Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pliny_the_Elder> ?p ?o }
- Pliny_the_Elder abstract "Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23 – August 25, AD 79), better known as Pliny the Elder (/ˈplɪni/), was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian.Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all other encyclopedias. Pliny the Younger, his nephew, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus:For my part I deem those blessed to whom, by favour of the gods, it has been granted either to do what is worth writing of, or to write what is worth reading; above measure blessed those on whom both gifts have been conferred. In the latter number will be my uncle, by virtue of his own and of your compositions.Pliny is referring to the fact that Tacitus relied on his uncle's now missing work on the History of the German Wars. Pliny the Elder died on August 25, AD 79, whilst attempting to rescue Pomponianus (a friend of Pliny's) and his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that had just destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. When Pliny arrived, Pomponianus had packed his bags ready for a swift getaway, but having arrived, Pliny ordered for a bath to be drawn in order to calm Pomponianus' fears. A swift getaway was not possible due to the wind directly facing Stabiae, and so it appears that Pliny used his initiative in this instance. It is subtly implied in Pliny the Younger's letter to Tacitus (The death of my Uncle), that Pliny drew this bath to allow time for him to decide what to do next. However, it is also implied that he felt the necessity to bathe because he thought it would help his asthma. For in his letter, Pliny the Younger describes how anybody walking past the room in which Pliny was bathing (the door was closed) could hear his wheezing. Therefore, it is thought that Pliny commanded a bath not only to gather a revised plan, but furthermore to recuperate himself somewhat. From this we know that the toxic gas was already beginning to take effect on Pliny. It is known that when the pumice stones began to fall seemingly 'from the sky', Pliny the Elder and the entire team on his ship tied pillows to their heads and fastened them with thin strips of linen. Pliny the Younger makes sure to detail this, which implies that he wanted his uncle's meticulous, creative and perhaps even thoughtful (as he provided pillows to his slaves too) nature to be properly conveyed.The unfavourable prevailing wind would not allow his ship to leave the shore, and thus travel away from the toxic fumes. His companions attributed his collapse and death on the beach at Stabiae to toxic fumes, but they were unaffected by the fumes, as Pliny had asthma and therefore was affected more severely.".
- Pliny_the_Elder birthDate "0023".
- Pliny_the_Elder birthPlace Como.
- Pliny_the_Elder birthPlace Italia_(Roman_Empire).
- Pliny_the_Elder birthPlace Roman_Empire.
- Pliny_the_Elder birthPlace Roman_Italy.
- Pliny_the_Elder birthYear "0023".
- Pliny_the_Elder child Pliny_the_Younger.
- Pliny_the_Elder deathDate "0079".
- Pliny_the_Elder deathPlace Campania.
- Pliny_the_Elder deathPlace Pompei.
- Pliny_the_Elder deathPlace Roman_Empire.
- Pliny_the_Elder deathPlace Roman_Italy.
- Pliny_the_Elder deathPlace Stabiae.
- Pliny_the_Elder deathYear "0079".
- Pliny_the_Elder education Grammar.
- Pliny_the_Elder education Rhetoric.
- Pliny_the_Elder occupation Author.
- Pliny_the_Elder occupation Lawyer.
- Pliny_the_Elder occupation Natural_history.
- Pliny_the_Elder occupation Natural_philosophy.
- Pliny_the_Elder occupation Pliny_the_Elder__1.
- Pliny_the_Elder occupation Pliny_the_Elder__2.
- Pliny_the_Elder occupation Pliny_the_Elder__4.
- Pliny_the_Elder residence Miseno.
- Pliny_the_Elder residence Rome.
- Pliny_the_Elder thumbnail Pliny_the_Elder.png?width=300.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageExternalLink Pliny_the_Elder*.html.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageExternalLink pliny_e.html.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageExternalLink pliny_e2.html.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageExternalLink the-manuscripts-of-pliny-the-elders-natural-history.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageExternalLink Pliny.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageExternalLink 1up.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageID "44920".
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageLength "50398".
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageOutDegree "209".
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageRevisionID "683506505".
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Africa_(Roman_province).
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Africa_Province.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Agriculture.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Annals_(Tacitus).
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Archaeology.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Arezzo.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Asthma.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Astronomy.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Asturias.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Aufidius_Bassus.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Augur.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Augustinian.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Augustinians.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Author.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Baebius_Macer.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Bay_of_Naples.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Botany.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Bufonidae.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Burrus.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Caesonia.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Caligula.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Campania.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Carnelian.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Caspian_Sea.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Castellammare_di_Stabia.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:1st-century_Romans.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:23_births.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:79_deaths.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ancient_Roman_admirals.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ancient_Roman_antiquarians.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ancient_Roman_scientists.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ancient_Roman_soldiers.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Classical_Latin_literature.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Classical_geography.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Deaths_in_volcanic_eruptions.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Como.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Philosophers_of_Roman_Italy.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pre-Linnaean_botanists.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Roman-era_geographers.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Roman-era_philosophers.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Category:Silver_Age_Latin_writers.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Catullus.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Chatti.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Chauci.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Cisalpine_Gaul.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Città_di_Castello.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Cognomen.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Cohort_(military_unit).
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Comasco.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Comasco_dialect.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Como.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Como_Cathedral.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Corpus_Inscriptionum_Latinarum.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Domitian.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Domus_Aurea.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Encyclopedia.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Equestrian_(Roman).
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Equites.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Eye-witness.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink File:Laocoon_Pio-Clementino_Inv1059-1064-1067.jpg.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Flavian_Dynasty.
- Pliny_the_Elder wikiPageWikiLink Flavian_dynasty.