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Symposium Cumanum 2016
Music in the Time of Vergil Symposium Cumanum 2016 June 21-24, 2016 Director: Timothy J. Moore (Washington University in St. Louis) The Vergilian Society invites proposals for papers for the 2016 Symposium Cumanum at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy. The last twenty-five years have seen a marked increase in scholarship dedicated to ancient Greek…
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Sortes Spring 2015
Read MoreVergil Week 2015 at CWRU Goes Digital
Beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday 23 April 2015, Vergil Week at Case Western Reserve University will feature a reading of H.R. Fairclough’s translation of the Aeneid. Fairclough’s faithful prose translation, a standard of the Loeb Classical Library, now also appears in the new Digital Loeb Library. Those who want to take part in the…
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CALL FOR PAPERS – Vergil Week 2015 Symposium at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) “The Fall of Troy in Vergil’s Aeneid” Friday 24 April 2015 The Greek conquest of the city of Troy is one of the most powerful and haunting legends from antiquity. The narratives of the victors’ brutality, the tragic dignity of…
Read MoreRequest for proposals–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, 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…
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Click below for the 2014-15 meetings of the Virgil Society of the United Kingdom. The Virgil Society
Read MoreCall for Papers, SCS 2016
Vergilian Society CFP for SCS 2016 Happy Golden Anniversary, Harvard School! Just about fifty years ago, three seminal works that W. R. Johnson would famously characterize as the “somewhat pessimistic Harvard school” (Darkness Visible [U. of Calif. 1976] 11, 156-57) were published: Adam Parry’s “The Two Voices of Virgil’s Aeneid” (Arion 2 [1963] 66-80), Wendell Clausen’s “An Interpretation…
Read MoreCoverage of the 2014 Symposium Cumanum
Quarto Canale: Area Flegrea, Simposio Virgiliano (June 28, 2014)
Read MoreCall for tour directors, 2016
The Vergilian Society invites applications for the direction of classical summer and winter programs for 2016 and beyond. We are particularly interested in innovative and exploratory programs at different levels, wholly or partially held at the Villa Vergiliana at Cumae. Tours involving Campania are particularly sought after for 2016, as well as those with an emphasis…
Read MoreCall for Papers: Symposium Cumanum 2015
Revisiting Vergil and Roman Religion Symposium Cumanum 2015 June 23-26, 2015 Directors: John F. Miller (Virginia) and Christopher Nappa (Minnesota) The Vergilian Society invites proposals for papers for the 2015 Symposium Cumanum at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy. In 1998, the publication of Beard, North, and Price’s Religions of Rome and Feeney’s Literature and…
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