Barbara K. Gold is Edward North Professor of Classics at Hamilton College. She is the editor of Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome (1982), author of Literary Patronage in Greece and Rome (1987), co-editor of Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition (1997), co-editor of Roman Dining: A Special Issue of American Journal of Philology (2005), and author of Perpetua: A Martyr”s Tale (2012). She has published widely on satire, lyric and elegy, feminist theory and late antiquity.