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Pliny the Elder and Nicholas of Poland on Snake Products and Their Medical Applications
Clotho, 2023 The paper aims to show how Pliny the Elder, in his Historia Naturalis, and Nicholas of Poland, in Experimenta, the medical treatise attributed to him, presented and described ways of preparing snakes for medical purposes.
Adriana Grzelak-Krzymianowska
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Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late Roman Republic [PDF]
, 2000 Recent work in ancient art history has sought to move beyond formalist interpretations of works of art to a concern to understand ancient images in terms of a broader cultural, political, and historical context.
Tanner, J
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Medicine for the Material World
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
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A New Painting of Calypso in Pliny the Elder
Eugesta, 2017 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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Modeling the Sources and Topics of Pliny’s Natural History
Umanistica Digitale, 2022 Pliny’s Natural History, a large-scale encyclopedia containing more than 1.1 million words from the first century CE, provides a snapshot of scientific knowledge in the Roman Empire with sections devoted to topics such as geography, geology, zoology ...
Jeff Rydberg-Cox
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Trouble in Pontus: The Pliny–Trajan Correspondence on the Christians Reconsidered
, 2017 summary:The letters exchanged by Pliny and Trajan concerning Christians have occasioned abundant commentary. But scholarship remains confused over two questions—first, Pliny's procedure and motivation in writing, and second, the extent of the emperor's ...
J. Corke-Webster
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The origins of the Romance analytic passive : evidence from word order [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter argues that despite formal resemblances, Latin perfect tense BE-periphrases of the type amatus sum ‘I was loved’ are not the historical source of Romance present tense passives like Italian sono amato and French je suis aimé (both meaning ‘I
Danckaert, Lieven
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
Beatrijs de Groot +2 more
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Pliniu cel Tânăr și împăratul Traian [PDF]
Revista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2020 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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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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