26th Annual Tracy Lecture
"Reading Virgil in the Nineteenth Century: Berlioz to Tennyson."
by Richard Thomas
April 3, 2009
Time : 3 p.m.
Venue:509 Student Center East
This lecture examines the reception of Virgil, and particularly of the Aeneid, through the eyes of poets, musicians and artists of the nineteenth century whose early exposure to the Roman poet occurred in largely aesthetic rather than ideological settings, and in contexts largely unaffected by scholarly preconceptions about the poet. The Annual Tracy Lecture was established in 1984 and is given in memory of a senior member of the Department of Classics & Mediterranean Studies, Theodore Tracy.
Richard Thomas has been a professor at Harvard since 1987 and previously held teaching appointments at Harvard, Cincinnati, and Cornell. His publications include a monograph Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry: The Ethnographical Tradition (1982), a two-volume text and commentary on Virgil's Georgics (1988), a collection of his articles on the subject of Virgilian intertextuality, Reading Virgil and his Texts (1999), a study of the ideological reception of Virgil from its beginnings through the twentieth century, Virgil and the Augustan Reception (2001), and two co-edited books to which he also contributed: with Charles Martindale, Classics and the Uses of Reception (2006), and with Catharine Mason, The Performance Artistry of Bob Dylan, in Oral Tradition 22.1 (2007).
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