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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/Trajan and the Poetics of Empire [PDF]
, 2015 A series of recent articles have challenged literal and realist readings of the tenth book of Pliny the Younger's Letters.
Woolf, Greg
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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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A lead isotope perspective on urban development in ancient Naples [PDF]
, 2016 The influence of a sophisticated water distribution system on urban development in Roman times is tested against the impact of Vesuvius volcanic activity, in particular the great eruption of AD 79, on all of the ancient cities of the Bay of Naples ...
Albarède, Francis +6 more
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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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Landsscape diachronic reconstruction in the Tiber Delta during historical time. A holistic approach [PDF]
, 2018 The sensitivity of deltas in response to evolutionary factors makes them important archives of the events that occurred in the entire river basin.
Bellotti, Piero +2 more
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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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Gephyra, 2023 The wealth and possessions of Roman senators in the imperial period consisted predominantly in land property, as emphasized by Pliny the Younger (epist. 3,19,8).
Andreas Klingenberg
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Philosophical thought of the School of the Sextii [PDF]
, 2014 Around the first half century B.C. the first Roman school of philosophy arose, which was called School of Sextii. The known members of the School were: Quintus Sextius the Elder, founding father of the School, Sextius Niger, Quintus' son, who became ...
DI PAOLA, Omar
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