Posts by admin
McKay Book Prize, 2017
On behalf of the Vergilian Society, I am pleased to announce that the 2017 McKay Book Prize has been awarded to Richard Thomas and Jan Ziolkowski for The Virgil Encyclopedia, published in 2014 by Wiley-Blackwell. Just as in Virgil’s poetry, labor and amor were clearly the driving forces of this remarkable tribute to Virgil. In…
Read MoreMcKay Book Prize, 2015
Did Martial or Statius really believe that the Culex was by Vergil? Why does a work written on the death of Maecenas belong among the Virgilian pseudepigrapha? Do ancient fakes actually intend to deceive? These are just some of the fascinating questions given fresh and stimulating answers by this year’s winner of the Alexander…
Read MoreCall for Papers: SCS 2018
Dido in and after Vergil Sponsored by the Vergilian Society James J. O’Hara, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Organizer For the January 2018 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Boston, the Vergilian Society invites papers on any aspect of Vergil’s Dido story and its reception. Ovid writes that no part of the Aeneid is read…
Read MoreSummer 2016 Sortes
Enjoy the recent Sortes, which includes the program of this summer’s Symposium Cumanum and reports of a recent visiting teachers’ program. Sortes Summer 2016
Read MoreCall for tour directors, 2018
The Vergilian Society invites applications for the direction of classical summer and winter programs for 2018 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 or workshops involving Campania are particularly sought after for 2018, as well as those with an emphasis on…
Read MoreCall for Papers: Symposium Cumanum 2017
Symposium Cumanum 2017: Vergil and Elegy June 27-30, 2017 Co-Directors: Micah Myers (Kenyon College) and Alison Keith (University of Toronto), with the collaboration of Giancarlo Abbamonte (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) The Vergilian Society invites proposals for papers for the 2017 Symposium Cumanum at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy. In the final book…
Read MoreVergil Week 2016 at CWRU
It is time for Vergil Week at Case Western Reserve University. The keynote speaker this year will be Ralph J. Hexter, UC Davis, who will speak about Aeneid Book III in a talk called “Vergil’s Aeneid and the movement of Peoples.” Here is the link to their site: http://classics.case.edu/vergil-week/2016events/ and the poster promoting the event.
Read MoreCall for Papers: Symposium Campanum 2017
Recent Work in Vesuvian Lands: New Projects, Practices, and Approaches October 5-8, 2017 Director: Steven L. Tuck, Miami University The Vergilian Society invites proposals for papers for the 2017 Symposium Campanum at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy. This symposium is an opportunity for scholars to present papers on recent scholarship on Pompeii and Vesuvian…
Read MoreCall for Papers: SCS 2017
Vergil and TragedySponsored by the Vergilian SocietyJames J. O’Hara, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, OrganizerThe Vergilian Society invites submissions for a panel at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in TorontoIn two chapters of Gian Biagio Conte’s The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic (2007), he discusses the influence of…
Read MoreWinter 2015 Sortes
Winter 2015 Sortes
Read More