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.
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.