Editing Barbara Levick (section)

== Career ==
In 1959, Levick was appointed a university [[fellow]] and tutor for Roman History at [[St Hilda's College, Oxford]], and in 1967 published her first [[monograph]], drawing on material from her doctoral thesis, which forty years after its publication was described as a "resilient classic of Roman history".<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":1">{{cite web|title=Dr Barbara Levick|url=http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/faculty/directory/buscard.asp?IDno=304|publisher=[[University of Oxford]]|access-date=12 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723113250/http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/faculty/directory/buscard.asp?IDno=304|archive-date=23 July 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Paul's Offer of Leniency (2 Cor 10:1): Populist Ideology and Rhetoric in a Pauline Letter Fragment|year=2002|publisher=Mohr Siebeck|isbn=978-3-16-147891-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LWxHUT803ecC&pg=PA217|author=Donald Dale Walker|page=217}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Briscoe|first=John|date=March 1969|title=Six Augustan Colonies - Barbara Levick: Roman Colonies in Southern Asia Minor. Pp. xvi+256; 2 maps, 6 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. Cloth, 70s. net.|journal=The Classical Review|language=en|volume=19|issue=1|pages=86–88|doi=10.1017/S0009840X00328682|s2cid=162440061 |issn=1464-3561}}</ref> The importance of this work came from both its focus on the Roman impact on Asia Minor, and the drawing together of both epigraphic and [[numismatic]] evidence.<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":2"/> In this work she used the discoveries she made at [[Yalvaç]] in Turkey, and considered again material that had been neglected since the 1920s.<ref name=":0"/>

Levick was an influential editor of inscriptions who shaped the format of the ''Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua'' series, directing two volumes of its publication.<ref name=":0"/> Her biographies of Roman emperors and Imperial women are widely known and receive largely positive reviews from their critics.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1990/12/06/life-styles-of-the-rich-and-famous/|title=Life Styles of the Rich and Famous|last=Lloyd-Jones|first=Hugh|work=The New York Review of Books|access-date=22 October 2018|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2001/2001-01-20.html|title=Review: B. Levick, Vespasian|author=John F. Donahue|website=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|date=20 January 2001|access-date=17 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Daly|first=Megan M.|date=July 2016|title=Review of: Claudius. Second edition (first edition 1990). Roman imperial biographies|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2016/2016-07-37.html|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|issn=1055-7660}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Keegan|first=Peter|date=May 2011|title=Review of: Augustus: Image and Substance|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-05-30.html|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|issn=1055-7660}}</ref>

Her portrait was painted for St Hilda's College by [[Jane Cursham]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/barbara-levick-223249#|title=Barbara Levick {{!}} Art UK|website=artuk.org|language=en|access-date=22 October 2018}}</ref>