Dido's Long Dying

MICHAEL C. J. PUTNAM, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1996, is the W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Brown University. His books include The Humanness of Heroes: Studies in the Conclusion of Virgil's “Aeneid” (2011) and A Companion to Virgil's “Aeneid” and its Tradition (edited with Joseph Farrell, 2010). He has recently translated Jacopo Sannazaro: The Latin Poetry (2009) and The Complete Poems of Tibullus (with Rodney G. Dennis, 2012).