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Exempla in the Tenth Book of Correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan – Introductory Remarks

Právněhistorické studie, 2023
The correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan provides examples of legal issues which Pliny had to face as an imperial magistrate sent to the province of Bithynia and Pontus by the emperor. The aim of the article is to determine the way
Izabela Leraczyk
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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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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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Nolan Pliny Jacobson Papers - Accession 842 [PDF]

, 1995
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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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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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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