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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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A New Painting of Calypso in Pliny the Elder
Eugesta, 2017 At Naturalis Historia 35.147, Pliny offers precious information on female artists of Greece and Rome. This article emends Pliny’s text, thereby attributing a more precise subject to a painting by a Greek woman.
Anthony Corbeill
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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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Pline l’Ancien a-t-il cru à ses mythes ?
Pallas, 2009 Book VII of Pliny the Elder’ s Natural History, devoted to man, ends on a curious catalogue of inventors and inventions. It is on the treatment of myth in that inventory that we intend to ponder.
Valérie Naas
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Pliny the elder on gilding [PDF]
Gold Bulletin, 1979 Abstract The description in Pliny's ‘Natural History’ of gilding bronze by using mercury becomes clearer if it is seen as a process in which mercury is used only as an adhesive for the gold leaf and in which it is not necessary to heat the object after gilding to drive off the excess mercury, as is the case in the more usual fire- or mercury-gilding.
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The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 and the death of Gaius Plinius Secundus
Acta Theologica, 2005 The effect of the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, which led inter alia to the death of Pliny the Elder, is reviewed. Pliny, the admiral of the Roman imperial fleet, wished as scientist to witness the event from close by and set sail in the ...
Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers
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Dal Pucino al Prosecchino. Appunti per una storia letteraria del vino Prosecco
DNA Di Nulla Academia, 2023 The essay aims to examine all those literary texts from the sixteenth century to nowadays that mention the Prosecco, a wine particularly celebrated in the Renaissance because it was considered the descendant of the ancient Pucino praised by Pliny the ...
Enrico Zucchi
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Pallas, 2020 In this report the testimonies of Pliny concerning the term saliva (28, 35, 1-39, 8) are examined. Moreover at this «monographic» moment, which presents about 19 cases of therapeutic or magical application of human saliva, the other passages in the ...
Livia Radici, Paola Radici Colace
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Frontière·s, 2023 The status of animals and their relationship to humans was much debated in pagan, Jewish, and Christian antiquity. Against the prevailing consensus, some authors went so far as to acribe religious behaviour to certain animals, selecting the most rational
Gilles Courtieu
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21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, 2020 This article contends that woodcuts in a partial German translation of Pliny’s Naturalis historia function as what Aby Warburg called Bilderfahrzeuge (image vehicles). Translated and compiled by Johann Heyden, illustrated by Jost Amman, Virgil Solis, and
Christopher D. Johnson
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