Program with Abstracts
Thursday, March 30, 2023
8:00-9:45 a.m. First Paper Session
Section A: Greek History 1 (Birch)
Michael Gagarin (University of Texas- Austin), presider
Citizens Forged in Flame and Song: the Homeric Hermes, the Apatouria and the Peisistratids, Benjamin S. Haller (Virginia Wesleyan University)
The Seven Sages of Greece as Reconcilers, Susan O. Shapiro (Utah State University)
Solon, Athenian Identity and Global Inequities, Marcus D. Ziemann (Princeton University)
Philippides and Pan: No Spartans needed, Matthew Phipps (University of New Mexico)
Heroic Sacrifice or Tainted Honor: Portraits of Military Suicides in Herodotus’ Histories, Ryan Hom (University of South Florida)
Section B: Roman Archaeology (Cedar)
Cecilia Peek (Brigham Young University), presider
What Happened to Caesar’s Building Projects after 44 BCE?, Connie L. Rodriguez (Benjamin Franklin High School)
Painted Temples: Intersignification between Roman Sanctuary and Home, Sam Ross (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
The Absence of Indigenous Peoples in Scenes of the Capture and Transport of Exotic Animals in Roman Hunting Mosaics, Caleb M. Hammond (University of Arizona)
Seeing Sound in the Pompeian Domus: Soundscape Analysis in the House of the Vestals, Rebecca M. Gaborek (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Antiquity’s Ghosts: William Gell’s Pompeiana and Nineteenth-Century Visions of Rome, Summer R. Trentin (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
Section C: Virgil and His Influence (Elm)
Mitchell H. Parks (Knox College), presider
Corydon’s incondita carmina in Eclogue 2, Matthew W. Sherry (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Satis divinatio: Divination in Virgil’s Eclogues and Horace’s Satires, Laura E. Zollner (University of Kansas)
Virgil’s Deceptive Dream: Lucretian Visions in Aeneid 6, Bryan Carlson (University of Florida/Fort Worth Country Day)
Dead, Living and Unborn meet in Vergil’s Underworld, Samuel Berk-Hinckley (University of Minnesota)
Shepherding Love: Seeing the Song of Songs through the Eyes of the Eclogues, Anthony J. Thomas (University of Minnesota)
Section D: Cicero (Amphitheatre)
Marsha McCoy (Southern Methodist University), presider
Misceri nocturna strage: Night and Day in Cicero’s De Consulatu Suo, Casey Barnett (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
A Missing link: Cicero’s Poetry in the Latin Literary Tradition, Emma Reymann (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Between Familiar and Foreign: Quotation and Romanitas in Cicero Ad Fam.7.6, Anna E. Grant (Yale University)
Persona as Connection: Decorum in Cicero’s De Officiis and Horace’s Ars Poetica, Sophie Webster (Hillsdale College)
Section E: LGBTQ and CAMWS Roundtable (Juniper)
Amy Pistone (Gonzaga University), organizer and presider
10:00-12:00 Second Paper Session Thursday, March 30, 2023
Section A: Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns (Birch)
Andromache Karanika (University of California – Irvine), presider
The role of Γαῖα πελώρη in Hesiod’s Theogony, Alan Hollinger (Baylor University)
Male Suffering and Promethean Punishment in Hesiod’s Theogony, Keyne Cheshire (Davidson College)
Brotherhood in the Hesiodic “Catalogue of Women”, Zoe Stamatopoulou (Washington University in St. Louis)
An Unexpected Epiphany: Hades in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Rachael M. Knodel (The Ohio State University)
Gendered Travel in the Hymn to Demeter, Kate Melberg (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Dionysus: A Successor to Zeus?, Luke Giuntoli (University of Arizona)
Section B: Apollonius’ Argonautica (Cedar)
Laura Zientek (Reed College), presider
Hesiodic Motifs in Apollonius’ Argonautica Book 1, William T. Farris (University of Texas - Austin)
Remember Medea or Remember her Name?, Yelena Erez (The Ohio State University)
ὥς τίς τε: Homeric Similes and Heroic Conduct in the Argonautica, Bramwell Atkins (University of Notre Dame)
Unheroic Deaths in Apollonius’ Argonautica, Guy Rahat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Orpheus the Philosophical Founder in Apollonius’ Argonautica, Laura Marshall (Penn State)
Section C: Science and Magic (Elm)
Georgia L. Irby (William and Mary), presider
The Heliocentric System in Antiquity, Duane W. Roller (The Ohio State University)
What’s Lost and Found in Translations of a Babylonian Astronomical Procedure, E.L. Meszaros (Brown University)
Human dissection and Scientific Method in Greek medicine, Andrew C. Mayo (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
A Not-so-friendly User Manual?: The Utility of Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica, Echo Smith (University of Iowa)
The Magic of Advertising in The Little Beggar (PGM IV.2373-2440), SN Yeager (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
Rhizotomos, Julia S. DiFilippo (University of New Mexico)
Section D: Euripides and Aeschylus (Amphitheatre)
Joshua A . Streeter (The Ohio State University)
Dismantling the heroic tradition in Euripides’ Electra, Timothy Wutrich (Case Western Reserve University)
Medea’s foreshadowed suicide, Joseph R. Baronovic (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Expressions of gender in Medea and Hippolytus, Maia C. Schiller (University of Iowa)
Phaedra’s body as evidence in Euripides’ Hippolytus, Christopher D. Hetherington (La Universidad de Nuevo Mexico)
Ways of being Cassandra: Transformation, Liminalities, and a Possible Third Space, Yoandy Cabrera Ortega (Rockford University)
Section E: Social Media and the public face of Classics: A Roundtable (Juniper)
Osman Umurhan (University of New Mexico), organizer and presider
1:15-3:00 p.m. Third Paper Session Thursday March 30, 2023
Section A: Aspects of Gender in the Classical World (Birch)
Amy Pistone (Gonzaga University), presider
Undercover xenos: The Consequential Effects of Cross-dressing in Thesmophoriazousae and Bacchae, Eleonora Mylli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Is Seeing Believing? Visually Communicating Gender in Herodotus and Ctesias, Rachel Hart (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
Zeus’ proxy womb: Soranus’ Gynecology and the Birth of Dionysus, Miranda Amey (The Ohio State University)
The Performance of Marginalized femininity: Livia’s amicitia in Tacitus’ Annals, Marissa Gurtler (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
The Disrobing of Phryne and her Artistic Receptions, Laura K. McClure (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Section B: Alcaeus and Sappho (Cedar)
Zoe Stamatopoulou (Washington University in St. Louis), presider
In or Out?: Political blame in Alcaeus, Marco Saldaña (University of California, Los Angeles)
The Panicked Alcaeus, Patrick L. Callahan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Come back, Be here: An Analysis of Archilochus’ fragment 24 and Sappho’s Brothers Poem, Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Wine Pour the Nectar: Poetesses, Pleasure, and the Female Gaze, Lauren Alberti (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
Section C: Language and Linguistics (Elm)
David B. Wharton (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), presider
A semantic reappraisal of Umbrian *-nky- perfects, Thomas Francis (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Information richness’ and the development of basic color terms: the case of Latin, David B. Wharton (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Genus a generando: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Varro, Rebecca M. Faletti (Randolph-Macon College)
Section D: Roman Elegy (Juniper)
Tom Keeline (Washington University in St. Louis), presider
Burial and Bodies in Tibullus and Propertius, Colette M. Churchill (Sturgis Charter Public School)
Propertius 1.16 and the Publication of the Monobiblos ‘post-Heslin’: A Modest Proposal for a Small, but Significant Adjustment, Barbara Weinlich (Arizona State University)
Bloody love: Sanguinolenta in Ovid’s Elegiac Poetry, Ryan M. Baldwin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Coniugis exemplum: Playing with Persona in Pont.3.1, Joy E. Reeber (University of Arkansas - Fayetteville)
The praeceptor doloris: Ovid’s Persona in the Ars and the Letters from Exile, Nicholas Bolig (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Section F: Furies, Witches, Monsters and Sorceresses: Fantastic Women in (and out of) the Classical Past: Panel (Amphitheater)
Marsha McCoy (Southern Methodist University), presider and organizer
Nymph, Witch, Sorceress, and Beyond: The Shifting Faces of Circe, Marsha McCoy (Southern Methodist University)
Ovid's Hitwomen: Monsters for Hire in the Metamorphoses, Miriam Kamil (Hamilton College)
The Snake and the Procuress: Ovid, Lucan, and Seductive Disruptors of Roman Virtues, Sophie Emilia Seidler (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Fantastic Women in Apuleius' Metamorphoses, Evelyn Adkins (Case Western Reserve University)
Respondent: Debbie Felton (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
3:00-3:15 p.m. Break
3:15-5:00 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Thursday, March 30, 2023
Section A: New Lenses on the Ancient World (Birch)
Connie L. Rodriguez (Ben Franklin High School), presider
Racial and Disciplinary Language in Classical studies: A Quantitative Study of Three Collections, Joseph P. Dexter (Harvard University) and Bihan Dasgupta (Brookline High School) and Pramit Chaudhuri (University of Texas – Austin)
Social Network Analysis as a form of Source Criticism in Plutarch, Brendan McCarthy (Utah Valley University)
Similar Persecution, Different Colonizers: A look at Addition C of the LXX Esther through a Decolonial Lens, Richard J. Palmer (University of Kentucky) and Lior D. Wiener (University of Kentucky)
Using Data Science Tools and Methods to Extract the story of Tyche of Antioch on Roman Provincial Coins, Nicole D. McCarthy (University of Houston)
Section B: The Iliad (Cedar)
David J. Schenker (University of Missouri-Columbia), presider
Dolos and Metis in the Doloneia: an Odyssean Aristeia, David L. Jacks II (Baylor University)
Death Dogs: Justifications for Dog Sacrifice in the Funeral of Patroclus, Aubrey Crum (University of Georgia)
A Sign of Zeus’ Favor: The Use of χειμών in the Iliad, Rachel Donnelly (University of Kansas)
Homer’s Rational Animals: Theory of Mind in Early Greek Thought, Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr. (University of New Mexico)
Section C: Ancient Philosophy (Elm)
Mike Pope (Brigham Young University), presider
What kind of Books did the Sophists Write?, Michael Gagarin (University of Texas -Austin)
A Necessary Tension: ἐραστής vs. ἐρώμενος and Philosophy vs. Politics in the Speech of Alcibiades of Plato’s Symposium, Eleanor K. Choi (Independent Researcher)
Diogenes of Oenoanda’s Criticism of Plato’s Psychology, Zakarias D. Gram (University of California at Los Angeles)
Homonymously Human: Aristotle’s Brutish Character in Nicomachean Ethics, Audrey L. Anton (Western Kentucky University)
When Anxiety Becomes Desire: Lucretius and Lacan, Dean Murphy (University of Texas - Austin)
Section D: Sex and Violence in Imperial Rome (Juniper)
Karl Baughman (Prairie View A&M University), presider
On Tacitus: Evidence for Intimate Partner Violence in Early Imperial Rome, Julia M. Perroni (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Dreams and Incest in the Julio-Claudian Lives of Suetonius, Rachael Cullick (Oklahoma State University)
Rethinking the Circumcised Phallus in Martial’s Epigrams, Bartolo A. Natoli (Randolph Macon College)
A Piece of Humble Pie: The Process of Sacrifice in Seneca’s Thyestes, Christine Ellis (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
Section E: Livy (Sycamore)
T. Davina McClain (Scholars’ College at Northwestern State University), presider
Carthaginian Kings, Consuls and Praetors: The Suffetes and their Roman Equivalents in Livy, Trevor Lee (The Ohio State University)
Triste exemplum: Livy’s Manlius Torquatus in the Political Imagination, Daniel Orr (Duke University)
Ethnic Prejudice and Violence in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita: The Gauls as a Case Study, Nathan M. Kish (Scripps College)
Pretium Operae: Intertexts in Pomponius Mela’s Statement of Purpose, Georgia L. Irby (William and Mary)
Section F: Religion, Classics, and Queerness at BYU: Panel (Amphitheater)
David Delbar (University of Chicago) and Allen Kendall (University of Michigan), organizers; David Delbar (University of Chicago), presider
Mormons and Romans and Gays (Oh My!), David Delbar (University of Chicago)
The Fall of Rome and Family Values: Classical Reception and Moral Values in LDS General Conference (1970-1989), Ky Merkley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
A Gay Man Studies Classics at BYU: Lessons in Inclusive Pedagogy, Allen Kendall (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
Friday, March 31, 2023
8:00-9:45 a.m. Fifth Paper Session
Section A: Greek Archaeology (Birch)
Duane Roller (The Ohio State University), presider
Accoutrements of wealth: Mycenean palatial structures and Homeric Palaces in the Odyssey, Rebecca Sanders (University of Arizona)
Athena and Phrontis at Ancient Sounion, Aileen Ajootian (University of Mississippi)
Masks and Magic: The Frontal Face on Vases as a Representation of Apotropaic Power, Isabel Matias (University of Arizona)
The Shelby Collection: Provenance and Stylistic Analysis of Limestone Cypriote Heads, Delaney Fisher (University of Arizona)
Olive trees as Witnesses to the Longue Durée, Alexis M. Christensen (University of Utah)
Section B: Attic Comedy (Cedar)
Timothy Wutrich (Case Western Reserve University), presider
Married…with paides: Women and Children in the Comic Audience, Robert H. Carpenter (University of Missouri)
Grains, Poverty, and War in Aristophanes, Kristin Lord (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Para prosdokian and the Comic Bit in Aristophanes, Craig Jendza (University of Kansas)
Menander, Julian and Ritual Sacrifice, Mitch D. Brown (William and Mary)
The Silences Between the Lines: Restoring or Revealing Lacunae in Translations of Menander’s Samia, Joshua A. Streeter (The Ohio State University)
Section C: Christians and Pagans (Elm)
David J. White (Baylor University), presider
“A trophy of the cross”: Examining the Purpose of the Constantinian St Peter’s Basilica, Adam Wyatt (University of Notre Dame)
Play in Visions of the Afterlife in the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis, Katherine E. Milco (Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology)
Mystery Cult Terminology among Jews and Christians, Luke Gorton (University of New Mexico)
The Greek Past and the Roman Present in the Writings of the Emperor Julian: Hellenism, Romanitas, and Christianity, Jack T. Oster (University of Notre Dame)
Section D: Roman Republican History (Juniper)
Nathan Kish (Scripps College), presider
Severed Heads, Human Sacrifice and a Good Gallic Death: Death Diplomacy During Caesar’s Campaigns in Gaul, Ashley S. Hunter (North Carolina State University)
Sulla, Caesar, and Selene: Revolutions after Dark, Joel Allen (City University of New York)
Rough Music in Republican Rome, Andrew Gallia (University of Minnesota)
Roman Diplomacy and the End of the Third Macedonian War, Patrick Mullins (Texas Tech University)
Section E: Perspectives on Gender and Genre in Plutarch’s Moralia - Panel (Maple)
Katherine Kopp (Washington University in St. Louis), presider and organizer
Cloelia as a Paradigm of Virtue in Plutarch’s Mulierum Virtutes and Livy, Noah Lawson (Washington University in St. Louis)
Illustrations of Motherhood in the Mulierum Virtutes, Katherine Kopp (Washington University in St. Louis)
Disentangling Family and State: Plutarch’s Reception of Plato’s Republic on Marriage, Patrick Andrews (Washington University in St. Louis)
The Mulierum Virtutes as Miscellany: A Potential Classification for Plutarch’s ‘Unclassifiable’ Work, Emma Bunde (Washington University in St. Louis)
Plutarch’s Participation in Post-Domitian Trauma Literature, Maurice Gonzales (Washington University in St. Louis)
Section F: CAMWS corps and CAMWS at CXX: preserving the voices, celebrating the memories: A Round table (Amphitheater)
Krishni Burns (University of Illinois-Chicago), presider
Section G: Poster Session Display (Sycamore)
Using Photogrammetry to Trace Architectural Variability, Audrey Hoehner (St. Olaf College)
Tresses and Tradition: Egyptian Wigs as Portrayed on Ptolemaic Coins, Aimee R. Bernard (University of Calgary)
A Mycenean Environment: An Analysis of the Textual and Archaeological Data from Pylos, Caleb Andrew Curtis (University of Utah)
Antiqua Divinatio: Explorations of Ancient Fortune Telling, Jolie Voss (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
Leukothea, Helen, and Pasiphae: Female Heroes and Their Cults, Bridget Kelly (University of Utah)
Livy's Dead History: An Analysis of Feminine Agency in Classical Latin Texts, Zachary Thiede (University of Utah)
Infelix Dido: Teaching Suicide Prevention Alongside Virgil’s Aeneid, Rachel Becker (University of Puget Sound)
The Brush is Mightier Than The Sword: Ovidian Makeup as Defensive Strategy Against the Critical Male Gaze, Charnice Hoegnifioh (Yale University)
9:45-10:00 a.m. Break
10:00-12:00 Sixth Paper Session Friday, March 31, 2023
Section A: Greek History 2 (Birch)
Susan O. Shapiro (Utah State University), presider
A Persian Tyranny in Athenian Discourse, Marko Vitas (Brown University)
Homeric Metaphors in Thucydides’ Account of the Athenian Plague (Book 2.47-54), Camilla Basile (University of Virginia)
New Directions for the Athenian Empire after the Sicilian Disaster, Nicholas Cross (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy)
The Fall of the Four Hundred, George E. Pesely (Austin Peay State University)
Xenophon’s Arcadian Anabasis, Joshua MacKay (University of Virginia)
“Soter” and Divine Honors for Ptolemy 1, again, Mary Frances Williams (Independent Scholar)
Section B: Tacitus and Tiberius (Cedar)
Catherine Keane (Washington University in St. Louis), presider
Epic history: The Hexametric Opening of Tacitus’ Annals, Branden D. Kosch (University of Dallas)
Characterization in Germanicus’ Dying Speech, Emma N. Warhover (Grand Valley State University)
The Characterization of Germanicus and the German Campaign: Tacitus’ View of the Early Principate, Cecilia M. Peek (Brigham Young University)
Egypt: School of Empire, claustrum imperii, Mark D. Buzbee (University of Tennessee - Chattanooga)
Section C: Epic Receptions (Elm)
Roger T. Macfarlane (Brigham Young University), presider
“But you’re keeping the outfit, right?”: Iliadic Allusion in Captain America: The First Avenger, Isabella C. Brennan (Knox College)
Reconsidering Nostos: László Krasznahorkai’s chasing Homer and the Odyssey, Kaitlin Karmen (University of Michigan)
Heroes and Heroines: A Modern Approach to the Epic Journey, Kathleen Burt (Middle Georgia State University)
Virgil, National Identity, and C. H. Sisson’s “Descent”, Martin W. Michalek (Johns Hopkins University)
Section D: Statius (Juniper)
Stephen Kershner (Brigham Young University), presider
Boarlikeness in the Odyssey and the Thebaid, Benjamin W. Claessens (The University of the South)
The Epic Midwifery of Thetis: Birth and Female Planning in Statius’ Thebaid, Sarah C. Keith (University of Michigan)
Rewriting the Thebaid: Pietas and the Furies in Silvae 3.3 and 5.2, Giulio Celotto (University of Virginia)
Touch Me and You’ll Burn: Fire and Foresight in Statius’ Achilleid, Chloe Chow (Northwestern University)
Section E: Rethinking Antiquity Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Amphitheater)
Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina) and Mario Telò (University of California-Berkeley), organizers
Presider: Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina)
History, Aitiology and the Death Drive, Karen Bassi (University of California-Santa Cruz)
Tragedy, Christianity, and the Death Drive, Simon H. Goldhill (Cambridge University)
Bodies that Shatter: Carnage and the Sense of a (Not) Ending in Tibullus 2.6, Micaela Janan (Duke University)
Motherhood and/as the Death-Drive in The Lost Daughter and the Myth of Leda, Helen Morales (University of California-Santa Barbara) and Mario Telò (University of California-Berkeley)
Classics Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Dan Orrells (Kings College, London)
Respondent: Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina)
Section F: The Latin Novel (Maple)
Evelyn Adkins (Case Western Reserve University), presider
Durus to mollis: Tibullan Allusion in Petronius’ Quartilla and Circe Encounters, Luke Perez (University of Iowa)
Explorations of Neoplatonism and Feminine Divinity in Apuleius’ “Cupid and Psyche”, Cristina de la Luz (Austin Peay State University)
Religious Language in the Risus Festival (Apul. Met. 3.1-3.11) and the First Reader, Hannah Resnick (University of Notre Dame)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Seventh Paper Session Friday, March 31, 2023
Section A: Homer (Birch)
Lorenzo F. Garcia Jr. (University of New Mexico), presider
Regret in Homeric Epic, Ruth Scodel (University of Michigan/University of California at Davis)
Thumos and psyche as Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Arousal in the Homeric Poems, Benjamin John (The Ohio State University)
Aspectual Distinctions in the Homeric Past Tense, James Aglio (Boston University)
Homer as a Cup: Homeric Allusions in Theocritus Idyll 1, Howard C. Nielson (Brigham Young University)
The Homeric Use of ὀνομάζω in Informal Supplication, Jonathan K. Hanna (Brigham Young University)
Section B: Dramatic Receptions (Cedar)
Seth Jeppesen (Brigham Young University), presider
Ismene’s Antigone: Rereading Sophocles through Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, Arum Park (University of Arizona)
(Re) constructing Aeschylus: A Story of two Unsuccessful Productions in Moscow Art Theatre, Ekaterina But (Independent scholar)
The Twilight of Robert E. Sherwood, or How I learned to Start Worrying and Fear the Bomb, Robert J. Rabel (University of Kentucky)
Ars adeo latet arte sua: George Bernard Shaw’s Use of Ovid in Pygmalion, MaryLou Brown (Hillsdale College)
Section C: Money and Economics (Elm)
Alexis M. Christensen (University of Utah), presider
Andocides, Agyrrios, and tax-farming: collusion and bid-rigging or self-selecting and self-insuring financial syndicates, Andrew Foster (Fordham University)
City of Thunder: numismatics and civic space in Seleucia Pieria, Jordan H. Brady (North Carolina State University)
Quantifying the philanthropy of a Roman general: numismatic evidence and Lucullus’ financial “help” to the Ephesians, Antonello Mastronardi (University of Michigan)
Section D: Greek Poetry (Juniper)
Benjamin S. Haller (Virginia Wesleyan University), presider
A Metapoetic Reading of Leonidas AP 7.198, Nina Raby (University of Virginia)
Bacchylides and the Self-effacing Narrator of the Dithyrambs, Andrew Hagerty (Townsend Harris High School)
Spring-plucked Songs: Sound and Space in Pindar fr. 755SM, Katelin Mikos (University of Michigan)
Pindar as Indo-European Poet in Pindar Pythian Ode 1, Samuel L. Green (University of Virginia)
Section E: Beyond Staging Greek Tragedy Today: Pedagogy of Teaching Ancient Theater. A TIGR Workshop (Amphitheatre)
Robert Groves (University of Arizona) and Timothy Wutrich (Case Western Reserve University), organizers and presiders
Section F: What is Gender in Antiquity?: Applying Queer and Trans Methodologies to Classics: A Roundtable (Maple)
Ky Merkley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), organizer and presider
Section G: Undergraduate Poster Presentation (Sycamore)
Brendan McCarthy (Utah Valley University), presider
Using Photogrammetry to Trace Architectural Variability, Audrey Hoehner (St. Olaf College)
Tresses and Tradition: Egyptian Wigs as Portrayed on Ptolemaic Coins, Aimee R. Bernard (University of Calgary)
A Mycenean Environment: An Analysis of the Textual and Archaeological Data from Pylos, Caleb Andrew Curtis (University of Utah)
Antiqua Divinatio: Explorations of Ancient Fortune Telling, Jolie Voss (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
Leukothea, Helen, and Pasiphae: Female Heroes and Their Cults, Bridget Kelly (University of Utah)
Livy’s Dead History: An Analysis of Feminine Agency in Classical Latin Texts, Zachary Thiede (University of Utah)
Infelix Dido: Teaching Suicide Prevention Alongside Virgil’s Aeneid, Rachel Becker (University of Puget Sound)
The Brush is Mightier Than The Sword: Ovidian Makeup as Defensive Strategy Against the Critical Male Gaze, Charnice Hoegnifioh (Yale University)
Break: 3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
3:30-5:00 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Friday March 31, 2023
Section A: Greek Drama (Birch)
Kristin Lord (Wilfrid Laurier University), presider
Minor Characters in Attic Tragedy: A Central Marginality, Eleonora Falini (Florida State University)
Queering Agathon; Orientation in Fragments, Lane Flores (University of Texas - Austin)
Dancing with Ambivalence: Rhetorical Magic and Ambiguity in Greek Drama, Allannah Karas (University of Miami)
New(ish) Evidence for Drama on Rhodes, Paul M. Touyz (University of Kansas)
Section B: Women and Other Outsiders (Cedar)
Katrina L. Kuxhausen-DeRose (University of Arizona), presider
Women and Disabilities in the Ancient Greek Society, Jacqueline Bither (Eckerd College)
The Expressive Effects of Civic Education: Women, Slaves and Foreigners at Athens, Joshua Allbright (University of Southern California)
Women’s Economic Participation in Ancient Greece: A Re-examination through Property Records, Maice N. Clanton (Eckerd College)
Nontraditional Pathways in Roman Education: Outsiders or Role Models? Late Learners, Autodidacts, and Disabled Students, Sinja Küppers (Duke University)
The Legend of Zenobia: Memorializing a Warrior Queen, Katrina L. Kuxhausen-DeRose (University of Arizona)
Section C: Roman Epic: Ovid and Lucan (Elm)
Anne Groton (St. Olaf College), presider
Victa libidine: Ovid’s Naturalistic Portrayal of Forbidden Love in the Metamorphoses, Michael Frost (Hillsdale College)
From Apollo to Cipus: Augustan Iconography and the Framing of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Alexander Konieczny (University of Virginia)
Homosexuality, Romanness and dismemberment in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Tiziano Boggio (University of Cincinnati)
Rivers as Roman Mnemotropes in Lucan’s Bellum Civile, Laura Zientek (Reed College)
Section D: Lucian and the Greek Novel (Juniper)
Maurice Gonzales (University of Washington in St. Louis), presider
Narrative Identity in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans V, Clare Kearns (Brown University)
Satirized Theodicy: Divine Justice in Lucian’s Dialogues, Samuel Reich (University of Notre Dame)
Two-sided Faithfulness: Reception of the Greek novel within the Acts of Andrew, William LaMarra (University of Michigan)
Section E: Reception and the Visual (Amphitheater)
Stephanie McCarter (University of the South, Sewanee), presider
Latin and Greek in Movies, Wolfgang Polleichtner (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Deceit in the Gardens of Versailles: The Reception of Hesiod’s Pandora, Samantha Doleno (Washington University in St. Louis)
“All the rumors are true.” Polychromy and Representation in Lizzo’s “Rumors”, Milo Rackow (Eckerd College)
Section F: Presidential Panel: Religion, Faith, Personhood and Classics (Maple)
Sophie J. V. Mills (University of North Carolina-Asheville), presider
Introduction, Sophie J. V. Mills (University of North Carolina-Asheville)
BYU, The Office of Belonging, and My Experience, Blake Fisher (Brigham Young University)
Faith and Life as a Trans Student at BYU, Alexis Hovorka (Brigham Young University)
Some Surprising Twists from the God Who Makes All Things New, Julia D. Hejduk (Baylor University)
CAMWS Looking Back and Moving Forward, T. Davina McClain (Scholars’ College at Northwestern State University/CAMWS)
Saturday, April 1, 2023
10:30-12:30 Ninth Paper Session
Section A: Race and Reception (Birch)
Heather Vincent (Eckerd College), presider
Classical Elements in the Bookplates of three African-American Intellectuals: Alain Locke (1885-1954), Charles H. Wesley (1891-1987) and Countee Cullen (1903-1946), Michele Valerie Ronnick (Wayne State University)
Canon, Race, and Gender in Elizabeth Colombaa’s Daphne, Stephanie McCarter (University of the South, Sewanee)
Adding Caricature: Adapting Racist Imagery in Asterix and Stories of the East from Herodotus, Krishni Burns (University of Illinois Chicago)
Section B: Epigraphy (Cedar)
Rhodora Vennarrucci (University of Arkansas), presider
Cultic Graffiti in the Basilica of Saint Felix, Cimitile, Melissa V. Yorio (University of Notre Dame)
The Relationship between Mothers and Children in the Delphic Manumission Inscriptions, Maddie B. Hoaglund (University of Notre Dame)
The Body of the Scribe, Michael A. Freeman (Duke University)
Virgil and the Literary Graffiti in the House of M. Casellius Marcellus, Rachel Murray (University of Arkansas)
Section C: Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and Rome: panel (Elm)
Mary H. Gilbert (Birmingham-Southern College) and Edith Gwendolyn Nally (University of Missouri-Kansas City), organizers and presiders
Too Much Theory? On Authorial Intention, Anachronism, and Close Reading, Edith Gwendolyn Nally (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Feminist Retellings and Feminist Epistemologies, Amy Pistone (Gonzaga University)
The Viability of Feminist Stoicism: On the Compatibility of Stoic and Feminist Epistemology, Chelsea Bowden (University of Kansas)
Women’s Knowledge in Eumolpus’ “Widow of Ephesus”, Debra Freas (Wellesley College)
“Intelleximus passionem esse futuram”: The Sensual Epistemology of Vibia Perpetua, Mary H. Gilbert (Birmingham-Southern College)
Respondent: Erika Zimmermann Damer (University of Richmond)
Section D: The Odyssey (Maple)
Alexander Loney (Wheaton College), presider
Stolen or Fabricated Identity? On Beggars, House Slaves, and Composite Disguises in the Odyssey, Mason Barto (Duke University)
Cruel Immortalities in Odyssey 5, Timothy Heckenlively (Baylor University)
The Eternal Phaeacians: New Evidence for an Old Problem, Justin Arft (University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
Section E: Literary Stoics and Epicureans (Amphitheater)
Stephen Bay (Brigham Young University), presider
Training the Bulls Within: Epicurean Mastery of the Passions in Vergil’s Georgics 3, Stephen M. Kershner (Austin Peay State University)
“Lutum es”: Human Care in Persius and Hyginus, Mason Wheelock-Johnson (Lawrence University)
Grief and Gender in Seneca’s Consolatio ad Marciam, Panagiotis Sotiroudis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Serving the Right Master: The Metaphor of Slavery in Paul and Seneca the Younger’s Epistulae Morales, Jackson C. Abhau (University of Arizona)
Section F: Inclusive classrooms: Three Perspectives and Strategies (Juniper)
Theodore A. Tarkow (University of Missouri), organizer and presider
Three Little Words, Robin Anderson (Phoenix Country Day School)
Invite, Welcome, Share and Engage: How Can We Do Better?, Jane Brinley (School Without Walls)
Latin as a Required Course: Possibilities, Challenges, and Successes Relative to DEI, Bryan Whitchurch (Washington Latin Public Charter School)
Section G: Comprehensible Input in the Latin Classroom: Questions, Answers and Conversations – A Roundtable (Sycamore)
Evan J. Armacost (Culver Academies), organizer and presider
1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Tenth Paper Session Saturday, April 1, 2023
Section A: Pedagogy 1 (Birch)
Evan J. Armacost (Culver Academies), presider
From Catalog to Classroom: Rehabilitating a Classics Collection for Educational Use, Ella Crenshaw (University of Oklahoma)
The Narrative Pathways Project at Ostia Antica: a Pedagogy of Place for Classics Study Abroad Programs, Rhodora G. Vennarucci (University of Arkansas)
Teaching the Text: Integrating Paleography and Textual Criticism with Introductory Language Instruction, Rachel J. Rucker (University of Iowa)
Designing Online Latin for Student Success, Lisa Ellison (East Carolina University)
Section B: Animals and Gardens (Cedar)
Katherine Panagakos (Stockton University and Eta Sigma Phi), presider
Representing the Soul In Images Of Mythical Metamorphosis, Erik Yingling (Brigham Young University)
Columella Res Rustica X and XI: de cultu hortorum, take two, David J. White (Baylor University)
The Impact Of Chariot Breast Collars on Horse Breathing, Alexandra T. McMillen (University of Kansas)
Roma cuniculosa? Rabbits and Hares in the Ancient World, James Macksoud (Stanford University)
Section C: Catullus and his Influence (Elm)
Joy E. Reeber (University of Arkansas – Fayetteville), presider
An Insignificant Weed: War-Torn Loss in Catullus 11, Hpone M. Tu (University of New Mexico)
Staging an Ekphrasis: Theatric Environment and Multimedia in Catullus 64, Joseph H. Droegemueller (University of Michigan)
Filial Anxiety in the Poetry of Sulpicia, Jillian G. White (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Section D: Sophocles and Others (Juniper)
Keyne Cheshire (Davidson College), presider
Hunger and Heroism in Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Zachary M. Haines (University of Virginia)
Narrative Negotiations in Sophocles’ Ajax, Molly Mata (Rutgers)
Fathers and Sons on the Tragic Stage, Victor Castellani (University of Denver)
Section E: Pixelia press: Caesar’s BG VII Online - A Roundtable (Amphitheatre)
John Lanier (Stanford Online High School), organizer and presider
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session Saturday, April 1, 2023
Section A: Late Antiquity (Birch)
Luke Gorton (University of New Mexico), presider
The Relative Economics of Merchant Vessel Rigging, Noah Simmons (University of Arizona)
Wielding Fama as a Weapon: Augustine’s Epistula 151, Doug Clapp (Samford University)
The Porphyry Sarcophagi of Constantinople, Collin G. Parks (The Ohio State University)
Snuffing the Fire: Contextualizing the Temple of Vesta in the Late Antique Roman Forum, Benjamin R. Davis (University of California, Los Angeles)
Reconsidering Spatial Consensus and Communal Agency in Late Antique Urbanism, Jonas Tai (Stanford University)
Section B: Rhetoric, Poetry and History (Cedar)
Kathleen Kidder (University of Houston), presider
“To the Superlative”: Intertextual Parallels between Alexander’s Last Words and the Golden Apple of Eris, Alexander P. Kiprof (University of Arizona)
Isocrates’ Evagoras as Paradoxical Encomium, Mitchell H. Parks (Knox College)
Athens and Attica in Lycophron’s Alexandra: Abduction, Conflict, and Cultural Exchange between Myth and History, Kathleen Kidder (University of Houston)
Lucan’s Elegiac Loser, or Why Pompey Can’t Get Lucky, Julia D. Hejduk (Baylor University)
Section C: Hades and Other Worlds (Elm)
Michele Valerie Ronnick (Wayne State University), presider
Persephone and Hades in Popular Romance: Retellings vs. Intertextual Metaphor, Margaret M. Toscano (University of Utah)
A Daydreamer’s Antiquity: the Classical World of Edward Lucas White, Gregory N. Daugherty (Randolph-Macon College)
Name One Hero who was Happy in the End: Agency, Grief, and Regret in Hades, Oliver Richards (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Empowering Eurydice to Rescue Orpheus: Riyoko Ikeda’s Orufeuso no Mado (1975-1981), Roger T. Macfarlane (Brigham Young University)
Section D: Pedagogy 2 (Amphitheater)
Lisa Ellison (East Carolina University), presider
Structuring the Large Myth Class for Better Papers and Less Grading, Sydnor Roy (Texas Tech University)
General Education Courses in English and Metacognition, Philip S. Peek (Bowling Green State University)
“To Learn From”: an Approach to In-Translation Classics Courses, Blanche C. McCune (College of Charleston)
Authentic Texts in the Latin Classroom: Problems and Solutions, Evan J. Armacost (Culver Academies)
Teaching through Song, Thomas W. Manning (Copper Hills High School)