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A New Painting of Calypso in Pliny the Elder
Eugesta, 2017 At Naturalis Historia 35.147, Pliny offers precious information on female artists of Greece and Rome. This article emends Pliny’s text, thereby attributing a more precise subject to a painting by a Greek woman.
Anthony Corbeill
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Literary and documentary evidence for lay medical practice in the Roman Republic and Empire [PDF]
, 2016 The majority of surviving ancient medical literature was written by medical practitioners and produced for the purpose of ensuring the effective diagnosis and treatment of their patients, suggesting an audience of medical professionals ranging from ...
Draycott, Jane
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Pliny the elder on gilding [PDF]
Gold Bulletin, 1979 Abstract The description in Pliny's ‘Natural History’ of gilding bronze by using mercury becomes clearer if it is seen as a process in which mercury is used only as an adhesive for the gold leaf and in which it is not necessary to heat the object after gilding to drive off the excess mercury, as is the case in the more usual fire- or mercury-gilding.
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Pliniusz Starszy o zasobach naturalnych Hiszpanii i ich wykorzystaniu [PDF]
, 2019 Many references to Spain found in Naturalis Historia written by Pliny the Elder prove his profound knowledge of the land and culture of Spain, as well as his particular recognition of the wealth and high economic level of this country.
Danek, Zbigniew
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The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 and the death of Gaius Plinius Secundus
Acta Theologica, 2005 The effect of the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, which led inter alia to the death of Pliny the Elder, is reviewed. Pliny, the admiral of the Roman imperial fleet, wished as scientist to witness the event from close by and set sail in the ...
Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers
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Dal Pucino al Prosecchino. Appunti per una storia letteraria del vino Prosecco
DNA Di Nulla Academia, 2023 The essay aims to examine all those literary texts from the sixteenth century to nowadays that mention the Prosecco, a wine particularly celebrated in the Renaissance because it was considered the descendant of the ancient Pucino praised by Pliny the ...
Enrico Zucchi
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"The Milk of Birds": A Proverbial Phrase, Ancient and Modern, and its Link to Nature [PDF]
, 2017 A curious phrase from ancient Greek, ὀρνίθων γάλα, finds parallels in Latin as lac gallinaceum and in Modern Greek, as και του πουλιού το γάλα. While the Greek phrases translate as "(and) the milk of (the) bird(s)", the Latin translates as "henʼs milk".
Payne, Martha J.
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Frontière·s, 2023 The status of animals and their relationship to humans was much debated in pagan, Jewish, and Christian antiquity. Against the prevailing consensus, some authors went so far as to acribe religious behaviour to certain animals, selecting the most rational
Gilles Courtieu
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From Rome to the Antipodes: The Medieval Form of the World [PDF]
, 2012 Here we discuss how some medieval scholars in the Western Europe viewed the form of the world and the problem of the Antipodes, starting from the Natural History written by Pliny the Elder and ending in the Hell of the Divina Commedia, written by Dante ...
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Pallas, 2020 In this report the testimonies of Pliny concerning the term saliva (28, 35, 1-39, 8) are examined. Moreover at this «monographic» moment, which presents about 19 cases of therapeutic or magical application of human saliva, the other passages in the ...
Livia Radici, Paola Radici Colace
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