Editor's Preface

It is with great pleasure that we present to our readers another volume of Illinois Classical Studies. The first of the two issues to be published in 2020, this volume begins a new decade and was sent to the University of Illinois Press during "the cruellest" of months, April 2020, when the entire country and most of the world was observing "stay-at-home" orders in response to the new COVID-19 pandemic. I would therefore like to wish everyone ὑγιαίνειν τε καὶ εὖ πράττειν, a wish sent forth propitiously by the ceremonial phiale of this issue's cover image, and also express my sincere gratitude to the Press and in particular to Kristen Dean-Grossmann and Clydette Wantland for their support during this difficult period. The Spring issue features articles on Greek and Latin literature, tragedy, biography, historiography, and Latin poetry and its reception on a variety of topics and through varied methodological perspectives.

The journal accepts on-line submissions through the Open Journal System (http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/ics.html); all submissions are then reviewed by two anonymous referees. ICS is also available on J-STOR and on Project Muse, both in the archives and the current scholarship.

I would like to thank all authors of the articles, as well as the authors of all submitted papers to our journal. As always, I am indebted to all anonymous reviewers who facilitate my task as editor by providing constructive comments and feedback, even if most of the time this process entails a negative response to the author. I would like to thank once again Antony Augoustakis, Head of Classics as well as the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Associate Dean Martin Camargo in particular, for their continuing support. I wish to thank also the team at the University of Illinois Press for all their help and assistance. My editorial assistant for ICS 45.1, Ky Merkley, deserves special thanks for their diligent, steadfast contributions and careful assistance with the production of this volume.