The Virgil Society

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.

MEETINGS FOR 2013-2014

All meetings this year will take place in Senate House, South Block. The Society is grateful to the Institute of Classical Studies for its generous hospitality and continued support.

ALL WELCOME

Saturday, October 26th 2.30 pm
Room 349-50
Dr Dominic Berry
Dido and Aeneas through Roman Eyes

Saturday, December 7th 2.30 pm
Senate Room
DISCUSSION MEETING
Careless or crafty? Verbal repetitions

Saturday, January 25th 2.30 pm
Room 349-50
Dr Richard Danson Brown
"And sweetest love-": Virgilian half-lines in Spenser's Faerie Queene

Saturday, March 8th 2.30 pm
Room 22-26
Dr Anita Frizzarin
'Si mens non laeva fuisset...' Counterfactuals in the Aeneid

Saturday, May 17th
Room 22-26
11.30 Reading the poet: from the Georgics
(Virgil Society members)
LUNCH
2.30 pm Annual General Meeting
3.00 Professor Richard Jenkyns
Presidential address: Virgil and the unspoken

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