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A COMPANION
TO CATULLUS
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Marilyn B. Skinner


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In memory of
James L. P. Butrica
attigit quoque poeticen, credimus, ne eius expers esset suauitatis
Cornelius Nepos, Life of Atticus 18.5


Contents

List of Illustrations

x

Acknowledgments

xi

Abbreviations

xiii

Notes on Contributors
1

Part I

Part II

Introduction
Marilyn B. Skinner

The Text and the Collection
2

History and Transmission of the Text
J. L. Butrica

3

Authorial Arrangement of the Collection:
Debate Past and Present
Marilyn B. Skinner

Contexts of Production

xx
1

11
13

35

55

4

The Valerii Catulli of Verona
T. P. Wiseman

57

5

The Contemporary Political Context
David Konstan

72

6

The Intellectual Climate
Andrew Feldherr

92


Contents

viii
7

Part III

Part IV

Gender and Masculinity

Elizabeth Manwell

Influences

129

8

Catullus and Sappho
Ellen Greene

131

9

Catullus and Callimachus
Peter E. Knox

151

Stylistics

173

10

Neoteric Poetics
W. R. Johnson

175

11

Elements of Style in Catullus
George A. Sheets

190

12

Catullus and Elite Republican Social Discourse
Brian A. Krostenko

212

Part V Poems and Groups of Poems
13

Catullus and the Programmatic Poem: The Origins,
Scope, and Utility of a Concept
William W. Batstone

233
235

14

The Lesbia Poems
Julia T. Dyson

254

15

Sexuality and Ritual: Catullus’ Wedding Poems
Vassiliki Panoussi

276

16

Catullan Intertextuality: Apollonius and
the Allusive Plot of Catullus 64
Jeri Blair DeBrohun

293

Poem 68: Love and Death, and
the Gifts of Venus and the Muses
Elena Theodorakopoulos

314

17

18

Part VI

111

Social Commentary and Political Invective
W. Jeffrey Tatum

Reception
19

Catullus and Horace
Randall L. B. McNeill

333

355
357


Contents

ix

20

Catullus and Vergil
Christopher Nappa

377

21

Catullus and Roman Love Elegy

Paul Allen Miller

399

22

Catullus and Martial
Sven Lorenz

418

23

Catullus in the Renaissance
Julia Haig Gaisser

439

24

The Modern Reception of Catullus
Brian Arkins

461

Part VII

Pedagogy

479

25

Catullus in the Secondary School Curriculum
Ronnie Ancona and Judith P. Hallett

481

26

Catullus in the College Classroom
Daniel H. Garrison

503

Part VIII

Translation

27

Translating Catullus
Elizabeth Vandiver

521
523

Consolidated Bibliography

542

General Index

568

Index Locorum

585


Illustrations

4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5

Transpadane Italy
North end of the Sirmione peninsula
Schematic reconstruction of a lost inscription
from Lanuvium (CIL 14.2095)
Hypothetical reconstruction of the Sirmio villa
Fragment of wall-painting from the villa at Sirmione

58
60
61
65
67

Acknowledgments

The editor of this volume, the contributors, and the publisher gratefully acknowledge
the permission granted to reproduce the copyright material in this book:
Authorities of the Italian Air Force (Aeronautica militare) for fig. 4.2, photograph of
the north end of the Sirmione peninsula (CODIC, SMA N. 356 – 12 August 1981).
Thanks to the British Embassy in Rome for assistance in obtaining the photograph.
A. P. Watt Ltd for non-US English rights to reprint excerpts from W. B. Yeats’ ‘‘The
Scholars’’ and The Autobiography of W. B. Yeats. Permission granted by A. P. Watt Ltd
on behalf of Michael B. Yeats.
Carcanet Press Ltd for world rights to reprint Robert Graves’ ‘‘The Thieves,’’ from
Robert Graves: The Complete Poems in One Volume, edited by Beryl Graves and
Dunstan Ward (2000). ß1995 by the Trustees of the Robert Graves Copyright
Trust.
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A. Krostenko, Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social Performance (ß 2001
by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.).
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photographs of fragment of fresco (Archivio Fotografico D 756) reproduced as
fig.4.5.
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xii

Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations

Abbreviations of the names of ancient authors and their works follow, whenever
possible, the practice of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition (1996), referred
to as OCD3. Otherwise Greek authors and titles are abbreviated as in Liddell and
Scott, Greek-English Lexicon, 9th edition, revised by H. Stuart Jones and supplemented by various scholars (1968), referred to as LSJ. Latin authors and titles are
abbreviated as in the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1982), commonly cited as OLD.
Names of authors or works in square brackets [—] indicate spurious or questionable
attributions. Numbers in superscript following a title indicate the number of an
edition (e.g., OCD3). Abbreviations and descriptions of works of secondary scholarship are also usually taken from OCD3.

General Abbreviations
ad; ad loc.
ap.
c., cc.
ca.
cf.
ch.
cos.
des.
suff.
d.
def.
esp.

ad locum, at the line being discussed in the
commentary
apud, within, indicating a quotation contained in
another author
carmen, poem; carmina, poems
circa, about or approximately
compare
chapter
consul (date follows)
designatus, appointed but not yet installed
suffectus, appointed to fill out a term
died
definition
especially

xiv
f.
ff.
fig., figs.
fr., frr.
G
ibid.
l.
m.
MS, MSS
n., nn.
no., nos.
O
p., pp.
passim
pr.
pref.
pron.
R
sc.
s.v.
test.
tr. pop.
trans.
V
v., vv.
vel sim.

Abbreviations

filius, filia, son or daughter
and the following (lines, pages)
figure, figures
fragment, fragments
Sangermanensis (Paris codex of Catullus)
ibidem, in the same work cited above
libertus, liberta, freedman or -woman
married
manuscript, manuscripts
note, notes
number, numbers
Oxoniensis (Oxford codex of Catullus)
page, pages
passim, throughout
praetor (date follows)
preface
pronepos, great-grandson
Romanus (Vatican codex of Catullus)
scilicet, namely
sub verbo, under the word
testimonia, mentions in later antiquity
tribune of the people (date follows)
translated (by)
Veronensis (Verona codex of Catullus)
verse, verses
vel simile, or something similar

Roman Praenomina
First names of male Roman citizens, relatively few and handed down in families, are
abbreviated on inscriptions and conventionally in modern works of scholarship. The

following occur in this volume:
Ap.
C.
Cn.
D.
L.
M.
P.
Q.
Ser.
Sex.
T.
Ti.

Appius
Gaius
Gnaeus
Decimus
Lucius
Marcus
Publius
Quintus
Servius
Sextus
Titus
Tiberius


Abbreviations

Greek Authors and Works
Aesch.
Anth. Pal.
App. B Civ.
Ap. Rhod. Argon.
Arist. Rhet.
Callim.
Aet.
Epigr.
Democr.
Dio Cass.
Hes. Theog.
Hom.
Il.
Od.
Joseph. BJ
Pind. Isthm.
Pl.
Resp.
Plut.
Caes.
Cat. Mi.
Cic.
Galb.
Nic.
Pomp.
Polyb.
Strab.
Theoc. Id.

Aeschylus
Palatine Anthology
Appian, Bellum Civile
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica
Aristotle, Rhetoric
Callimachus
Aetia
Epigrams
Democritus
Dio Cassius
Hesiod, Theogony
Homer
Iliad
Odyssey
Josephus, Bellum Judaicum
Pindar, Isthmian Odes
Plato
Republic
Plutarch
Life of Julius Caesar
Life of Cato the Younger
Life of Cicero
Life of Galba
Life of Nicias
Life of Pompey
Polybius
Strabo
Theocritus, Idylls

Roman Authors and Works

Apul. Apol.
Asc. . . . C
Aur. Vict. Caes.
Babr.
Caes.
B Civ.
B Gall.
Catull.
Cic.
Amic.
Att.
Brut.

Apuleius, Apologia
Asconius, ed. A. C. Clark (OCT, 1907)
Aurelius Victor, Caesares
Babrius
Caesar
Bellum Civile
Bellum Gallicum
Catullus
Cicero
De amicitia
Letters to Atticus
Brutus

xv


xvi

Caecin.
Cael.
Cat.
De or.
Div.
Fam.
Fin.
Flac.
Font.
Har. resp.
Inv. rhet.
Leg. Man.
Off.
Orat.
Phil.
Pis.
Quinct.
Sest.
Tusc.
Verr.
[Cic.] Sall.
Dig.
Enn. Ann.
Fest.
Gell. NA
Hirt. B Gall.
Hor.
Ars P.
Carm.
Carm. Saec.

Ep.
Epod.
Sat.
Isid. Etym.
Jer. Chron.
Just. Epit.
Juv.
Liv.
Luc.
Macrob. Sat.
Mart.
Men. Rhet.
Nep. Att.
Ov.
Am.
Met.
Tr.

Abbreviations
Pro Caecina
Pro Caelio
In Catilinam
De oratore
De divinatione
Letters to Acquaintances (Ad familiares)
De finibus
Pro Flacco
Pro Fonteio
De haruspicum response
De inventione rhetorica

Pro lege Manilia
De officiis
Orator
Philippics
In Pisonem
Pro Quinctio
Pro Sestio
Tusculanae Disputationes
In Verrem
[Cicero], In Sallustium
Paulus, Justinian’s Digest
Ennius, Annales (ed. Skutsch)
Festus
Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
Hirtius, Bellum Gallicum
Horace
Ars Poetica
Odes
Carmen Saeculare
Epistles
Epodes
Satires
Isidore, Etymologiae
Jerome, Chronica
Justin, Epitome (of Trogus)
Juvenal
Livy
Lucan
Macrobius, Saturnalia
Martial

Menander Rhetor
Cornelius Nepos, Life of Atticus
Ovid
Amores
Metamorphoses
Tristia


Abbreviations
Paul. Dig.
Phaedr.
Plaut.
Bacch.
Men.
Mil.
Per.
Rud.
Plin. Ep.
Plin. HN
Prisc. Inst.
Prop.
Q. Cic. Comment. pet.
Quint. Inst.
Rhet. Her.
Sall.
Cat.
Hist.
Jug.
Sen. Controv.
Sen. Ep.

Serv.
Stat. Silv.
Suet.
Calig.
Claud.
Gram.
Iul.
Ner.
Vita Hor.
Tac.
Agr.
Ann.
Dial.
Hist.
Ter. Maur.
Val. Max.
Var. Men.
Vell. Pat.
Verg.
Aen.
Ecl.
G.

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Iulius Paulus, Digesta Iustiniani
Phaedrus
Plautus
Bacchides
Menaechmi

Miles gloriosus
Persa
Rudens
Pliny (the Younger), Letters
Pliny (the Elder), Natural History
Priscian, Institutes of the Art of Grammar
Propertius
Quintus Cicero, Commentariolum petitionis
Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory
Rhetorica ad Herennium
Sallust
Catiline
B. Maurenbrecher, ed., C. Sallusti Crispi Historiarum reliquiae (1893)
Jugurtha
Seneca (the Elder), Controversiae
Seneca (the Younger), Epistulae
Servius
Statius, Silvae
Suetonius
Life of Caligula
Life of the Deified Claudius
De grammaticis
Life of the Deified Julius
Life of Nero
Life of Horace
Tacitus
Agricola
Annales
Dialogus de oratoribus
Historiae

Terentianus Maurus
Valerius Maximus
Varro, Menippeae
Velleius Paterculus
Vergil
Aeneid
Eclogues
Georgics


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Abbreviations

Works of Secondary Scholarship
AE´
Bla¨nsdorf

Bu¨cheler
Ce`be
CIG
CIL
CLE
Courtney
Diehl
D-K
GLK
H.
IG
Inschrif. Eph.

Inscr. Ital.
LGS
Lindsay
DCD
DVS
L-P
OCT
OLD
ORF
Pf.

L’Anne´e E´pigraphique, published in Revue
Arche´ologique and separately (1888–)
J. Bla¨nsdorf, ed., Fragmenta poetarum Latinorum
epicorum et lyricorum praeter Ennium et
Lucilium, 3rd edn. (1995)
F. Bu¨cheler, ed., Petronii Saturae, 8th edn.
(1963)
J.-P. Ce`be, ed., Varron, satires Me´nippe´es (1972–99)
A. Boeckh, ed., Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum
(1828–77)
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (1863–)
F. Bu¨cheler and E. Lommatzsch, eds., Carmina
Latina Epigraphica (1825–1926)
E. Courtney, ed., The Fragmentary Latin Poets
(1993)
E. Diehl, ed., Anthologica Lyrica Graeca (1925; 2nd
edn. 1942; 3rd edn. 1949–52)
H. Diels and W. Kranz, eds., Fragmente der
Vorsokratiker, 6th edn. (Berlin, 1952)

H. Keil, ed., Grammatici Latini, 8 vols.
(1855–1923; rpt. 1961)
R. Helm, ed., Die Chronik des Hieronymus, 2nd edn.
(1956)
Inscriptiones Graecae (1873–)
H. Wankel, ed., Die Inschriften von Ephesos, 8 vols. in
10 (1979–84)
Inscriptiones Italiae (1931/2–)
D. L. Page, ed., Lyrica Graeca Selecta (1968)
W. M. Lindsay, ed.
Nonii Marcelli De compendiosa doctrina, 3 vols.
(1903)
Sexti Pompei Festi De verborum significatu quae
supersunt cum Pauli epitome (1913)
E. Lobel and D. L. Page, eds., Poetarum Lesbiorum
Fragmenta (1955)
Oxford Classical Text
P. G. W. Glare, ed., Oxford Latin Dictionary
(1968–82)
H. Malcovati, Oratorum Romanorum Fragmenta
(2nd edn. 1955; 4th edn. 1967)
R. Pfeiffer, ed., Callimachus, 2 vols. (1949)


Abbreviations
P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309

Radt
Sk.
S-M

Supp. Hell.

TLL

xix

G. Bastianini and C. Gallazzi with C. Austin, eds.,
Posidippo di Pella: Epigrammi, Papiri dell’
Universita degli Studi di Milano 8 (2001)
B. Snell, R. Kannicht, and S. Radt, eds., Tragicorum
Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF), 5 vols. (1971–85)
O. Skutsch, ed., The Annals of Q. Ennius (1985)
B. Snell and H. Maehler, eds., Pindari carmina cum
fragmentis (1987–8)
H. Lloyd-Jones and P. Parsons, eds., Supplementum
Hellenisticum, Texte und Kommentare no. 11
(1983)
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (1900–)


Notes on Contributors

Ronnie Ancona is professor of classics at Hunter College, CUNY, and in the PhD
program of the CUNY Graduate Center. She received her PhD in classics from the
Ohio State University in 1983. Her publications include Time and the Erotic in
Horace’s Odes (1994); Horace: Selected Odes and Satire 1.9, student text with accompanying teacher’s guide (1999, 2nd edition 2005); Writing Passion: A Catullus
Reader with accompanying teacher’s guide (2004); Gendered Dynamics in Latin
Love Poetry, co-edited with Ellen Greene (2005); and A Concise Guide to Teaching
Latin Literature, forthcoming. She is the series editor for the Bolchazy-Carducci
college-level Latin Readers and, with Sarah B. Pomeroy, the co-editor of a series on

women in antiquity for Routledge. Current projects include a monograph, Contextualizing Catullus: Literary Interpretation and Cultural Setting.
Brian Arkins is professor of classics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He
was educated at Clongowes Wood College and at University College Dublin, where
he obtained an MA in classics and a PhD in Latin. His main research interests are in
Latin poetry and in reception studies, with special reference to modern Irish literature. His books include Sexuality in Catullus (1982); An Interpretation of the Poems
of Propertius (2005); Builders of My Soul: Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats (1990);
Greek and Roman Themes in Joyce (1999); and Hellenising Ireland: Greek and Roman
Themes in Modern Irish Literature (2005). He has also published over a hundred
journal articles.
William W. Batstone is associate professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State
University. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in
1984. His research interests include literary theory and philosophical hermeneutics as
well as both the prose and poetry of the Roman Republic and early Empire. He is the
author with Cynthia Damon of Caesar’s Civil War (2006) and has written on
reception theory, Bakhtin, rhetoric, and metatheatre as well as on Plautus, Catullus,


Notes on Contributors

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Cicero, Sallust, and Vergil. He is currently working on articles for companions to
Roman history and Roman rhetoric and a book on comedy, ancient and modern, and
the vicissitudes of Hegel’s concrete universal.
J. L. Butrica, who passed away while this book was in press, received his BA from
Amherst College in 1972, and his MA and PhD from the University of Toronto in
1973 and 1978 respectively. Besides a few articles on Greek drama, most of his work
was concerned with the textual criticism of Latin poetry (most notably The Manuscript Tradition of Propertius [1984]). More recently he began to publish reviews and
articles on Roman sexuality. He also translated Erasmus’ ‘‘Ecclesiastes’’ for the
‘‘Collected Works of Erasmus’’ series (due to appear in 2006–7). Currently he has

two substantial articles awaiting publication in Phoenix and Rheinisches Museum
arguing that Epigrammata Bobiensia 37 and 36 respectively are works of the
Domitianic poet Sulpicia (a traditional attribution, now generally rejected, in
the first case, a new attribution in the second).
Jeri Blair DeBrohun is associate professor of classics at Brown University. She
received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 1992 and taught in the Classics
Department at Florida State University for three years before joining the Brown
faculty in 1995. Her research specializations are Hellenistic and Roman poetry,
with particular emphasis on Republican and Augustan poetry at Rome. Her publications include Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy (2003) plus articles on
Propertius, Catullus, Ovid, and Lucretius. She also has an interest in cultural studies,
and she is currently writing a book on Greco-Roman Dress as an Expressive Medium.
Julia T. Dyson is associate professor of classics at Baylor University. She received her
PhD from Harvard University in 1993. Before taking up her present post in 2003,
she worked for ten years at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research
interests include Latin poetry, Roman religion, and women of ancient Rome. She
has written one monograph, King of the Wood: The Sacrificial Victor in Virgil’s Aeneid
(2001), a sourcebook in translation with commentary, Clodia: Readings in Roman
Passion, Politics, and Poetry (forthcoming), and several articles on Vergil and Ovid.
She is currently at work on a monograph involving religion and intertextuality in
Ovid, Ovid and His Gods: The Epic Struggles of an Elegiac Hero.
Andrew Feldherr is associate professor of classics at Princeton University. He
received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. His research
concentrates on Latin literature in several genres with a special emphasis on historiography (Spectacle and Society in Livy’s History [1998]) and epic. He is currently
completing a monograph on the Metamorphoses entitled Playing Gods: The Politics of
Fiction in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as well as editing the Cambridge Companion to the
Roman Historians.
Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at
Bryn Mawr College, where she taught from 1975 to 2006. She received her PhD in
Greek from the University of Edinburgh in 1967. Her research interests lie in three
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Roman literature, and Renaissance humanism. She is the author of Catullus and His
Renaissance Readers (1993) and Pierio Valeriano On the Ill Fortune of Learned Men:
A Renaissance Humanist and His World (1999) and the editor of Catullus in English
(2001), an anthology of Catullus translations. Forthcoming are Oxford Readings in
Catullus and The Fortunes of Apuleius: A Study in Transmission and Reception.
Daniel H. Garrison is professor of classics at Northwestern University. He received
his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968. His dissertation work
was rewritten as a monograph, Mild Frenzy: A Reading of the Hellenistic Love
Epigram (1978). His editions of Horace’s lyrics, Horace Epodes and Odes: A New
Annotated Latin Edition (1991), and Catullus, The Student’s Catullus (3rd edition,
2004), grew out of his classroom work with these poets at Northwestern. He has also
written on Greek and Roman sexual culture in Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece
(2000). He is now completing an annotated translation of the first comprehensive
anatomy book in Europe, Andreas Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica (1543,
1555), and is editing a volume on constructions of the human body in the ancient
world.
Ellen Greene is the Joseph Paxton Presidential Professor of Classics at the University
of Oklahoma. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in
1992. Her research specialization is Greek and Roman lyric poetry, with an emphasis
on issues in gender and sexuality. She is the author of The Erotics of Domination: Male
Desire and the Mistress in Latin Poetry (1999), and has edited or co-edited four
collections of essays: Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches (1996), Re-Reading
Sappho: Reception and Transmission (1996), Women Poets in Ancient Greece and
Rome (2005), and Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry (with Ronnie Ancona,

2005). She has also published numerous articles on Greek and Latin love lyric, and is
currently working on a book-length study of Sappho for Blackwell.
Judith P. Hallett is professor of classics at the University of Maryland at College
Park. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1971, and has been a Mellon
Fellow at Brandeis University and the Wellesley College Center for Research on
Women as well as the Blegen Visiting Scholar at Vassar College. Her major research
specializations are Latin language and literature; gender, sexuality, and the family in
ancient Greek and Roman society; and the history of classical studies in the United
States. Author of Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite
Family (1984), she has also co-edited a special double issue of Classical World on
Six North American Women Classicists (1996–7), a special issue of Arethusa on The
Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship (2001), and a special issue of Helios on Roman
Mothers (2007). Her co-edited volumes include Roman Sexualities (1997); Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship (1997); and Rome
and Her Monuments: Essays on the City and Literature of Rome in Honor of Katherine
Geffcken (2000). In addition, she has published over sixty articles, chapters in books,
and translations, as well as speeches (ovationes) and songs in classical Latin. Finally,
she contributed the essays on Cornelia, Sulpicia the elegist, Martial’s Sulpicia, and the
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W. R. Johnson is John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor of Classics
and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at the University of Chicago. He received his
PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1967. He has taught at Berkeley
and Cornell and at the University of Chicago and has been visiting professor at the
University of Michigan and UCLA. He gave the Martin Lectures at Oberlin in 1984,
the Townsend Lectures at Cornell in 1989, and the Biggs Lectures at Washington

University in 2004. In 1984 his monograph The Idea of Lyric won the Christian
Gauss Award for Literary Criticism. He has written several books and numerous
articles on Latin poetry, most recently Lucretius and the Modern World (2000) and
the introduction to Stanley Lombardo’s translation of The Aeneid (2005).
Peter E. Knox is professor of classics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He
received his PhD in 1982 from Harvard University, where he also taught briefly
before moving to faculty positions at Columbia University and his present post. His
research interests focus on Roman literature of the late Republic and early Empire, as
well as Greek poetry of the Hellenistic period. He is the author of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Traditions of Augustan Poetry (1986) and Ovid, Heroides: Select
Epistles (1986), and has published widely in scholarly journals on topics in Greek
and Latin literature, ranging from Sappho to Nonnus. In addition he is known as
co-editor of Style and Tradition: Studies in Honor of Wendell Clausen (1998) and as
editor of Oxford Readings in Ovid (2006) and a Companion to Ovid, forthcoming in
this series.
David Konstan is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and
the Humanistic Tradition, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Brown University. He holds a BA in mathematics, and a PhD in classics, from Columbia
University. Prior to coming to Brown in 1987, he taught for 20 years at Wesleyan
University in Connecticut. He has held visiting appointments at the University of
Otago in New Zealand, the University of Edinburgh, the Universidade de Sa˜o Paulo,
the University of La Plata in Argentina, the University of Natal in Durban, the
University of Sydney, Monash University in Melbourne, the American University in
Cairo, and the Universidad Nacional Auto´noma de Me´xico. His books include
Roman Comedy (1983); Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related
Genres (1994); Greek Comedy and Ideology (1995); Friendship in the Classical World
(1997); Pity Transformed (2001); and The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (2006). He
was president of the American Philological Association in 1999.
Brian A. Krostenko is associate professor of classics at the University of Notre Dame.
He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1993 and has held faculty positions
at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. His research
interests are the culture of the late Roman Republic, Cicero, rhetoric, and Latin

linguistics. He is the author of Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social Performance (2001), which explores the problem of aestheticism in Roman culture by means
of historical semantics.
Sven Lorenz received his PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universita¨t in Munich in
2001. His doctoral dissertation on Martial’s depiction of the emperors (Erotik und


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Panegyrik: Martials epigrammatische Kaiser) was published in 2002. Since then, he
has published articles on Martial, Juvenal, and the Appendix Vergiliana. Recently he
has completed a full annotated bibliography on Martial scholarship from 1970 to
2003 (part 1: Lustrum 45, 2003, 167–277; part 2: forthcoming). He teaches Latin
and English at a secondary school near Munich.
Elizabeth Manwell is the Sally Appleton Kirkpatrick Assistant Professor of Classical
Studies at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She received her PhD from
the University of Chicago in 2003. Her research interests encompass the literature
and culture of the Roman Republic, theories of gender, and classical reception.
Randall L. B. McNeill is associate professor of classics at Lawrence University in
Wisconsin. He received his AB summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1992
and his PhD from Yale University in 1998. His research focuses on techniques of selfpresentation and the depiction of social relationships in Latin poetry of the late
Republican and Augustan periods. He is the author of Horace: Image, Identity, and
Audience (2001) and articles on Horace, Catullus, and classical Greek art.
Paul Allen Miller received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of
Texas at Austin (1989). He is currently Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics
and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, and the editor of
Transactions of the American Philological Association. He is the author of Lyric Texts
and Lyric Consciousness: The Birth of a Genre from Archaic Greece to Augustan Rome
(1994); Latin Erotic Elegy: An Anthology and Reader (2002); Subjecting Verses: Latin

Love Elegy and the Emergence of the Real (2004); and Latin Verse Satire: An Anthology
and Critical Reader (2005). He has edited or co-edited 11 volumes of essays on
literary theory, gender studies, and topics in classics, including Rethinking Sexuality:
Foucault and Classical Antiquity (1998). He has published articles on Latin, Greek,
French, and English literature as well as theory. He is currently finishing work on
Spiritual Practices: The Reception of Plato and the Construction of the Subject in
Postmodern France.
Christopher Nappa is associate professor of classics at the University of Minnesota.
He is the author of Reading after Actium: Vergil’s Georgics, Octavian, and Rome
(2005) and Aspects of Catullus’ Social Fiction (2001) as well as a number of articles on
Latin poetry. His interests include Republican and Augustan Latin literature, satire,
and intertextuality.
Vassiliki Panoussi is assistant professor of classical studies at the College of William
and Mary. She received her PhD from Brown University in 1998. Previously she held
a visiting position at the University of Virginia and a faculty post at Williams College.
Her research focuses on Roman literature of the late Republic, the age of Augustus,
and the early Empire as informed through the study of intertextuality, cultural
anthropology, and sexuality and gender. She has published articles on Catullus,
Vergil, Ovid, Seneca, Lucan, and Statius. She is currently completing a book-length
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tragedy. She is also at work on another book project on Women’s Rituals in Roman
Literature.
George A. Sheets is associate professor and chair of classical and Near Eastern studies
at the University of Minnesota, and associate professor of law in the University of

Minnesota Law School. He received his PhD from Duke University in 1974, and his
JD from the William Mitchell College of Law in 1990. His research and teaching
interests include comparative Indo-European linguistics, the application of linguistic
pragmatics to literary texts, the history of the Greek and Latin languages, and
comparative law. Currently he is working on a study of jurisprudential issues associated with tombs, corpses, and deceased persons as legal subjects and objects in
Roman law.
Marilyn B. Skinner is professor of classics at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
She received her PhD from Stanford University in 1977. Before taking up her present
post in 1991, she held faculty positions at Reed College, the University of California
at Los Angeles, and Northern Illinois University, and visiting appointments at the
University of Texas in Austin and Colgate University. Her research specialization is
Roman literature of the Republican and Augustan eras. She has authored two
monographs, Catullus’ Passer: The Arrangement of the Book of Polymetric Poems
(1981) and Catullus in Verona (2003), and has co-edited a collection of scholarly
essays, Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans (2004). She is well known for her work
on sexuality and gender in antiquity, as both co-editor of Roman Sexualities (1997)
and author of Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture (2005). Finally, she has
published numerous articles on the Greek female poetic tradition, including Sappho
and her successors Korinna, Erinna, Anyte, Moero, and Nossis.
W. Jeffrey Tatum is Olivia Nelson Dorman Professor of Classics at Florida State
University. In 2005 he was De Carle Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities at
Otago University. His research concentrates on the Roman Republic. He is the
author of The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher (1999) and numerous
articles on Roman history and Latin poetry.
Elena Theodorakopoulos has been a lecturer in classics at the University of Birmingham since 1994. She received her PhD from the University of Bristol in 1996 and her
research specialization is Roman literature of the Republican and Augustan ages. She
has written on Vergil, Ovid, and Catullus, as well as Apollonius of Rhodes. She has
also edited Attitudes to Theatre from Plato to Milton (2004) and co-edited Advice and
its Rhetoric in Greece and Rome (2006). In addition she has an interest in filmic
representations of Rome, on which she has just completed a book, Story and Spectacle

(forthcoming). Currently, she is at work on a book on Catullus and performance.
Elizabeth Vandiver is assistant professor of classics at Whitman College in Walla
Walla, Washington. She received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in
1990. Before coming to Whitman in 2004, she held several visiting appointments,
including positions at Rhodes College, the University of Maryland, and Northwestern University. Her research specializations include historiography, Latin lyric,