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Cultic Allusions in the Heraklitos Mosaic
Potestas. Estudios del Mundo Clásico e Historia del Arte, 2019 The Heraklitos mosaic, which dates to the second century ad and is displayed today at the Vatican Museums, depicts the theme of the asàrotos òikos (‘unswept floor’) alongside allusions to Dionysian and Isiac mystery cults. The mosaic is
Ehud Fathy
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‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 446-461, November 2025.Summary For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre‐Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second‐century BC astronomer Hipparchus quotes Pytheas (c. 320 BC) as having referred to Britons as ‘Keltoi’.
Patrick Sims‐Williams
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Erga-Logoi, 2015 In Pliny’s description of Ariana there is a brief mention of the fish-eating Orites, a tribe dwelling on the coast of Makran – the Orites were encountered by Alexander during his march from the Indus river to Persia.
Pierre Schneider
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, 1987 The tercentenary of the death of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) presents a convenient occasion to trace the views held by this versatile and multilingual writer on the subject of translation. A first inventory of Huygens' pronouncements on the matter is
Hermans, T
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A survey of generic names in Rubiaceae (Gentianales) with notes on context and patterns in naming
TAXON, Volume 74, Issue 5, Page 1153-1171, October 2025.Abstract Rubiaceae is one of the most diverse angiosperm families and consequently is the topic of much systematic research. Plenty of literature exists on the familial, tribal, and species level; however, a comprehensive overview of the names at the generic level is lacking. The aim of this study is to present a survey of all names and designations at
Brecht Verstraete +2 more
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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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Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 5, Page 1373-1390, October 2025.Abstract Architectural and engineering elements of the Roman civilization constitute an important cultural heritage. Nevertheless, not all ancient Roman cities and the roads connecting them have been found, mainly because classical geographical sources show a significant lack of precision.
Jesús M. Romera +2 more
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New Light on the Beginning of the Pecos Conference
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 1997 Recently James E. Snead, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, encountered in the department archives a letter from A. V. Kidder to Pliny E. Goddard .
Richard B. Woodbury
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New Phytologist, Volume 248, Issue 2, Page 507-516, October 2025.Summary Plants have evolved an assortment of chemical adaptations that integrate environmental cues with developmental processes to regulate growth and reproduction. A subset of these phytochemicals may be considered allelopathic adaptations if they enhance fitness by suppressing competition for limiting resources.
Robert I. Colautti +1 more
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Biologia e nomenclatura in Plinio
Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2008 A careful reading of some books of the Naturalis Historia provides a surprising insight into the naming needs of the zoologist Pliny.
Andrea Guasparri
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