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Professor Scott McGill (Rice University, Houston, Texas) will speak on Iam(b) Vergil On Translating the Aeneid 5pm, Thursday, 9th November, 2023 ORB 156
Scott McGill’s work focuses on Latin poetry, Roman history and culture and on the reception of classical antiquity. A renowned expert on Virgil and on the Latin poetry of late antiquity, he has written a commentary on Aeneid XI (Cambridge, 2020) and a translation and commentary on Juvencus’ Four Books of the Gospels (Routledge, 2016). He has also written monographs on plagiarism in Roman literature (Cambridge 2012) and the Virgilian centos (Oxford 2005) and is the co-editor of several collections, including the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Late Antique Literature (2108). He is on the editorial board of Studies in Late Antiquity and he is the editor-in-chief of Brill’s Research Perspectives on Classical Poetry.
Together with Susannah Wright, Professor McGill is currently working on a verse translation of Virgil's Aeneid, which is under contract with W. W. Norton and among his other projects is a commentary on the Virgilian Centos in the Anthologia Latina.
This talk will be hybrid: if you would like to attend on line, please email Catherine.Ware@ucc.ie.