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Moterų paveikslai Plinijaus Laiškuose. Women characters in Pliny’s „Letters“ [PDF]
This article proceeds the cycle of articles about characters in Pliny „Letters“. Although male characters dominate and there are few women images in the „Letters“, but Pliny represents every female character very carefully, showing their living ...
Anna Maciūnienė
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Summary Purple dye was an iconic status symbol in the ancient Mediterranean, yet tracing the expansion and shift of production from the Aegean to the Levant encounters substantial methodological difficulties. Using Tel Shiqmona – a unique industrial centre with a continuous Iron Age sequence – as an archaeological benchmark, this study defines detailed
Golan Shalvi
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Playing together: modular tools and Pliny [PDF]
In the early days the Digital Humanities (DH) focused on the development of tools to support the individual scholar to perform original scholarship, and tools such as OCP and TACT emerged that were aimed at the individual scholar.
John Bradley
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Broad Strokes with a Fine Brush. Pliny Pan. 25 and its Sallustian Intertexts
Justifying the lengthy details of his thanksgiving to the emperor (Pan. 25), Pliny alludes to two programmatic statements by Sallust. He first quotes the historian’s explicit choice of narrating history in selection (carptim, Cat.
Christopher B. Krebs
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ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi +15 more
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An interdisciplinary in situ study of jewelled reliquaries of the True Cross integrates gemmology and portable analytical techniques, revealing new evidence on the identification and symbolic role of peridots and other gemstones. ABSTRACT Jewelled crosses containing relics of the True Cross occupy a central position in the devotional, artistic and ...
Stefania Martiniello +2 more
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Sales book of Pliny Reasoner, founder of the Reasoner Brothers' Royal Palm Nursery of Oneco. The first page includes a receipt of Reasoner's purchases from J.W. Harllee from 1886. The subsequent pages are records of plant sales made by Reasoner from 1884
Pliny Reasoner
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ABSTRACT The article examines the history of phonographic recordings from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902), a venture that shaped the methods of Siberian and Arctic anthropology for decades. The authors—a historical anthropologist, a curator, and an Indigenous Sakha scholar—trace how audio recordings made during the expedition have moved ...
Dmitry Arzyutov +2 more
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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A Tortured Image: The Biography of Lucullus' Dying Hercules
This essay explores a Roman triumphal monument put up at the heart of Rome by the triumphator Lucullus in the 1st c. BCE, and its Imperial afterlife after the fall of the Republic.
Ann Kuttner
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