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Vita vigilia est : essays in honour of Barbara Levick
- Title
- Vita vigilia est : essays in honour of Barbara Levick / edited by Edward Bispham and Greg Rowe, with Elaine Matthews.
- Author
- Vita Vigilia Est (2002 : Oxford, England)
- Publication
- London : Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2007.
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- Description
- xxvii, 193 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 map; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. 100
- Subjects
- Note
- "Most of the papers in this volume were delivered at "Vita Vigilia Est: a conference on the Elder Pliny in honour of Barbara Levick" ... held at St Hilda's College, Oxford, on 9-11 April 2002"--p. ix.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Appreciation of Barbara Levick / by Stephen Mitchell -- Publications of Barbara Levick -- The wonderful world of Mucianus / Rhiannon Ash -- Situating nature's wonders in Pliny's Natural History / Mary Beagon -- Pliny the Elder's Italy / Edward Bispham -- Painting and familial and genealogical memory (Pliny, Natural History 35, 1-14) / Mireille Corbier -- The Elder Pliny on philosophers / Miriam Griffin -- Lords of the rings : ring-wearing, status, and identity in the age of Pliny the Elder / Richard Hawley -- Scepticism, superstition, and the stars : astronomical angst in Pliny the Elder / Geraldine Herbert-Brown -- Making a spectacle of oneself : Pliny on Curio's theatre / Clemence Schultze -- Pliny the Elder and archaic Rome / Christopher Smith -- Pliny, antiquarianism, and Roman imperial coinage / Jonathan Williams.
- Call Number
- JFF 08-269
- ISBN
- 1905670141
- 9781905670147
- OCLC
- 190393124
- Conference
- Vita Vigilia Est (2002 : Oxford, England)
- Title
- Vita vigilia est : essays in honour of Barbara Levick / edited by Edward Bispham and Greg Rowe, with Elaine Matthews.
- Imprint
- London : Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2007.
- Series
- Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement ; 100
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Levick, Barbara.Bispham, Edward.Rowe, Greg, 1966-Matthews, E. (Elaine)
- Research Call Number
- JFF 08-269