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Modeling the Sources and Topics of Pliny’s Natural History
Umanistica 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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Open 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
HortScience, 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 »
Histoire, 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
Griseldaonline, 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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Ethnies et territoires hispaniques dans la Géographie de Ptolémée
Gerión, 2023 La Géographie de Ptolémée, pour la péninsule Ibérique, est d’une richesse inégalée dans notre documentation, puisqu’il compte plus de soixante noms de peuples, dont près d’un tiers sont inédits.
Arthur Haushalter
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Menstrual Blood: Uses, Values, and Controls in Ancient Rome
Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2022 The purpose of this article is to examine the positive and negative properties of menstrual blood in Ancient Rome and its related uses. Building on such premises, I go on to explore the cultural practices involving this ambivalent substance. I argue that
Sophie Chavarria
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Pliny the Elder and Nicholas of Poland on Snake Products and Their Medical Applications
Clotho, 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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Acque reflue e rischio ambientale: inquinamento fluviale nella Roma imperiale
Erga-Logoi, 2021 The paper intends to examine a specific area of research concerning the pollution of large rivers – the Tiber above all but not exclusively – and the resulting contamination of water and air as well as the depletion of fish fauna and related food risks ...
Gaetano Arena
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