Cathy Keane participated in the Symposium Cumanum, an annual gathering of scholars sponsored by the Vergilian Society. Since the mid-1990s, the Symposium has been held at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy, and features twenty to thirty papers, daily discussions, group meals, and excursions to local archaeological sites. This year’s Symposium theme was “Vergil, the Vergilian Tradition, and the Question of Humour” (full description here). Professor Keane’s paper was titled “Vergilian Visions in Juvenalian Fictions,” and examined several Juvenalian Satires that engage in probing and sustained ways with the texts of Vergil in order to enrich their thematic program.
