The editorial process involved in this inaugural Thematic Volume of Antichthon has been an extremely enjoyable one; indeed I regularly recalled Catullus, poem 50, particularly the lines in which the poet describes the joys of intellectual and artistic pursuit with a fellow lover of the good things in life, Licinius. To each of the authors, colleagues as acute and talented as Catullus' iucundus, I dedicate the following:
atque illinc abii tuo lepore
incensus, Licini, facetiisque . . . (7-8)
I may not have forgone sustenance and rest, but I was certainly 'fired' by some of the interpretations and insights I read
The volume grew from a one-day Symposium held …