Dicite, Pierides: Classical Studies in Honour of Stratis Kyriakidis

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Andreas N. Michalopoulos is Professor of Latin Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece. His research interests include Augustan poetry ancient etymology Roman drama the Roman novel and the modern reception of classical literature. He is the author of Ancient Etymologies in Ovid''''s Metamorphoses: A Commented Lexicon (2001); Ovid Heroides 16 and 17: Introduction Text and Commentary (2006); and Ovid Heroides 20 and 21: Introduction Text and Commentary (written in Greek 2013).Sophia Papaioannou is Professor of Latin Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece. She is the author of numerous articles on Augustan literature and Roman comedy as well as two books on Ovid: Epic Succession and Dissension: Ovid Metamorphoses 13.623-14.582 and the Reinvention of the Aeneid (2005); and Redesigning Achilles: The ''''Recycling'''' of the Epic Cycle in Ovid Metamorphoses 12.1-13.620 (2007). She is also the editor and main author of Terence and Interpretation (2014). Andrew Zissos is Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of California Irvine USA. He has written numerous articles on imperial Roman literature and its reception along with a commentary on Book 1 of Valerius Flaccus'''' Argonautica (2008). Further to this he is the editor of A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome (2016). Professor Zissos has a long-standing Ovidian collaboration with Ingo Gildenhard which runs to many articles a co-edited volume and a textbook on Ovid''''s Pentheus episode.