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Reading for Efficiency in Ancient Rome: The Case of Pliny the Elder

Reception Texts Readers Audiences History, 2023
:Readers in ancient Rome did not have efficiency of reading as a goal. The much-cited exception that proves the rule is a letter of the Younger Pliny (Letter 3.5, early 2nd c.
W. Johnson
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Babylonian Astro-medicine, Quadruplicities and Pliny the Elder

Zeitschrift für Assyrologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, 2021
This article identifies the tradition of Babylonian Kalendertexte as the ultimate source for a passage in Pliny the Elder’s HN 30.95–97, thus establishing a link between Babylonian and Graeco-Roman astral medicine. Implications include the identification
Maddalena Rumor
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Roman Climate Awareness in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History

Classical Antiquity, 2021
This article examines the past and potential contributions of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History (NH) on the subject of Roman perceptions and experiences of environmental change.
Jane Millar
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Pliny the Elder, Natural History

Primary Sources on Monsters, 2018
Emily Albu
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Pliny the Elder: Lessons from the Naturalist as an Early Neuroscientist

The Neuroscientist, 2021
Pliny the Elder was a prolific Roman author, naturalist, and military leader. Yet, his impact on modern-day neuroscience, psychiatry, and neurology has been little explored. Here, we aimed to trace the origins of our current understanding of the brain in
Duong T. Chu   +2 more
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PLINY THE ELDER AND ART

The Classical Review, 2022
This new monograph offers an in-depth exploration of visual narratives in Statius ’ poetry by focusing on both their intratextual significance and their intertextual engagement with Greek and Latin literary models.
C. Roby
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EVOLVING ETHNOGRAPHIES IN PLINY THE ELDER'S TRANSDANUBIAN EXEGESIS (HN 4.80–1)

Classical Quarterly, 2020
In sections 4.80 and 4.81 of the Historia Naturalis, Pliny the Elder describes the peoples living beyond the Danube River in his own day in the later first century c.e.: (4.80) ab eo in plenum quidem omnes Scytharum sunt gentes, uariae tamen litori ...
T. Hart
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