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).
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