Virgilian Geopoetics

Alessandro Barchiesi is Professor of Classics at New York University. He has published widely on the major Augustan poets, on Roman fiction, and on epic poetry. His books include The Poet and The Prince (‎1997), Homeric Effects in Virgilian Narrative (2015), and the edited volumes The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (2nd ed. 2020) and A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses (Cambridge, 2024).

• 1. Colonial readings in Virgilian geopoetics: the Trojans at Buthrotum; 2. Mobility and religion in the Aeneid; 3. Immovable Delos; 4. The networks at Castrum Mineruae; 5. Doomscrolling at Segesta: allusions to Lycophron in the Aeneid; 6. The statue of Athena at Troy and Carthage; 7. A night in Cyprus, between Carthage and Alexandria; 8. Aeneas in Campania (in the wake of Naevius); 9. Cumae: ancient and modern underworld; 10. Parthenope and Caieta: Virgil's central fold and Lycophron's middle; 11. Boundaries: Dividing lines, imperial horizons; 12. The big picture.