William S. Anderson is emeritus Professor of Latin, University of California at Berkeley. He holds an AB and MA from Cambridge University, and BA and PhD from Yale, where he taught for 5 years before joining the faculty at Berkeley. He has published widely on Horace, Vergil, Ovid, Roman comedy, and Roman satire. His book publications include The Art of the Aeneid (1969; 2nd edition 2005), Essays on Roman Satire (1982), Barbarian Play: Plautus Roman Comedy (1993), Ovid's Metamorphoses 15 and 610, Text and Commentary (1972; 2nd edition 1997), Why Horace? (1998), and Approaches to Teaching Vergils Aeneid (with L. N. Quartarone, 2002).