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Cover -- Constructing Authorsand Readers In Theappendices Vergiliana,tibulliana, And Ouidiana -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- List Of Contributors -- Authoring, Reading, And Exploring An Appendix: Some Introductory Thoughts -- Why This Volume And Why Now? -- What's In A Name? Appendices Vs Opuscula -- The Three Appendices: What We Think We Know -- Same And Different-variations Among The Appendices -- Summary Of Chapters -- 1 Scylla's Lament In The Ciris And The Latin Literary Tradition -- Scylla's Lament -- Concluding Thoughts -- 2 The Mythical Antecedents Of The Ciris* 3 Author And Audience In Catalepton -- Reading Catalepton: Parameters And Perspectives -- The Design Of The Collection -- Thematic Emphases -- Poems 1 And 7: Tucca, Varius, And The Editor Of Catalepton -- Poems 2, 5, And 8: Rhetoric And Philosophy -- Poems 3 And 9: Great Men -- Poems 4 And 11: Poetry And History -- Poems 5 And 10: Sabinus Ille? -- Poems 6 And 12: Noctuinus And Atilius, Gener Socerque -- 4 Construing The Author As A Catullan Reader In The Pure Iambic Catalepton (6, 10, 12) -- 5 Catalepton 9 And Valgius Rufus 6 Echoing Virgil And Narcissus: Structure And Interpretation Of The Culex* -- Standard' Tripartite Structural Model For The Culex -- Unipartite Structural Model: Ovid's Narcissus Episode As Hypotext -- Ring Composition And Reflection On The Poet And Virgil -- Philosophy And Vision: Lucretius -- Conclusion: The Author Of The Culex -- 7 Volcanic Wonder: A Starry-eyed View Of The Aetna* -- 8 Teaching The Death Of Elegy: The Elegies Of Lygdamus ([tib.] 3.1-6) -- Love Elegy And Cultus -- Love And Death -- Teacher Of Love -- Conclusion 9 Tibullan Impersonation And Callimachean Influence In The Messalla Panegyric ([tib.] 3.7) -- 10 The Authorship Of Tibullus 3.9: Methods And Criteria -- 11 The Authorship Of Sulpicia* -- 12 The Halieutica Attributed To Ovid: Issues Of Authenticity, Reception, And Supplementation* -- The Evidence From Pliny, Natural History -- Halieutica 1-18: Impro