He has written articles on Greek and Latin literature, and is the author of Statius’ Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War (Cambridge UP, 2007). Alexander Sens is Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis Chair of Classics at Georgetown University. He specializes in the poetry of the late Classical and Hellenistic periods, and is the author of a series of editions of and commentaries on Greek poems, including most recently Asclepiades of Samos: Epigrams and Fragments (Oxford, 2011).