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The Making of the Vindolanda Wooden Writing Tablets: A Noninvasive Multianalytical Protocol for the Characterisation of Black Roman Inks. [PDF]
J Anal Methods ChemWithin the ‘Making History’ project, the British Museum investigated the materiality of the Vindolanda ink writing tablets for the first time, with a particular focus on the possible differentiation of the ink sources employed. Thanks to the application of complementary scientific techniques, it was possible to develop an analytical protocol for the ...
Vasco G +4 more
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HOUSES IN THE ENGLISH NOVEL: MODERNISMS, EKPHRASES, AND THRESHOLDS [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2022 The paper analyses diegetic techniques in set-piece descriptions of houses and gardens in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novels and stories (Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Middlemarch, The Awakening, Prelude, Howards End, The Rainbow ...
Michael Hattaway
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Networking in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Younger
Journal of Historical Network Research, 2020 Living during the heyday of the Roman Empire, the senator Pliny the Younger (ca. AD 61/62 – 113/114) was in contact with the social and political elite of his time: several Emperors, fellow senators like Cornelius Tacitus, Sosius Senecio, and Arulenus ...
Fabian Germerodt
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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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Publica aut peri! The Releasing and Distribution of Roman Books [PDF]
, 2007 This outline of our knowledge of the process of releasing literature in late republican and early imperial Rome addresses the nature of the recitations, the question of ‘publishing’ and distribution of books, from Atticus to Pliny the Younger.
Jon Wikene Iddeng
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Ovid, the Fasti and the stars [PDF]
, 2007 According to Quintilian, poetry cannot be fully understood without a good knowledge of the stars. As one example he cites the fact that poets frequently indicate the time of year by the rising and setting of stars and constellations, a device familiar ...
Robinson, M.
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Cured Meats in Ancient and Byzantine Sources: Ham, Bacon and Tuccetum [PDF]
, 2014 The present study discusses the role of salt-cured meat in dietetics, medicine and gastronomy demonstrated mainly in ancient and Byzantine medical (Galen, Oribasius, Aetius of Amida, Anthimus, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina) and agronomic ...
Jagusiak, Krzysztof +2 more
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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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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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