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Space and Spatial Metaphor in the Texts of Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger
… of spatial images and metaphors in the works of Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger. It considers natural and architectural spaces in the works of both authors and explores how each made use of this imagery to serve the aims of his texts. While acknowledging the important differences between …
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Granites and syenites of the Pliny Range, New Hampshire.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1971.
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Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Belknap Mountains complex and Pliny Range, White Mountain series, New Hampshire
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1979.
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The Syntax of the Simple Cases and of the Cases with Prepostions in Pliny's Natural History, Book VII
… as accurately as possible whether or not Pliny conforms to classical usage in his syntax of cases in Book VII of the NATURAL HISTORY, Analysis of the separate forms indicates that he deviates very little from the norms set by Cicero. His frequent use of the Genitive is quite regular; His …
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Memory And Moderation: The Imperial Image Of Augustus And Its Perception Among Later Authors
… </p> <p>The second chapter will examine Pliny the Younger's political career under the tyrannical reign of Domitian and his praise of Trajan's moderation in the Panegyricus. Pliny exhibits signs of insincerity in his panegyric that resemble the methods of doublespeak used earlier by …
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Naturalis Historia, Reconstructed
When Pliny the Elder wrote Naturalis Historia around 70 A.D., the idea of natural history contained and connected biology, geology, and mineralogy with the history of painting and sculpture. Art was an extension of the natural world as its materials were extracted from plants, animals, and, …
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Taxonomy and the History of Science: A Critical Analysis of Four Historic Publications
… and three pre-Linnaean works from Pliny the Elder, Nehemiah Grew, and Rembert Dodoens, I have found that the history of the sciences has been largely distorted. The distortion appears to be of many factors, including the replacement of ideas, censorship from scholarly societies, and …
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The Encyclopedic Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rudolfine Kunstkammer as Expressions of Power
… late Renaissance who, influenced by the work of Pliny, were driven by the desire to understand the world through the acquisition of universal knowledge. The physical configuration of such encyclopedic projects could be found in the museums created to organize and assimilate the explosion of …
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The Syntax of the Finite Verb and the Nominal Forms fo the Verb in Pliny's Natural History Book Seventeen
… finite verb and the nominal forms of the verb in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Book 17, and, furthermore, to point out the author’s adherence to or divergence from Classical norms in this portion of his work. In assuming such a task, one must recognize from the outset the nature of the Latin …
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A commentary on Quintinus' Insulae Melitae Descriptio
… Classics, as in his repeated use of phrases from Pliny's Natural History which, like many of his Age, he must have known very well. The main authors quoted, .apart from Pliny, are Cicero, Virgil, Ovid and Livy. Abbreviations of Classical references are according to the Oxford Latin Dictionary and …
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Some of the conditions which tend toward dwarfism and stunted physical development
… alluded to in the writings of Homer, Herodotus, Pliny and. Aristotle. The ancients, it would appear, had some knowledge of the existence of five different pigmy races in the old world, and it is interesting to note that their speculations as to the location of these tribes have been largely …
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A Critical Assessment of the Portrayal of Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls Sectarian Rule Texts, and of the Evidence for the Presence of Women in the Qumran Community
… The ancient authors, Philo, Josephus and Pliny, all provided information about the Essenes, including the celibacy issue, but their writings, as well as the scrolls themselves, and the early reception history of the scrolls, were all androcentric in nature. This research analysed the …
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In Search of Present Time: Reading Carpe Diem
… Garland of Philip and Latin texts of Petronius, Pliny the Elder, and Martial. This chapter combines close readings of rarely studied Greek literary epigrams with research into epigraphic sources and artefacts. Chapter 5 analyses how the carpe diem motif is cut up in anthologies and satires; the …
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The City Encomium in Medieval and Humanist Spain
… <em>laus Hispaniae</em> tradition in passages of Pliny, Solinus, Claudian, and Pacatus. The commonplaces of a temperate climate, gold-bearing rivers, natural fertility, and others, were passed on to Isidore, whose <em>De laude Spanie</em> would influence the much later thirteenth-century encomia …
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Politics and the Past in the Age of Nerva and Trajan: The Making and Unmaking of Memories of Domitian, 96-117 CE.
… about the senate’s own past. It then argues that Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae and Tacitus’ Agricola participate in this debate by literary means, and, crucially, use Domitian as scapegoat for the senators’ own role in the previous execution of their peers. A prosopographical survey indicates that …
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Monstret & människan : Paré, Deleuze och teratologiska traditioner i fransk filosofi, från renässanshumanism till posthumanism
… Socrates, Protagoras; Plato, Aristotle; and Pliny, Augustine). Part II follows these traditions into the Renaissance where they intersect in the ‘books of wonder’, among which Paré’s Des monstres et prodiges (1573) is viewed to have had a lasting influence on the development of the science of …
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Suetonius and the Politics of Private Life
… to Suetonius’ *Caesars*, Tacitus’ *Agricola* and Pliny’s *Panegyricus*. By depicting Agricola’s private life as impeccable yet insignificant, Tacitus follows a historiographical and biographical tradition in which the private life of protagonists is eclipsed in favour of their public life …
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Studies in the Ancient Reception of Seneca the Younger
… Quintilian’s *Institutio oratoria* (Ch.1), Pliny’s *Epistles* (Ch.2), and Tacitus’ (Neronian) *Annals* (Ch.3), but also Pliny’s *Panegyricus* (Ch.3.4a), Suetonius’ *Nero* (Ch.3.4b), and Fronto’s letters (Ch.2.*fin*.). All of these authors exhibit a hitherto underestimated familiarity with …
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The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity
My thesis is titled ‘The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity.’ From the viewpoint of classical reception studies, I am asking what contemporary British art (by, for example, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, and Mark Wallinger) has to …