Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar, Vol 5, 1985 (Arca Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs) - Hardcover

Volume 5 of PLLS was the last of the Liverpool series of seminar volumes. Between 1975 and 1985 the Liverpool Latin Seminar held 52 ordinary meetings and 4 colloquia, involving altogether 156 papers and participants from all over the world. Although many diverse approaches were represented in the Seminar, it was underpinned by two underlying convictions: first, that ancient literature functions at the highest intellectual level and deserves to be studied at that level; and second, that the ancient literatures can only be understood properly against the background of the societies in which they originated.

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).