Call for Papers

Virgil Commentaries:  La Cerda to Horsfall Organizer:  Richard Thomas Sponsored by the Vergilian Society In his 2012 commentary on Aeneid 12 Richard Tarrant notes that La Cerda’s 1642 Virgil commentary has, particularly since it has become available online, been recognized “as a work of an engaged and often acute interpreter.” If La Cerda’s work may…

We are now soliciting proposals from members who would like to organize a symposium on any topic that is relevant to the Society’s mission. We anticipate that most proposals will be for small scholarly meetings, but we also envision an occasional symposium with a pedagogical emphasis. Anyone who is interested in organizing a symposium is…

Aeneid Six and its Cultural Reception The Harry Wilks Study Center at the Villa Vergiliana in Cumae, Italy June 25-27 2013 Outside of the Bible, no text has had as profound an impact on Western Culture as the Aeneid, and within the Aeneid, no book has been as influential as Aeneid Six. Ovid was perceptive…