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Alessandro Barchiesi is Professor of Latin at the University of Siena at Arezzo and also teaches at Stanford University. He is the author of books on Virgil and Ovid, including The Poet and the Prince (Berkeley, 1997) and Speaking Volumes (London, 2001), of a commentary on Ovid Heroides 1–3, and of many articles on Latin literature. D. H. Berry is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of a commentary on Cicero Pro Sulla (Cambridge, 1996) and translator of Cicero Defence Speeches (Oxford, 2000) and Cicero Political Speeches (Oxford, 2006). He has also revised M. L. Clarke's Rhetoric at Rome: a Historical Survey (London, 1996). Catharine Edwards is Senior Lecturer in ancient history at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her publications include The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome (Cambridge, 1993) and Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City (Cambridge, 1996), as well as several articles on Seneca's Letters. Jas Eisner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He works especially on Roman and late antique art and their relations to literature. Among his books are Art and the Roman Viewer (Cambridge, 1995), Art and Text in Roman Culture (Cambridge, 1996, editor) and Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph (Oxford, 1998). Elaine Fantham is Giger Professor ... log in or subscribe to read full text