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Exploring Uplift Mechanisms Across the Forearc of a Subduction System: Karpathos Island as a Natural Transect Across the Eastern Hellenic Margin

open access: yesTectonics, Volume 43, Issue 8, August 2024.
Abstract Sets of marine terraces, sediments, and paleoshorelines are commonly found in forearc regions worldwide. A common assumption holds that crustal uplift prevents these features from littoral erosion. Here, we study the vertical deformation of Karpathos, a forearc island in the eastern Mediterranean, whose long axis extends at a high angle to the
Violeta Veliz‐Borel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Bronze Age occupation of the Black Sea coast of Georgia—New insights from settlement mounds of the Colchian plain

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 335-350, May/June 2024.
Abstract Along the lower course of the Rioni and several minor rivers, more than 70 settlement mounds (local name: Dikhagudzuba) have been identified by field surveys and remote sensing techniques. They give evidence of a formerly densely populated landscape in the coastal lowlands on the Colchian plain (western Georgia) and have been dated to the ...
Hannes Laermanns   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plots of Artifice: The Garden as a Literary and Visual Plasma in the Greek Novel and the Roman Villa

open access: yesAitia
Comparative analysis of the representation of the garden in the Roman house (both in painting and in rhetorical description) and in the Greek novel revealscommonalities in the use of the garden motif as a polysemic symbol articulating reality and fiction
Jesús Carruesco Garcia
doaj   +1 more source

Royal epistolary courtship in Latin? Arthur Tudor's “love letter” to Katherine of Aragon at the Archivo General de Simancas and Francesco Negri's Ars Epistolandi☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 245-264, April 2024.
Abstract The Archivo General de Simancas in Valladolid has preserved a letter attributed to Arthur Tudor, categorized as ‘declarándole su ardiente pasión amorosa’ [declaring his ardent loving passion]. Its recipient has been thought to be Katherine of Aragon.
K. P. S. Janssen, Nadia T. van Pelt
wiley   +1 more source

Pliny the Younger and the problem of translatio cadaveris [PDF]

open access: yesKrytyka Prawa, 2016
W korespondencji pomiędzy namiestnikiem Bitynii i Pontu w latach 111–113 n.e. oraz cesarzem Trajanem znalazł się wątek związany z dopuszczalnością ekshumacji oraz przenosin zwłok do innego miejsca pochówku. Pliniusz, który był zaznajomiony z rzymskimi praktykami w tym zakresie, zwrócił się do cesarza z prośbą o radę, jaki model postępowania ma przyjąć ...
openaire   +2 more sources

« Avec vue sur jardin » : vivre entre nature et paysage dans l’architecture domestique, de Cicéron à Sidoine Apollinaire

open access: yesCahiers Mondes Anciens, 2017
Evading an exact definition, the feeling of nature remains a difficult concept to be grasped in Roman thought, although one feels it today going through not only intellectual creation but also the architectural genius, from Cicero to Pliny the Younger ...
Éric Morvillez
doaj   +1 more source

Pecunia otiosa and a risky business plan of Pliny the Younger (ep. 10.54)

open access: yesActa Iuris Stetinensis
Two letters that have survived in a collection of correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan constitute a fascinating source for the study of financial policies of the Roman state at the beginning of the second century AD.
Maciej Jońca
doaj   +1 more source

Estoicismo e imperium: a virtus do homem político romano = Stoicism and imperium: the virtus of the roman political man. [PDF]

open access: yesActa Scientiarum. Education, 2011
Esse artigo tem como objetivo estudar as relações entre o Estoicismo e o Principado, a partir da leitura da correspondência pliniana. Plínio, o Jovem era originário de uma família equestre que ascendeu ao senado.
Renata Lopes Biazotto Venturini
doaj  

Pecunia otiosa i ryzykowny plan biznesowy Pliniusza Młodszego (ep. 10.54)

open access: yesActa Iuris Stetinensis
Two letters that have survived in a collection of correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan constitute a fascinating source for the study of the financial policies of the Roman state at the beginning of the second century AD.
Maciej Jońca
doaj   +1 more source

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