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Indicators of Volcanic Eruptions Revealed by Global M4+ Earthquakes
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 126, Issue 3, March 2021., 2021 Abstract Determining whether seismicity near volcanoes is due primarily to tectonic or magmatic processes is a challenging but critical endeavor for volcanic eruption forecasting and detection, especially at poorly monitored volcanoes. Global statistics on the occurrence and timing of earthquakes near volcanoes both within and outside of eruptive ...
J. D. Pesicek +2 more
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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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Enjeux mémoriels d’un récit de voyage de Lyon à Rome : Sidoine Apollinaire (Lettre 1, 5)
Viatica, 2021 In Letter I, 5, Sidonius Apollinaris gives to posterity the memory of his prestigious journey from Lyon to Rome. This study explores how the author gives an account in which memory (§ 1 memoratu) takes a central place, how he reworks the travel narrative,
Annick Stoehr-Monjou
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La mission d’avocat dans la Rome impériale d’après la correspondance de Pline le Jeune
Criminocorpus, 2016 The various letters of Pliny the Younger, published in the 2nd century, in which he writes about his activity as a lawyer, show to what extent, in his view, the eloquent defense of other people’s interests is important.
Marie Yschard
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Sphaeristerium ? Mystères et jeux de balle
Kentron, 2022 The sphaeristerium was the place where Roman men played to ball game. The word is documented by three or four inscriptions discovered in Sicily, in Germania Superior, in Cyrenaica, and Gallia Narbonensis.
Nicolas Mathieu
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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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Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2017 iis quiad me tamquam christiani deferebantur, hunc sum secutus modum. Evidence Applied in the Persecution of Pontian Christians According to Pliny the Younger (Ep. 10,96) Summary In 1st and 2nd centuries A. D.
Maciej Jońca
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Pliny’s “Role Models of Both Sexes”: Gender and exemplarity in the Letters
Eugesta, 2014 The Letters of Pliny the Younger are notable both for their portraits of outstanding women and for their thoughtful treatment of exemplarity. This article explores Pliny’s innovative portrayal in his Letters of women as moral exempla within his new
Rebecca Langlands
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Vittorio Alfieri and the ‘anti-panegyric’. Comparative study with Plinian oration
GriseldaonlineThe paper aims to investigate the relation between Vittorio Alfieri's Panegirico di Plinio a Trajano, written by the author in Pisa in 1785, and its Latin model, the speech read by Plinio il Giovane to Traiano in the Senate in the year 100 AD.
Sara Gallegati
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LITERARY TESTIMONY OF ILLNESS AND DEATH IN THE EPISTOLOGRAPHY OF PLINY THE YOUNGER
ИстраживањаIn his literary letters, one of the first of its kind in Roman literature, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus writes about various topics concerning the everyday life of Romans. His collection consists of stylistically revised (epistulae curatius scriptae/
MARINA ANDRIJAŠEVIĆ
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