An important contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of monster studies

Most of the chapters in this volume originated as papers in a colloquium entitled "Augustan Poetry and the Irrational," held at the University of Cambridge from

Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, and explores the under-studied as

The age of Augustus, commonly dated to 30 BC – AD 14, was a pivotal period in world history. A time of tremendous change in Rome, Italy, and throughout the Me

Traces the developing attitude of poets of the first century BC, considering why they came to write as they did.