Finally, this is for my lovely wife Clare, despite the fact that even I can see a commentary (on Lucan!) is a pretty unenviable pledge of love. I would like also to thank Robin Hankey for his edition of Housman’s Lucan and his wonderful example of academic 1 Hardie (1993) 1.Īnd human integrity, and Charles Tesoriero, who first talked to me about Lucan with characteristic verve nearly ten years ago. I am very grateful to Ian McAuslan for his careful copy-editing, which both saved the manuscript from a number of errors and improved its clarity throughout. At OUP I would like to thank Hilary O’Shea, who has been extremely supportive of this work, as well as Jenny Wagstaffe, Dorothy McCarthy, and Kathleen Fearn for all of their help. With all of this extraordinary help, I can only hope that I have taken advantage of more opportunities than I have missed. Hardly a page of what follows hasn’t been improved by their acute learning and encouragement. Four scholars whose work has been so inspiring to me, John Henderson, Elaine Fantham, Stephen Harrison, and Matthew Leigh, each read and generously provided detailed comments on my work.

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