Brian Arkins is Professor Emeritus of classics at the University of Galway, where he taught for 37 years. He is the author of fourteen books of criticism that include: three on Latin poetry, two on Yeats and one on Joyce. He is also the author of more than 150 journal articles published in France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Denmark, England, Ireland and the United States. Dr Arkins has been Honorary President of Classical Association of Ireland, and Director of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies of Athens.