Generic Interplay in and after Vergil - 24-25-26/06/2020, Cuma (Italy)
On its broadest level, this symposium aims to bring together scholars to discuss how the works of Vergil illuminate questions about genre and literary identity in the ancient world. In addition to looking at generic interplay in Vergil’s poetry, we seek to examine the role that genre has played in Vergil’s afterlife, both among his contemporaries and in later ages: how, particularly in relation to Vergil’s poems, did genre create or elide perceived boundaries and/or affiliations between authors in antiquity? What cultural implications did explicit or implicit generic interplay have? How has genre shaped not only our understanding of Vergil and what it meant to be an Augustan poet, but our reception (‘after’ in another sense) of the earlier genres with which he engaged? What do we gain and lose by putting Vergil at the forefront of this narrative?
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 24-25-26/06/2020
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Villa Vergiliana (Cuma, Italy)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Brittney Szempruch; John Miller.
INFO: brittney.szempruch@usafa.edu - jfm4j@virginia.edu
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