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Stratis Kyriakidis was Emeritus Professor of Latin Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He authored Roman Sensitivity: A Contribution to the Study of the Artistic Receptiveness and Creativity of the Romans (146-31BC) (1986) [in Greek]; Narrative Structure and Poetics in the Aeneid: The Frame of Book 6 (Bari, 1998); and Catalogues of Proper Names in Latin Epic Poetry: Lucretius – Virgil – Ovid (Pierides I, 2007). He edited (with Francesco De Martino) Middles in Latin Poetry (2004) and Libera Fama: An endless Journey (Pierides VI, 2016). He was the founding editor of the Pierides series, along with Professor Philip Hardie and Professor Antonis Petrides. His publications mainly focus on Latin literature of the late Republican and Augustan periods, on Manilius’ Astronomica and on Latin centos.

Charilaos N. Michalopoulos is Associate Professor of Latin at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. His research interests focus on Ovid, the Roman epigram, ecofeminism in Latin poetry, and Modern Greek reception of Latin literature. He has published widely on the Corpus Priapeorum, gender in Roman elegy, and Ovid’s Heroides. His most recent publication is Ovid, Heroides (1-15): Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (2021, in Greek) [co-authored with V. Vaiopoulos and A.N. Michalopoulos].