Author Description

About the Author André P.M.H. Lardinois is Professor of Greek Language and Culture at the Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has published widely on archaic and classical Greek poetry, including Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, which he co-edited with Josine Blok (Leiden: Brill 2006).Marc van der Poel is Professor of Latin Language and Culture at the Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has published on Latin literature, especially in the Renaissance, and on ancient rhetoric and its history; he is the author of several text editions, including Rudolph Agricola. Ecrits sur la dialectique et l'humanisme, choix de textes, introduction, édition, traduction et notes (1997).Vincent Hunink is Associate Professor of classical and christian Latin at the Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has published commentaries, studies and translations of various authors, notably Lucan, Apuleius and Tertullian (2005). Since 1991 he has been a member of the team that prepared the final volumes of the Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius. Product Description This collection of essays by twenty-eight Dutch scholars is intended as a tribute to prof. dr. A.H.M. Kessels on the occasion of his retirement as professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). It reflects his broad interests in the entire field of classical scholarship, ranging from early Greek poetry to later Latin literature and the reception of classics in modern literature. At the same time, the volume singles out some areas for special interest, notably dreams in classical literature (6 essays), classical drama (7 essays), the reception of Homer (4 essays), Greek literature (5 essays) and Latin literature (6 essays). The collection as a whole may be considered a sampler attesting the breadth and depth of present-day classical scholarship in the Netherlands.