Constructing Authors and Readers in the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana, and Ouidiana

Tristan Franklinos studied at the Universities of St Andrews and Oxford, and has taught at the latter since completing his doctorate. He is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics, and a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford.Laurel Fulkerson has written several books on Latin poetry and on the emotions in antiquity, including A Literary Commentary on the Elegies of the Appendix Tibulliana; No Regrets: Remorse in Classical Antiquity; and The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides. She currently serves as the Associate Vice President for Research at the Florida State University.

• Authoring, reading, and exploring anAppendix: some introductory thoughts, T. E. Franklinos and Laurel Fulkerson 1: Scylla's lament in the Ciris and the Latin literary tradition, Antony Augoustakis 2: The mythical antecedents of the Ciris, Laurel Fulkerson 3: Author and audience in Catalepton, Joseph Farrell 4: Construing the author as a Catullan reader in the pure iambicCatalepton(6, 10, 12), T. E. Franklinos 5: Catalepton 9 and Valgius Rufus, Boris Kayachev 6: Echoing Virgil and Narcissus: structure and interpretation of the Culex, Andrew Laird 7: Volcanic wonder: a starry-eyed view of the Aetna, Gareth Williams 8: Teaching the death of elegy: the Lygdamus elegies ([Tib.] 3.1-6), Giuseppe La Bua 9: Tibullan impersonation and Callimachean influence in the Messalla panegyric ([Tib.] 3.7), Robert Maltby 10: The authorship of Tibullus 3.9: methods and criteria, Jacqueline Fabre-Serris 11: The authorship of Sulpicia, Ian Fielding 12: The Halieutica ascribed to Ovid: issues of authenticity, reception and supplementation, Stephen J. Harrison 13: Plumbing the Ovidian Halieutica, Katharina Volk 14: The Consolatio ad Liuiam and literary history, S. J. Heyworth 15: The Lovers and the Rebel: reading the double Heroides as an exilic text, Kre%simir Vukovi'c 16: The Nux attributed to Ovid and its Renaissance readers: the case of Erasmus, Matthew McGowan

Certainly, this volume will contribute to broadening the canon of Latin writers and Roman poetry books. The scholarly community is grateful to the editors and the contributors for having drawn attention to these 'minor' texts and having provided such fine pieces of scholarship.