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Pliny the Elder and Nicholas of Poland on Snake Products and Their Medical Applications

open access: yesClotho, 2023
The paper aims to show how Pliny the Elder, in his Historia Naturalis, and Nicholas of Poland, in Experimenta, the medical treatise attributed to him, presented and described ways of preparing snakes for medi­cal purposes.
Adriana Grzelak-Krzymianowska
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Ethical Matters: Pliny the Elder on Material Deception [PDF]

open access: yesMateriality in Roman Art and Architecture, 2021
: This contribution highlights the intellectual dimension of the Roman discourse on materials by discussing the ideological and moral implications of a set of passages from Pliny’s Natura­ lis historia dedicated to golden surfaces.
A. Anguissola
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Modeling the Sources and Topics of Pliny’s Natural History

open access: yesUmanistica Digitale, 2022
Pliny’s Natural History, a large-scale encyclopedia containing more than 1.1 million words from the first century CE, provides a snapshot of scientific knowledge in the Roman Empire with sections devoted to topics such as geography, geology, zoology ...
Jeff Rydberg-Cox
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Descrivere l’indescrivibile. Il lessico di Plinio il Giovane nelle epistole sull’eruzione del Vesuvio [Describing the indescribable. The lexicon of Pliny the Younger in the epistles on the eruption of Vesuvius]

open access: yesOpen Journal of Humanities, 2021
The article proposes a linguistic analysis of the two epistles of Pliny the Younger, addressed to the historian Tacitus, in which the author recalls and describes the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 AD.
Edoardo Scarpanti
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History of Controlled Environment Horticulture: Ancient Origins

open access: yesHortScience, 2022
In the first century CE, two Roman agricultural writers, Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella and Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), referred to proto-greenhouses (specularia) constructed for the Emperor Tiberius (42 BCE–37 CE) presumably adjacent to
Jules Janick, Harry Paris
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Les remèdes animaux chez Pline l’Ancien (Rome, ier siècle) : organiser une « plus grande médecine »

open access: yesHistoire, Médecine et Santé, 2022
The Natural History by Pliny the Elder, a Roman encyclopedia from the first century AD, devotes several volumes to medical material derived from animals.
Thomas Galoppin
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Le trasformazioni dei tribunali di età augustea fra salubrità e politica

open access: yesGriseldaonline, 2023
This paper focuses on the spaces of justice in the Roman world by considering their evolution during the Augustus’ Principate. The aim is to enhance a specific indicator attested in ancient literary sources to show up courts’ transformations, i.e ...
Luciano Traversa
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