Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar, Volume 6, 1990: Roman Poetry and drama; Greek epic, comedy, rhetoric (Arca, 29) - Hardcover

Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar, Sixth Volume continues the series begun with the five volumes of Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar. Like the earlier volumes, it includes some of the papers, in revised form, presented at meetings of the Seminar, together with other contributions. Malcolm Heath joins for the first time in the editorship with Francis Cairns. Covering a wide range of topics in Latin and Greek literature, PLLS 6 offers sixteen papers (all in English) by scholars from seven countries.

Francis Cairns is Professor of Classical Languages at The Florida State University, having previously held the Chair of Latin in the University of Liverpool and the Chair of Latin Language and Literature in the University of Leeds. He is the author of numerous articles and of Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry (1972), Tibullus: A Hellenistic Poet at Rome (1979), Virgil's Augustan Epic (1989), Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist (2006), Papers on Roman Elegy (1969-2003) (2007), Roman Lyric: Collected Papers on Catullus and Horace (2012) and Hellenistic Epigram: Contexts of Exploration (2016).