Vita vigilia est : essays in honour of Barbara Levick
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Vita vigilia est : essays in honour of Barbara Levick
(Bulletin supplement / University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, 100)
Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2007
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"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"--Preface
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents of Works
- 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

