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Pliny the elder on the Etruscans
Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2012Pliny the Elder’s encyclopaedia contains lots of information on Etruria and the Etruscans in different contexts. Besides geographical descriptions, there are text parts related to the Etruscans in the volumes on botany, zoology, pharmacology and mineralogy. In the following, I am going to provide an analysis of all the passages related to the Etruscans
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2007
The only complete surviving work by the Roman naturalist Gaius Plinius Secundus is the Historia Naturalis, a thirty-seven-volume encyclopedia of natural history featuring accounts of monstrous, hybrid races that remained influential well into the seventeenth century.
Ania Loomba, Jonathan Burton
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The only complete surviving work by the Roman naturalist Gaius Plinius Secundus is the Historia Naturalis, a thirty-seven-volume encyclopedia of natural history featuring accounts of monstrous, hybrid races that remained influential well into the seventeenth century.
Ania Loomba, Jonathan Burton
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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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Pliny the Elder and Ancient Mineralogy
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 1981Abstract In the ancient world the dividing line between the Arts and the Sciences was not so rigidly drawn as in recenl times. Poets and prose authors alike frequently crossed the boundaries in their literary works. Notable Greek interdisciplinary writers include Hesiod, Aristotle and Theophrastus and, among the Romans, Lucretius, Virgil and Pliny the ...
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Pliny the Elder:(Gaius Plinius Secundus)
2012Contribution to encyclopedia on Pliny the ...
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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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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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In vino veritas? Pliny the Elder*
Critical Care Medicine, 2012Constantino José, Fernandes +1 more
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Pliny the Elder: Lessons from the Naturalist as an Early Neuroscientist
Neuroscientist, 2023Duong T Chu +2 more
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