CFP: New Perspectives on Virgil’s Georgics

T. S. Eliot branded the Aeneid ‘the classic of all Europe’, but the importance of Virgil’s Georgics within the European tradition has often been overlooked. This conference will provide a venue for a long overdue reappraisal of the Georgics and their contribution to the history of art, thought, and literature. We invite submissions from disciplines including but not limited to Classics and Classical Reception, Philosophy, Ancient  History, Art History, Critical Theory, and the History of Science. By bringing together scholars from diverse fields of study, the conference aims to foster new perspectives and theoretical approaches to this fascinating text.

Papers on any aspect of the Georgics are welcome, although possible topics might include:

• The reception of Greco-Roman art and literature in the Georgics
• Philosophy and science in the Georgics
• The relationship between the Georgics and the rest of Virgil’s poetic output
• The reception of the Georgics from antiquity to the present
• The scholastic tradition from Servius onwards

Papers should be approximately 30 minutes in length. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Nicholas Freer and Bobby Xinyue at [email protected] by 5pm Sunday 30th June 2013. 

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