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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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Pliny On Cicero And Oratory - Self-Fashioning In The Public Eye [PDF]
, 1995 Classic
Riggsby, Andrew M.
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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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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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A critical reassessment of the novel weapons hypothesis and allelopathy as an adaptive strategy that facilitates plant invasion. [PDF]
New PhytolSummary Plants have evolved an assortment of chemical adaptations that integrate environmental cues with developmental processes to regulate growth and reproduction. A subset of these phytochemicals may be considered allelopathic adaptations if they enhance fitness by suppressing competition for limiting resources.
Colautti RI, Antunes PM.
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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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21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, 2020 This article contends that woodcuts in a partial German translation of Pliny’s Naturalis historia function as what Aby Warburg called Bilderfahrzeuge (image vehicles). Translated and compiled by Johann Heyden, illustrated by Jost Amman, Virgil Solis, and
Christopher D. Johnson
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Roman Gold Washing as Described by Pliny the Elder
EXARC Journal, 2021 As part of a four-year interdisciplinary research project of a Roman gold mine in the landscape known as the "Karth" to the south of Vienna, Austria, a reconstruction of gold washing took place as described by Pliny the Elder in book 33 of his Natural ...
Brigitte Cech, Heimo Urban
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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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