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Moterų paveikslai Plinijaus Laiškuose. Women characters in Pliny’s „Letters“ [PDF]

open access: yesLiteratūra (Vilnius), 2011
This article proceeds the cycle of articles about characters in Pliny „Letters“. Although male characters dominate and there are few women images in the „Letters“, but Pliny represents every female character very carefully, showing their living ...
Anna Maciūnienė
doaj  

MINDING THE GAP: A METHODOLOGICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL REASSESSMENT OF EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN PURPLE‐DYE PRODUCTION IN THE BRONZE AND IRON AGES

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 466-488, November 2026.
Summary Purple dye was an iconic status symbol in the ancient Mediterranean, yet tracing the expansion and shift of production from the Aegean to the Levant encounters substantial methodological difficulties. Using Tel Shiqmona – a unique industrial centre with a continuous Iron Age sequence – as an archaeological benchmark, this study defines detailed
Golan Shalvi
wiley   +1 more source

Playing together: modular tools and Pliny [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In the early days the Digital Humanities (DH) focused on the development of tools to support the individual scholar to perform original scholarship, and tools such as OCP and TACT emerged that were aimed at the individual scholar.
John Bradley
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Broad Strokes with a Fine Brush. Pliny Pan. 25 and its Sallustian Intertexts

open access: yesHistos
Justifying the lengthy details of his thanksgiving to the emperor (Pan. 25), Pliny alludes to two programmatic statements by Sallust. He first quotes the historian’s explicit choice of narrating history in selection (carptim, Cat.
Christopher B. Krebs
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Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 7, Page 996-1019, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jewelled Byzantine and Medieval Reliquaries of the True Cross: Peridots and Other Gemstones in Material and Symbolic Perspective

open access: yesJournal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 57, Issue 10, Page 1727-1756, October 2026.
An interdisciplinary in situ study of jewelled reliquaries of the True Cross integrates gemmology and portable analytical techniques, revealing new evidence on the identification and symbolic role of peridots and other gemstones. ABSTRACT Jewelled crosses containing relics of the True Cross occupy a central position in the devotional, artistic and ...
Stefania Martiniello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pliny Reasoner's Sales Book

open access: yes, 1884
Sales book of Pliny Reasoner, founder of the Reasoner Brothers' Royal Palm Nursery of Oneco. The first page includes a receipt of Reasoner's purchases from J.W. Harllee from 1886. The subsequent pages are records of plant sales made by Reasoner from 1884
Pliny Reasoner
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Spinning the Past Forward: Recording, Archiving, and (Re‐)listening to Siberian Phonograph Cylinders From the Jesup North Pacific Expedition

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT The article examines the history of phonographic recordings from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902), a venture that shaped the methods of Siberian and Arctic anthropology for decades. The authors—a historical anthropologist, a curator, and an Indigenous Sakha scholar—trace how audio recordings made during the expedition have moved ...
Dmitry Arzyutov   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 589-608, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
wiley   +1 more source

A Tortured Image: The Biography of Lucullus' Dying Hercules

open access: yesCalifornia Italian Studies, 2016
This essay explores a Roman triumphal monument put up at the heart of Rome by the triumphator Lucullus in the 1st c. BCE, and its Imperial afterlife after the fall of the Republic.
Ann Kuttner
doaj   +1 more source

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