Table of Contents

Preface; Hellenistic Greek and Augustan Latin Poetry:Unwilling Farewell and Complex Allusion (Sappho, Callimachus and Aeneid 6.458) ( B. Acosta-Hughes); The ïIppikav of Posidippus ( M.W. Dickie); An Augustan Hymn to the Muses (Horace Odes 3.4) ( Alex Hardie); Horace's Sublime Yearnings: Lucretian Ironies ( Philip Hardie); Horace Epistles 2: the Last Horatian Book of Sermones? ( S.J. Harrison); Ars latet arte sua: Rhetoric and Poetry in Phyllis' Letter to Demophoon (Ovid Heroides 2) ( Andreas N. Michalopoulos); Flavian and post-Flavian Latin Poetry: The Date of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica ( Tim Stover); Etymological Wordplay in Flavian Epic ( Alison Keith); Verbal and Thematic Links between Poems and Books in Martial ( Robert Maltby); Juvenal Satire 6: Misogyny or Misogamy? The Evidence of Protreptics on Marriage ( Lindsay Watson); Greek and Roman Prose: Letters from an Advocate: Pliny's 'Vesuvius' Narratives (Epistles 6.16, 6.20) ( D.H. Berry);Individual Rivalries in Plutarch's Late Republican Lives ( Robin Seager); Augustine on the Power and Weakness of Words ( Therese Fuhrer); Index of selected passages.

About the Author

Francis Cairns is the author of Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry, Hellenistic Epigram: Contexts of Exploration, and of monographs on Tibullus, Virgil, and Propertius, as well as numerous articles on a wide range of Greek and Latin poetry and other fields. He is Professor of Classical Languages at The Florida State University,