Francis Cairns
About
Professor Cairns has published widely on his fields of research interest: on Classical Greek poetry from Homer to the Hellenistic age, on Classical Latin poetry from early Roman epigram to Flavian epic, on 12th century Medieval Latin poetry and prose, on 15th and 16th century Renaissance Latin poetry and prose, and on Euboean epigraphy.
Professor Cairns’ current major project is a collection of 36 published and six new papers on Greek literature (especially poetry), history, and epigraphy to be entitled Hellenic Papers. His educational qualifications include an M.A. in classics (University of Glasgow), B.A. and M.A. in Literae Humaniores (Balliol College, Oxford University), Ph.D. (University of Liverpool) and D.Litt. (University of Edinburgh). Before moving to Florida State University, he was lecturer in humanity at the University of Edinburgh, professor of Latin at Liverpool University, and professor of Latin language and literature at the University of Leeds.
Professor Cairns is currently accepting Ph.D. and M.A. students.
Greek and Roman poetry, Medieval and Renaissance Latin, Ancient Euboea
Books
Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972 (viii + 331 pp.)
Revised Edition (viii + 336 pp.) Reprinted Ann Arbor, MI, Michigan Classical Press, 2007
Tibullus: A Hellenistic Poet at Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979 (xii + 250 pp.) Reprinted in paperback Cambridge University Press 2007
Virgil's Augustan Epic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989 (xi + 280 pp.) Reprinted in paperback Cambridge University Press 2008
Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 (xvi + 492 pp.) Reprinted in paperback Cambridge University Press 2009
Papers on Roman Elegy (1969-2003). (Eikasmos. Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica. Studi 16) Patròn, Bologna. 2007 (viii + 483 pp.)
Roman Lyric: Collected Papers on Catallus and Horace (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 301), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012 (x + 525 pp.)
Hellenistic Epigram: Contexts of Exploration; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016 (xviii + 516 pp.) Reprinted in paperback Cambridge University Press 2020
The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation: From Homer to the Hellenistic Age (Trends in Classics 171), Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2024 (xvi + 447pp.)
Edited Collections
Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar
vol. 1 (1976, publ. 1977) (310pp.)
vol. 2 (1979) (360pp.)
vol. 3 (1981) (423pp.)
vol. 4 (1983, publ. 1984) (369pp.)
vol. 5 (1985, publ. 1986) (502pp.)
Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar (with Malcolm Heath)
vol. 6 (1990) (375pp.)
vol. 7 (1993) (219pp.)
vol. 9 (1996) (350pp.)
vol. 10 (1998) (391pp.)
Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar
vol. 11 (2003) (xxi + 232pp.) (with Elaine Fantham)
vol. 12 (2005) (343pp.)
vol. 13 (2008) (390pp.)
vol. 14 (2010) (400pp.) (with Miriam Griffin)
vol. 15 (2012) (376pp.)
vol. 16 (2016) (337pp.) (with Roy Gibson)
vol. 17 (2018) (xvi + 310pp.) (with Trevor Luke)
vol. 18 (2021) (xiv+334pp.)
vol. 19 (2024) (xviii +366 pp.) (with Trevor Luke)
Articles and Book Chapters
1. ‘Propertius i.18 and Callimachus, Acontius and Cydippe’, Classical Review NS 20 (1969), 131-134
2. ‘Catullus 1’, Mnemosyne S.IV 22 (1969), 153-158
3. ‘Terence, Andria 567-8’, Classical Review NS 20 (1969), 253-264
4. ‘Theocritus Idyll 10’, Hermes 98 (1970), 38-44
5. ‘Propertius 2,30 A & B’, Classical Quarterly 21 (1971), 204-213
‘Propertius 3,10 and Roman Birthdays’, Hermes 99 (1971), 149-155
7. ‘Horace, Odes 1.2.’, Eranos 69 (1971), 68-88
8. ‘A Note on the Eponymous Archon of 490/89’, Rheinisches Museum 114 (1971), 131-34
9. ‘Propertius 2.29A’, Classical Quarterly n.s. 21 (1971), 455-460
10. ‘Five ‘Religious’ Odes of Horace (I,10; I,21 and IV,6; I,30; I,15)’, American Journal of Philology 92 (1971), 433-452
11. ‘Catullus’ Basia Poems (5, 7, 48)’, Mnemosyne S.IV 26 (1973), 15-22
12. ‘Notes on Propertius 1.8’, Symbolae Osloenses 49 (1973), 97-104
13. ‘Propertius 2.19.32’, in Daube Noster. Essays in Legal History for David Daube, ed. A.Watson. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1974, pp.49-51
14. ‘Some Observations on Propertius 1.1’, Classical Quarterly 24 (1974), 94-110
15. ‘Venusta Sirmio. Catullus 31’, in Quality and Pleasure in Latin Poetry, ed. Tony Woodman and David West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975, pp.1-17 and 135-136
16. ‘Some Problems in Propertius 1.6’, American Journal of Philology 95 (1974), 150-163
17. ‘Horace, Epode 2, Tibullus I,1 and Rhetorical Praise of the Countryside’, Museum Philologicum Londiniense 1 (1975), 79-91
18. ‘Catullus 27’, Mnemosyne S.IV 28 (1975), 24-29
19. ‘Further Adventures of a Locked-out Lover: Propertius 2.17’, University of Liverpool Inaugural Lecture Series. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1975 (23pp.)
20. ‘Splendide Mendax: Horace Odes III.11’, Greece and Rome 22 (1975), 129-139
21. ‘The Philosophical Content of Horace Odes 1.29’, Liverpool Classical Monthly 1 (1976), 71-77
22. ‘Geography and Nationalism in the Aeneid’, Liverpool Classical Monthly 2 (1977), 109-116
23. ‘The Distaff of Theugenis - Theocritus Idyll 28’, Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar 1 (1976), 293-305
24. Ἔρωςin Pindar’s First Olympian Ode’, Hermes 105 (1977), 129-132
25. ‘Horace on Other People’s Love Affairs (Odes I 27; II 4; I 8; III 12)’, Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 24 (1977), 121-147
26. ‘Two Unidentified Komoi of Propertius. I 3 and II 29’, Emerita 45 (1977), 325-353
27. ‘Horace, Odes III, 13 and III, 23’, L’Antiquité Classique 46 (1977), 523-543
28. ‘Theocritus Idyll VII 62’, Mnemosyne S.IV 31 (1978), 72-75
29. Ἡ προέλευση τῆς ρωμαικῆς ὑποκειμενικῆς ἐλεγείας’ ΕΕΦΣΠΑ ΚΕ (1974-1977, publ. 1978), 144-61
30. ‘The Genre Palinode and Three Horatian Examples: Epode 17’ Odes, I, 16; Odes, I 34’, L’Antiquité Classique 47 (1978), 546-552
31. ‘A Funerary Inscription from Eretria’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 35 (1979), 284-86 and Plate XIII b
32. ‘Self-Imitation within a Generic Framework: Ovid, Amores 2.9 and 3.11 and the renuntiatio amoris’, in Creative Imitation and Latin Literature, ed. David West and Tony Woodman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979, pp.121-141 and 229-231
33. ‘Some Eretrian Funerary Inscriptions’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 40 (1980), 215-218 and Plate XII a, b and c
34. ‘Propertius on Augustus’ Marriage Law (II 7)’, Grazer Beiträge 8 (1979), 185-204
35. ‘The Archpoet’s Confession: Sources, Interpretation and Historical Context’, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 15 (1980), 87-103
36. ‘Lesbia Mentoreo (Propertius 1,14,2)’, Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar 3 (1981), 419-422
37. ‘Cleon and Pericles - A Suggestion’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 102 (1982), 203-204
38. ‘Horace Odes 3,22: Genre and Sources’, Philologus 126 (1982), 227-246
39. ‘L’elegia IV,6 di Properzio: manierismo ellenistico e classicismo augusteo’, Colloquium Propertianum (tertium) Atti. (Assisi, 1983), 97-115
40. ‘Horace Epode 9: Some New Interpretations’, Illinois Classical Studies 8 (1983), 80-93
41. ‘A Herm from Histiaia with an Agonistic Epigram of the Fifth Century B.C.’, Phoenix 37 (1983), 16-37
42. (with P.G. Craven and J.G. Howie), ‘Textcode: Grammatical, Syntactical, Metrical and Accentual Information in Machine Readable Form’, ALLC Bulletin 9 (1981, published 1983), 13-18
43. ‘I.G. XII,9,248 and I.G. XII,9,251’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 52 (1983), 122-124 and Plate IV
44. ‘Alcaeus’ Hymn to Hermes, P. Oxy 2734 Fr. 1 and Horace Odes 1,10’, Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 42 (1983), 29-35
45. ‘Propertius 1,4 and 1,5 and the ‘Gallus’ of the Monobiblos’, Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar 4 (1983, published 1984), 61-103
46. ‘The Archpoet’s Jonah ‘Confession’ (Poem II): Literary, Exegetical and Historical Aspects’, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 18 (1983), 168-93
47. ‘Religione e nazionalismo nell’epigramma ellenistico e nell’elegia romana’, in Dall’epigramma ellenistico all’elegia romana, Atti del Convegno del SISAC 1981. Napoli: Giannini Editore (1984), 59-80
48. ‘Propertius and the Battle of Actium (4.6)’, in Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus, ed. A.J. Woodman and D.A. West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp.129-68 and 229-41
49. ‘A ‘Duplicate’ Copy of IG XII 9,1189 (Histiaia)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 54 (1984), 133-144 and Plate III
50. ‘ΧΡΕΜΑΤΑ ΔΟΚΙΜΑ: IG XII,9,1273 and 1274 and the Early Coinage of Eretria’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 54 (1984), 145-155
51. ‘IG XII 9,244 and the Demes and Districts of Eretria’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 54 (1984), 156-64 and Plate IV a
52. ‘Digest 39,3,3,pr.-1 and the Actio Aquae Pluviae Arcendae’ in Sodalitas. Scritti in onore di Antonio Guarino. Napoli: Jovene Editore (1984) 2147-2153
53. ‘The Etymology of Militia in Roman Elegy’ in Apophoreta Philologica Emmanueli Fernandez-Galiano oblata ed. Luis Gil and Rosa M. Aguilar. Madrid (1984), II, 211-222
54. ‘Theocritus’ First Idyll: the Literary Programme’, Wiener Studien n.f. 18 (=97) (1984) 89-113
55. ‘The Addition to Richard of Poiters’ Chronica and ‘Hugo Primas of Orleans’’ Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 19 (1984 - publ. 1985) 159-161
56. ‘Tibullus 1,8,35f. and a Conventional Ancient Gesture’ Vichiana n.s. 12 (1983 - publ. 1985) = Miscellanea di studi in memoria di Francesco Arnaldi 74-77
57. ‘The Nereids of Catullus 64, 12-23b’ Grazer Beiträge 11 (1984) 95-101
58. ‘Concord in the Aeneid of Virgil’ Klio 67 (1985) 210-215
59. ‘A Portion of IG XII 9,210 Rediscovered’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 62 (1986) 199-200 and plate VII, b,c
60. ‘IG XII Suppl.555, Reinmuth No. 15 and the Demes and Tribes of Eretria’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 64 (1986) 149-158
61. ‘The Poetices Libri Septem of Julius Caesar Scaliger: An Unexplored Source’ Res Publica Litterarum 9 (1986) 49-57
62. ‘The Milanion/Atalanta exemplum in Propertius 1,1: videre feras (12) and Greek models’ in Hommages a Jozef Veremans ed. F. Decreus and C. Deroux, Brussels (1986), Coll. Latomus 193, 29-38.
63. ‘Stile e contenuti di Tibullo e di Properzio’ in Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi su Albio Tibullo (Rome 1986) 47-59.
64. ‘Latin Sources and Analogues of the M.E. Patience’ Studia Neophilologica 59 (1987) 7-18
65. ‘A Note on the Editio Princeps of Menander Rhetor’ Eranos 85 (1987) 138-139
66. (with M.S. Haywood) ‘The ‘Learning Latin’ Computer Package’ The CTISS File 4 (1987) 22-24
67. (with M.S. Haywood) ‘The Computerisation of Learning Latin: an Introductory Course for Adults’ in Use of Computers in the Teaching of Language and Languages ed. G. Chesters and N. Gardner (CTISS Special Publication, Bath 1987) 51-54
68. ‘AP 9,588 (Alcaeus of Messene) and nam modo in Propertius 1,1,11’ in Filologia e forme letterarie: Studi offerti a Francesco della Corte Urbino (1987) I.377-383
69. ‘Love at the Seaside: Propertius (1,11), Cynthia, and Baiae’: The University of Leeds Review 32 (1989/90) 1-16.
70. ‘Sixtus IV and Men of Letters’: Memores Tui. Studi di Letteratura classica ed umanistica in onore di Marcello Vitaletti ed. S. Prete, Istituto Internazionale Studi Piceni, Sassoferrato (1990) 45-53
71. ‘The Lucubratiunculae Tiburtinae of Robert Flemming (1477)’ Humanistica Lovaniensia 39 (1990) 54-66
72. ‘The Metrical and Stylistic Competence of Latin Poetry by Englishmen in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century’ in Homo Sapiens, Olschki Editore Firenze 1990, II.33-40
73. ‘The Learning Latin Computer Package (LLCP)’ ReCall 4 (1991) 17-20
74. ‘Some Reflections of the Ranking of the Major Games in Fifth Century B.C. Epinician Poetry’: in Achaia und Elis in der Antike ed. A.D. Rizakis (ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 13) Athens 1991, 95-98
75. ‘Ovidio, Amores 1.3: Dipendenza letteraria vs indipendenza intellettuale’ in Cultura poesia ideologia nell’ opera di Ovidio edd. I. Gallo and L. Nicastri (Pubblicazioni dell’ Università degli Studi di Salerno Sezione Atti, Convegni, Miscellanee 33) Naples 1991, 27-40
76. ‘The ‘Laws of Eretria’ (IG XII 9.1273 and 1274): Epigraphic, Legal, Historical, and Political Aspects’: Phoenix 45 (1991) 296-313
77. ‘Catullus 46.9-11 and Ancient ‘Etymologies’’ Rivista di Filologia Classica 119 (1991) 442-445
78. ‘The Power of Implication: Horace’s Invitation to Maecenas (Odes 1.20)’ in Author and Audience in Latin Literature edd. T. Woodman and J. Powell, Cambridge UP (1992) 84-109, 236-241
79. ‘Pietro Bizzari: Italian Humanist and Protestant Exile (1525c-1586)’ Studi Umanistici Piceni 12 (1992) 57-72
80. ‘Propertius 4.9: ‘Hercules Exclusus’ and the Dimensions of Genre’ in The Interpretation of Roman Poetry ed. Karl Galinsky (Studien zur klassischen Philologie 67) Frankfurt am Main-Bern-New York-Paris (1992), 65-95
81. ‘Il potere dell’implicazione: l’invito di Orazio a Mecenate (Odi 1,20)’ in Certamen Horatianum. Atti dei Convegni 1987-1991 ed. Rosa Torciano, Venosa (1992), 205-246 (Italian trans. of no. 78)
82. ‘Theocritus Idyll 26’ Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 38 (1992) 1-38
83. ‘La prima Ode romana di Orazio’ Aevum Antiquum 4 (1992, publ. 1993) 187-206
84. ‘Imitation and Originality in Ovid Amores 1.3’ PLLS 7 (1993) 101-122
85. ‘Rhetoric and Genre: Propertius 1.6.31-6, Menander Rhetor 398.29-32 -399.1, and a Topos of the Propemptikon’ Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica 10 (1992, publ. 1993) 980-990
86. ‘Alain de Lille and the Prologue to Patience: a Bibliographical Correction’ Medium Aevum 62 (1993, publ. 1994) 292-293
87. ‘Andreas Capellanus, Ovid, and the Consistency of De Amore’ Res Publica Litterarum 16 (1993, publ. 1994) 101-117
88. ‘Hor. Od. 3,7: Elegia, Mito e Interpretazione’ in <<Non Omnis Moriar>>: La lezione di Orazio a duemila anni dalla scomparsa ed. C.D. Fonseca (Università degli Studi della Basilicata-Potenza. Atti e Memorie 15), Potenza, 1993, publ. 1994, 65-84
89. ‘Asclepiades AP 5.85 = Gow-Page 2’ Grazer Beiträge 19 (1993, publ. 1994) 35-38
90. ‘Fracastoro’s Syphilis, the Argonautic Tradition, and the Aetiology of Syphilis’ Humanistica Lovaniensia 43 (1994) 246-261
91. ‘A Cryptic Komos of Asclepiades: 14 Gow Page = AP 5.167’ Res Publica Litterarum 17 (1994, publ. 1995) 7-18
92. ‘Horace Odes 3.7: Elegy, Myth, and Interpretation’ in Homage to Horace: A Bimilleniary Celebration, ed. S.J. Harrison, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995, 65-99
93. ‘The Numeri of Niccolò D’Arco and the Veronese Circle of Fracastoro’ Studi Umanistici Piceni 15 (1995) 19-29
94. ‘M. Agrippa in Horace ‘Odes’ 1.6’ Hermes 123 (1995) 211-217
95. ‘Horace’s First Roman Ode (3.1)’ PLLS 8 (1995) 91-142
96. ‘Callimachus the ‘Woodentop’ (AP XI 275)’ in Studia classica Iohanni Tarditi oblata, edd. L. Belloni, G. Milanese, A. Porro, Milano 1995, publ. 1996) I.607-615
97. ‘Asclepiades AP 5.85 = Gow-Page 2 Again’ PLLS 9 (1996) 323-326
98. ‘The ‘New Posidippus’ and Callimachus AP 7.447 = 35 (G-P) = 11 (Pf.)’ in Worte, Bilder, Töne. Studien zur Antike und Antikerezeption edd. R. Faber and B. Seidensticker, Würzburg 1996, 77-88
99. ‘Ancient ‘Etymology’ and Tibullus: On the Classification of ‘Etymologies’ and on ‘Etymological Markers’’ Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 42 (1996) 24-59
100. ‘Tibullus 2.1.57-8: Problems of Text and Interpretation’ in Candide Iudex. Beiträge zur augusteischen Dichtung. Festchrift für Walter Wimmel zum 75. Geburtstag ed. A.E. Radke, Stuttgart 1998, 47-54
101. ‘Tibullus 2.2: Genres, Augural Content, Literary Context, Text and Interpretation’, PLLS 10 (1998) 203-234
102. ‘Ovid Amores 1.15 and the problematic fruges of line 25’ in Ovid -Werk und Wirkung (Festgabe für Michael von Albrecht zum 65. Geburtstag) Frankfurt (1998) 85-93
103. ‘Orality, Writing and Re-oralisation: some Departures and Arrivals in Homer and Apollonius Rhodius’ in New Methods in the Research of Epic / Neue Methoden der Epenforschung Tübingen (1998) 63-84
104. ‘Epaphroditus, Φαινιανοκορίοις and ‘Modestus’ (Suda ε 2004) Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 124 (1999) 218-222
105. ‘Asclepiades and the Hetairai’ Eikasmos 9 (1998 publ. 1999) 165-193
106. ‘Virgil Eclogue 1.1-2: A Literary Programme?’ Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 99 (1999 publ. 2000) 289-93
107. ‘Tibullus, Messalla, and the Spica: I 1.16; I 5.28; I 10.22, 67; II 1.4; II 5.84’ Emerita 64,2 (1999, publ. 2000) 219-130
108. ‘A Testimonium to a New Fragment of Philoxenus of Cythera? (Machon 77–80 = fr. 9.14–17 Gow and Hermesianax fr. 7.69–74 Powell)’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 130 (2000) 9-11
109. ‘Propertius 2.23 and Its Final Couplet (23-4)’ Classical Philology 94.4 (1999 publ. 2000) 454-459
110. ‘Tibullus 2.6.27-42: Nemesis’ Dead Sister’ Eranos 98 (2000) 65-74
111. ‘IG XII.9.11: An Inscription of Karystos?’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 134 (2001) 121-136
112. ‘Allusions to hunc…meum esse aio in Propertius?’ Res Publica Litterarum 23 (2000 publ. 2001) 168-181
113. ‘Propertius the Historian (3.3.1-12)?’ in Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography (Mnemosyne Suppl. 224), edd. D.S. Levene and D.P. Nelis, Leiden 2002, 25-44
114. ‘Three Interpretational Problems in Horace Odes III, 1: saporem (19); cum famulis (36); sidere (42)’ in Hommages à Carl Deroux I – Poésie (Collection Latomus 266), ed. P. Defosse, Brussels 2002, 84-93
115. ‘The Civic Status of Theodotos in Lysias 3’ Emerita 70.2 (2002) 197-204
116. ‘Acontius and his οὔνομα κουρίδιον: Callimachus Aetia fr. 67.1-4 Pf.’ Classical Quarterly 52 (2002 publ. 2003) 471-477
117. ‘Catullus in and about Bithynia: Poems 68, 10, 28 and 47’, Chapter 8 of Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome: Studies in Honour of T.P. Wiseman, edd. D Braund and C. Gill (Exeter UP 2003) Ch. 8, pp.165-190
118. ‘The ‘Etymology’ in Ovid Heroides 20.21-32’ The Classical Journal 83.3 (2003) 239-242
119. ‘Propertius 3.4 and the Aeneid incipit’ Classical Quarterly 53 (2003) 309-311
120. ‘Varius and Vergil: Two Pupils of Philodemus in Propertius 2.34?’ in Philodemus, Vergil and the Augustans, edd. D. Armstrong, J. Fish, P.A. Johnston, and M.B. Skinner (UTexas Press 2004) Ch. 16, pp. 299-321
121. ‘Variazioni su Ila in Properzio 1.20’ in Properzio tra Storia Arte Mito edd. C. Santini and F. Santucci (Assisi) 2004, 75-98
122. ‘The Triumphal Motif of Propertius 3.4.17-18 and its Political Associations: Sculptural and Numismatic Evidence’ in Studies in Latin literature and Roman History XII ed. C. Deroux (Collection Latomus 287, 2005) 214-218
123. ‘Guerra e pace nei Numeri di Nicolò D’Arco’ in Guerra e pace nel pensiero del Rinascimento ed. L. Secchi Tarugi, Firenze 2005, 81-87
124. ‘Antestari and Horace Satires 1.9’, Latomus 64 (2005) 49-55
125. ‘Il Rossore di Lavinia (Virgilio Aeneide 12.64-70)’ Quaderni del Dipartimento di Filologia, Linguistica e Tradizione classica “Augusto Rostagni” n.s. 3 (2004, publ. 2005) 21-38
126. ‘Pindar Olympian 7: Rhodes, Athens, and the Diagorids’, Eikasmos 16 (2005) 63-91
127. ‘Catullus 45: Text and Interpretation’, Classical Quarterly 55 (2005) 534-541
128. ‘“Lavinia’s Blush” (Virgil Aeneid 12.64-70)’ in Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds, ed. D.L. Cairns, Swansea 2005, Ch. 9, pp.195-213
129. ‘War, Peace, and Diplomacy in the Numeri of Nicolò D’Arco’, Lexis 23 (2005) 389-402
130. ‘Propertius and the Origins of Latin Love-Elegy’ in A Companion to Propertius, ed. H.-C. Günther, Brill Leiden 2006, Ch.4, pp. 69-95
131. ‘The nomenclature of the Tiber in Virgil’s Aeneid’, Ch. 5 of What’s in a Name?: The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature, edd. Joan Booth and Robert Maltby, Swansea 2006 (publ. 2007) pp. 65-82
132. ‘An Unnecessary Emendation in Juvenal Satire 2.168’, Hermes 135 (2007) 199-205
133. ‘Pius II: a Yorkist Pope?’ in Pio II Umanista Europeo ed. L. Secchi Tarugi (Quaderni della Rassegna 49) Firenze 2007, 785-794
134. ‘The future of Classics in the United Kingdom: Change or Decline?’ in Quale futuro per gli studi classici in Europa? Atti del Convegno Sassari 28 novembre- 1 dicembre 2001 edd. M.A. Petretto and M.G. Vallebella (Quaderni di Sandalion) Sassari 2008, 63-83
135. ‘The Hellenistic Epigramma Longum’ in Epigramma longum. Da Marziale alla tarda antichità / From Martial to Late Antiquity. Atti del Convegno internazionale 29-31 maggio 2006 ed. A.M. Morelli (Edizioni dell’ Università degli Studi di Cassino. Collana scientifica 21) Cassino 2008, 55-80
136. ‘Jacopo Aconcio: the Motives of an Exponent of Religious Toleration’ in Il Concetto della Libertà nel Rinascimento ed. L. Secchi Tarugi (Quaderni della Rassegna 52, Firenze 2008) 671-683
137. ‘C. Asinius Pollio and the Eclogues’ Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society/Cambridge Classical Journal 54 (2008) 49-79
138. ‘“Weak Sheep” in Horace Epode 2.16’ Antiquité Classique 77 (2008) 215-217
139. ‘The Amyris of Gianmario Filelfo’ in Oriente e Occidente nel Rinascimento ed. L. Secchi Tarugi (Quaderni della Rassegna 58, Firenze 2009) 625-634
140. ‘‘Titius’ at Tibullus 1.4.73-4: A Double Reference?' Eranos (2006/2007 published 2009) 104.28-30
141. ‘Parabasis in Euripides and Sophocles (Pollux 4.111)?’ Aevum Antiquum n.s. 5 (2005 published 2009) 135-144
142. ‘Two further reminiscences of Callimachus Aetia frr. 67-75 in Eclogue 2?’ Symbolae Osloenses 83 (2008 published 2009) 45-51
143. ‘Pietro Bizzarri’s accounts of the early French voyages to Florida’ in Syntagmatia. Essays on Neo-Latin Literature in Honour of Monique Mund Dopchie and Gilbert Tournoy edd. D. Sacré and J. Papy = Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 26 (Leuven 2009) 431-443
144. ‘The Mistress’s Midnight Summons: Propertius 3.16’ Hermes 138 (2010) 70-91
145. ‘Roma and her Tutelary Deity: Names and Associations’ in Ancient Historiography and its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A.J. Woodman. edd. C.S. Kraus, J. Marincola, and C. Pelling (Oxford UP 2010) 245-266
146. ‘The Genre ‘Oaristys’’ Wiener Studien 123 (2010) 101-129
147. ‘Money and the Poet: The First Stasimon of Pindar Isthmian 2’ Mnemosyne 64 (2011) 21-36
148. ‘Philodemus AP 5.123, the Epigrammatic Tradition, and Propertius 1.3’ in Latin Elegy and Hellenistic Epigram: A Tale of Two Genres at Rome ed. A. Keith (Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2011) 33-50
149. ‘Tibullus 2.5: The Date, the Parilia, and line 35’ in Noctes Sinenses. Festschrift für Fritz-Heiner Mutschler zum 65. Geburtstag edd. A. Heil, M. Korn and J. Sauer (Heidelberg 2011) 3-11
150. ‘Tarpeia Pudicitia in Propertius 1.16.2 — and the Early Roman Historians’ Rheinisches Museum 154 (2011) 176-184
151. ‘Artake and Hylaea in Propertius 1.8.25-6’ CCJ = PCPhS 57 (2011) 1-8
152. ‘C. Cornelius Gallus and the river Hypanis’ RFIC 139 (2011) 326-338
153. ‘The Patronage Circles of Nicolò D’Arco’ in Mecenati, Artisti e Pubblico nel Rinascimento ed. L. Sechi Tarugi (Firenze 2011) 79-86
154. ‘Lentulus’ Letter: Cicero In Catilinam 3.12; Sallust Bellum Catilinae 44.3-6’ Historia 61 (2012) 78-82
155. ‘Catullus 45: The Wooing of Acme and Septimius’ (abbreviated version of ‘Catullus 45: The Wooing of Acme and Septimius’, No. 162 below) in Roman Lyric: Collected Papers on Catullus and Horace (De Gruyter 2012) 77-88
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159. ‘Pyrrhic Dancing and Politics in Euripides’ Andromache’ Quaderni Urbinati 100 (2012) 31-48
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163. ‘Virgil’s Lime-Wood Yoke (Georgics 1.173-4)’ Classical Quarterly 63 (2013) 434-438
164. ‘Propertius 1.1.13’ Philologus 58 (2014) 192-196
165. ‘A Play on the Archchancellor’s name at Archpoet 4.29.2-3?’ Classica et Medievalia 64 (2014) 367-370
166. ‘Fat victim and fat cheese (Vergil Eclogue 1.33-5)’ in Virgilian Studies: A Miscellany dedicated to the Memory of Mario Geymonat. (Studia Classica et Mediaevalia 10) ed. H.-C. Günther (Nordhausen 2015) 27-38
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168. ‘Hellenistic Ekphrasis’ in D’Alexandre à Auguste. Dynamiques de la création dans les arts visuels et la poésie. edd. P. Linant de Bellefonds, É. Prioux and A. Rouveret (Rennes 2015) 127-133
169. ‘Propertius 1.1.1-6 and Meleager AP 12.101 = 103 HE: A New Proposal’ Res Publica Litterarum 38 (2015, published 2017) 147-164
170. ‘Beauty, Fame and Politics in Ibycus S151 PMGF’ Prometheus. Rivista di studi classici 43 (2017), 43-55
171. ‘Epigrams by Lutatius Catulus (fr. 1 Morel/Blänsdorf/Courtney) and Callimachus (AP 12.73 = 4 HE)’ in Word and context in Latin poetry: Studies in Memory of David West (Cambridge Classical Journal Suppl. 40) edd. A.J. Woodman and J. Wisse (Cambridge 2017) 1-12
172. ‘Battus and Corydon in Theocritus Idyll 4’ Caesarodunum – Présence de l’Antiquité 50-51bis (2017) 347-358
173. ‘Epilegomena to Horace Odes 1,38’ Paideia 53(ii/iii) (2018) 1201-1227
174. ‘Lodrisio Crivelli’s Ad Polymniam Musam in Laudem Pientiae Civitatis’ Medievalia & Humanistica n.s. 44 (2019) 1-34
175. ‘An early Byzantine Pseudepigraphon: the Apocryphal Acta Barnabae’ Byzantinische Zeitschrift 112(1) (2019) 47–66
176. ‘Catullus 34: Cult-titles, Etymologies, Argument’ Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 121, (2019/1) 87-99
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180. ‘The Terms ‘Komos’ and ‘Paraclausithyron’’ Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 60 (2020) 262-271
181. ‘The Old and the New in Piccolomini Carmina Varia 113 Van Heck and in Lodrisio Crivelli Ad Polymniam Musam In Laudem Pientiae Civitatis’ Antico e Moderno: Sincretismi, Incontri e Scontri culturali nel Rinascimento. Atti del XXX Convegno Internazionale:, Chianciano Terme-Montepulciano 20-22 Luglio 2018 (Quaderni della Rassegna 174, Florence 2020), 83-91
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183. ‘Horace Epistles 1.5, Philodemus AP 11.44, and the “Vocatio ad Cenam”’ PLLS 18 (2021) 69-108
184. ‘Vergilius’ in Horace Odes 4.12’ Phoenix 73 (2019, published 2021) 270-292.
185. ‘Ovid Amores 1.13.33-4: A Presence of Gallus?’ Athenaeum 109.1 (2021) 114-125
186. ‘Sappho fr. 17,1 V., and a New Supplement’ Eikasmos 32 (2021) 57-64
187. ‘exsequiis at Virgil Aeneid 7.5 and the Epitaph of Caieta (7.1-4)’ Dictynna [En ligne], 18 (2021) 1- 8
188. (with Tim Stover) ‘The Date of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica and the Neapolitan Sebasta Records’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 221 (2022) 36–42
189. ‘more ferae and sine crimine: The Portrayal of Dido at Aeneid 4.550-2’ Rheinisches Museum 165 (2022) 75–86
190. ‘Propertius 1.21 and 1.22: Unity, Gallan influence, text, genres, and the shape of Book 1’ PLLS 19 (2024) 229-272
191. ‘Horace Odes 1.24: Quintilius and Epicureanism, Philodemus and Varius’ Classica et Mediaevalia 74 (2025) 143-153
192. ‘Propertius 3.3.33-36: Text and Meaning; The Muses’ Hermes 153 (2025) 453-464
193. ‘A New Emendation in Statius Silvae 4.1.9’ Exemplaria Classica 29 (2025) 55-59
194. ‘Bare feet in Suetonius Vespasian 8.3 and Lycophron Alexandra 515’ Latomus 84 (2025, publ. 2026) 860-863
Forthcoming
‘Catullus 13 and its unguentum’ Rivista di Filologia e d’Istruzione Classica
‘Callimachean Echoes in Tibullus 1.7?’ Rheinisches Museum
‘Euripides in Philodemus De Morte IV coll. 111.2-7 and 109.7-11 Delattre?’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
‘Horace Odes 1.36: Lamia, Numida, and Bassus’ The Classical Journal
‘Callimachus Aetia fr. 75.32-35 H: Ἰκμίου and ἀμβώνεσσιν (34)’ Symbolae Osloenses
‘The Biography of P. Papinius Statius: Some Questions and Doubts’ Res Publica Litterarum
‘Horace Odes 1.2: Genre(s), Etymologies of ‘Augustus’ and ‘Mauri’, Dating, Mercury’ Athenaeum
‘Ovid Ars Amatoria 1.229-244: The Metaphrasis and Paraphrasis of a Lost Hellenistic Epigram’ Cambridge Classical Journal
Under Submission
‘Iliadic Four-Word Hexameters’ Metri Causa
Contributions to Encyclopedic Works
Enciclopedia Virgiliana
vol. 1, 1984: Austin, Bowra, Conington, Conway
vol. 2, 1985: de Witt, Duckworth, Fowler, Henry, Highet, Inghilterra
vol. 3, 1987: Knight
vol. 4, 1988: Pease, ‘Il ruolo di Sileno in B. 6’
Article ‘Genre’ in The Classical Tradition edd. A Grafton, G.W. Most and S. Setti (Harvard University Press Reference Library 2010) 378-81
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Claude Meiller: Callimaque et son Temps, Classical Review n.s. 31,1, 1981, 110-11
D.L. Clayman: Callimachus’ Iambi, Classical Review n.s. 31,2, 1981, 287-8
Heather White: Studies in Theocritus and other Hellenistic Poets, Classical Review n.s. 34,1, 1982, 93-4
D.A. Russell: Criticism in Antiquity, TLS September 3, 1982, 942
C.O. Brink: Horace on Poetry: Epistles Book II, Times May 20, 1983, 505
Franco Munari (ed.): Mathei Vindocinensis Opera II, Classical Review n.s. 34,2, 1984, 360-1
Allen Mandelbaum: The Aeneid of Virgil, A Verse Translation, Latomus 42, 1983 695-6
P.G. Walsh (ed.): Andreas Capellanus on Love, with English Translation, JACT Bulletin, 1984, xii-xiii
Paul Veyne: L’elegie erotique romaine, TLS October 4, 1985, 1118
T.P. Wiseman: Catullus and his World: a Reappraisal, TLS November 1, 1985, 1245
A. Eliot (ed.): The Georgics with John Dryden’s Translation, Latomus 44, 1985, 898
Paolo Fedeli: Catullus’ Carmen 61, Classical Review n.s. 35,2, 1985, 338-9
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Stratis Kyriakidis: ΡΩΜΑΙΚΗ ΕΥΑΙΣΘΗΣΙΑ, Classical Review n.s. 38,1, 1988, 170-171
G.O. Hutchinson: Hellenistic Poetry, TLS Jan 27-Feb 1989, 93
Colin Macleod: Horace, the Epistles, Latomus 48,3 (1989) 663-665
Nikos Petrochilos: Σαλλούστιος. Ὁ πόλεμος μὲ τὸν Κατιλίνα· Ὁ πόλεμος μὲ τὸν Ἰουγούρθα· Ἱστορίες. Introduction, translation, and notes, Res Publica Litterarum 19 (1994, publ. 1995) 231-3
Léopold Migeotte: Les souscriptions publiques dans les cités grecques, Phoenix 50.2 (1996) 172-3
Peter Lock: The Franks in the Aegean, 1204-1500, Res Publica Litterarum 19 (1996) 243-4
Arturo Alvarez Hernández: La Poética de Propercio (Autobiografía artística del ‘Calímaco romano’) Res Publica Litterarum 20 (1997) 233-4
Géza Alföldy, Tonio Hölscher, Rudolf Kettemann, Hubert Petersmann (edd.) Römische Lebenskunst. Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium zum 85. Geburtstag von Viktor Pöschl. Heidelberg, 2.-4. Februar 1995, CR 50 (2000) 676-7
Richard F. Thomas: Reading Virgil and his Texts: Studies in Intertextuality, CJ 97 (2001) 86-9
Guy Bradley, Ancient Umbria: State, Culture, and Identity in Central Italy from the Iron Age to the Augustan Era, Atti Accademia Properziana del Subasio s.VII n.4-5 (1999-2000, 2001 publ. 2002) 211-21
Moreno Soldevila, Rosario (ed.) Diccionario de motivos amatorios en la literatura latina (siglos III a. C.-II d. C). Exemplaria classica 11. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2011. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.12.27
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Henry Spelman, Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence (Oxford 2018). Eikasmos 31 (2020) 449-451
Peter Mountford Maecenas (London-New York 2019) Etruscan and Italic Studies (2022) 1-3