About the Author

Dr. Calum Maciver is lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. His main field of study is Imperial Greek literature, especially epic poetry, on which he has published a number of articles. He is author of Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica: Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity (Leiden: 2012), and co-editor of The Greeks and Their Pasts in the Archaic and Classical Ages (Edinburgh: 2012).