Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic explores the liminal status of the Augustan period, with its inherent tensions between a rhetoric based on the idea of re

This volume presents essays written in honour of Stratis Kyriakidis, Emeritus Professor of Latin Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Greece.

The uses and effects of repetition, imitation, and appropriation in Latin epic poetry.

Argues that Catullus adapts Roman comedy to explore private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry.