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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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Acque reflue e rischio ambientale: inquinamento fluviale nella Roma imperiale
Erga-Logoi, 2021 The paper intends to examine a specific area of research concerning the pollution of large rivers – the Tiber above all but not exclusively – and the resulting contamination of water and air as well as the depletion of fish fauna and related food risks ...
Gaetano Arena
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Pitch production during the Roman period: an intensive mountain industry for a globalised economy? [PDF]
, 2013 The authors’ research project in the Pyrenees mountains has located and excavated Roman kilns for producing pitch from pine resin. Their investigations reveal a whole sustainable industry, integrated into the local environmental cycle, supplying pitch to
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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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The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 and the death of Gaius Plinius Secundus
Acta Theologica, 2005 The effect of the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, which led inter alia to the death of Pliny the Elder, is reviewed. Pliny, the admiral of the Roman imperial fleet, wished as scientist to witness the event from close by and set sail in the ...
Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers
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The beast initiate: the lycanthropy of Heracles [PDF]
, 2019 The obscurantist Hellenistic poet Lycophron referenced the initiation of Heracles as a beast suckling the breast of the goddess Hera. This was the event that was the mythological origin of the Galaxy and of the lily flower that incarnated the same ...
Ruck, Carl
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Pallas, 2020 In this report the testimonies of Pliny concerning the term saliva (28, 35, 1-39, 8) are examined. Moreover at this «monographic» moment, which presents about 19 cases of therapeutic or magical application of human saliva, the other passages in the ...
Livia Radici, Paola Radici Colace
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Literary and documentary evidence for lay medical practice in the Roman Republic and Empire [PDF]
, 2016 The majority of surviving ancient medical literature was written by medical practitioners and produced for the purpose of ensuring the effective diagnosis and treatment of their patients, suggesting an audience of medical professionals ranging from ...
Draycott, Jane
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Arethusa, 2013 Pliny might seem an obvious model for his fellow letter-writer and orator, Symmachus (early 340s to 402). But even though both authors' letters are in nine books of personal letters and one of imperial letters, there are problems in identifying Pliny's letters as a significant structural, intellectual, or linguistic model for Symmachus's letters, or ...
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