Stephen Hinds is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is also the author of Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry (Cambridge 1998) and The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse (Cambridge 1987). With Denis Feeney, he co-founded and co-edited the Cambridge series Roman Literature and its Contexts.

• Introduction: Literal Latin; Part I. Readings Between Latin and Greek: 1. Counterfactual literary history; 2. Transliteralism for beginners; 3. Parallel lives; Part II. Readings Between Latin and Vernacular: 4. Diptych and virtual diptych; 5. Passages to Italy; 6. Latinity, lake poetry and lyric revision; 7. Reversions of pastoral; Conclusion: Micronegotiation.

'Treating the classical tradition as more process than product, this splendid study explores poetry across languages (Latin and Greek, Latin and European vernaculars), and issues raised by bilingualism and multilingualism, a subject of great cultural significance. Stephen Hinds is quite simply one of the smartest classicists in the world today, and this is an adult book for adult readers.' Charles Martindale, University of York

Stephen Hinds is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is also the author of Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry (Cambridge 1998) and The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse (Cambridge 1987). With Denis Feeney, he co-founded and co-edited the Cambridge series Roman Literature and its Contexts.

• Introduction: Literal Latin; Part I. Readings Between Latin and Greek: 1. Counterfactual literary history; 2. Transliteralism for beginners; 3. Parallel lives; Part II. Readings Between Latin and Vernacular: 4. Diptych and virtual diptych; 5. Passages to Italy; 6. Latinity, lake poetry and lyric revision; 7. Reversions of pastoral; Conclusion: Micronegotiation.

'Treating the classical tradition as more process than product, this splendid study explores poetry across languages (Latin and Greek, Latin and European vernaculars), and issues raised by bilingualism and multilingualism, a subject of great cultural significance. Stephen Hinds is quite simply one of the smartest classicists in the world today, and this is an adult book for adult readers.' Charles Martindale, University of York

Stephen Hinds is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is also the author of Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry (Cambridge 1998) and The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse (Cambridge 1987). With Denis Feeney, he co-founded and co-edited the Cambridge series Roman Literature and its Contexts.

• Introduction: Literal Latin; Part I. Readings Between Latin and Greek: 1. Counterfactual literary history; 2. Transliteralism for beginners; 3. Parallel lives; Part II. Readings Between Latin and Vernacular: 4. Diptych and virtual diptych; 5. Passages to Italy; 6. Latinity, lake poetry and lyric revision; 7. Reversions of pastoral; Conclusion: Micronegotiation.

'Treating the classical tradition as more process than product, this splendid study explores poetry across languages (Latin and Greek, Latin and European vernaculars), and issues raised by bilingualism and multilingualism, a subject of great cultural significance. Stephen Hinds is quite simply one of the smartest classicists in the world today, and this is an adult book for adult readers.' Charles Martindale, University of York