Symposium Cumanum 2025

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Vergil and the Greeks

Organizers: Ian Goh (Swansea) and Sandro La Barbera (Trento)

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June 24 - 28, 2025

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes (Aen. 2.49) …. However, the dona Vergil owes to Homeric and Hesiodic epic, tragedy, and the Hellenistic poetry of Apollonius, Callimachus, and Theocritus are well known.

In this edition of the Symposium Cumanum, we hope first to shine some retrospective light on the rich vein of scholarship that enhanced our understanding of these parallels. We seek to uncover further links between Vergil and texts written in Greek, including the position that the poet’s early relationship with Philodemus is fundamental to his work.