John Quinn is Assistant Professor of Classics at Hope College (Holland, MI), with special interests in Roman historiography, Coptic Egypt, and ancient Ethiopia.
He is writing an introductory textbook for college-level Latin, and is at work on verse translations of some of the works of Horace and Plautus.
As of January 2000, he is the Translation Editor for the DIOTIMA website.
On this site:
Translate classical Latin verse into alliterative poetry? Why not?
John Quinn expoits the rhythms of alliterative verse to capture
some
of Horace's sly, barbed humor in modern English.