About the Author

Wytse Keulen currently teaches Latin at the University of Rostock. His commentary on Apuleius Metamorphoses Book I (Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius) appeared in 2007. He also published a monograph on Aulus Gellius ("Gellius the Satirist: Roman Cultural Authority in Attic Nights," Leiden: Brill 2009). Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser is professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Gottingen. She presented a monograph on Apuleius' Isis Book (2000). A monograph on literary forms and functions of the Roman convivium from Cicero to Athenaios is forthcoming."