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Eco-pedagogy is an interdisciplinary educational framework focused on the intersection of social and environmental systems. This lightning talk presents the advantages of incorporating the eco-pedagogical goals of awareness, accountability, and resilience into classical literature courses and proposes using the relationship between ancient heroes and the natural world as a lens for discussing the impact of human activity on the environment.

Teaching global reception is one way to diversify studies of the Ancient Mediterranean. This talk will focus on incorporating Mari Yamazaki’s Thermae Romae, a Japanese manga series set during Hadrian’s reign, into Roman culture courses. From this example, the session will facilitate discussions on teaching Classical Antiquity with modern materials more familiar and relevant to underrepresented students.

A recent post on the Classical architecture of Chicago in the SCS blog "Ancient Worlds Modern Communities" prompted reflections on the Classical Architecture of Indianapolis. This talk will focus on six buildings designed in the neo-Classical style.
The presentation may inspire others to look at the buildings in their own towns to help students appreciate Greco-Roman contributions.

This talk evaluates how developing the 2022 adaptation “La Medéa” effects multilingual re-translation of Greek tragedy into the Spanish language through the business of theatrical production; recovery of dynamics between Greek, English, and Spanish; and communal development of a script. This speaks on how to mount a Greek tragedy for a multilingual audience, with hopes for revitalizing interest in ancient drama.

This talk discusses applying Universal Design for Learning principles to language pedagogy, focusing on introductory-level Latin classes. A case study is used to show how providing multiple means of representation assists in acquiring new content, and how student mastery can be demonstrated via multiple means of action/expression; providing multiple means of engagement can also help attract and retain students.

I attempt to reconstruct how Ralph Ellison’s readings at Tuskegee and his work at the Federal Writers Project shaped the development of his understanding of the nature of Homeric orality, its relation to jazz and the blues, and ultimately his own role as author.

Xenia, proxenia, and other formal or informal delegations and diplomatic interactions (such as angeloi; presbeis; apostoloi; spondophoroi) between Athens and Sparta in the classical period represent a subset of data surrounding interstate transactions and political actors.

Ovid’s Tristia manipulates temporal and spatial distances in its exilic strategies. In many poems the poet evokes death in his descriptions of Tomis, placing himself in the underworld and attempting, through poetry, to move from death to the living world. I suggest that this reversal of the poetic-katabasis trope, famously attached to Orpheus, takes on a Dionysiac-mystic tone in Tr. 5.3, which employs mystic-ritual strategies and dithyrambic characteristics to comment on both Ovid’s death-like position and his poetic activity.

The Tree of Faunus (Aen. 12.766-790) may be modeled after the olive stump that is the recognition token between Odysseus and Penelope (Villalba). The Trojans cut down the intertextual tree (Thomas; Hinds) upon which sailors dedicated garments in thanks for divine protection. Yet why is Faunus associated with the sea (Tarrant)? Detecting allusion to Horace's "Pyrrha Ode", Ferenczi asks, "Why . . .

This paper examines allusive references to the works of Messalla Corvinus in the early poetry of Ovid, and argues that Ovid deploys these references for a knowing audience in order to honor his benefactor in a manner other than explicit poetic dedication. I identify a reference to Messalla in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria unmentioned by previous commentators (such as Brandt 1902, Janka 1997), and I parallel it with a known reference to a famous Messalla bon mot in Amores 1.3 (Barsby 1975, Gagliardi 1984).