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2016 Vergilian Society Translation Contest
Announcing the 2016 Vergilian Society Translation Contest Open only to secondary-level students of Latin (including home-schooled), the Contest will set a passage from Vergil’s Aeneid for translation. In addition, contestants will be required to answer several questions, and write a 3-4 paragraph essay based on the text set. Cash prizes wlll be awarded to the top ten papers. The…
Read MoreSymposium Campanum 2018 ~ New Deadline for Proposals
The Vergilian Society has extended the deadline for proposals for the Third Annual Symposium Campanum, to take place at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma in mid-October, 2018. We will consider proposals on any aspect of the history, archaeology, art and architecture, and geology of Italy and Sicily from the remotest antiquity to the Renaissance. Each proposal…
Read MoreSymposium Cumanum 2018 ~ Call for Proposals
The Vergilian Society is soliciting proposals for the Twenty-Third Annual Symposium Cumanum, to take place at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma at the end of June, 2018. We will consider a proposal on any theme pertaining to Virgil and his times, although preference may be given to a subject that has not been treated recently. …
Read MoreSymposium Campanum 2017 Call for Proposals—deadline extended
The Vergilian Society is soliciting proposals for the Second Annual Symposium Campanum, to take place at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma in mid-October, 2017.We will consider proposals on any aspect of the history, archaeology, art and architecture, and geology of Italy and Sicily from the remotest antiquity to the Renaissance. Each proposal should be prepared…
Read MoreRequest for applications–Exchange Program Grant
Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Harry Wilks, the Vergilian Society is pleased to be able to offer one or two seed grants for 2015-2017, to bring a group of secondary students to the Harry Wilks Study Center at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy. The grants will cover room and board at the Harry…
Read MoreSymposium Cumanum 2017 ~ Call for Proposals
The Vergilian Society is soliciting proposals for the Twenty-Third Annual Symposium Cumanum, to take place at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma at the end of June, 2017. We will consider a proposal on any theme pertaining to Virgil and his times, although preference may be given to a subject that has not been treated recently. …
Read MoreThe Alternative Augustan Age, 13-16 October 2016
The Alternative Augustan Age Villa Vergiliana, Cuma, Italy 13-16 October 2016 In his essay on provincial perspectives in the Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, Greg Woolf asked ‘how we might write the history differently if we did not start from Rome and the first emperor’. He proceeds to look at the geopolitical trends…
Read MoreMcKay Book Prize, 2017, Call for nominations
McKay Book Prize Announcement The Vergilian Society is pleased to announce the opening of the next competition for the Alexander G. McKay Prize for the best book in Vergilian studies. The prize, which is accompanied by a cash award of $500 or a life membership in the Vergilian Society (valued at $750), will be awarded…
Read MoreSymposium Campanum, Fall 2016
The Vergilian Society of America is instituting a new symposium, to begin October 13–16 2016. The Symposium will be hosted by the Harry Wilks Study Center at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy. Details of the Villa may be found at: https://www.vergiliansociety.org/villa/ The new symposium series will focus on any aspect of the history, archaeology, art…
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Symposium Cumanum Program and Abstract Book
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