 iis quiad me tamquam christiani deferebantur, hunc sum secutus modum. Evidence Applied in the Persecution of Pontian Christians According to Pliny the Younger (Ep. 10,96) Summary In 1st and 2nd centuries A. D.
Maciej Jońca
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 7, July 2026.Abstract The Hellenic subduction system is the primary locus of Nubia‐Eurasia convergence, yet the distribution of strain accumulation along it is still debated. Here, we invert 832 geodetic velocities and 146 earthquake slip vectors to assess the spatial variability of interseismic locking and provide new constraints on the rate of slip deficit ...
Konstantinos Chousianitis +4 more
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Le metamorfosi di un filosofo. Tracce, presenze e mutazioni di Aristotele nella zoologia di Plinio
Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2009 In the zoological section of Natural History by Pliny the Elder, the name of Aristotle is generally used as a "chrism", which helps to determine the veracity of biological news and data that can also be seen as fabulous or paradoxical. Anyway, whereas, e.
Pietro Li Causi
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