The Annual General Meeting of the Virgil Society -14/05/2016, London (England)

The Virgil Society was founded in 1943, and its first President, the poet T.S. Eliot, delivered What is a Classic? as his Presidential Address in the following year. The purpose of the Society was and remains to unite all those who cherish the central educational tradition of Western Europe. Of that tradition Virgil is the symbol. Membership is open to all those who are in sympathy, whether they read Latin or not.

There are normally five or six meetings each year in London, held on Saturday afternoons in Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.

The speakers include both amateur and professional scholars, many of them Virgilians of international repute. Lectures are followed by refreshments, giving an opportunity to meet the speaker and other members of the Society.

Most lectures are published in full in the Proceedings of the Virgil Society, which also include some reviews of works relevant to Virgil. There is also a Newsletter, which appears twice a year.

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 14/05/2016

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Senate House, Malet Street, (London, England)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Virgil Society

INFO: web INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE:

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

11.30 Reading the poet: Aeneid II (Virgil Society members led by John Hazel)

LUNCH 2.30 pm Annual General Meeting

3.00 Ahuvia Kahane (Royal Holloway, University of London) ‘Vitae’ and ‘Mortes’: Virgil’s Biography and the Parity of Life and Words

All are very welcome to attend the reading and the talk.