Verses from a Campanian Tomb? Vergil and Silius Italicus’ Punica (October 2025)

Symposium Vesuvianum, October 8-11 2025, Villa Verginiana, Cuma

Co-organized by Antony Augoustakis and Clayton Schroer

Under the Auspices of the Vergilian Society

With the Patrocinio Morale del Comune di Napoli and its Mayor Gaetano Manfredi

and the Patrocinio of AACUPI (Association of American College and University Programs in Italy)

and the Patrocinio Morale della Città di Bacoli in support of the City’s candidacy as Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2028.

Joseph Wright of Derby (1779), Virgil’s Tomb, with the figure of Silius Italicus

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