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The Language of Pliny the Elder
2005This chapter suggests that long sentences need not be ‘periods’. It also aims to take Pliny seriously in his own right and shows a few characteristics of his language in the light of his general aims. Pliny’s work covers a broad range of topics, some of which were more accessible for his audience than others, some of which were known in more detail in ...
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Divine Nature and the Natural Divine: The Marine Folklore of Pliny the Elder
Green Letters, 2021 This article considers the depiction of the marine world and its mythical inhabitants in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder. Through an ecocritical reading of the text, whereby I consider Pliny’s tendency to conceptualise Nature as a divinity and his
Ryan Denson
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Pliny’s Presses: the True Story of the First Century Wine Press
Klio, 2019 Summary In a much-quoted passage of the “Natural History”, Pliny describes several wine press mechanisms. This description is of great historical importance, since it is the only such textual description of a vitally important class of technologies used ...
Tamara Lewit
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Babylonian Astro-medicine, Quadruplicities and Pliny the Elder
Zeitschrift für Assyrologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, 2021This article identifies the tradition of Babylonian Kalendertexte as the ultimate source for a passage in Pliny the Elder’s HN 30.95–97, thus establishing a link between Babylonian and Graeco-Roman astral medicine. Implications include the identification
Maddalena Rumor
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Roman Climate Awareness in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History
Classical Antiquity, 2021This article examines the past and potential contributions of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History (NH) on the subject of Roman perceptions and experiences of environmental change.
Jane Millar
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Pliny-Strabo Trench (PST)is a Subduction Transform Edge Propagator (STEP) fault developed at the northern edge of the African oceanic lithosphere connecting the Aegean and Cyprian trenches in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Pliny-Strabo Trench (PST)is a Subduction Transform Edge Propagator (STEP) fault developed at the northern edge of the African oceanic lithosphere connecting the Aegean and Cyprian trenches in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Condemning Domitian or Un-damning Themselves? Tacitus and Pliny on the Domitianic "Reign of Terror"
Illinois Classical Studies, 2020:This article reconsiders two of our most important literary sources on Domitian: Pliny the Younger's Letters and Tacitus's Agricola. Although historians have either accepted Pliny's and Tacitus's portrayal of Domitian as a bloodthirsty tyrant or ...
M. Szoke
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Pliny the Elder:(Gaius Plinius Secundus)
, 2012 Contribution to encyclopedia on Pliny the ...
Isager, Jacob Erik; id_orcid
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