Eleni Karamalengou, Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Athens, Director of the Department of Classics. Her PhD is on Horace (Sorbonne-Paris IV). Publications include studies on the literature of the Res publica (Terentius, Cicero, Rhetoric) and the Augustan Age (Virgil, Horace, Propertius), the invocation of the Muse in Latin poetry.