Reading/Q&A/book launch of South African poet Richard Whitaker’s new translation of Vergil’s Eclogues, on November 4, 4:15-5:30 pm in Gilman 108, sponsored by JHU Classics. Vergil’s 39 BCE poem, composed as Rome’s empire was succumbing to civil war and autocracy, already meditates on land rights, displacement, forced migration, colonialism, slavery, and the environment. Dr Whitaker’s […]