Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Stephen Harrison’s Major Publications (June 2025) 13
5. L. Manlius Torquatus’ in Sullam 27
6. Catullus in the Ancient Greek Novels (with a Focus on Chariton) 43
7. A Queer Catullus for the 2010s and 2020s? 75
8. Swearing like a Philosopher on Trial: Catullus, Epicurus, and Beards in Apuleius’ Apologia 113
9. Apuleius and the Greek Novel: Generic Infringement 135
10. Philosophical Enrichment: Akrasia in Vergil 167
11. Pallas, Son of Hercules 191
12. Vergil in Ethiopia? Nello Martinelli’s Amba Alagia 207
13. How the Winds Blow: Inherited Anemologies in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica 235
14. The Gnat’s Descent: Intertextuality and Poetic Memory in the Pseudo-Vergilian Culex 261
15. Vergilian Roleplay in The Rape of the Lock 283
16. Back to the Future: (Spatio)temporal Enrichment in Horace’s Odes 3.3 and 3.27 307
17. List of Contributors 327
18. Index Rerum et Nominum
19. Index Locorum