Vergil's Rome and the American experience
Contributors: Vergilian Society
Series: The Augustan age. Occasional papers -- no. 1; Augustan age -- no. 1
Publisher: The Vergilian Society of America
Published: 1987
Place of publication: College Park, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Virgil -- Influence -- Congresses; United States -- Civilization -- Congresses; Rome -- History -- Augustus, 3O B.C.-14 A.D. -- Congresses
Notes: "Papers of a public program, 'Novus Ordo Seclorum: Vergil's Rome and the American Experience,' sponsored by The Vergilian Society of America, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, held in Washington, DC, June 25-26, 1987."

Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Novus Ordo Seclorum: Vergil's Rome and the American experience / S.F. Wiltshire; title: Roman virtues and the American experience / M. Reinhold; title: The Northern passage to Hesperia: Vergil and Quebec / A.G. McKay; title: Vergil's Rome and the cosmos of Southern literature / L. Cowan; title: Odysseus, Aeneas and Huckleberry Finn / V.J. Cleary; title: The Roman ideal of beauty and the American experience / W.L. Vance; title: Horation Greenough's George Washington / V.G. Fryd; title: The uses and dangers of the past / M. Cunliffe