Patricia A. Johnston is Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Religious Studies at Brandeis University. Her many publications include Vergil's Agricultural Golden Age: A Study of the Georgics and Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language and Its Influence. She is former president of the Vergilian Society of America.
James Orsquo;Harais the George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author ofDeath and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergilrsquo;s Aeneid(Princeton 1990),True Names: Vegil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay(Ann Arbor 1996), andInconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies at Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan(Cambridge 2007).