Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Francis Cairns is the author of Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry, Hellenistic Epigram: Contexts of Exploration, and of monographs on Tibullus, Virgil, and Propertius, as well as numerous articles on a wide range of Greek and Latin poetry and other fields. He is Professor of Classical Languages at The Florida State University,