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    Naturales quaestiones (Natural Questions) is a Latin work of natural philosophy written by Seneca around 65 AD. It is not a systematic encyclopedia like...
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  • Hostius Quadra is known through references made by Seneca in his Naturales quaestiones. Hostius fuit Quadra, obscenitatis in scaenam usque productae. Hunc...
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  • List of comets Heinrich Kreutz X/1106 C1 Meteorology (Aristotle) Naturales quaestiones Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Marsden B.G. (1967), "The Sungrazing...
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    years that he composed two of his greatest works: Naturales quaestiones—an encyclopedia of the natural world; and his Letters to Lucilius—which document...
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  • AD 62 Pompeii earthquake (category 1st-century natural disasters)
    Younger wrote an account of the earthquake in the sixth book of his Naturales quaestiones, entitled De Terrae Motu (Concerning Earthquakes). The epicentre...
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  • of 372–373 BC. The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger, whose Naturales quaestiones is the ancient source for Ephorus's comet report, is severe in his...
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  • of his work (dealing with lightning) are to be found in Seneca (Naturales quaestiones, ii. 31–49). Caecina was on intimate terms with Cicero, who speaks...
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    Accounts are found in Seneca the Younger's Naturales quaestiones, VI.8.3 and Pliny the Elder's Natural History, VI.XXXV, p. 181-187: The Roman legionaries...
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  • thunderbolt that announced disasters. According to Seneca in his Naturales quaestiones, The third manubia Jupiter also sends, but he summons to council...
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    makes an incidental reference to sun dogs in the first book of his Naturales Quaestiones. The 2nd-century Roman writer and philosopher Apuleius in his Apologia...
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    Vol. 1. Springer-Verlag. pp. 697–698. Naturalis historia, II, 70 Naturales quaestiones, VII, xxv, 6–7 Joseph A. Angelo (2014). Encyclopedia of Space and...
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    the Younger also knew Euthymenes' account, which he reported in Naturales quaestiones (iv.2.22) and refuted, for various reasons: Euthymenes of Massilia...
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  • Letters, which are addressed to Lucilius. Seneca also dedicated his Naturales Quaestiones and his essay De Providentia to Lucilius. Lucilius seems to have...
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    time. Books portal Famulus – his biography is featured in Natural History Naturales quaestiones – a similar, shorter encyclopedia written by Seneca Suda...
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    Memorabilia. Pallottino 1975, p. 154 Seneca the Younger. "II.32.2". Naturales Quaestiones. Krauskopf, I. 2006. "The Grave and Beyond." The Religion of the...
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    5.10 Strabo, Geographica 6, p. 270, 8.343; Seneca the Younger, Naturales quaestiones 3.26; Fulgentius, Mythologiarum libri 3.12 Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis...
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  • (Seneca the Younger), Naturales Quaestiones (Natural Questions). Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Historia Naturalis (Natural History). Decimus Junius...
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    his work, although not all of this was uncritical." In Book I of Naturales Quaestiones (c. 65 AD), the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger discusses various...
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    Seneca the Younger De Beneficiis De Tranquillitate Animi Epistles Naturales quaestiones Suetonius De vita Caesarum Terence Andria Eunuchus Phormio Virgil...
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    Ovid. The Stoic Seneca the Younger criticised warfare in his book Naturales quaestiones (c. 65 CE). Maximilian of Tebessa was a Christian conscientious...
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    century BC. Seneca wrote about auroras in the first book of his Naturales Quaestiones, classifying them, for instance, as pithaei ('barrel-like'); chasmata...
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  • interaction among all social actors are required. Rights of nature Naturales quaestiones Sumak Kawsay Dancer, Helen (2021-01-02). "Harmony with Nature: towards...
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  • Seneca, Epistles. 108. Compare Naturales Quaestiones, ii. 50, Epistles, 9, 63, 67, 72. 81, 110. Seneca, Naturales Quaestiones, ii. 48. Hesychius, Korinnousi...
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  • Letters to Lucilius), Naturales Quaestiones (Natural Questions). Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Naturalis Historia (Natural History). Sextus Julius...
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    formalized the climatic zone system. In 63–64 AD, Seneca wrote Naturales quaestiones. It was a compilation and synthesis of ancient Greek theories. However...
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    Lake of Statonia (Lacus Statoniensis) described by Seneca in his Naturales Quaestiones and by Pliny the Elder (ii.209, xiv.67 and xxxvi.168). In the Renaissance...
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    1855, The Natural History of Pliny. London: H.G. Bohn. vol 1. (Bks 1 – 5), vol.4 (Bks 18–23) Seneca the Younger (c. 65 CE) Naturales quaestiones, (Bks 1–7...
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    darkness of the cloud, creates the light." According to Seneca, Naturales quaestiones (II, 18). Pseudo-Plutarch (III, 16) It is then very likely that...
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  • 65–74. Livy, Epitome, lix. Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 11, 104; Naturales Quaestiones, vi. 32. Aulus Gellius, vii. 14. Cicero, Brutus, 58. § 111, De Oratore...
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  • Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger), De Beneficiis (On Kindness), Naturales Quaestiones (Natural Questions). Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian), Institutio...
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