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PLINY ON ESSENES, PLINY ON JEWS
Dead Sea Discoveries, 2001A key passage in the discussion of ancient tEssenest is Pliny the Elder's description in Natural History 5.73. Pliny claims that his subject matter is "sterile" - the nature of things, real life - compared to more entertaining works that aff ord opportunity for digressions (excessus) or orations and discourses or wondrous occurrences (casus mirabiles ...
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Silenced Intertext: Pliny on Martial on Pliny (on Regulus)
American Journal of Philology, 2013Going beyond the explicit dialogue between Epistle 3.21, by Pliny on Martial, and Epigram 10.19(20), by Martial on Pliny, this paper discusses a range of peripheral texts addressing issues of political patronage ( Epistle 1.5, in the context of Epigrams 1.12 and 1.82), social customs ( Epistle 4.2 and 4.
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2018
This article proposes to re-examine what purposes the letters of Pliny the Younger to and about his wife Calpurnia serve in Pliny's quest for lasting fame. It shows that from their hybrid genre of elegiac epistolography to their seemingly intimate themes, these letters' form and content have aims that go beyond flaunting Pliny's perfect private and ...
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This article proposes to re-examine what purposes the letters of Pliny the Younger to and about his wife Calpurnia serve in Pliny's quest for lasting fame. It shows that from their hybrid genre of elegiac epistolography to their seemingly intimate themes, these letters' form and content have aims that go beyond flaunting Pliny's perfect private and ...
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Martial’s Pliny as Quoted by Pliny
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Tzounakas, Spyridon, Tzounakas, Spyridon
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2011
Pliny's Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It offers an eyewitness account of the last years of Domitian's principate, the reign of Nerva and Trajan's early years, and it communicates a detailed senatorial view on the behaviour expected of an emperor.
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Pliny's Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It offers an eyewitness account of the last years of Domitian's principate, the reign of Nerva and Trajan's early years, and it communicates a detailed senatorial view on the behaviour expected of an emperor.
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Anatolian Studies, 1986
I. The Isaurians escaped notice for long centuries. They first come to mention in an episode of the year 322 B.C. when Perdiccas after subduing Cappadocia captured their city, described as strong and populous, of ancient opulence. Isaurians next emerge in the campaign that earned a triumphal cognomen for P. Servilius Vatia (cos.
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I. The Isaurians escaped notice for long centuries. They first come to mention in an episode of the year 322 B.C. when Perdiccas after subduing Cappadocia captured their city, described as strong and populous, of ancient opulence. Isaurians next emerge in the campaign that earned a triumphal cognomen for P. Servilius Vatia (cos.
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1990
Abstract With Cornelius Tacitus (c AD 56-c ad 115) we come to a great master of historical prose; but he was also a celebrated orator, and our first extract illustrates his interest in literary ideals. It comes from the Dialogus de oratoribus (c AD 100, but dramatic date ad 74), probably the best ‘dialogue’ in Latin literature.
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Abstract With Cornelius Tacitus (c AD 56-c ad 115) we come to a great master of historical prose; but he was also a celebrated orator, and our first extract illustrates his interest in literary ideals. It comes from the Dialogus de oratoribus (c AD 100, but dramatic date ad 74), probably the best ‘dialogue’ in Latin literature.
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The Pliny–Strabo Trench Region: A Large Shear Zone Resulting From Slab Tearing
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013Rob Govers +2 more
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