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Vita vigilia est : essays in honour of Barbara Levick / edited by Edward Bispham and Greg Rowe, with Elaine Matthews.

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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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Additional Authors
  • Levick, Barbara.
  • Bispham, Edward
  • Rowe, Greg, 1966-
  • Matthews, Elaine.
  • Matthews, E. (Elaine)
Description
xxvii, 193 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 map; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement ; 100
Uniform Title
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement 100.
Subject
  • Pliny, the Elder > Congresses
  • Levick, Barbara > Bibliography
  • Rome > History > Flavians, 69-96 > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Conference papers and proceedings
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 indexes.
  • "Publications of Barbara Levick": p. xix-xxvii.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 1905670141
  • 9781905670147
OCLC
  • 190393124
  • SCSB-12381138
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library