About the Author

Alexander Kirichenko is a Researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin. He holds a PhD from Harvard having studied Classics in St Petersburg. His publications include A Comedy of Storytelling: Theatricality and Narrative in Apuleius' Golden Ass (2010) and Lehrreiche Trugbilder: Senecas Tragödien und die Rhetorik des Sehens (2013), and articles on Pindar, Callimachus, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Petronius, Seneca, Statius, and Apuleius.