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  2. Pliny the Elder - Wikipedia

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    Pliny the Younger wanted to convey that Pliny the Elder was a "good Roman", which means that he maintained the customs of the great Roman forefathers. This statement would have pleased Tacitus. Two inscriptions identifying the hometown of Pliny the Younger as Como take precedence over the Verona theory.

  3. Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History - Wikipedia

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    Sources are listed within the chart itself, right beside the Colby & Co Publishers: English Historian: Edward Gibbon; Greek Historians: i) Herodotus, ii) Thucydides, iii) Livy, iv) Sallust, v) Pliny the Elder, and vi) Tacitus. George Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies; John Gardner Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians; Austen Henry Layard's Nineveh and ...

  4. Caecilia gens - Wikipedia

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    Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, or "Pliny the Younger", a writer and statesman during the late first and early second century. He was a member of gens Caecilia from birth, but was adopted by his maternal uncle, the scholar Gaius Plinius Secundus, or "Pliny the Elder", and changed his name accordingly.

  5. Plinia gens - Wikipedia

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    Plinia Marcella, the sister of Pliny the elder, married Gaius Caecilius, and was the mother of Gaius Caecilius Cilo, afterward Pliny the Younger. After her husband's death, she lived with her brother. Together with her brother and her son, she witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. (It was she who pointed out the eruption to her brother)

  6. Laocoön and His Sons - Wikipedia

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    The statue is very likely the same one that was praised in the highest terms by Pliny the Elder, the main Roman writer on art, who attributed it to Greek sculptors but did not say when it was created. [3] The figures in the statue are nearly life-sized, with the entire group measuring just over 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in height.

  7. Roman Villa of Pliny "in Tuscis" - Wikipedia

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    Reconstructed plan of Pliny's villa in Tuscis (Robert Castell 1728) reconstruction by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1842 Excavations ot Colle Plinio. The Villa of Pliny in Tuscis was a large, elaborate ancient Roman villa-estate that belonged to the Plinys (Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger). [1] It is located at Colle Plinio near San Giustino ...

  8. Cyclamen - Wikipedia

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    Most species have leaves variegated in several shades of green and silver, either in an irregular pattern of blotches or an arrowhead or Christmas-tree shape. In cultivation cyclamen, especially species other than Cyclamen persicum , are selected as often for striking or unusual leaf patterns as for their flowers.

  9. Family tree of Roman emperors - Wikipedia

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    Julia the Elder 39 BC–14 AD [4] Tiberius 42 BC–37 AD r. 14–37 [4] Drusus the Elder 38–9 BC [5] Antonia Minor 36 BC–37 AD: Lucius Aemilius Paullus d. 14: Julia the Younger 19 BC–28 AD [6] Agrippina the Elder 14 BC–33 AD: Germanicus 16 BC–19 AD [7] Claudius 10 BC–54 AD r. 41–54 [7] Marcus Torquatus: Aemilia Lepida 4 BC–53 AD ...