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Pline l’Ancien a-t-il cru à ses mythes ?

Pallas, 2009
Book VII of Pliny the Elder’ s Natural History, devoted to man, ends on a curious catalogue of inventors and inventions. It is on the treatment of myth in that inventory that we intend to ponder.
Valérie Naas
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The ‘Taprobane” of Pliny and Ptolemy [PDF]

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1904
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Pliny the Younger and the Art of Narration

Classica Cracoviensia, 2018
Pliny the Younger and the Art of Narration In this paper I try to examine some of Pliny’s well known letters as pieces of literary fiction. The main interest here is not the authenticity of facts presented, but some literary techniques that Pliny ...
Jacek Hajduk
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A Testimony of Oenopides in Pliny

Hyperboreus, 2015
Oenopides of Chius features in the list of foreign authorities for Book XVIII of Pliny’s Natural History. The paper assesses what this could indicate on the part of Pliny, and his source or sources, and concludes that the most likely presupposition is ...
István Bodnár
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Pliny, Trajan, and the introduction of Iselasticum for Victorious Athletes [PDF]

, 2023
In two letters, Pliny and Trajan discuss a petition sent to the governor by the guild of athletes concerning their rewards after winning contests (Plin. Ep. 10.118–19).
Begass, Christoph
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La mission d’avocat dans la Rome impériale d’après la correspondance de Pline le Jeune

Criminocorpus, 2016
The various letters of Pliny the Younger, published in the 2nd century, in which he writes about his activity as a lawyer, show to what extent, in his view, the eloquent defense of other people’s interests is important.
Marie Yschard
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Les remèdes animaux chez Pline l’Ancien (Rome, ier siècle) : organiser une « plus grande médecine »

Histoire, Médecine et Santé, 2022
The Natural History by Pliny the Elder, a Roman encyclopedia from the first century AD, devotes several volumes to medical material derived from animals.
Thomas Galoppin
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Bioluminescence: the First 3000 Years (Review) [PDF]

Журнал Сибирского федерального университета: Серия Биология, 2008
Bioluminescence is defined as the emission of light from a living organism that performs some biological function. Bioluminescence is one of the oldest fields of scientific study, dating from the first written records of the ancient Greeks.
John Lee
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Κτῆμα ἐς ἀεί. Überlegungen zu Eigentum und Historiographie in den Plinius-Briefen

Hyperboreus, 2015
In his epistles, Pliny opposes an individual concept of perpetual ownership to the standard philosophical refutation of its possibility or even desirability.
Fritz Felgentreu
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Some Intellectuals in Tacitus and Pliny the Younger

Classica Cracoviensia, 2015
Some Intellectuals in Tacitus and Pliny the Younger The paper provides a (far from exhaustive) overview of references found in Tacitus’ historical works (Annales, Historiae, Agricola) and in Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae to people who may be defined ...
Jakub Pigoń
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