Helios

Alexander Forte is lecturer in ancient and medieval studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research lies at the intersection of cognitive and historical linguistics, literary criticism, and intellectual history, with emphasis on the poetics of early Greek hexameter poetry. He is currently completing a monograph on Homeric metaphor.

Emily Hauser is lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter. She is the author of a trilogy of novels reworking the women of Greek myth, and has written numerous articles on women poets in antiquity and their reception in contemporary women’s writing. Her research focuses on Greek poetry (particularly Homeric epic), women in antiquity, gender studies, and the theory and practice of classical reception, particularly in contemporary fiction. Her current book, Authoress: Gendering Poets in Ancient Greece, looks at the gendering of authorship in Greek poetry and is forthcoming with Princeton University Press.

Nick Ollivère earned his doctorate at the University of London. His research interests are in Latin literature of the late Republic and early Empire, particularly elegy. He has given papers on this topic using a variety of approaches, including those from philosophy, reception studies, and comparative literature. He currently works at Leiden University in The Netherlands.