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Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24–79), known in English as Pliny the Elder (/ ˈ p l ɪ n i / PLIN-ee), [1] was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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 the modern day, the Natural History compiles information gleaned from other ancient authors.
The estate was acquired by Pliny the Elder, nephew of Marcus Granius Marcellus, probably under Vespasian (69-79 AD). After Pliny the Elder had adopted his nephew as his sole heir in his will, on the death of his uncle in 79 AD (near Pompeii) the villa was inherited by Pliny the Younger (61-113 AD) who then added “Secundus” to his name.
Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras of Rhegion [1] (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας, fl. 5th century BC) was an Ancient Greek sculptor from Samos. Pliny the Elder describes two different sculptors [2] who bore a remarkable personal likeness to each other. [3]
PLINIVS (プリニウス, Puriniusu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mari Yamazaki and Miki Tori.The series is a biography of Pliny the Elder.It was initially serialized in Shinchosha's Shinchō 45 magazine from December 2013 to September 2018.
Illyrii proprie dicti ('properly called Illyrians') or Illyrians proper were presumably a group of ancient Illyrian tribes. They were attested only by ancient Roman writers Pliny the Elder and Pomponius Mela, designating a people that was located on the southern Adriatic coast (around the coast of modern Albania and Montenegro).
Pliny the Elder claims that the Gaetuli were essentially different from other indigenous North African Numidian tribes despite sharing the same language. [5] Contemporary historians acknowledge the significant ethnic divisions between the Berber tribes and the existence of individual kings and separate political spheres.
Its current form was made by English and French scholars at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, while German scholars have used the longer "Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse ". [12] Ancient authors quote the phrase as follow: Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History: "[Cato], cum clamaret omni senatu Carthaginem delendam, … " [13]