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A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder
2022This is the first thorough English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder, written in the AD 70s. Pliny's account is the longest in Latin, and represents the geographical knowledge of that era, when the Roman Empire was the dominant force in the Mediterranean world. The work serves both cultural and ideological functions: much of it is
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A Mediaeval Excerptor of the Elder Pliny
The Classical Quarterly, 1932Editors of Pliny's Naturalis Historia have not had to deplore the paucity of the MS. tradition, but rather its value; while MSS. belonging to the ordo recentiorum are numerous and fairly complete, those of the ordo uetustiorum are very few, and never contain more than a few books, often with considerable gaps.
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Pliny the Elder:(Gaius Plinius Secundus)
2012Contribution to encyclopedia on Pliny the ...
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2010
A 1200-word outline of changing attitudes towards Pliny's 'Natural History' over nearly 2 millennia.
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A 1200-word outline of changing attitudes towards Pliny's 'Natural History' over nearly 2 millennia.
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The terminology of Pliny the Elder’s cosmology
Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2011In volume II of his encyclopaedia Pliny the Elder presents astronomical, meteorological, geographical and climatologic phenomena. The study analyses the use of the most important technical terms with the help of the data of a database specially made for this purpose. The entire Hungarian translation of volume II was made with the help of this database:
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Consular Friends of the Elder Pliny
1991Abstract Some writers make an impact through their own power and resonance. Minor performers engage interest because a lot is known about them. Pliny the procurator and his nephew the consul, while standing in useful contrast, form a unique pair by value and variety of the evidence.
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Pliny the Elder: Lessons from the Naturalist as an Early Neuroscientist
Neuroscientist, 2023Duong Chu +2 more
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Pliny the Elder and natural disasters
Natural disasters feature prominently in Pliny the Elder’s work, but their significance remains of little amount. Indeed, Pliny’s primary aim is to extol nature and to enable humankind to fit harmoniously into it. The treatment of cataclysms is therefore downplayed accordingly, particularly in terms of the emotions they usually evoke.Galtier, Fabrice +2 more
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Divine Nature and the Natural Divine: The Marine Folklore of Pliny the Elder
Green Letters, 2021Ryan Denson
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Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology
2000Abstract The Elder Pliny's Natural History is essentially a work of reference providing a wide-ranging account of human mores and achievement in the arts and sciences in the first century AD. It influenced the content and character of subsequent technical literature, but errors in transmission of the manuscripts led to undeserved ...
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