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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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Human Placenta in Premodern Europe-a Cultural and Pharmaceutical Agent. [PDF]
Ber WissAbstract This paper was prompted by some striking similarities between both the ritual and the medical use of placenta in Ming China and in premodern Europe. Contrary to most accounts, which focus either on the rise of chemiatric medicine or on the growing interest in “exotic” substances, the seventeenth century in Europe also reveals a revived ...
Wahrig B.
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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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Corps et représentation de soi dans les Lettres de Pline le Jeune
Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2022 Michel Foucault’s work made Pliny’s correspondence one of the turning issues towards the so-called self-care, initiated at the beginning of the second century BC. This paper proposes an analysis of the corporal constructions in Pliny’s correspondence via
Kévin Blary
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Evidence, hints and assumptions for late pregnancy in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Acta Paediatrica, Volume 112, Issue 7, Page 1371-1377, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Ancient women, who survived childhood mortality, received good and adequate nutrition, did not work hard and escaped death during childbirth could live fairly long lives. Girls started procreation after marriage, usually at 15 years, had on average seven children, childbearing lasted 14–21 or more years and could happen at the age of 35 or ...
Ariadne Malamitsi‐Puchner +1 more
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