Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tasteless excess.

Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends

Studies Statius' reworking of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virgil's Aeneid to explore the Thebaid's political reflection on Flavian Rome.

Studies how Propertius transformed the elegiac form, using Callimachean style as a starting point

This volume collects the most recent essays of Richard Hunter, one of the world's leading experts in the field of Greek and Latin literature. The essays range a