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Pliny the Younger and the Art of Narration
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
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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Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Viscum album
Mistletoe is a charismatic parasite of tree crowns with a long history of folklore and connections with Christmas celebrations. This, and its need for light, helps explain why it is most common in human‐made habitats across Europe. Once thought to benignly take just water and nutrients from its host it is now known to take carbon as well which can lead
Peter A. Thomas +5 more
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Syllabic quantity patterns as rhythmic features for Latin authorship attribution
Abstract It is well known that, within the Latin production of written text, peculiar metric schemes were followed not only in poetic compositions, but also in many prose works. Such metric patterns were based on so‐called syllabic quantity, that is, on the length of the involved syllables, and there is substantial evidence suggesting that certain ...
Silvia Corbara +2 more
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Trajan and the revolt of Antonius Saturninus
The article points out that the starting positions of the young native of the Spanish city of Italica were provided by his father, a prominent follower of the Flavian dynasty, who became a consul, a patrician and, yes, was awarded a rare and prestigious ...
Victor Nikolaevich Parfyonov
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A visual testament by Luca Riva, a deaf and mute pupil of the Procaccini
Abstract The paper investigates the visual testament by Luca Riva, a mute and deaf artist who studied in Milan under Camillo Procaccini. Dated 9 September 1624, the document consists of twelve folios bound together in a small volume. On the sheets, ten brown‐ink drawings illustrate the beneficiaries of Riva’s testament, identifying the inheritance ...
Angelo Lo Conte
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Acque reflue e rischio ambientale: inquinamento fluviale nella Roma imperiale
The paper intends to examine a specific area of research concerning the pollution of large rivers – the Tiber above all but not exclusively – and the resulting contamination of water and air as well as the depletion of fish fauna and related food risks ...
Gaetano Arena
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An overview of licorice application and its health benefits Abstract Since the beginning, human beings have consistently been using plants and their components for the prevention and treatment of various ailments. However, in the last few decades, plant‐based medicines and health supplements are gaining more acceptability and rapid popularity. Licorice
Islam Husain +3 more
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Pliniu cel Tânăr și împăratul Traian [PDF]
In his discourse uttered with the occasion of assuming the function of consul, Pliny the Younger did not spare praise of Trajan. His encomium depicts Trajan as an ideal princeps, his virtues being contrasted with the defects of Domitian, perceived as a ...
Alexandra Ciocârlie
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Abstract A total of nine representative pottery fragments belonging to ferruginous, carbonate, and thin‐walled wares were recovered in refuse middens outside the fortification wall of Pompeii and subjected to a program of multianalytical operations (thermal ionization mass spectrometry, X‐ray fluorescence, X‐ray powder diffraction analysis, scanning ...
Vincenza Guarino +4 more
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