Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and papers on Latin literature, including Vergil’s Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991), Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (2001), and the forthcoming Juno’s Aeneid: Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent.

Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Brown University. His works include Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics (2004), Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006), and The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years (with Jan Ziolkowski, 2008)