Barbara K. Gold is Edward North Professor Emerita at Hamilton College. She is the editor of Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome, author of Literary Patronage in Greece and Rome, and co-editor of Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition, and Roman Dining. She has published widely on satire, lyric and elegy, feminist theory, sex and gender, comedy, and late antiquity. Her Blackwell Companion to Roman Love Elegy was published in 2012, and Roman Literature, Gender and Reception: Domina Illustris (co-edited, Routledge) was published in 2013. Her latest book is Perpetua: Athlete of God. Genevieve Liveley is Professor of Classics, RISCS Fellow, and Turing Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. She is the author of Narratology), two books on Ovid, A Reader's Guide to Ovid's Metamorphoses?and?Ovid's Love Songs, and is co-editor of?Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story. She has published numerous articles and essays on topics including ancient narratives, narrative theories, and the classical tradition.