Imaginary Romans: Vergil and the illusion of national identity / W.R. Johnson -- On grief and reason: two selections / Joseph Brodsky -- Pastoral value in Vergil: some instances / Christine Perkell -- Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics: once again / Gian Biagio Conte -- Some observations on Aeneid Book VI / Mark Strand -- Mortal father, divine mother: Aeneid VI and VIII / Helen H. Bacon -- Vergil's Aeneid: the final lines / Michael C.J. Putnam -- The end of the Aeneid / Rosanna Warren -- The Aeneid transformed: illustration as interpretation from the Renaissance to the present / Craig Kallendorf -- not-blank-verse: Surrey's Aeneid translations and the prehistory of a form / Stephen Merriam Foley -- Vergil reading Homer / Robert Fagles, in conversation with Sarah Spence -- Lacrimae rerum: the influence of Vergil / Virtual roundtable, with Karl Kirchwey ... [et al.].