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Pliny, Trajan, and the introduction of Iselasticum for Victorious Athletes [PDF]
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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Pline l’Ancien a-t-il cru à ses mythes ?
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]
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Nolan Pliny Jacobson Papers - Accession 842 [PDF]
The Nolan Pliny Jacobson Papers consist of manuscripts, articles, book reviews, photographs, and correspondence largely related to his philosophical writings, projects, and travels.
Jacobson, Nolan Pliny
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Nolan Pliny Jacobson Papers - Accession 304 [PDF]
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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Nolan Pliny Jacobson Papers - Accession 24 [PDF]
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
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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This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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A New Painting of Calypso in Pliny the Elder
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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