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).
Trevor Luke is an Associate Professor of Ancient History and Classics at Florida State University. His work focuses on the origins of the Principate, the Flavian Dynasty, ancient biography, and religion in the Roman Empire. His first book, Ushering in a New Republic: Theologies of Arrival at Rome in the First Century B.C., was published by University of Michigan Press in 2014. His next book, Healing and Empire, will address Roman rituals and ideology of healing from the Late Republic to the High Empire.