Research Project
Full description This digital humanities project creates datasets from the text of Pliny the Elder's "Naturalis historia" which can be interrogated relating to his description of what are now considered medical amulets. In addition to itemizing every medical amulet described in the "Naturalis historia", additional spreadsheets allow researchers to contextualize Pliny's use of pertinent words relating to these medical treatments within the broader framework of his text. The purpose of this project is to allow each medical amulet to be identified as a discrete item of intangible cultural heritage. This is not a philological or linguistic project.