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Babylonian Astro-medicine, Quadruplicities and Pliny the Elder
Zeitschrift Fur Assyriologie Und Vorderasiastische Archaeologie, 2021This article identifies the tradition of Babylonian Kalendertexte as the ultimate source for a passage in Pliny the Elder’s HN 30.95–97, thus establishing a link between Babylonian and Graeco-Roman astral medicine. Implications include the identification
Maddalena Rumor
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Roman Climate Awareness in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History
Classical Antiquity, 2021This article examines the past and potential contributions of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History (NH) on the subject of Roman perceptions and experiences of environmental change.
Jane Millar
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Pliny-Strabo Trench (PST)is a Subduction Transform Edge Propagator (STEP) fault developed at the northern edge of the African oceanic lithosphere connecting the Aegean and Cyprian trenches in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Pliny-Strabo Trench (PST)is a Subduction Transform Edge Propagator (STEP) fault developed at the northern edge of the African oceanic lithosphere connecting the Aegean and Cyprian trenches in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Condemning Domitian or Un-damning Themselves? Tacitus and Pliny on the Domitianic "Reign of Terror"
Illinois Classical Studies, 2020:This article reconsiders two of our most important literary sources on Domitian: Pliny the Younger's Letters and Tacitus's Agricola. Although historians have either accepted Pliny's and Tacitus's portrayal of Domitian as a bloodthirsty tyrant or ...
Martin Szoke
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Variations on the silica theme: Classification and provenance from Pliny to current supplies
The contribution of mineralogy to cultural heritage, 2019Over recent decades, numerous studies have highlighted the importance of opal, chalcedony and quartz varieties, chiefly in volcanic, but also in metamorphic and sedimentary environments. The focus is to define accurately their structures, composition and
E. Gliozzo
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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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Fitting Personal Interpretation with the Semantic Web: lessons learned from Pliny
Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2017In this paper we expand Stefan Gradmann’s question at WWW2012 Thinking in the graph: will Digital Humanists ever do so? to consider whether humanists, more generally than just digital ones, might do thinking that is, at least to some useful degree, in ...
J. Bradley, Michele Pasin
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