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The Relationship of Manuscript R and d in the Tradition of Pliny the Elder
Exemplaria ClassicaThe article suggests that in the tradition of Pliny the Elder some readings in ms. d derive from ms. R.
Mikhail Shumilin
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Remarks on aquatilia and soil classifications in Pliny the Elder
Revue de linguistique latine du Centre Alfred ErnoutOur overall aim here is to rehabilitate Pliny the Elder against modern day criticism of him for lacking rigor. We analyze two techniques of classification, description and terminology used by him, which we illustrate in two different natural domains ...
Michèle Fruyt
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Wang Chong and Pliny the Elder on the Mortality of Consciousness
Voprosy filosofiiContemporaries Wang Chong (27? – after 97) and Pliny the Elder (22 or 24 – 79) sum up several centuries of thinking about what happens to consciousness after death. They approach the question from broadly similar perspectives.
A. Starostina
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A NOTE ON PLINY THE ELDER (HN 9.126)
Classical QuarterlyThe article argues for an emendation in Plin. HN 9.126. Modern editors are accustomed to print the text cum testa uiuas, adopting J. Hardouin’s conjecture for cum terra uitis, the reading transmitted in most manuscripts.
Mikhail Shumilin
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2022
Pliny's World offers readers a translation of the Natural History's opening books unprecedented for its completeness, accuracy and accessibility. Here, in quirky, often breathless style, Pliny lays the foundation of a hugely influential encyclopedia with coverage of the universe, stars, planets and moon, followed by earth's climate and then its ...
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Pliny's World offers readers a translation of the Natural History's opening books unprecedented for its completeness, accuracy and accessibility. Here, in quirky, often breathless style, Pliny lays the foundation of a hugely influential encyclopedia with coverage of the universe, stars, planets and moon, followed by earth's climate and then its ...
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Review: Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture, by Peter Fane-Saunders
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH), 2019Peter Fane-Saunders Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 491 pp., 8 color and 75 b/w illus.
A. Huppert
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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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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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