Exedra Bulgarica is a summer gathering where students of classical languages from different countries come together to discuss topics from ancient times that are still relevant today in Latin and Ancient Greek – the languages of the authors themselves. In antiquity, exedra or ἐξέδρα was a place where people of learning would come together to engage in intellectual disputations on various topics. The aim of the project is to use ancient texts as a mirror of our own times through which we can better understand ourselves and the world in which we live.  Thus, students will have the opportunity to both enhance their knowledge of the languages and reflect on human nature in dialogue with the ancients. The topic of this year’s edition will be ‘Fontes et Interpretamenta: Sources and Interpretations’, through which we will be able to explore the ways in which authors have borrowed topics, style, and concepts from earlier times and writers and have alluded to them in their own writings, thereby reflecting both ideas and ideals from the past. We will discuss the ways in which later authors have these allusions and how such connections with the past, be they philosophical, historical, or literary, benefit the present.