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No comparable volume provides a similar range. Chapters focusing on the modern reception include case studies from the 16th to the 21st century, with discussions on Gavin Douglas, Edward Gibbon, Herman Melville, Igor Stravinsky, and Elena Ferrante, among others. It makes important contributions to the understanding of kingship in Hellenistic and Roman thought, with the first four chapters dedicated to exploring this theme in Republican poetry, Virgil, Seneca, and Statius. Latin Poetry and Its Reception assembles a blend of senior scholars and new voices in Latin literary studies. All chapters reflect the wide research interests of Professor Susanna Braund, to whom the volume is dedicated. This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original context and in subsequent contexts as it has been translated and re-imagined. Superbia in Prudentius’ Psychomachiaġ1 Keeping the faith: allegory in late antique panegyric and hagiographyġ2 Gavin Douglas’s cranes and other classical birdsġ3 After Strada: English responses to Strada’s Nightingale (Prolusiones 2.6), with texts of four previously unprinted versionsġ5 Into the maw: Melville and the classical traditionġ6 Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex: the librettoġ7 Muted voices: Marina Tsvetaeva’s and Anna Akhmatova’s classical heroinesġ8 Translating friendship: My Brilliant Friend and the Aeneid 1 Homeric kingship theory in archaic Latin poetryĢ The good king according to Virgil in the Aeneidģ The nature and nurture of kingship in Virgil’s Georgics and Seneca’s De ClementiaĤ Rege sub uno: on the politics of Statius’ Achilleidĥ The return of the tibicines in Livy and OvidĦ Phaedrus in the forum: Plautus’ Pseudolus and Plato’s Phaedrusħ When mortals meet gods in classical and contemporary contextsĩ The burial of Misenus and Lucan’s De Bello Ciuiliġ0 Mens Humilis vs.