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The Language of Pliny the Elder
2005This chapter suggests that long sentences need not be ‘periods’. It also aims to take Pliny seriously in his own right and shows a few characteristics of his language in the light of his general aims. Pliny’s work covers a broad range of topics, some of which were more accessible for his audience than others, some of which were known in more detail in ...
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2015
Gaius Plinius Secundus or Pliny the Elder (b. 23/4–d. 79 ce) is famous for two things: his monumental Natural History (Historia naturalis), which describes the world in thirty-seven volumes, and his death in the eruption of Vesuvius, which was carefully described by his nephew, Pliny the Younger, in one of two letters about his uncle that have survived
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Gaius Plinius Secundus or Pliny the Elder (b. 23/4–d. 79 ce) is famous for two things: his monumental Natural History (Historia naturalis), which describes the world in thirty-seven volumes, and his death in the eruption of Vesuvius, which was carefully described by his nephew, Pliny the Younger, in one of two letters about his uncle that have survived
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2004
Abstract A Young couple moved into the house next door about the time I was writing this chapter, and I introduced myself to my new neighbors. “I know you, “ the young man said, “I ‘ve used your book. “ It ‘s a nice distinction, used rather than read, and I felt flattered.
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Abstract A Young couple moved into the house next door about the time I was writing this chapter, and I introduced myself to my new neighbors. “I know you, “ the young man said, “I ‘ve used your book. “ It ‘s a nice distinction, used rather than read, and I felt flattered.
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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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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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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 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: Lessons from the Naturalist as an Early Neuroscientist
Neuroscientist, 2023Duong Chu +2 more
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