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TAXON, Volume 75, Issue 4, August 2026.Abstract Sixteenth‐century herbaria are the oldest plant collections that survive today and, as such, they provide valuable insights in past floras and historical botanical interactions. One of the most fascinating still extant 16th‐century herbaria is the four‐volume collection of the German physician, botanist and traveler Leonhard Rauwolf (1535 ...
Anastasia Stefanaki +5 more
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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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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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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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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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Madras Agricultural Journal, 1938 In an earlier number of this journal, (Vol. XXIV No. 5, May 1936) an account of agriculture in ancient Greece was given. It was shown that the art of Agriculture was fairly well advanced in ancient Greece.
S. DORAISWAMI AIYAK
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Pliny and the letters of sidonius: From constantius and clarus to firminus and fuscus
, 2013 Despite Sidonius's explicit assertion that his Letters are modeled on the correspondence of Pliny, critics have found the harvest of Plinian material in Sidonius's text rather thin.
Gibson, Roy
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Economic Strategies of a Roman Landowner – Pliny the Younger [PDF]
, 2015 We have more detailed information on the life and career of Pliny the Younger than any other Roman author. The information preserved in his letters provides us with insight into his literary and economic activity as well. Pliny was a famous lawyer of his
Takács, Levente
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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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Pliny/Trajan and the Poetics of Empire [PDF]
, 2015 A series of recent articles have challenged literal and realist readings of the tenth book of Pliny the Younger's Letters.
Woolf, Greg, Greg Woolf
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