Caroline Vout Author & Editor

Helen Lovatt is Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Statius and Epic Games (2005) as well as a monograph closely related to this volume, The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic (Cambridge, 2013). Current and future projects include a history of the Argonautic myth, an exploration of the life and works of Ugolino Verino, and an edited volume on children's literature and classics. Caroline Vout is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and the Society of Antiquaries. Her recent publications include Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome (2007), The Hills of Rome: Signature of an Eternal City (2012) and Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome (2013). In 2008 she was awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, and in 2006 she curated the sculpture-exhibition, 'Antinous: the Face of the Antique', at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. She is also an editor of the Cambridge Classical Journal and Perspective, and is the current Chair of the Criticos Prize.