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Les remèdes animaux chez Pline l’Ancien (Rome, ier siècle) : organiser une « plus grande médecine »
Histoire, Médecine et Santé, 2022 The Natural History by Pliny the Elder, a Roman encyclopedia from the first century AD, devotes several volumes to medical material derived from animals.
Thomas Galoppin
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Le trasformazioni dei tribunali di età augustea fra salubrità e politica
Griseldaonline, 2023 This paper focuses on the spaces of justice in the Roman world by considering their evolution during the Augustus’ Principate. The aim is to enhance a specific indicator attested in ancient literary sources to show up courts’ transformations, i.e ...
Luciano Traversa
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Ethnies et territoires hispaniques dans la Géographie de Ptolémée
Gerión, 2023 La Géographie de Ptolémée, pour la péninsule Ibérique, est d’une richesse inégalée dans notre documentation, puisqu’il compte plus de soixante noms de peuples, dont près d’un tiers sont inédits.
Arthur Haushalter
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Menstrual Blood: Uses, Values, and Controls in Ancient Rome
Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2022 The purpose of this article is to examine the positive and negative properties of menstrual blood in Ancient Rome and its related uses. Building on such premises, I go on to explore the cultural practices involving this ambivalent substance. I argue that
Sophie Chavarria
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Space and Spatial Metaphor in the Texts of Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger
, 2022 This thesis looks at the use of spatial images and metaphors in the works of Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger. It considers natural and architectural spaces in the works of both authors and explores how each made use of this imagery to serve the ...
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Pliny the elder and the origins of art
, 2023 A pesquisa em questão tem como objetivo a investigação dos volumes XXXIV, XXXV e XXXVI da Historia Naturalis de Plínio, o Velho, a partir de questões ligadas às histórias das artes.
Martins, Ana Carolina Aquarolli
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Auguste et les Segobrigenses stipendiarii celeberrimi
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2015 Pliny the Elder described Segobriga as a stipendiary town. Recent publications based on excavations and inscriptions show that the town was a municipality under Latin law from the year 15 BCE. This article seeks to explain the reasons for a contradiction
Patrick Le Roux
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Le metamorfosi di un filosofo. Tracce, presenze e mutazioni di Aristotele nella zoologia di Plinio
Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2009 In the zoological section of Natural History by Pliny the Elder, the name of Aristotle is generally used as a "chrism", which helps to determine the veracity of biological news and data that can also be seen as fabulous or paradoxical. Anyway, whereas, e.
Pietro Li Causi
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Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, EarlyView.An interdisciplinary in situ study of jewelled reliquaries of the True Cross integrates gemmology and portable analytical techniques, revealing new evidence on the identification and symbolic role of peridots and other gemstones. ABSTRACT Jewelled crosses containing relics of the True Cross occupy a central position in the devotional, artistic and ...
Stefania Martiniello +2 more
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Ethical Matters. Pliny the Elder on Material Deception
, 2022 The chapter highlights the intellectual dimension of the Roman discourse on materials by discussing the ideological and moral implications of a set of passages from Pliny’s Natural History dedicated to golden surfaces.
Anna Anguissola
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