Call for Papers

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…

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…

Virgil, Elegy, and Epigram Sponsored by the Vergilian Society Richard Thomas, Organizer The Vergilian Society would like to sponsor a panel devoted to papers exploring any aspect of this topic. Proposals may focus on generic and other continuities and discontinuities between Virgil’s works and the early Greek elegists; connections with Hellenistic and Catullan epigram; Virgilian…

The Vergilian Society is soliciting proposals for the Twenty-First Annual Symposium Cumanum, to take place at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma at the end of June, 2015.  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. …

The Vergilian Society invites applications for the direction of classical summer programs for 2015 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 2015, as well as those with an emphasis on…

Symposium Cumanum 2014: Vergil’s Translators June 26-28 The Vergilian Society invites papers for the Symposium Cumanum, which will take place June 26-28 (arrival 25th, departure 29th), 2014 at the Villa Vergiliana in Cumae. In the recent years translation theory has become a prominent branch of classical reception studies. While Vergil’s poems, especially the Aeneid, have…

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…