The fifteenth volume of PLLS (and the fifth in the Langford series) contains major papers on early Greek epic and tragedy, aspects of ekphrasis, Roman republican culture and politics, and astrology in the imperial period.
Epiphany in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the Odyssey (Erwin Cook, Trinity University, San Antonio)
Ate in the Homeric Poems ( D.L. Cairns, University of Edinburgh)
Living Images in the Ekphrasis of Homer and Hesiod ( James A. Francis, University of Kentucky)
Hypsipyle, Dionysus Melpomenos and the Muse in Tragedy ( Alex Hardie, University of Edinburgh)
Hellenistic Ekphraseis as Programmatic Allegories? (Évelyne Prioux,CNRS, Paris Ouest-Nanterre)
Cicero and Greek Art (D.H. Berry, University of Edinburgh)
Cicero and the Etruscan Haruspices (Anthony Corbeill, University of Kansas)
Julius Caesar as Rex? The ovatio of January 44 BC (Trevor Luke, The Florida State University)
Multiple Models and Horace: Epodes 1, 3 and 5 (Angela M. Andrisano, Università di Ferrara)
Luxury and Ekphrasis in Martial (Delfina Fabbrini, Università di Firenze)
Julius Firmicus Maternus’ Defence of Astrology (M.W. Dickie)
Langford Colloquia and Seminars, 2001 to 2011
Francis Cairns is Professor of Classical Languages at The Florida State University, having previously held the Chair of Latin in the University of Liverpool and the Chair of Latin Language and Literature in the University of Leeds. He is the author of numerous articles and of Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry (1972), Tibullus: A Hellenistic Poet at Rome (1979), Virgil’s Augustan Epic (1989), Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist (2006), Papers on Roman Elegy (1969-2003) (2007), Roman Lyric: Collected Papers on Catullus and Horace (2012) and Hellenistic Epigram: Contexts of Exploration (2016).
