XIR352321 Ms Grec 479 Working in the fields, illustration from the Cynegetica by Oppian (tempera on vellum) by Italian School, (11th century); Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy; (add.info.: Oppianus; now thought to be the name given to two, possibly three authors of the same name: Oppian of Corycus (fl.c. 169) who wrote a poem on fishing (Halieutica); Oppian of Apamea (fl.c. 211), author of a poem on hunting (Cynegetica), dedicated to Emperor Caracalla (188-217); a treatise on catching birds (Ixeutika) is also attributed to a writer called Oppian; collecting olives by shaking the olive tree, catching a swarm of bees by a bee keeper in protective clothing, making a hay rick and slaughtering a sheep;); Italian, out of copyright.