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Estoicismo e imperium: a virtus do homem político romano = Stoicism and imperium: the virtus of the roman political man. [PDF]

Acta Scientiarum. Education, 2011
Esse artigo tem como objetivo estudar as relações entre o Estoicismo e o Principado, a partir da leitura da correspondência pliniana. Plínio, o Jovem era originário de uma família equestre que ascendeu ao senado.
Renata Lopes Biazotto Venturini
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CINNAMON, CASSIA AND ANCIENT TRADE

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2017
: There is a widespread assumption that ancient “cinnamon” and “cassia” were the same as the spices now known by those names; that is, products obtained from trees of the genus Cinnamomum.
Stephen George Haw
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Materials Science in Ancient Rome [PDF]

, 2011
Two books, the "De Architectura" by Vitruvius and the "Naturalis Historia" by Pliny the Elder, give us a portrait of the Materials Science, that is, the knowledge of materials, in Rome at the beginning of the Empire.
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Auguste et les Segobrigenses stipendiarii celeberrimi

Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2015
Pliny the Elder described Segobriga as a stipendiary town. Recent publications based on excavations and inscriptions show that the town was a municipality under Latin law from the year 15 BCE. This article seeks to explain the reasons for a contradiction
Patrick Le Roux
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Pecunia otiosa i ryzykowny plan biznesowy Pliniusza Młodszego (ep. 10.54)

Acta Iuris Stetinensis
Two letters that have survived in a collection of correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan constitute a fascinating source for the study of the financial policies of the Roman state at the beginning of the second century AD.
Maciej Jońca
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Ingesting Magic: Ingredients and Ecstatic Outcomes in the Greek and Demotic Magical Papyri [PDF]

, 2017
There are spells in the Greek and Demotic Magical Papyri which promise divine visitations, assistants, ecstatic states, vessel inquiries, and vivid dreams. They also require powerful psychoactive botanical ingredients.
Sumler, Alan
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Pecunia otiosa and a risky business plan of Pliny the Younger (ep. 10.54)

Acta Iuris Stetinensis
Two letters that have survived in a collection of correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan constitute a fascinating source for the study of financial policies of the Roman state at the beginning of the second century AD.
Maciej Jońca
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Citifying Jesus: The Making of an Urban Religion in the Roman Empire, Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2024 (ISBN 9783161623714), x + 309 pp., Hb €139.00

Reviews in Religion &Theology, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 223-226, October 2025.
Jolyon G.R. Pruszinski
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The decreasing level of Toshka Lakes seen from space [PDF]

, 2011
Toshka Lakes are lakes recently formed in the Sahara Desert of Egypt, by the water of the Nile, conveyed from the Nasser Lake through a canal in the Toshka Depression.
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Edible Insects: A Historical and Cultural Perspective on Entomophagy with a Focus on Western Societies. [PDF]

Insects, 2023
Olivadese M, Dindo ML.
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