J. D. REED is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University. He works principally on Hellenistic and Latin poetry and on the myth and cult of Adonis. He has published a commentary on Bion of Smyrna in the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series (1997) and Virgil's Gaze (2007), a study of the poetics of Roman identity in Virgil's Aeneid, and notes to Rolfe Humphries's translation of the Metamorphoses (2018), as well as many articles and book chapters on ancient Greek and Roman cultures and their reception in the early modern period (including Humanist Latin literature) and later.