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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2022

Robert A. Rohland
Robert A. Rohland
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Trinity College, Cambridge

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Carpe Diem
The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature
 , pp. ix - x
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022
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  1. 0.1Stele of the Seikilos epitaph. Photo © The National Museum of Denmark, Inv. 14897/photographer: John Lee. License type: CC-BY-SA.

  2. 0.2Transcription of musical notation of the Seikilos epitaph. Transcribed into modern notation by D’Angour (2018) 69.

  3. 1.1Statue of ‘Dionysus Sardanapallus’. Vatican Museum, Rome, Sala della Biga, Inv. 2363. Photo Copyright © Governorate of the Vatican City State – Directorate of the Vatican Museums.

  4. 4.1(a, b, c)Silver cup with skeletons (Cup A). Cup A from the Boscoreale treasure, Paris, Louvre Bj 1923. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/photographer: Hervé Lewandowski.

  5. 4.2(a, b, c)Silver cup with skeletons (Cup B). Cup B from the Boscoreale treasure, Paris, Louvre Bj 1924. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/photographer: Hervé Lewandowski.

  6. 4.3Berlin Gem with shepherd and skull. AGD ii Berlin 138, no. 349, table 64. Photo © Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Inv. FG 417/photographer: Isolde Luckert.

  7. 4.4Munich Gem with shepherd and skull. AGD i.2 Munich 33, no. 729, table 84 (= Munich, Staatliche Münzsammlung, Inv. A 1700). Photograph taken from imprint. Photo © München, Staatliche Münzsammlung/photographer: Nicolai Kästner.

  8. 4.5(a)Copenhagen Gem with shepherd and skull. Photo © Thorvaldsens Museum, inv. no. I1204/photographer: Jakob Faurvig. Shepherd and Butterfly on a Skull. Roman Republican ringstone, 100–30 bc. Carnelian, gold (modern gold ring). 1.2 x 0.9 cm.

  9. 4.5(b)Copenhagen Gem with shepherd and skull (imprint). Photograph taken from imprint. Photo © Thorvaldsens Museum, inv. no. I1204/photographer: Jakob Faurvig. Shepherd and Butterfly on a Skull. Roman Republican ringstone, 100–30 bc. Carnelian, gold (modern gold ring). 1.2 x 0.9 cm.

  10. 4.6Lost gem with skull, table, and inscription. Gori (1726–43) iii, appendix 21, no. 25 (Cambridge University Library classmark Mm.4.76–78); CIG 7298 = Kaibel 1129. Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.

  11. 4.7Lost gem with skeleton. Venuti and Boriani (1736) table 80. Photo © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

  12. 4.8Gem with image of lovers and inscription. Photo © Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden. Inv. GS-01172/photographer: Robbert Jan Looman.

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