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Underneath its easy surface, Pliny the Elder’s text quoted in the title contains an indication which begs reflection : the Aquitani who in the mines, of the Iberian peninsula worked at pumping out the water from the mines did it standing (Aquitani ...
Claude Domergue
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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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Women and the double standard of ambition
Abstract Few human qualities are as morally unstable as ambition: We seem unable to decide whether to admire or condemn the desire for self‐advancement. This instability guarantees double standards—and none has been more enduring than that of women's ambition.
Geertje J. Bol
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ABSTRACT The increasingly close integration of analytical techniques in the study of Greek and Roman wall paintings has shown that Egyptian blue was a common pigment, widely documented in the production of blue and greenish hues in ancient painted production.
Simone Dilaria +5 more
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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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ABSTRACT New analytical data of the so‐called Hemmoor buckets, a group of brass vessels from the Roman period of the 2nd to 3rd century ad that are widespread throughout central and eastern Europe, show considerable similarities with the polymetallic Cévennes ore deposits in south‐eastern France in terms of their geochemical characteristics and lead ...
Tobias B. Skowronek +5 more
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Pliniu cel Tânăr și împăratul Traian [PDF]
In his discourse uttered with the occasion of assuming the function of consul, Pliny the Younger did not spare praise of Trajan. His encomium depicts Trajan as an ideal princeps, his virtues being contrasted with the defects of Domitian, perceived as a ...
Alexandra Ciocârlie
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Abstract Pigments (extracts) from Stramonita (Thais) haemastoma and Bolinus (Murex) brandaris molluscs, which were collected along the coastline of Tunisia and processed under sunlight, are analysed using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) coupled to a Diode Array Detector (DAD).
Athina Vasileiadou +3 more
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Domitian\u27s Lightning Bolts and Close Shaves In Pliny [PDF]
Pliny\u27s portrayal of his public life under Domitian has often come under fire from both those who approach Pliny\u27sLettersfrom a historical perspective and those who study them as a literary production.
Strunk, Thomas E.
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