23/24 – AD 79), called Pliny the Elder (/ˈplɪni/), was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire... 48 KB (6,213 words) - 19:49, 9 April 2024 |
The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder. The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to... 57 KB (7,224 words) - 10:33, 15 April 2024 |
better known as Pliny the Younger (/ˈplɪni/), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and... 25 KB (2,853 words) - 16:53, 3 April 2024 |
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD (redirect from The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD) weakly through the cloud, encouraging Pliny and his mother to return home and wait for news of Pliny the Elder. The letter compares the ash to a blanket... 44 KB (5,303 words) - 14:07, 21 April 2024 |
Cinnamon bird (section According to Pliny the Elder) Aristotle referred to the bird as kinnamômon orneon. Pliny the Elder adopted a more skeptical view of the cinnamon bird, erroneously named cinnamolgus. He... 4 KB (449 words) - 08:54, 16 October 2023 |
Phoenix (mythology) (redirect from Phoenix the bird) Herodotus, Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Pope Clement I, Lactantius, Ovid, and Isidore of Seville are among those who have contributed to the retelling and transmission... 30 KB (3,090 words) - 15:07, 23 April 2024 |
Ritual of oak and mistletoe (redirect from The ritual of the oak and the mistletoe) historian Pliny the Elder, written in the 1st century AD. Speaking of mistletoe, he writes: We should not omit to mention the great admiration that the Gauls... 8 KB (670 words) - 21:05, 11 January 2024 |
Encyclopedism (section Pliny the Elder) Roman writers such as Pliny the Elder and Varro – discussions presumably not intended as practical advice to farmers or craftsmen. The vast majority of classical... 34 KB (4,463 words) - 18:11, 8 March 2024 |
Citron (section Pliny the Elder) Riley, eds. (1855). The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. London: Taylor and Francis. "Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, Book XII. The Natural History... 37 KB (4,008 words) - 00:05, 1 April 2024 |
Sudines (section Pliny the Elder) (PDF) Pliny the Elder (1855), Natural History, Books 1-11, Perseus Project, translated by Henry T. Riley and John Bostock Pliny the Elder (1855), Natural... 15 KB (1,907 words) - 16:20, 9 September 2023 |