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Cato the Younger, Seneca the Younger, Pliny the Younger: conflict between norm and reality [PDF]
Античный мир и археология, 2023 The article is devoted to three politicians and intellectuals – the republican leader Cato of Utica, Neroʼs tutor Seneca and Trajanʼs friend Pliny the Younger. An uncompromising fighter against tyranny, Cato chose to commit suicide rather than
Nikishin, Vladimir Olegovich
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Pliny the Younger: citizen, landowner, intellectual
RUDN Journal of World History, 2023 Pliny the Younger is a statesman, writer and lawyer, the author of the only correspondence between the governor of the province and the emperor that has survived to this day.
Vladimir Olegovich Nikishin
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Pliny the Younger and the Art of Narration
Classica Cracoviensia, 2018 Pliny the Younger and the Art of Narration In this paper I try to examine some of Pliny’s well known letters as pieces of literary fiction. The main interest here is not the authenticity of facts presented, but some literary techniques that Pliny ...
Jacek Hajduk
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Networking in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Younger
Journal of Historical Network Research, 2020 Living during the heyday of the Roman Empire, the senator Pliny the Younger (ca. AD 61/62 – 113/114) was in contact with the social and political elite of his time: several Emperors, fellow senators like Cornelius Tacitus, Sosius Senecio, and Arulenus ...
Fabian Germerodt
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Some Intellectuals in Tacitus and Pliny the Younger
Classica Cracoviensia, 2015 Some Intellectuals in Tacitus and Pliny the Younger The paper provides a (far from exhaustive) overview of references found in Tacitus’ historical works (Annales, Historiae, Agricola) and in Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae to people who may be defined ...
Jakub Pigoń
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A 36,000-Year-Old Volcanic Eruption Depicted in the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave (Ardèche, France)? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Among the paintings and engravings found in the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave (Ardèche, France), several peculiar spray-shape signs have been previously described in the Megaloceros Gallery.
Sébastien Nomade +12 more
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THE GERUND AND GERUNDIVE IN THE WORKS OF TACITUS AND PLINY THE YOUNGER
Filolog, 2021 The gerund is a defective verbal noun and the gerundive is a passive verbal adjective in -ndus, -a, -um with necessitative meaning. This paper presents some results obtained from a comparison of the various uses gerunds and gerundives in the Annals of ...
Слободанка С. Пртија
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Sacramentum: On the Legal Meaning of the Term as Used in the Letters of Pliny the Younger
Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2022 The article is a scientific and research paper. The subject of research is letters exchanged between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan, whereas the discussion addresses some aspects of the legal meaning of the term sacramentum.
Antoni Dębiński
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Open Journal of Humanities, 2021 The article proposes a linguistic analysis of the two epistles of Pliny the Younger, addressed to the historian Tacitus, in which the author recalls and describes the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 AD.
Edoardo Scarpanti
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Právněhistorické studie, 2023 The correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan provides examples of legal issues which Pliny had to face as an imperial magistrate sent to the province of Bithynia and Pontus by the emperor. The aim of the article is to determine the way
Izabela Leraczyk
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