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Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is Associate Professor of Greek and Latin and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. He works primarily on Hellenistic poetry, its reception of Archaic lyric, and its recall in Roman literature. He is currently editing a Loeb Library edition of Hellenistic epigrams. Joan Booth is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She is the author of a commentary on Ovid, Amores II (1991), and of Catullus to Ovid: Reading Latin Love Elegy (1999). She is also co-editor (with Robert Maltby) of What's in a Name? The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature (2006) and editor of Cicero on the Attack: Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond (2007). Barbara Weiden Boyd is Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Ovid's Literary Loves: Influence and Innovation in the Amores (1997), and editor of Brill's Companion to Ovid (2002). She is currently writing a commentary on the Remedia Amoris. Gordon Braden is Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry (1978), Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition (1985), The Idea of the Renaissance (with William Kerrigan, 1989), Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance (1999), editor ... log in or subscribe to read full text