Boris Kayachev is a Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. His main interests lie in the literary, textual and linguistic exegesis of Latin poetry, in particular of the Appendix Vergiliana: he has published books on the Ciris (Allusion and Allegory: Studies in the Ciris, 2016; Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana, 2020), the Lydia (Lydia: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana, 2023), and now the Dirae.