Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Volume 16, 2016

PLLS 16 contains papers mainly arising from several Langford Colloquia held by the Department of Classics, Florida State University. Contents The Elder Pliny S. Citroni Marchetti (Università di Firenze):‘Cicero as Role-Model in the Self-Definition of Pliny the Elder’ Trevor Murphy (University of California, Berkeley): ‘Notes from Underground: the Curious Katabasis of Dionysodorus’ Eugenia Lao: ‘Taxonomic Organization in Pliny’s Natural History’ Aude Doody (University College Dublin): ‘The Authority of Greek Poetry in Pliny’s Natural History 18.63-65’ Trevor S. Luke (The Florida State University): ‘Pliny the Elder on Pythagoras’ Greek and Roman Poetry Nigel Nicholson (Reed College): ‘Four Reasons not to have an Epinician’ Alex Hardie (University of Edinburgh): ‘Callimachus at the Mouseion (the Hymn to Delos)’ Annemarie Ambühl (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): ‘Literary Love Triangles: Berenice at Alexandria and Rome’ Alberto Canobbio (University of Pavia): ‘Lucilius and Horace: from criticism to identification’.