Symposium Cumanum 2025
Vergil and the Greeks
Symposium Cumanum 2025
Vergil and the Greeks
Villa Vergiliana, Bacoli – Castello Aragonese di Baia
24-28 June 2025
Organizers
Ian Goh (Swansea University, i.k.l.goh@swansea.ac.uk)
Sandro La Barbera (University of Trento, sandro.labarbera@unitn.it)
Program
Tuesday 24 June
18:00 Opening remarks
18:30 – 19:30 Welcome aperitivo with invited dignitaries
19:30 Dinner
Wednesday 25 June
09:00 – 09:30 Introduction, Ian Goh (Swansea University), Sandro La Barbera (University of Trento)
09:30 – 10:30 Keynote, Lily Panoussi (College of William and Mary, Outgoing President of the Vergilian Society), Hellenized Visions of Egypt in Vergil
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
Panel 1 – Chair: Sergio Casali (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
11:00 – 11:30 Michael Paschalis (University of Crete), The Plot of Virgil’s Aeneid and Aristotle’s Poetics
11:30 – 12:00 Eleni Ntanou (University of Athens), Eclogue 6’s Aegle and the Greek Literary Tradition
12:00 – 12:30 Matthew Gorey (Wabash College), Greek Visual Theory in Virgil’s Aeneid
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Panel 2 – Chair: Kirk Freudenburg (Yale University)
14:00 – 14:30 Antonio Ziosi (University of Bologna), A Funerary Epigram on Troy: Further Greek Gifts in Aeneid 2
14:30 – 15:00 Marcie Persyn (University of Piasburgh), Taking Stock: The Eclogues as an Inheritor of Herodas
15:00 – 15:30 Del Maticic (Vassar College), Translating Metalla: Vergil and the Greek Literature of Mining
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
Panel 3 – Chair: Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge)
16:00 – 16:30 Damien Nelis (University of Geneva), Juno’s Aeneid, Farrell’s Iliad
16:30 – 17:00 Marsha McCoy (Southern Methodist University), From the Argonautica to the Aeneid: Vergil’s Circe and Apollonius Rhodius
17:30 Visit to the Sibyl’s Cave, Cuma
19:30 Dinner
Thursday 26 June
09:00 – 09:30 Arrival at Castello Aragonese di Baia
Welcome from Fabio Pagano (Parco Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei, Director)
Panel 4 – Chair: Sandro La Barbera (University of Trento)
09:30 – 10:00 Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge), Virgil’s Pindar Revisited
10:00 – 10:30 Simona Martorana (Australian National University), Vergil’s (Un)historical Plague: Thucydidean Echoes in Georgics 3.478–566
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
Panel 5 – Chair: Lily Panoussi (College of William and Mary)
11:00 – 11:30 Jackie Murray (SUNY Buffalo), How (Not) to Leave Troy Behind: Apollonius and Virgil on Being Belated
11:30 – 12:00 Kirk Freudenburg (Yale University), Greek Medicine and Divine Healing in Aeneid 12
12:00 – 13:00 Visit to Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 17:30 Visit to Parco Archeologico delle Terme di Baia
17:30 Return to the Villa
19:30 Dinner
Friday 27 June
Panel 6 – Chair: Ian Goh (Swansea University)
09:00 – 9:30 Sophia Papaioannou (University of Athens), Vergil’s Aeneid in Nonnus’Dionysiaca
09:30 – 10:00 Sarah Gonzalez (Harvard University), Aristaeus Again: The Reception of
the Georgics in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca
10:00 – 10:30 Massimo Giuseppetti (Roma Tre University), Phanocles and Vergil on Orpheus
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
Panel 7 – Chair: Virginia Fabrizi (Orientale University, Naples)
11:00 – 11:30 Melina McClure (University of Oxford), Euripides’ Corydon
11:30 – 12:00 Jeff Carnes (Syracuse University), Nuntius ibis Pelidae genitori: Pindar’s Intrusion into Aeneid 2
12:00 – 12:30 Celia Campbell (Emory University), Turning a Prophet? Mediating the Trojan Past and Roman Future with Lycophron’s Alexandra
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Panel 8 – Chair: Maria Chiara Scappaticcio (University of Naples Federico II)
14:30 – 15:00 Nicolò Campodonico (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa), Just a Proper Name? Some Cases of Greek Reception of the Virgilian Tradition
15:00 – 15:30 Boris Kayachev (Trinity College Dublin), Virgil and Greek Words
15:30 – 16:00 Micah Myers (Kenyon College), Katabatic Elements in the Embassy to Diomedes (Aen. 11.243–95)?
16:00 – 17:00 General Discussion and Conclusions
19:30 Conference Dinner, Ristorante Tenuta Giordano
Saturday 28 June
10:00 – 11:00 Organizers’ Briefing