Detailed Program of Sessions: 2025 Annual Meeting

Last Revised: 12/11/2024

This is a detailed listing of sessions for the 2025 Annual Meeting, including panels, seminars, workshops, and roundtables. While there will be events taking place on Thursday, January 2nd, there will be no paper sessions on that day.

For the Program Outline, which will include a summary of all special events and sessions, please visit the Program Outline page, and for more information on Registration and Hotel Reservations, please visit the 2025 Annual Meeting page.

Please note that all times listed are Eastern Time (ET).

Thursday January 2nd, 2025–Sunday January 5th, 2025
Friday, January 3rd (First–Third Session blocks)
Saturday, January 4th (Fourth–Sixth Session blocks)
Sunday, January 5th (Seventh–Ninth Session blocks)

In the program outline below, SCS Staff and the Program Committee tried to minimize thematic scheduling conflicts. However, some session blocks may have thematic overlaps, due to individual scheduling needs and available space.

If you notice a typo or an error in the information below, please submit the corrected information through the following form. Any corrections submitted after November 15th, 2024 will be updated online, but are unable to be updated in the print program: Typo Correction Form

Friday, January 3, 2025
First Paper Session (10 sessions)
8:00am–10:30am, 401-403 (Hybrid)	SCS-1: HYBRID: The Heroides and Their Tradition (organized by the International Ovidian Society) Daniel Libatique, Fairfield University, and Alicia Matz, San Diego State University, Organizers Daniel Libatique, Fairfield University and Alicia Matz, San Diego State University Introduction Shona Edwards, University of Adelaide Dido’s swan song: Poetic legacy in Ovid’s Heroides 7 Sebastian Hyams, Oxford University The Limitations of Male Authorship: The Construction of Gender and Female Experience in Ovid, Heroides 16–21 Millie Marriott, Universities of Bristol and Exeter 15 Heroines: The Digital World of Ovid’s Heroines Emma Scioli, University of Kansas Intercorporeality and the Rhetoric of the Body in Heroides 13 Ashley Walker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Epistolarity in Early Modern Illustrations of Ovid’s Heroides
8:00am–10:30am, 407-409	SCS-2: Roman Historiography Luca Grillo, University of Notre Dame, Presider Devin Lawson, Bryn Mawr College “It’s Murder to Found a Colony”: Roman (Re)foundations in Livy Kathryn Langenfeld, Clemson University Firmus and the Crocodiles Revisited: Egyptian Imagery and Imperial Anxiety in the Historia Augusta’s Life of the Four Tyrants Kelsey Schalo, University of Cincinnati Tacitus and the ‘Noble’ Barbarian Family as Hostage Daniel Hunter, Rutgers University - New Brunswick Appian’s Narrative of the “Asiatic Vespers” and Comparison with Genocide Narratives in the earlier Judaeo-Christian Literary tradition Fabrizio Feraco, University of Calabria Water and fire in the battle of Strasbourg: Ammianus Marcellinus, 16.12
8:00am–10:30am, 411-412	SCS-3: ISNS Panel: The Geographies of Plato(ism) (organized by the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies) Sara Ahbel-Rappe, University of Michigan, Organizer Sara Ahbel-Rappe, University of Michigan Introduction Daniel Rose, Florida State University Plato and the geography of an empire in the myth of Atlantis Eleonora Falini, Florida State University The geography of literary genres in Plato’s myths Ben John, Ohio State University Mapping the Mind, Body, and Cosmos in the Chaldean Oracles Jeremy Swist, Grand Valley State University Founding Rome as a Capital of Theurgic Hellenism: Romulus, Numa, and Julian Mostafa Younesi, Independent Scholar Textual Analysis of Al-Shahrastani's Narration of Plato's Opinions
8:00am–10:30am, 414-415	SCS-4: Education and Rhetoric Laura Viidebaum, New York University, Presider Melody Wauke, Columbia University Fictive Kinship through Rhetorical Training in Philostratus and Lucian Rebecca Frank, Colby College The Son of… Draco? Alexander the Great in Ptolemy the Quail’s Kaine Historia Luiza dos Santos Souza, University of Cincinnati Language education in Quintilian as an instrument of social stratification and Romanization Mary Rosalie Stoner, Yale University Wanting Better Things for Seneca: Reading Velle in Institutio Oratoria 10.1.125-131 Elizabeth Lavender, Yale University A Second Sicily: Nurture and Artifact in 'On the Restoration of the Schools'
8:00am–10:30am, Salon G	SCS-5: Queer Space and Time Amy Pistone, Gonzaga University, Presider Sinead Brennan-McMahon, Stanford University Queer Spaces in Pompeii?: Phallic Aesthetics and Shared Communities Tiffany VanWinkoop, University of Wisconsin-Madison Cruising to Byzantium: Queer futurity in The History of Michael Attaleiates Cypris (Em) Roalsvig, UC Santa Barbara Queer Time and Embodied Ekphrasis in Catullus 64 Rachel Rucker, University of Iowa μόνα δὴ νὼ λελειμμένα: Ismene’s Queer Sisterhood
8:00am–10:30am, Salon H (Hybrid)	SCS-6: HYBRID: Reception of Tragedy Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan, Presider Nebojsa Todorovic, Harvard University Tragedies of Disintegration: Balkanizing Greco-Roman Antiquity Sergiusz Kazmierski, University of Regensburg Hölderlin as Interpreter - Interpreting Hölderlin. On Sophocles' Antigone, vv. 332-52 Andrew Ntapalis, Harvard University Social Poetry and the Reception of Sophocles’ Philoctetes in Greek Modernism Yoandy Cabrera Ortega, Rockford University Ways of Being Cassandra: Transformation, Liminalities, and a Possible Third Space
8:00am–10:30am, Salon I (Hybrid)	SCS-7: HYBRID: Greek Law and Oratory Ifigeneia Giannadaki, University of Florida, Presider Andrew Wolpert, University of Florida Fear and Anger in Lysias 12, Against Eratosthenes Gavin Blasdel, University of Groningen Ordo Areopagitarum Atheniensium? Rethinking the Roman Areopagos Eric Wesley Driscoll, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Athenian Juristocracy? Scrutiny of the Law as Democratic Ritual Davide Napoli, Harvard University Against Common Sense: Performing Dissent in Sophistic Speeches Sarah Breitenfeld, University of Pittsburgh Fugitivity and Space in Apollodorus’s 'Against Neaira'
8:00am–10:30am, Salon J	SCS-8: Being First Generation, Low Income in Classics (Workshop, Joint Session) Katie Tardio, Bucknell University, and Ashley Eckhardt, American School of Classical Studies, Organizers Panelists: Nicholas Bolig, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Laura Gawlinski, Loyola University Chicago Sinja Küppers, Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences Katelin McCullough, Hollins University Andrea Samz-Pustol, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ashley Eckhardt, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Response Katie Tardio, Bucknell University, Response
8:00am–10:30am, Salon K (Hybrid)	SCS-9: HYBRID: Lenses into the Ancient World: Coins and Pedagogy (organized by the Friends of Numismatics, Joint Session) Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College, and Nathan Elkins, American Numismatic Society, Organizers Nathan Elkins, American Numismatic Society, and Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College Introduction Gregory Callaghan, Union College Die Studies in the Classroom: Making Students ‘Real Ancient Economists’ Allison Kidd, Independent Scholar Disentangling Ancient Coins and Questions about Their Provenance in General Education Curricula Jane Sancinito, University of Massachusetts at Lowell Coins and Confidence-Building: Numismatics and Undergraduate Research Projects Anna Accetola, Hamilton College Hoards and Replicas as Tools in the Undergraduate Classroom Benjamin Hellings, Yale University Art Gallery, and Emily Pearce, Yale University Art Gallery Numismatriculation: A Case Study of the Yale University Art Gallery’s Numismatics Collection in Education and Teaching Lucia Carbone, American Numismatic Society Response
8:00am–10:30am, Salon L	SCS-10: Herculaneum: Old Finds, New Approaches (organized by the American Friends of Herculaneum) Carol Mattusch, George Mason University, and David Sider, New York University, Organizers Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons, University of Mississippi Visualizing Dipinti: Decorrelation Stretch and the painted inscriptions of Herculaneum and Pompeii Stephen Parsons, University of Kentucky The Virtual Unwrapping of the Herculaneum Papyri Ann Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania The Wanamaker Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum Richard Janko, University of Michigan Reading the new aesthetic treatise from Herculaneum with AI
Second Paper Session (10 sessions)
11:00am–1:00pm, 401-403 (Hybrid)	SCS-11: HYBRID: Labor Joseph Howley, Columbia University, Presider Ludivine Capra, University of Strasbourg Women’s craft practices in Roman Gaul Danielle LaRose, Binghamton University Labor and Family Life among Enslaved and Freed Members of the Elite Roman Domus Bobby Xinyue, King's College London Collaboration and Exploitation in the Roman Literary Economy: The Case of the Moretum Kathryn Wilson, Washington University in St. Louis Body of Work: Women, Labor, and Other Things in Greek Epigram
11:00am–1:00pm, 407-409	SCS-12: Numismatics Lydia Spielberg, University of California, Los Angeles, Presider Jeremy Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania A Re-Evaluation of Nerva’s Fiscus Iudaicus Coin Ching-Yuan Wu, Peking University Sinope's Changing Epochs: a Colony's Adaptation to a Common Paphlagonian Past Allen Kendall, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor A Tale of Two Brothers and One Mother: Ptolemy Philadelphos, Magas of Cyrene, and the Introduction of Coin Portraits of Queens Patricia Hatcher, CUNY Graduate Center Rebel, Rebel: Coins of the Late Roman Republic
11:00am–1:00pm, 411-412	SCS-13: Pedagogy Teresa Ramsby, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Presider Elza Tiner, University of Lynchburg Teaching Latin with Medical Terminology: Making Connections from Antiquity to Anatomy Clara Bosak-Schroeder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ungrading the Gen Ed Classroom: Potential and Pitfalls
11:00am–1:00pm, 414-415	SCS-14: Linguistics Olga Levaniouk, University of Washington, Presider Michele Bianconi, University of Oxford “Autour de ταρ épique”–Greek, Luwian, or an εἴδωλον comparationis? Marta Capano, Università per Stranieri di Siena The classifications of Greek subdialects and the perception of microvariation in ancient scholarship Brian Jorge Bigio, Whitman College ‘Saving (in) the Mind’: Toward a New Etymology of Σωφροσύνη
11:00am–1:00pm, Salon G	SCS-15: Bring Your Own Poem: An Experiential Workshop (Workshop) Emily Lord-Kambitsch, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Irene Salvo, University of Verona, Organizers
11:00am–1:00pm, Salon H (Hybrid)	SCS-16: HYBRID: Collaborative Practice for Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient Mediterranean (Workshop) Chiara Sulprizio, Vanderbilt University; Jody Valentine, Pomona College; Devon Harlow, Connecticut College, Organizers
11:00am–1:00pm, Salon I (Hybrid)	SCS-17: HYBRID: International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World? Obstacles and Challenges to Equity: A Mountaintop Coalition Panel (Panel, Joint Session) Yusi Liu, Bryn Mawr College, Chris Gipson, Loyola Marymount University, and Najee Olya, The College of William and Mary, Organizers Yusi Liu, Bryn Mawr College Introduction Michelle Martinez, Walnut Hills High School Oh the Places You (Might) Go: Reflections and Limitations on Study Abroad Ximing Lu, University of Oregon PhD in Visa Applications Young Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago The ‘Cyprus Problem’ and the Limits of Academic Research Dustin Thomas, University of Virginia Assessing the Application and Accessibility of 3D Technologies in Classical Archaeology
11:00am–1:00pm, Salon J	SCS-18: Mythography and Cultural Identity in the Early Modern World (organized by the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception) Caroline Stark, Howard University, Organizer Caroline Stark, Howard University Introduction Emma Dyson, University of Pennsylvania From Romance to History: The Myth of Albina in Early Modern England Nicoletta Bruno, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo Latin Studies Innsbruck Classical Mythistory and Utopias for the New World in Peter Martyr and Vasco de Quiroga Maria das Neves Gomes, Centre for Classical Studies of the University of Lisbon The Third and Last Rome: Rome and Byzantium as Legitimating Legacies in Early Modern Russian Identity Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University Vercingetorix: Myth and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth Century France
11:00am–1:00pm, Salon K (Hybrid)	SCS-19: HYBRID: Animals Pauline LeVen, Yale University, Presider Tashi Treadway, Johns Hopkins University Ancient Veterinarians and their Animal Patients Alexei Alexeev, University of Ottawa From Echidna’s Progeny to Parabiblical Monsters: Ophiomorphic Composites in the Minor Arts of Classical Antiquity Marissa Swan, Columbia University The Animalization of Imperial Bodies: Lactantius and the Tetrarchic Emperors Jonathan Clark, University of Washington “They Prayed to Become Her Sheep”: Reading Eroticized Animals and Servitium Amoris in Daphnis and Chloe
11:00am–1:00pm, Salon L	SCS-20: Modern & Popular Receptions of Late Antiquity (organized by the Society for Late Antiquity) Jeremy Swist, Grand Valley State University, Organizer Jen Ebbler, University of Texas Austin Barbie’s Confessions: The Risks and Rewards of Embodiment in Augustine’s Confessions and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Jackson Hase, University of Toronto How to Win Late Antiquity: Board Games and Historical Narratives Rodney Mancuso, Texas A&M University Digital Spolia: Reshaping History with Video Games Sílvia Pereira Diogo, University of Lisbon Webtooner in love with the image of a boy she herself has drawn: Aristaenetus’ love letter 2.10 revisited
12:00pm–2:00pm, Exhibition Hall (Franklin Hall)	SCS-21: Poster Session Gabriel Moss, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Maps for Texts: New Technologies and Approaches at the Ancient World Mapping Center Martin Shedd, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Unexpected Journeys at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)
Third Paper Session (10 sessions)
2:00pm–5:00pm, 401-403 (Hybrid)	SCS-22: HYBRID: Re-evaluating Turnus in Vergil and the Vergilian Tradition (organized by the Vergilian Society) Randall Ganiban, Middlebury College, Organizer Randall Ganiban, Middlebury College Introduction Sarah McCallum, University of Arizona Turnus Aflame: Vergil's Intergeneric Miles Amans (Verg. A. 7.55-56, 406-74, 577-79) Jackie Elliott, University of Colorado-Boulder Cato, Servius, and the Wrath of Turnus Owen Campbell, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Future Lasts Forever: Human Sacrifice and Aeneid 12 Julia Hejduk, Baylor University Acrostic Commentary on the Sacrifice of Turnus Clayton Schroer, Emory University The Postcolonial Turn(us) James O'Hara, University of North Carolina Response
2:00pm–5:00pm, 407-409	SCS-23: The Gods are Watching: The Ocular and the Oracular in Ancient Mediterranean Religions (organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions) Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, Boston University, Organizer Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, Boston University Introduction Cianna Jackson, University of Pennsylvania She Who Sees the Unseen: Poetic and Visual Representations of Cassandra’s Prophetic Visions Mark McClay, Hillsdale College Most Terrible and Most Gentle: Disguised Gods in the Tragic Theater Federica Scicolone, Scuola Superiore Meridionale Is Seeing Believing? Shaping the Divine Through Vision in Hellenistic Religious Texts Dane Scott, Boston University Concealing God From View: Inhibiting The Gaze of Cult Images in Antiquity Rabun Taylor, University of Texas at Austin Hecate and Janus: Envisioning Gods of Panoptic Vision Torie Burmeister, Wesleyan University Fury, Fate, Chaos: Divine & Mortal Sight in Vergil’s Aeneid
2:00pm–5:00pm, 411-412	SCS-24: Euripides Rosa Andújar, King’s College London, Presider Anastasia Stavroula Valtadorou, Institute for Advanced Study Shattered Dreams: Gender, Youthful Love and The Doomed Love Affair in Euripides’ Skyrians Jonathan Ready, University of Michigan Euripides’s Orestes and Post-Critique Christina Filippaki, University of Chicago Letter writing and possibilities in Iphigenia among the Taurians Paul Eberwine, Princeton University Defining Death in Euripides’ Alcestis Luis Sanchez, Princeton University The Renegotiation of Autochthony in the Erechtheus of Euripides
2:00pm–5:00pm, 414-415	SCS-25: Greek and Roman Intertexts Carolyn MacDonald, University of New Brunswick, Presider William Owens, Ohio University Longus, Virgil, and the Class Struggle Frances Pownall, University of Alberta The Roman Alexander and the Amazon Queen Joseph Droegemueller, University of Michigan Greeks and Romans Behind Closed Doors: Vivacity in Greek and Roman Comedy Aidan Mahoney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Philadelphian Lesbia: Divine Incest in Catullus 87 and Theocritus 17 Caroline Spurr, Boston University The Treatment of Homeric Epithets in the Ilias Latina Anna Papile, University of Texas at Austin Epic Narrators and the Fabulative: Comparing the Hypsipyles of Apollonius of Rhodes and Statius
2:00pm–5:00pm, Salon G	SCS-26: Hidden Labor and Precarity in the Roman World (Organizer-Refereed Panel) Lorenza Bennardo, University of Toronto, and Rebecca Moorman, Boston University, Organizers Lorenza Bennardo, University of Toronto Introduction Bettina Reitz-Joosse, University of Groningen Non-Human Agency and Hidden Labour in Vitruvius’ De architectura Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington Enslaved Children’s Emotional Labor in Roman Culture Stephen Blair, University College London Sub uoce: The text de uerborum significatu and the hidden intellectual labor of lexicography Christopher Londa, Johns Hopkins University Last Words: Deathbeds, Dictation, and Dying ‘Alone’ Grace Funsten, University of Pittsburgh Underground Poetry: Verse Epitaphs in the Monument of the Statilii Rebecca Moorman, Boston University Response
2:00pm–5:00pm, Salon H (Hybrid)	SCS-27: HYBRID: Imperial Greek Literature Lawrence Kim, Trinity University, Presider Floris Overduin, Radboud University Nijmegen The Good Wife: Naumachius’ didactic epic reconsidered (GDRK 29) Jasmine Akiyama-Kim, University of California, Los Angeles The Pleasures and Dangers of Unrestrained Mimesis: Dio Chrysostom on Nero Andrew Scholtz, Binghamton University (SUNY) Network Issues: Parasites, Patrons, and Passion in Alciphron Geoffrey Harmsworth, Columbia University Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, and the Punditry Sphere in the Roman-era Polis John Griffin, Boston University Agonized Unions: Syncretism as Competition in Nonnus' Dionysiaca Christopher van den Berg, Amherst College Homeric Vengeance and Dio's Aesthetics in the Olympic Oration (Dio Chrysostom, Oration 12)
2:00pm–5:00pm, Salon I (Hybrid)	SCS-28: HYBRID: Latin Letters James Ker, University of Pennsylvania, Presider Grace DeAngelis, Princeton University A Written Walk through Pliny’s Estates Vasileios Dimoglidis, University of Cincinnati Bracketed information on letter-writing: an interpretation of the meta-communicative parenthesis of Pliny’s Letters. Andres Matlock, University of Georgia Diligentia and Neglegentia: Interpersonal Style in Imperial Letters Seth Speerstra, University of California, Riverside The Authenticity of Julian’s Epistle 22 and its Role in the Emperor’s Pagan Project Rachel Morrison, University of California, Los Angeles omne saeculum: Epistolary Asynchronicity in the Letters of Ausonius and Paulinus Patrick Callahan, University of California, Los Angeles 'Videsne Me Iocari?' Getting the Jokes in Cicero's Letters
2:00pm–5:00pm, Salon J	SCS-29: Queer Families in the Ancient Mediterranean World (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus) Kristina Milnor, Barnard College, and Thomas Sapsford, Boston College, Organizers Julia Perroni, University of Wisconsin-Madison Animal House: (Un)Natural Kinship on Circe's Island Christopher Cochran, University of Massachusetts, Boston Domestic Partnership, Brotherhood, and Queer Family Making: The use of societas omnium bonorum in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 10.13-16 and Petronius’ Satyrica. Hannah Sorscher, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Female-Led Families of Choice in Roman Comedy Evan Jewell, Rutgers University - Camden The Queer Bonds of Slavery: Queer Funerary Monuments and Roman Freedpeople Malina Buturovic, Yale University Declassicizing Kinship: Marshall Sahlins' Antiquity Carman Romano, Bryn Mawr College Queer Family Dynamic in the New Sinai Palimpsest
2:00pm–5:00pm, Salon K (Hybrid)	SCS-30: HYBRID: Classics Beyond Classics Departments: Challenge, Adaptation, Innovation (organized by the SCS Committee on College and University Education) Michael Furman, Florida State University, Stephen Kershner, Austin Peay State University, Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College, and Teresa Ramsby, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Organizers Aaron Beek, Case Western Reserve University Mary English, Montclair State University Eric Kondratieff, Western Kentucky University Anise Strong, Western Michigan University Jeffrey Winkle, Grand Rapids Community College Michael Furman, Florida State University
2:00pm–5:00pm, Salon L	SCS-31: Organization, Display, and Transfer of Knowledge (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy and the American Society of Papyrologists) James Sickinger, Florida State University, and C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba, Organizers James Sickinger, Florida State University Introduction Eleanor Martin, Yale University Family Time? Filiation, Kinship, and Ethnic Knowledge in North African Bilingual Inscriptions Lavinia Ferretti, University of Basel The Origin of (Papyrological) Hypomnemata across Greek, Aramaic and Demotic Evidence Marcus Ziemann, Princeton University Assyria Grammata: How Did Greeks Encounter Near Eastern Literature? Eduardo Garcia-Molina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From Skins to Stone: Examining Multimediality in Seleukid Inscriptions Peter Satterthwaite, University of Pennsylvania Double-edged Honor: Publicity and Social Pressure in Greek Subscription Lists Steven Tuck, Miami University Text, Material, and Meaning at Naples: The Emperor Titus’ Post-Eruption Rebuilding Inscription (CIL 10.1481)
5:30pm–7:00pm, Salon H (Hybrid)	HYBRID: Presidential Panel: Demographic Change in SCS Research Foci In memoriam Sharon Lynn James Organized by SCS President Alison Keith, University of Toronto Laura McClure, University of Wisconsin Modernist Women and the Greek Chorus Melissa Funke, University of Winnipeg The Hetaira at the Intersection of Literary and Social History Sarah Blake, York University Pieris, ornatrix, vixit an(nos) VIIII: Enslaved Women and Girls in Roman Beauty Work

Friday, January 3, 2025

First Paper Session (10 sessions)

8:00am–10:30am,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-1: HYBRID: The Heroides and Their Tradition (organized by the International Ovidian Society)
Daniel Libatique, Fairfield University, and Alicia Matz, San Diego State University, Organizers

Daniel Libatique, Fairfield University and Alicia Matz, San Diego State University
Introduction
Shona Edwards, University of Adelaide
Dido’s swan song: Poetic legacy in Ovid’s Heroides 7
Sebastian Hyams, Oxford University
The Limitations of Male Authorship: The Construction of Gender and Female Experience in Ovid, Heroides 16–21
Millie Marriott, Universities of Bristol and Exeter
15 Heroines: The Digital World of Ovid’s Heroines
Emma Scioli, University of Kansas
Intercorporeality and the Rhetoric of the Body in Heroides 13
Ashley Walker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Epistolarity in Early Modern Illustrations of Ovid’s Heroides

8:00am–10:30am,
407-409

SCS-2: Roman Historiography
Luca Grillo, University of Notre Dame, Presider

Devin Lawson, Bryn Mawr College
“It’s Murder to Found a Colony”: Roman (Re)foundations in Livy
Kathryn Langenfeld, Clemson University
Firmus and the Crocodiles Revisited: Egyptian Imagery and Imperial Anxiety in the Historia Augusta’s Life of the Four Tyrants
Kelsey Schalo, University of Cincinnati
Tacitus and the ‘Noble’ Barbarian Family as Hostage
Daniel Hunter, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
Appian’s Narrative of the “Asiatic Vespers” and Comparison with Genocide Narratives in the earlier Judaeo-Christian Literary tradition
Fabrizio Feraco, University of Calabria
Water and fire in the battle of Strasbourg: Ammianus Marcellinus, 16.12

8:00am–10:30am,
411-412

SCS-3: ISNS Panel: The Geographies of Plato(ism) (organized by the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies)
Sara Ahbel-Rappe, University of Michigan, Organizer

Sara Ahbel-Rappe, University of Michigan
Introduction
Daniel Rose, Florida State University
Plato and the geography of an empire in the myth of Atlantis
Eleonora Falini, Florida State University
The geography of literary genres in Plato’s myths
Ben John, Ohio State University
Mapping the Mind, Body, and Cosmos in the Chaldean Oracles
Jeremy Swist, Grand Valley State University
Founding Rome as a Capital of Theurgic Hellenism: Romulus, Numa, and Julian
Mostafa Younesi, Independent Scholar
Textual Analysis of Al-Shahrastani's Narration of Plato's Opinions

8:00am–10:30am,
414-415

SCS-4: Education and Rhetoric
Laura Viidebaum, New York University, Presider

Melody Wauke, Columbia University
Fictive Kinship through Rhetorical Training in Philostratus and Lucian
Rebecca Frank, Colby College
The Son of… Draco? Alexander the Great in Ptolemy the Quail’s Kaine Historia
Luiza dos Santos Souza, University of Cincinnati
Language education in Quintilian as an instrument of social stratification and Romanization
Mary Rosalie Stoner, Yale University
Wanting Better Things for Seneca: Reading Velle in Institutio Oratoria 10.1.125-131
Elizabeth Lavender, Yale University
A Second Sicily: Nurture and Artifact in 'On the Restoration of the Schools'

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon G

SCS-5: Queer Space and Time
Amy Pistone, Gonzaga University, Presider

Sinead Brennan-McMahon, Stanford University
Queer Spaces in Pompeii?: Phallic Aesthetics and Shared Communities
Tiffany VanWinkoop, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cruising to Byzantium: Queer futurity in The History of Michael Attaleiates
Cypris (Em) Roalsvig, UC Santa Barbara
Queer Time and Embodied Ekphrasis in Catullus 64
Rachel Rucker, University of Iowa
μόνα δὴ νὼ λελειμμένα: Ismene’s Queer Sisterhood

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-6: HYBRID: Reception of Tragedy
Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan, Presider

Nebojsa Todorovic, Harvard University
Tragedies of Disintegration: Balkanizing Greco-Roman Antiquity
Sergiusz Kazmierski, University of Regensburg
Hölderlin as Interpreter - Interpreting Hölderlin. On Sophocles' Antigone, vv. 332-52
Andrew Ntapalis, Harvard University
Social Poetry and the Reception of Sophocles’ Philoctetes in Greek Modernism
Yoandy Cabrera Ortega, Rockford University
Ways of Being Cassandra: Transformation, Liminalities, and a Possible Third Space

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-7: HYBRID: Greek Law and Oratory
Ifigeneia Giannadaki, University of Florida, Presider

Andrew Wolpert, University of Florida
Fear and Anger in Lysias 12, Against Eratosthenes
Gavin Blasdel, University of Groningen
Ordo Areopagitarum Atheniensium? Rethinking the Roman Areopagos
Eric Wesley Driscoll, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Athenian Juristocracy? Scrutiny of the Law as Democratic Ritual
Davide Napoli, Harvard University
Against Common Sense: Performing Dissent in Sophistic Speeches
Sarah Breitenfeld, University of Pittsburgh
Fugitivity and Space in Apollodorus’s 'Against Neaira'

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon J

SCS-8: Being First Generation, Low Income in Classics (Workshop, Joint Session)
Katie Tardio, Bucknell University, and Ashley Eckhardt, American School of Classical Studies, Organizers

Panelists:
Nicholas Bolig, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Laura Gawlinski, Loyola University Chicago
Sinja Küppers, Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Katelin McCullough, Hollins University
Andrea Samz-Pustol, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ashley Eckhardt, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Response
Katie Tardio, Bucknell University, Response

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-9: HYBRID: Lenses into the Ancient World: Coins and Pedagogy (organized by the Friends of Numismatics, Joint Session)
Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College, and Nathan Elkins, American Numismatic Society, Organizers

Nathan Elkins, American Numismatic Society, and Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College
Introduction
Gregory Callaghan, Union College
Die Studies in the Classroom: Making Students ‘Real Ancient Economists’
Allison Kidd, Independent Scholar
Disentangling Ancient Coins and Questions about Their Provenance in General Education Curricula
Jane Sancinito, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Coins and Confidence-Building: Numismatics and Undergraduate Research Projects
Anna Accetola, Hamilton College
Hoards and Replicas as Tools in the Undergraduate Classroom
Benjamin Hellings, Yale University Art Gallery, and Emily Pearce, Yale University Art Gallery
Numismatriculation: A Case Study of the Yale University Art Gallery’s Numismatics Collection in Education and Teaching
Lucia Carbone, American Numismatic Society
Response

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon L

SCS-10: Herculaneum: Old Finds, New Approaches (organized by the American Friends of Herculaneum)
Carol Mattusch, George Mason University, and David Sider, New York University, Organizers

Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons, University of Mississippi
Visualizing Dipinti: Decorrelation Stretch and the painted inscriptions of Herculaneum and Pompeii
Stephen Parsons, University of Kentucky
The Virtual Unwrapping of the Herculaneum Papyri
Ann Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania
The Wanamaker Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum
Richard Janko, University of Michigan
Reading the new aesthetic treatise from Herculaneum with AI

Second Paper Session (10 sessions)

11:00am–1:00pm,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-11: HYBRID: Labor
Joseph Howley, Columbia University, Presider

Ludivine Capra, University of Strasbourg
Women’s craft practices in Roman Gaul
Danielle LaRose, Binghamton University
Labor and Family Life among Enslaved and Freed Members of the Elite Roman Domus
Bobby Xinyue, King's College London
Collaboration and Exploitation in the Roman Literary Economy: The Case of the Moretum
Kathryn Wilson, Washington University in St. Louis
Body of Work: Women, Labor, and Other Things in Greek Epigram

11:00am–1:00pm,
407-409

SCS-12: Numismatics
Lydia Spielberg, University of California, Los Angeles, Presider

Jeremy Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania
A Re-Evaluation of Nerva’s Fiscus Iudaicus Coin
Ching-Yuan Wu, Peking University
Sinope's Changing Epochs: a Colony's Adaptation to a Common Paphlagonian Past
Allen Kendall, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
A Tale of Two Brothers and One Mother: Ptolemy Philadelphos, Magas of Cyrene, and the Introduction of Coin Portraits of Queens
Patricia Hatcher, CUNY Graduate Center
Rebel, Rebel: Coins of the Late Roman Republic

11:00am–1:00pm,
411-412

SCS-13: Pedagogy
Teresa Ramsby, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Presider

Elza Tiner, University of Lynchburg
Teaching Latin with Medical Terminology: Making Connections from Antiquity to Anatomy
Clara Bosak-Schroeder, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ungrading the Gen Ed Classroom: Potential and Pitfalls

11:00am–1:00pm,
414-415

SCS-14: Linguistics
Olga Levaniouk, University of Washington, Presider

Michele Bianconi, University of Oxford
“Autour de ταρ épique”–Greek, Luwian, or an εἴδωλον comparationis?
Marta Capano, Università per Stranieri di Siena
The classifications of Greek subdialects and the perception of microvariation in ancient scholarship
Brian Jorge Bigio, Whitman College
‘Saving (in) the Mind’: Toward a New Etymology of Σωφροσύνη

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon G

SCS-15: Bring Your Own Poem: An Experiential Workshop (Workshop)
Emily Lord-Kambitsch, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Irene Salvo, University of Verona, Organizers

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-16: HYBRID: Collaborative Practice for Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient Mediterranean (Workshop)
Chiara Sulprizio, Vanderbilt University; Jody Valentine, Pomona College; Devon Harlow, Connecticut College, Organizers

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-17: HYBRID: International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World? Obstacles and Challenges to Equity: A Mountaintop Coalition Panel (Panel, Joint Session)
Yusi Liu, Bryn Mawr College, Chris Gipson, Loyola Marymount University, and Najee Olya, The College of William and Mary, Organizers

Yusi Liu, Bryn Mawr College
Introduction
Michelle Martinez, Walnut Hills High School
Oh the Places You (Might) Go: Reflections and Limitations on Study Abroad
Ximing Lu, University of Oregon
PhD in Visa Applications
Young Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago
The ‘Cyprus Problem’ and the Limits of Academic Research
Dustin Thomas, University of Virginia
Assessing the Application and Accessibility of 3D Technologies in Classical Archaeology

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon J

SCS-18: Mythography and Cultural Identity in the Early Modern World
(organized by the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception)
Caroline Stark, Howard University, Organizer

Caroline Stark, Howard University
Introduction
Emma Dyson, University of Pennsylvania
From Romance to History: The Myth of Albina in Early Modern England
Nicoletta Bruno, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo Latin Studies Innsbruck
Classical Mythistory and Utopias for the New World in Peter Martyr and Vasco de Quiroga
Maria das Neves Gomes, Centre for Classical Studies of the University of Lisbon
The Third and Last Rome: Rome and Byzantium as Legitimating Legacies in Early Modern Russian Identity
Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University
Vercingetorix: Myth and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth Century France

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-19: HYBRID: Animals
Pauline LeVen, Yale University, Presider

Tashi Treadway, Johns Hopkins University
Ancient Veterinarians and their Animal Patients
Alexei Alexeev, University of Ottawa
From Echidna’s Progeny to Parabiblical Monsters: Ophiomorphic Composites in the Minor Arts of Classical Antiquity
Marissa Swan, Columbia University
The Animalization of Imperial Bodies: Lactantius and the Tetrarchic Emperors
Jonathan Clark, University of Washington
“They Prayed to Become Her Sheep”: Reading Eroticized Animals and Servitium Amoris in Daphnis and Chloe

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon L

SCS-20: Modern & Popular Receptions of Late Antiquity (organized by the Society for Late Antiquity)
Jeremy Swist, Grand Valley State University, Organizer

Jen Ebbler, University of Texas Austin
Barbie’s Confessions: The Risks and Rewards of Embodiment in Augustine’s Confessions and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie
Jackson Hase, University of Toronto
How to Win Late Antiquity: Board Games and Historical Narratives
Rodney Mancuso, Texas A&M University
Digital Spolia: Reshaping History with Video Games
Sílvia Pereira Diogo, University of Lisbon
Webtooner in love with the image of a boy she herself has drawn: Aristaenetus’ love letter 2.10 revisited

12:00pm–2:00pm,
Exhibition Hall (Franklin Hall)

SCS-21: Poster Session

Gabriel Moss, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Maps for Texts: New Technologies and Approaches at the Ancient World Mapping Center
Martin Shedd, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
Unexpected Journeys at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)

Third Paper Session (10 sessions)

2:00pm–5:00pm,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-22: HYBRID: Re-evaluating Turnus in Vergil and the Vergilian Tradition (organized by the Vergilian Society)
Randall Ganiban, Middlebury College, Organizer

Randall Ganiban, Middlebury College
Introduction
Sarah McCallum, University of Arizona
Turnus Aflame: Vergil's Intergeneric Miles Amans (Verg. A. 7.55-56, 406-74, 577-79)
Jackie Elliott, University of Colorado-Boulder
Cato, Servius, and the Wrath of Turnus
Owen Campbell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Future Lasts Forever: Human Sacrifice and Aeneid 12
Julia Hejduk, Baylor University
Acrostic Commentary on the Sacrifice of Turnus
Clayton Schroer, Emory University
The Postcolonial Turn(us)
James O'Hara, University of North Carolina
Response

2:00pm–5:00pm,
407-409

SCS-23: The Gods are Watching: The Ocular and the Oracular in Ancient Mediterranean Religions (organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions)
Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, Boston University, Organizer

Zsuzsanna Varhelyi, Boston University
Introduction
Cianna Jackson, University of Pennsylvania
She Who Sees the Unseen: Poetic and Visual Representations of Cassandra’s Prophetic Visions
Mark McClay, Hillsdale College
Most Terrible and Most Gentle: Disguised Gods in the Tragic Theater
Federica Scicolone, Scuola Superiore Meridionale
Is Seeing Believing? Shaping the Divine Through Vision in Hellenistic Religious Texts
Dane Scott, Boston University
Concealing God From View: Inhibiting The Gaze of Cult Images in Antiquity
Rabun Taylor, University of Texas at Austin
Hecate and Janus: Envisioning Gods of Panoptic Vision
Torie Burmeister, Wesleyan University
Fury, Fate, Chaos: Divine & Mortal Sight in Vergil’s Aeneid

2:00pm–5:00pm,
411-412

SCS-24: Euripides
Rosa Andújar, King’s College London, Presider

Anastasia Stavroula Valtadorou, Institute for Advanced Study
Shattered Dreams: Gender, Youthful Love and The Doomed Love Affair in Euripides’ Skyrians
Jonathan Ready, University of Michigan
Euripides’s Orestes and Post-Critique
Christina Filippaki, University of Chicago
Letter writing and possibilities in Iphigenia among the Taurians
Paul Eberwine, Princeton University
Defining Death in Euripides’ Alcestis
Luis Sanchez, Princeton University
The Renegotiation of Autochthony in the Erechtheus of Euripides

2:00pm–5:00pm,
414-415

SCS-25: Greek and Roman Intertexts
Carolyn MacDonald, University of New Brunswick, Presider

William Owens, Ohio University
Longus, Virgil, and the Class Struggle
Frances Pownall, University of Alberta
The Roman Alexander and the Amazon Queen
Joseph Droegemueller, University of Michigan
Greeks and Romans Behind Closed Doors: Vivacity in Greek and Roman Comedy
Aidan Mahoney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Philadelphian Lesbia: Divine Incest in Catullus 87 and Theocritus 17
Caroline Spurr, Boston University
The Treatment of Homeric Epithets in the Ilias Latina
Anna Papile, University of Texas at Austin
Epic Narrators and the Fabulative: Comparing the Hypsipyles of Apollonius of Rhodes and Statius

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon G

SCS-26: Hidden Labor and Precarity in the Roman World (Organizer-Refereed Panel)
Lorenza Bennardo, University of Toronto, and Rebecca Moorman, Boston University, Organizers

Lorenza Bennardo, University of Toronto
Introduction
Bettina Reitz-Joosse, University of Groningen
Non-Human Agency and Hidden Labour in Vitruvius’ De architectura
Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington
Enslaved Children’s Emotional Labor in Roman Culture
Stephen Blair, University College London
Sub uoce: The text de uerborum significatu and the hidden intellectual labor of lexicography
Christopher Londa, Johns Hopkins University
Last Words: Deathbeds, Dictation, and Dying ‘Alone’
Grace Funsten, University of Pittsburgh
Underground Poetry: Verse Epitaphs in the Monument of the Statilii
Rebecca Moorman, Boston University
Response

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-27: HYBRID: Imperial Greek Literature
Lawrence Kim, Trinity University, Presider

Floris Overduin, Radboud University Nijmegen
The Good Wife: Naumachius’ didactic epic reconsidered (GDRK 29)
Jasmine Akiyama-Kim, University of California, Los Angeles
The Pleasures and Dangers of Unrestrained Mimesis: Dio Chrysostom on Nero
Andrew Scholtz, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Network Issues: Parasites, Patrons, and Passion in Alciphron
Geoffrey Harmsworth, Columbia University
Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, and the Punditry Sphere in the Roman-era Polis
John Griffin, Boston University
Agonized Unions: Syncretism as Competition in Nonnus' Dionysiaca
Christopher van den Berg, Amherst College
Homeric Vengeance and Dio's Aesthetics in the Olympic Oration (Dio Chrysostom, Oration 12)

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-28: HYBRID: Latin Letters
James Ker, University of Pennsylvania, Presider

Grace DeAngelis, Princeton University
A Written Walk through Pliny’s Estates
Vasileios Dimoglidis, University of Cincinnati
Bracketed information on letter-writing: an interpretation of the meta-communicative parenthesis of Pliny’s Letters.
Andres Matlock, University of Georgia
Diligentia and Neglegentia: Interpersonal Style in Imperial Letters
Seth Speerstra, University of California, Riverside
The Authenticity of Julian’s Epistle 22 and its Role in the Emperor’s Pagan Project
Rachel Morrison, University of California, Los Angeles
omne saeculum: Epistolary Asynchronicity in the Letters of Ausonius and Paulinus
Patrick Callahan, University of California, Los Angeles
'Videsne Me Iocari?' Getting the Jokes in Cicero's Letters

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon J

SCS-29: Queer Families in the Ancient Mediterranean World (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus)
Kristina Milnor, Barnard College, and Thomas Sapsford, Boston College, Organizers

Julia Perroni, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Animal House: (Un)Natural Kinship on Circe's Island
Christopher Cochran, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Domestic Partnership, Brotherhood, and Queer Family Making: The use of societas omnium bonorum in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 10.13-16 and Petronius’ Satyrica.
Hannah Sorscher, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
Female-Led Families of Choice in Roman Comedy
Evan Jewell, Rutgers University - Camden
The Queer Bonds of Slavery: Queer Funerary Monuments and Roman Freedpeople
Malina Buturovic, Yale University
Declassicizing Kinship: Marshall Sahlins' Antiquity
Carman Romano, Bryn Mawr College
Queer Family Dynamic in the New Sinai Palimpsest

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-30: HYBRID: Classics Beyond Classics Departments: Challenge, Adaptation, Innovation
(organized by the SCS Committee on College and University Education)
Michael Furman, Florida State University, Stephen Kershner, Austin Peay State University, Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College, and Teresa Ramsby, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Organizers

Aaron Beek, Case Western Reserve University
Mary English, Montclair State University
Eric Kondratieff, Western Kentucky University
Anise Strong, Western Michigan University
Jeffrey Winkle, Grand Rapids Community College
Michael Furman, Florida State University

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon L

SCS-31: Organization, Display, and Transfer of Knowledge (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy and the American Society of Papyrologists)
James Sickinger, Florida State University, and C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba, Organizers

James Sickinger, Florida State University
Introduction
Eleanor Martin, Yale University
Family Time? Filiation, Kinship, and Ethnic Knowledge in North African Bilingual Inscriptions
Lavinia Ferretti, University of Basel
The Origin of (Papyrological) Hypomnemata across Greek, Aramaic and Demotic Evidence
Marcus Ziemann, Princeton University
Assyria Grammata: How Did Greeks Encounter Near Eastern Literature?
Eduardo Garcia-Molina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
From Skins to Stone: Examining Multimediality in Seleukid Inscriptions
Peter Satterthwaite, University of Pennsylvania
Double-edged Honor: Publicity and Social Pressure in Greek Subscription Lists
Steven Tuck, Miami University
Text, Material, and Meaning at Naples: The Emperor Titus’ Post-Eruption Rebuilding Inscription (CIL 10.1481)

5:30pm–7:00pm, Salon H (Hybrid)

HYBRID: Presidential Panel: Demographic Change in SCS Research Foci
In memoriam Sharon Lynn James
Organized by SCS President Alison Keith, University of Toronto

Laura McClure, University of Wisconsin
Modernist Women and the Greek Chorus
Melissa Funke, University of Winnipeg
The Hetaira at the Intersection of Literary and Social History
Sarah Blake, York University
Pieris, ornatrix, vixit an(nos) VIIII: Enslaved Women and Girls in Roman Beauty Work

Saturday, January 4, 2025
Fourth Paper Session (10 sessions)
8:00am–10:30am, 401-403 (Hybrid)	SCS-32: HYBRID: Greek Poetry Bill Beck, Indiana University, Presider Nigel Nicholson, Reed College Natural Superiority and Flexible Inheritance in Pindar’s Odes Caroline Murphy-Racette, University of Michigan The Traffic in Women by Women in Archaic Greek Poetry Peter Mayer, University of Szeged Mater semper certa? Interpretive remarks on the new Archilochus-commentary (P.Oxy. 4952) Sherry (Chiayi) Lee, Princeton University Hearing the voice of justice: The personification of Dikē in Hesiod’s Works and Days Carolyn Laferriere, Princeton University Art Museum Sympotic Metamorphoses: Poets on Pots in Archaic Athens
8:00am–10:30am, 407-409	SCS-33: The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students (organized by Eta Sigma Phi) Katherine Panagakos, Stockton University, Organizer Katherine Panagakos, Stockton University Introduction Zachary Chen, Hillsdale College The Loneliness of Excellence: Social Schism in the Stories of Coriolanus and Achilles Emmeline Murphy, Northwestern University Wearied or Fallen: The Critical Reception of the Creusa Episode and Editorial History of Aeneid 2.739 Riley Parker, Columbia University Exiled by Fate: Memory and National Identity in Aeneid VIII Olivia Gandee, Bryn Mawr College Presence, Identity, and Legitimacy: The Power of Song in Vergil’s Aeneid Barbara Gold, Hamilton College Response
8:00am–10:30am, 411-412	SCS-34: Medicine and Disability Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania, Presider Jonas Tai, Stanford University Idioms of Distress: Psychosocial Symptomizing in the Epidaurian Miracle Inscriptions Catherine Schenck, University of Michigan Treating Lovesickness with Lead: The Curative Use of Curse Tablets in the Roman Empire Mar Rodda, Merton College, Oxford There is a pain so utterable: Lived experiences of chronic pain in antiquity and today Cecily Bateman, University of Cambridge Monstrous Empire: Disability and Display of Bodies in the Roman Empire Danielle Perry, University of Pennsylvania The Sickness of Slavery: Manumission at Epidaurus
8:00am–10:30am, 414-415	SCS-35: Latin Poetry Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania, Presider Joshua Paul, Queen's University A Walking Caricature: Epicureanism on the Road to Brundisium in Horace Satire 1.5 Jessica Westerhold, University of Tennessee, Knoxville The Promise of Happiness as a Technology of Social Control in Tibullus Nathaniel Herter, Harvard University The Failure of Ritual in the Lusus Troiae of Aeneid V Jessica Blum-Sorensen, Providence College Fruit of the Poisoned Tree: Meleager, Family, and Ambition in Imperial Rome Nicolette D'Angelo, University of California, Los Angeles “If anyone’s entire race has failed them”: Poetics of Crisis, Racecraft, and Renewal in Vergil’s Georgics and Beyond
8:00am–10:30am, Salon G	SCS-36: Scribal Culture Stephanie Ann Frampton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Presider Sandra Ayikwerah, University of Cincinnati Lectores et Notarii: Slave Labor in Pliny the Younger's Literature Michael Freeman, Duke University Expunging Mistakes: Revising Understanding of Ancient Erasing Tools Justin Stover, University of Edinburgh VTERE FELIX: Books as objects and ghosts of objects Calloway Scott, University of Cincinnati Galen’s World of Work: Science, Authority, and “Invisible Technicians” Marcie Persyn, University of Pittsburgh Re-Examining the Roman Scholarly “Workshop”: Restoring the Voices, Innovations, and Discoveries of the Enslaved
8:00am–10:30am, Salon H (Hybrid)	SCS-37: HYBRID: Byzantine and Early Modern Reception Caroline Stark, Howard University, Presider Keisuke Nakajima, Johns Hopkins University What is to love, umpossible?: Plato, Lyly and the Alchemy of Love John Kee, Harvard University Plato in the Marketplace: Reception as Intellectual Contestation in Twelfth-Century Byzantium Andrew Lund, Tulane University Marginalizing Dorus in 15th-Century France: Terence’s Eunuchus and Jewish Iconography in a Gothic Illuminated Manuscript Alyssa Mulé, University of Chicago Hecuba’s Conscience-Catching Mirror: Euripidean Echoes and Catharsis in 'Hamlet' Joseph Ortiz, University of Texas at El Paso Turning the Soil: Virgil’s Georgics and Humanist Translation in Petrarch and Milton
8:00am–10:30am, Salon I (Hybrid)	SCS-38: HYBRID: Love and Self-knowledge: Tragic, Lyric, and Platonic Perspectives (Panel) Huaiyuan "Susanna" Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, Thu Truong, Princeton University, and Jiawen Wang, University of Chicago, Organizers Thu Truong, Princeton University Introduction Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, Stanford University Thinking the Somatic: Sappho and Diotima on Bodies Jiawen Wang, University of Chicago The Journey to the Past: Beauty, Jealousy, and the Triangular Love in Sophocles’ Trachiniae and Plato’s Phaedrus Zacharoula Petraki, University of Crete Love, Resemblance and the Formation of the Self in Plato’s Phaedrus Huaiyuan "Susanna" Zhang, Pennsylvania State University Giving What I Do Not Have to Someone Who Does Not Need It—Reading Erotic Parapraxis in Plato’s Symposium with Levinas and Lacan Marc Mastrangelo, Dickinson College The Platonic and the Tragic in Augustine’s Confessions Glenn Most, University of Chicago; Joshua Billings, Princeton University Response
8:00am–10:30am, Salon J	SCS-39: Translation and Creative Adaptation (organized by the SCS Committee on Translations of Classical Authors) Stephanie McCarter, University of the South, Sewanee, and Deborah Roberts, Haverford College, Organizers Sophia Elzie, Northwestern University There to Here, Then to Now: Considering Luis Alfaro’s Mojada through Translation Theory Spencer Lee-Lenfield, Yale University Between Translation and Adaptation: Rethinking Dryden’s Imitation with Stephanie Burt’s After Callimachus Inger Kuin, University of Virginia The Cry from Melissa: Translation and Engagement in Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s Alkibiades Alex Nguyen, University of Pennsylvania Transcribing Telemachus: the Development of Colonial Vietnamese National Identity Negotiated Through the Translation and Adaptation of the Telemachy Harrison Biddle, University of Oxford ‘More than an accurate translation of words or even phrases’: Exploring queerness, translation and adaption in A. L. Hillman’s Mimes of the Courtesans Martin Michalek, Johns Hopkins University Hope Mirrlees, Horace, and the Carpe Diem Poetics of Modernism
8:00am–10:30am, Salon K (Hybrid)	SCS-40: HYBRID: Opening Up Classics with AI (organized by the Digital Classics Association) Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Organizer Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY Introduction Samuel Huskey, University of Oklahoma Opening Up Bottlenecks in Digital Classics Workflows with Human-in-the-Loop AI Patrick Burns, New York University Prompt Engineering for Latin Teachers Edward Ross, University of Reading, and Jackie Baines, University of Reading Generative Image AI and Teaching Classics: A Case of Exaggeration Gregory Crane, Tufts University AI, Machine Actionable Publication and Assigning Credit Joseph Dexter, Harvard University, and Pramit Chaudhuri, University of Texas at Austin Benchmarking Generative AI Models for Classical Literary Criticism
8:00am–10:30am, Salon L	SCS-41: Landscape and Environment Thomas Biggs, University of St Andrews, Presider Margaret Danaher, Brown University Space, Landscape, and Ruination in Juvenal’s Satires Alexandra Hardwick, Oxford University Imagining Traumatic Landscapes: Warfare, Geography, and Weather in Greek Literature Donald McCarthy, University of Toronto Venus in Vervain: Vergil's Garden (G. 4.116–48) Catherine Chase, University of Washington The Visual Properties of Water in Statius’ Silvae 2.3 Vassilis Sazaklidis, University of Texas at Austin Body, Landscape, and Metaphorical Language in Aristides’ Sacred Tales Christopher Wood, Baylor University Shadow of the Serpent: Archaeoastronomy, Topography and the Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Fifth Paper Session (9 sessions)
11:00am–1:00pm, 401-403 (Hybrid)	SCS-42: HYBRID: Lightning Talk Session Lissa Crofton-Sleigh, Santa Clara University, Presider Adam Gitner, Thesaurus linguae Latinae / Bavarian Academy of Sciences The Digital Futures of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) Noreen Kupernik, Thaden School Natural Method for Dead Languages? Jenny Strauss Clay, University of Virginia ὀρσοθύρη and the narrative function of Odyssey 22. . 126–30
11:00am–1:00pm, 407-409	SCS-43: Historiography and Roman Imperialism (Panel) Andrew Scott, Villanova University, and Jesper Madsen, University of Southern Denmark, Organizers Jessica Clark, Florida State University Reckoning Empire: Cato, Caesar, and Frontinus Jesper Madsen, University of Southern Denmark The Conquest of Spain in Roman Historiography Andrew Scott, Villanova University The Historiography of Collective Suicide and Roman Conquest: Three Case Studies Kelly Shannon-Henderson, University of Cincinnati Religion and Imperialism in Tacitus’ Parthian Narratives
11:00am–1:00pm, 411-412	SCS-44: Plato and Aristotle Johanna Hanink, Brown University, Presider Laura Viidebaum, New York University Aristotle's style Matthew Pincus, Creighton University Phaedo's Beautiful Hair: Queering Erotic, Familial, and Narrative Boundaries in Plato's Phaedo Emily Hulme, University of Sydney Was Diotima a Real Person?
11:00am–1:00pm, 414-415	SCS-45: Disaster in Rome Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University, Presider Alexander Kiprof, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Statius’s Fiery River Battle: Implications of Reading ignis instead of amnis at Theb. 9.462 Rebecca Kerns, University of Cincinnati Arsonists at Large: Incendiarism & Fraud in the City of Rome Cait Mongrain, Princeton University Cannibalizing Community in Juvenal and Ps.-Quintilian
11:00am–1:00pm, Salon G	SCS-46: Dance and Myth: The Reception of the Greeks by Martha Graham (Panel organized by the SCS Classics in the Community Committee) Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, and Nina Papathanasopoulou, College Year in Athens and Society for Classical Studies, Organizers Amanda Kubic, University of Michigan Witnesses, Furies, and Revelers: Comparing Martha Graham’s Modern Choruses in Cave of the Heart, Clytemnestra, and Acts of Light Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center The Spider Dress from “Cave of the Heart”: Graham and Noguchi’s Medea Nina Papathanasopoulou, College Year in Athens and Society for Classical Studies Tracing the Ancient Literary and Visual Sources in Martha Graham’s Greek-themed Dances Victoria Phillips, Global Fellow, Wilson Center When the Personal Becomes Political: Martha Graham and Myth, Carl Jung as Agent 488, and United States Cold War Psychological Warfare Victoria Hodges, Rutgers University "Choreography proves sexy yet tasteful”: Censoring Bodies in Balletic Performance Janet Eilber, Lloyd Knight, and Anne Souder, Martha Graham Dance Company Interview with Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company Janet Eilber, and MGDC Principal Dancers, Lloyd Knight and Anne Souder
11:00am–1:00pm, Salon H (Hybrid)	SCS-47: HYBRID: Comedy Matthew Farmer, Haverford College, Presider Christopher Ell, Boston University Dicaeopolis at the Choes: Implications of the Comic Orestes for Aristophanes' Acharnians Jiaqi Ma, Yale University Fishy Transformations in Aristophanes' Wasps Emmanuel Aprilakis, Rutgers University Whose Line Is It Anyway? The Parabasis of Old Comedy Dustin Dixon, Grinnell College Comic Re-Cosmogonies and Revolution
11:00am–1:00pm, Salon I (Hybrid)	SCS-48: HYBRID: Teaching with Role-Immersive Games in a Variety of Classroom Settings (Workshop) Lauren Caldwell, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Bret Mulligan, Haverford College, Organizers Melissa Mueller, University of Massachusetts Amherst Teaching the "Athens in 403: Threshold of Democracy" in a Greek Civilization course Kyle Helms, St. Olaf College Reacting to Classical Athens and Ming China in First-Year Seminars Denver Graninger, University of California, Riverside Historical Games in History Courses Michael Nerdahl, Bowdoin College The Game of Grading: The Tricky Role of Assessment
11:00am–1:00pm, Salon J	SCS-49: Classical Legacies and the Ibero-global World (organized by Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World) Adriana Vazquez, University of California, Los Angeles, and Julia Hernández, New York University, Organizers Steven González, University of Southern California Mining the Earth: Reﬂections on the Relationship Between Workers and their Environment in Landívar’s Rusticatio Mexicana Leanna Boychenko, Loyola University Chicago Medea in the Borderlands: Sandra Cisnero’s 'Woman Hollering Creek' José Cancino Alfaro, Columbia University Indigenous voices? Four cantiunculae of a Machi in Bernard Havestadt’s Chilidugu (1777) Ella González, Johns Hopkins University Antioch Mosaics in Cuba? Exploring the Classical Tradition in the Caribbean
11:00am–1:00pm, Salon K (Hybrid)	SCS-50: HYBRID: Lit in Late Antiquity James J. O'Hara, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Presider Lucy McInerney, Brown University Violent Blushing in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae Phoebe Lakin, Harvard University Getting the last word: the fate of the Aeneid in Anth. Lat. 672 Alex Dressler, University of Wisconsin-Madison The political economy of the Art of Poetry as an anticipatory illumination of Christian song: Horace as laborer, mad poet as revolutionary Clifford Robinson, Princeton Public Library The Epiphany of Philosophia and Philosophical Therapy in Boethius’ "Consolation of Philosophy"
11:30am–12:30pm, Salon L	SCS Data Committee Report: State of the Field 2025 Rachel Philbrick, University of British Columbia, and Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan, Organizers (To attend this meeting virtually, please register in advance: RSVP for the SCS Data Committee Open Meeting) Rachel Philbrick, University of British Columbia, and Del Maticic, Vassar College Results and Takeaways from the 2024 Membership Census Mali Skotheim, Ashoka University Clinton Kinkade, University of South Florida Two New Databases: Recently Completed Dissertations and SCS Job Ads
1:00pm–2:00pm, Exhibition Hall (Franklin Hall) or Virtual	SCS-51: Roundtable Session: The Digital Study of Kelsey Objects at the University of Michigan Hannah Edwards, University of Michigan, Taylor Tyrell, University of Michigan, and Cathy Person, University of Michigan, Organizers The Role of Theory in the Field: A Roundtable Sponsored by Helios Donald Lavigne, Helios and Texas Tech University, Organizer Mentoring Meet-and-Greet: Programs, Best Practices, and How to Connect Morgan Palmer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Organizer Classical Studies as Public Humanities Clifford Robinson, Princeton Public Library, and Emma Ianni, Columbia University, Organizers Organizing an Ancient Narrative Interest Group Evelyn Adkins, Case Western Reserve University, Valeria Spacciante, Columbia University, Umberto Verdura, Columbia University, JuliAnne N. Rach, University of California, Alessandra Migliara, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Victoria Hodges, Rutgers University, Organizers VIRTUAL: L’Année philologique: innovating tradition Mackenzie Zalin, Johns Hopkins University, Organizer VIRTUAL: Hidden Labor and Academic Precarity Lorenza Bennardo, University of Toronto, and Rebecca Moorman, Boston University, Organizers
Sixth Paper Session (11 sessions)
2:00pm–5:00pm, Virtual	SCS-52: VIRTUAL: Between, Beyond, Bygone, Behind: Queer Time in the Ancient Mediterranean (Organizer-Refereed Panel) T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University, Organizer T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University Introduction Kathryn Stutz, Johns Hopkins University To Live by Night and Die by Day: (Having a) Queer Time in the Ancient Greek Arctic Rowan Ash, University of Western Ontario The Great Chain of (Queer) Being and Time: Temporal and Ontological Drag in the Greek Magical Papyri Giovanni Lovisetto, Emory University The (Queer) Time of the Ghost. A Hauntological Perspective on Achilles and Patroklos Laura Harris, University of Washington Repeating Nymphs and Repeating Trauma: Queer Time and the Narrative Structure of the Metamorphoses Jaymie Orchard, University of Otago Time After Time: Queering the Temporalities of the Temple of Hercules Musarum Ryan Warwick, Haverford College Knowing Tiro: Classics and the Queer Archive
2:00pm–5:00pm, 401-403 (Hybrid)	SCS-53: HYBRID: Homer Thomas Nelson, University of Oxford, Presider Eden Riebling, The Horace Mann School Empathy in Iliad 24 Erynn Kim, University of Notre Dame Epic Dreamscapes: The Time and Space of Dreams in Homer and Gilgamesh Frances Pickworth, University of Bristol From mētis to biē: Idomeneus and Meriones as an intergenerational pair in the Iliad Spiridon Iosif Capotos, Boston University As long as it flows: didactic poetry and the deluge in Iliad XII, 16-33 Samantha Taylor, University of Pennsylvania ἀνένευε δὲ Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη: The Narrative Function of the Failed Prayer to Athena in Iliad 6 Collin Moat, University of California, Los Angeles Planting the Oar: the Avoidance of Tree Death in the Odyssey
2:00pm–5:00pm, 407-409	SCS-54: Ancient Greek Exegesis: The Work of Commentators from the Classical Period to Late Antiquity (Panel) Matteo Milesi, University of Texas at Austin, and Matthieu Réal, Università degli Studi di Padova and Cornell University, Organizers Matteo Milesi, University of Texas at Austin, and Matthieu Réal, Università degli Studi di Padova and Cornell University Introduction Mirjam Kotwick, Princeton University (Dream) interpretation in the fifth century BCE Bill Beck, Indiana University Bloomington “Through this, Homer teaches us…”: The Exegetical Scholia on the Lessons of the Iliad Kenneth Yu, University of Toronto Emotions as Scholarly Virtues in Homeric Commentary Peter Martens, Saint Louis University How Christians Re-Addressed their Sacred Writings Matteo Milesi, University of Texas at Austin, and Matthieu Réal, Università degli Studi di Padova and Cornell University Response
2:00pm–5:00pm, 411-412	SCS-55: Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics (organized by the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics) Jeremy Rau, Harvard University, Benjamin Fortson, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and Timothy Barnes, Oxford University, Organizers Nadav Asraf, Harvard University A Case Study in the Technique of Homeric Versification: The Homeric Forms πέρθετο (Il.12.15), περθομένη (Il.2.374 = 4.291 = 13.816), and πέρθαι (Il.16.708) as Bardic Usages Krishnan Ram-Prasad, Oxford University Tmesis in Homer: At the intersection of syntax, pragmatics and poetics Jorge Wong, University of Richmond Sappho’s Flowers: Sapphic ἄνθεσι and the Reconstruction of the Lesbian Dative Andrew Merritt, Georgetown University Seeming and Seemliness: An Etymological Account of κόσμος ‘ordered appearance’ Hana Aghababian, Cornell University A look through the smoke: PIE dheu̯- and TB tute* ‘yellow’ Michael Weiss, Cornell University Tense and Mood in Conditional Clauses in the Twelve Tables
2:00pm–5:00pm, 414-415	SCS-56: Imperial History E.Del Chrol, Marshall University, Presider Christiane-Marie Cantwell, University of Cambridge Follow the Priest! : The adoption and perpetuation of the taurobolium in Roman Gaul Alessandro Giovanni Battaglia, University of Cincinnati The Ruins of the Telesterion: Conceptualizing the Eleusinian Mysteries after the Collapse of the Temples. Collin Parks, The Ohio State University The Theodosian Obelisk and the Rise of Rufinus Christer Bruun, University of Toronto Agrippa Postumus’ Unexpected Fall from Favour in 7 CE and His Presence in the Fasti Ostienses James Alexander Macksoud, Stanford University Perpetual Endowments and Civic Finances in the Early Roman Empire Theodore Boivin, University of Cincinnati Cassius Dio as a Reader of Tacitus: The Mutinies of 14 CE
2:00pm–5:00pm, Salon G	SCS-57: CAMP Workshop. New Plays, New Directions: Ellen McLaughlin’s Conversations at the Return of Spring (Workshop organized by the SCS Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance) Claire Catenaccio, Georgetown University, Al Duncan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Krishni Burns, University of Illinois, Organizers Ellen McLaughlin, Freelance artist and playwright Conversations at the Return of Spring Timothy Power, Rutgers University, Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania, and Lane Flores, University of Texas, Austin Response
2:00pm–5:00pm, Salon H (Hybrid)	SCS-58: HYBRID: Antiquity in Asia and the Mediterranean: A Comparative Approach (organized by the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus) Christopher Waldo, University of Washington, Seattle, and Lorraine Abagatnan, University of Michigan, Organizers Yanxiao He, Tsinghua University Seres in Rome, Romantown in China, and Off-Chinatown Classics Binh Nguyen, University of Washington, Seattle The Vergilian Heroine of The Tale of Kie'u Luke Soucy, Princeton University Axis of Power: The Two Emperor Problem in Europe and East Asia Shreyoshi Ghoshray Pralaya and Kháos: Comparative Examinations of Creation, Dissolution and Flux within Ancient Indian and Ancient Greek Philosophical and Cultural Perspectives Claire Jiang Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Gendered Disparities in Early China, Ancient Rome, and Beyond Cynthia Liu, Jesus College, Oxford Comparing and translating the Greco-Roman chorus and Classical Chinese hé (和)
2:00pm–5:00pm, Salon I (Hybrid)	SCS-59: HYBRID: Global Classical Reception Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania, Presider Thomas Munro, Yale University Postimperial Nostalgia in Some Modern British Odysseys Gregory Baker, The Catholic University of America “...leave the borders of our land, fruitful fields:” Aboriginal Alienation, Virgil and the Roman Vision of Christopher Okigbo Trevor Lee, The Ohio State University “Cancelling the Western Canon”: Classical Education in Hong Kong’s English Political Discourse Michele Valerie Ronnick, Wayne State University ‘Turno Aeneas Provoca a la Gue[r]ra’: Episodes from Book 9 of the Aeneid on an Eighteenth Century Batea from Nueva España German Campos-Munoz, Northwestern University Fomos e Somos a Atlântida: Atlantean Etiologies in 20th-century Brazil
2:00pm–5:00pm, Salon J	SCS-60: Slavery Hannah Čulík-Baird, University of California, Los Angeles, Presider Chance Bonar, Tufts University Enslaved Religious Knowledge & Festival Disruption during Ancient Mediterranean Slave Revolts Charles Muntz, University of Arkansas Treat Your Slaves Well, For It Might Be You: The Ideology of Slavery in Diodorus Siculus Christopher Jotischky-Hull, Brown University Better than the Ancestors? Discourses of Enslavement around the Greek War of Independence Gaia Gianni, Ohio State University Desperately seeking Caecilia: the possibilities of critical fabulation Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University, and Javal Coleman, University of Texas–Austin Cruelty against Property: The Rescript(s) on Enslaver Violence Brittany Joyce, University of Michigan A Household Charybdis: Sex and Slavery in Late Antiquity
2:00pm–5:00pm, Salon K (Hybrid)	SCS-61: HYBRID: Epic Interjections (Organizer-Refereed Panel) Diana Librandi, California State University, Long Beach, Organizer Ronald Blankenborg, Radboud University Make Some Noise: Interjectional Phrases as Attentional Triggers Kevin Nobel, CUNY Graduate Center The Interjection ὢ πόποι as a Flexible Pragmatic Marker in Homeric Epic Giacomo Scavello, Utrecht University The Iliad ‘poem of kindness’: mortality compassion and generosity in the interjection ἆ δειλ(έ) Marco Comunetti, University of Genoa Discourses on Odysseus: a survey on interjections in the Odyssey Maria Kovalchuk, University of Pennsylvania Reading the Moralizing Interjection in Theocritus’ Idyll 26 Alicia Matz, San Diego State University Ira pharetrae fertur satiata Diana: Identifying with the Victim via Interjection in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Eleni Papadogiannaki, University of Crete Response
2:00pm–5:00pm, Salon L	SCS-62: New Directions in Papyrology and Epigraphy in the 21st Century (organized by the American Society of Papyrologists and the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba, and James Sickinger, Florida State University, Organizers C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba Introduction Morgan Palmer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vestal Virgins and Roman Soldiers: Inscriptions and the Feriale Duranum (P.Dura 54) Sheridan Marsh, University of Pennsylvania Inscribing Revolts in Epigraphic Memory Caroline van Toor, University of Groningen In death not divided. Integrating text and image in the study of social history on the basis of funerary monuments Helen Wong, University of Pennsylvania “A good papyrus script”: multigenerational funerary inscriptions from the Tomb of Apollophanes Qizhen Xie, Brown University Apparition and Representation: Presence of “Toparchs” in Two "Non-Ptolemaic" Inscriptions Egidia Occhipinti, University of Palermo A multidisciplinary approach to the study of literary papyri

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Fourth Paper Session (10 sessions)

8:00am–10:30am,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-32: HYBRID: Greek Poetry
Bill Beck, Indiana University, Presider

Nigel Nicholson, Reed College
Natural Superiority and Flexible Inheritance in Pindar’s Odes
Caroline Murphy-Racette, University of Michigan
The Traffic in Women by Women in Archaic Greek Poetry
Peter Mayer, University of Szeged
Mater semper certa? Interpretive remarks on the new Archilochus-commentary (P.Oxy. 4952)
Sherry (Chiayi) Lee, Princeton University
Hearing the voice of justice: The personification of Dikē in Hesiod’s Works and Days
Carolyn Laferriere, Princeton University Art Museum
Sympotic Metamorphoses: Poets on Pots in Archaic Athens

8:00am–10:30am,
407-409

SCS-33: The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students (organized by Eta Sigma Phi)
Katherine Panagakos, Stockton University, Organizer

Katherine Panagakos, Stockton University
Introduction
Zachary Chen, Hillsdale College
The Loneliness of Excellence: Social Schism in the Stories of Coriolanus and Achilles
Emmeline Murphy, Northwestern University
Wearied or Fallen: The Critical Reception of the Creusa Episode and Editorial History of Aeneid 2.739
Riley Parker, Columbia University
Exiled by Fate: Memory and National Identity in Aeneid VIII
Olivia Gandee, Bryn Mawr College
Presence, Identity, and Legitimacy: The Power of Song in Vergil’s Aeneid
Barbara Gold, Hamilton College
Response

8:00am–10:30am,
411-412

SCS-34: Medicine and Disability
Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania, Presider

Jonas Tai, Stanford University
Idioms of Distress: Psychosocial Symptomizing in the Epidaurian Miracle Inscriptions
Catherine Schenck, University of Michigan
Treating Lovesickness with Lead: The Curative Use of Curse Tablets in the Roman Empire
Mar Rodda, Merton College, Oxford
There is a pain so *utterable*: Lived experiences of chronic pain in antiquity and today
Cecily Bateman, University of Cambridge
Monstrous Empire: Disability and Display of Bodies in the Roman Empire
Danielle Perry, University of Pennsylvania
The Sickness of Slavery: Manumission at Epidaurus

8:00am–10:30am,
414-415

SCS-35: Latin Poetry
Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania, Presider

Joshua Paul, Queen's University
A Walking Caricature: Epicureanism on the Road to Brundisium in Horace Satire 1.5
Jessica Westerhold, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The Promise of Happiness as a Technology of Social Control in Tibullus
Nathaniel Herter, Harvard University
The Failure of Ritual in the Lusus Troiae of Aeneid V
Jessica Blum-Sorensen, Providence College
Fruit of the Poisoned Tree: Meleager, Family, and Ambition in Imperial Rome
Nicolette D'Angelo, University of California, Los Angeles
“If anyone’s entire race has failed them”: Poetics of Crisis, Racecraft, and Renewal in Vergil’s Georgics and Beyond

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon G

SCS-36: Scribal Culture
Stephanie Ann Frampton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Presider

Sandra Ayikwerah, University of Cincinnati
Lectores et Notarii: Slave Labor in Pliny the Younger's Literature
Michael Freeman, Duke University
Expunging Mistakes: Revising Understanding of Ancient Erasing Tools
Justin Stover, University of Edinburgh
VTERE FELIX: Books as objects and ghosts of objects
Calloway Scott, University of Cincinnati
Galen’s World of Work: Science, Authority, and “Invisible Technicians”
Marcie Persyn, University of Pittsburgh
Re-Examining the Roman Scholarly “Workshop”: Restoring the Voices, Innovations, and Discoveries of the Enslaved

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-37: HYBRID: Byzantine and Early Modern Reception
Caroline Stark, Howard University, Presider

Keisuke Nakajima, Johns Hopkins University
What is to love, umpossible?: Plato, Lyly and the Alchemy of Love
John Kee, Harvard University
Plato in the Marketplace: Reception as Intellectual Contestation in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
Andrew Lund, Tulane University
Marginalizing Dorus in 15th-Century France: Terence’s Eunuchus and Jewish Iconography in a Gothic Illuminated Manuscript
Alyssa Mulé, University of Chicago
Hecuba’s Conscience-Catching Mirror: Euripidean Echoes and Catharsis in 'Hamlet'
Joseph Ortiz, University of Texas at El Paso
Turning the Soil: Virgil’s Georgics and Humanist Translation in Petrarch and Milton

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-38: HYBRID: Love and Self-knowledge: Tragic, Lyric, and Platonic Perspectives (Panel)
Huaiyuan "Susanna" Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, Thu Truong, Princeton University, and Jiawen Wang, University of Chicago, Organizers

Thu Truong, Princeton University
Introduction
Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, Stanford University
Thinking the Somatic: Sappho and Diotima on Bodies
Jiawen Wang, University of Chicago
The Journey to the Past: Beauty, Jealousy, and the Triangular Love in Sophocles’ Trachiniae and Plato’s Phaedrus
Zacharoula Petraki, University of Crete
Love, Resemblance and the Formation of the Self in Plato’s Phaedrus
Huaiyuan "Susanna" Zhang, Pennsylvania State University
Giving What I Do Not Have to Someone Who Does Not Need It—Reading Erotic Parapraxis in Plato’s Symposium with Levinas and Lacan
Marc Mastrangelo, Dickinson College
The Platonic and the Tragic in Augustine’s Confessions
Glenn Most, University of Chicago; Joshua Billings, Princeton University
Response

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon J

SCS-39: Translation and Creative Adaptation (organized by the SCS Committee on Translations of Classical Authors)
Stephanie McCarter, University of the South, Sewanee, and Deborah Roberts, Haverford College, Organizers

Sophia Elzie, Northwestern University
There to Here, Then to Now: Considering Luis Alfaro’s Mojada through Translation Theory
Spencer Lee-Lenfield, Yale University
Between Translation and Adaptation: Rethinking Dryden’s Imitation with Stephanie Burt’s After Callimachus
Inger Kuin, University of Virginia
The Cry from Melissa: Translation and Engagement in Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s Alkibiades
Alex Nguyen, University of Pennsylvania
Transcribing Telemachus: the Development of Colonial Vietnamese National Identity Negotiated Through the Translation and Adaptation of the Telemachy
Harrison Biddle, University of Oxford
‘More than an accurate translation of words or even phrases’: Exploring queerness, translation and adaption in A. L. Hillman’s Mimes of the Courtesans
Martin Michalek, Johns Hopkins University
Hope Mirrlees, Horace, and the Carpe Diem Poetics of Modernism

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-40: HYBRID: Opening Up Classics with AI (organized by the Digital Classics Association)
Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Organizer

Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Introduction
Samuel Huskey, University of Oklahoma
Opening Up Bottlenecks in Digital Classics Workflows with Human-in-the-Loop AI
Patrick Burns, New York University
Prompt Engineering for Latin Teachers
Edward Ross, University of Reading, and Jackie Baines, University of Reading
Generative Image AI and Teaching Classics: A Case of Exaggeration
Gregory Crane, Tufts University
AI, Machine Actionable Publication and Assigning Credit
Joseph Dexter, Harvard University, and Pramit Chaudhuri, University of Texas at Austin
Benchmarking Generative AI Models for Classical Literary Criticism

8:00am–10:30am,
Salon L

SCS-41: Landscape and Environment
Thomas Biggs, University of St Andrews, Presider

Margaret Danaher, Brown University
Space, Landscape, and Ruination in Juvenal’s Satires
Alexandra Hardwick, Oxford University
Imagining Traumatic Landscapes: Warfare, Geography, and Weather in Greek Literature
Donald McCarthy, University of Toronto
Venus in Vervain: Vergil's Garden (G. 4.116–48)
Catherine Chase, University of Washington
The Visual Properties of Water in Statius’ Silvae 2.3
Vassilis Sazaklidis, University of Texas at Austin
Body, Landscape, and Metaphorical Language in Aristides’ Sacred Tales
Christopher Wood, Baylor University
Shadow of the Serpent: Archaeoastronomy, Topography and the Temple of Apollo at Delphi

Fifth Paper Session (9 sessions)

11:00am–1:00pm,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-42: HYBRID: Lightning Talk Session
Lissa Crofton-Sleigh, Santa Clara University, Presider

Adam Gitner, Thesaurus linguae Latinae / Bavarian Academy of Sciences
The Digital Futures of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)
Noreen Kupernik, Thaden School
Natural Method for Dead Languages?
Jenny Strauss Clay, University of Virginia
ὀρσοθύρη and the narrative function of Odyssey 22. . 126–30

11:00am–1:00pm,
407-409

SCS-43: Historiography and Roman Imperialism (Panel)
Andrew Scott, Villanova University, and Jesper Madsen, University of Southern Denmark, Organizers

Jessica Clark, Florida State University
Reckoning Empire: Cato, Caesar, and Frontinus
Jesper Madsen, University of Southern Denmark
The Conquest of Spain in Roman Historiography
Andrew Scott, Villanova University
The Historiography of Collective Suicide and Roman Conquest: Three Case Studies
Kelly Shannon-Henderson, University of Cincinnati
Religion and Imperialism in Tacitus’ Parthian Narratives

11:00am–1:00pm,
411-412

SCS-44: Plato and Aristotle
Johanna Hanink, Brown University, Presider

Laura Viidebaum, New York University
Aristotle's style
Matthew Pincus, Creighton University
Phaedo's Beautiful Hair: Queering Erotic, Familial, and Narrative Boundaries in Plato's Phaedo
Emily Hulme, University of Sydney
Was Diotima a Real Person?

11:00am–1:00pm,
414-415

SCS-45: Disaster in Rome
Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University, Presider

Alexander Kiprof, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Statius’s Fiery River Battle: Implications of Reading ignis instead of amnis at Theb. 9.462
Rebecca Kerns, University of Cincinnati
Arsonists at Large: Incendiarism & Fraud in the City of Rome
Cait Mongrain, Princeton University
Cannibalizing Community in Juvenal and Ps.-Quintilian

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon G

SCS-46: Dance and Myth: The Reception of the Greeks by Martha Graham (Panel organized by the SCS Classics in the Community Committee)
Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, and Nina Papathanasopoulou, College Year in Athens and Society for Classical Studies, Organizers

Amanda Kubic, University of Michigan
Witnesses, Furies, and Revelers: Comparing Martha Graham’s Modern Choruses in Cave of the Heart, Clytemnestra, and Acts of Light
Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
The Spider Dress from “Cave of the Heart”: Graham and Noguchi’s Medea
Nina Papathanasopoulou, College Year in Athens and Society for Classical Studies
Tracing the Ancient Literary and Visual Sources in Martha Graham’s Greek-themed Dances
Victoria Phillips, Global Fellow, Wilson Center
When the Personal Becomes Political: Martha Graham and Myth, Carl Jung as Agent 488, and United States Cold War Psychological Warfare
Victoria Hodges, Rutgers University
"Choreography proves sexy yet tasteful”: Censoring Bodies in Balletic Performance
Janet Eilber, Lloyd Knight, and Anne Souder, Martha Graham Dance Company
Interview with Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company Janet Eilber, and MGDC Principal Dancers, Lloyd Knight and Anne Souder

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-47: HYBRID: Comedy
Matthew Farmer, Haverford College, Presider

Christopher Ell, Boston University
Dicaeopolis at the Choes: Implications of the Comic Orestes for Aristophanes' Acharnians
Jiaqi Ma, Yale University
Fishy Transformations in Aristophanes' Wasps
Emmanuel Aprilakis, Rutgers University
Whose Line Is It Anyway? The Parabasis of Old Comedy
Dustin Dixon, Grinnell College
Comic Re-Cosmogonies and Revolution

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-48: HYBRID: Teaching with Role-Immersive Games in a Variety of Classroom Settings (Workshop)
Lauren Caldwell, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Bret Mulligan, Haverford College, Organizers

Melissa Mueller, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Teaching the "Athens in 403: Threshold of Democracy" in a Greek Civilization course
Kyle Helms, St. Olaf College
Reacting to Classical Athens and Ming China in First-Year Seminars
Denver Graninger, University of California, Riverside
Historical Games in History Courses
Michael Nerdahl, Bowdoin College
The Game of Grading: The Tricky Role of Assessment

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon J

SCS-49: Classical Legacies and the Ibero-global World (organized by Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World)
Adriana Vazquez, University of California, Los Angeles, and Julia Hernández, New York University, Organizers

Steven González, University of Southern California
Mining the Earth: Reﬂections on the Relationship Between Workers and their Environment in Landívar’s Rusticatio Mexicana
Leanna Boychenko, Loyola University Chicago
Medea in the Borderlands: Sandra Cisnero’s 'Woman Hollering Creek'
José Cancino Alfaro, Columbia University
Indigenous voices? Four cantiunculae of a Machi in Bernard Havestadt’s Chilidugu (1777)
Ella González, Johns Hopkins University
Antioch Mosaics in Cuba? Exploring the Classical Tradition in the Caribbean

11:00am–1:00pm,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-50: HYBRID: Lit in Late Antiquity
James J. O'Hara, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Presider

Lucy McInerney, Brown University
Violent Blushing in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae
Phoebe Lakin, Harvard University
Getting the last word: the fate of the Aeneid in Anth. Lat. 672
Alex Dressler, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The political economy of the Art of Poetry as an anticipatory illumination of Christian song: Horace as laborer, mad poet as revolutionary
Clifford Robinson, Princeton Public Library
The Epiphany of Philosophia and Philosophical Therapy in Boethius’ "Consolation of Philosophy"

11:30am–12:30pm,
Salon L

SCS Data Committee Report: State of the Field 2025
Rachel Philbrick, University of British Columbia, and Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan, Organizers
(To attend this meeting virtually, please register in advance: RSVP for the SCS Data Committee Open Meeting)

Rachel Philbrick, University of British Columbia, and Del Maticic, Vassar College
Results and Takeaways from the 2024 Membership Census
Mali Skotheim, Ashoka University
Clinton Kinkade, University of South Florida
Two New Databases: Recently Completed Dissertations and SCS Job Ads

1:00pm–2:00pm,
Exhibition Hall (Franklin Hall) or Virtual

SCS-51: Roundtable Session:

The Digital Study of Kelsey Objects at the University of Michigan
Hannah Edwards, University of Michigan, Taylor Tyrell, University of Michigan, and Cathy Person, University of Michigan, Organizers

The Role of Theory in the Field: A Roundtable Sponsored by Helios
Donald Lavigne, Helios and Texas Tech University, Organizer

Mentoring Meet-and-Greet: Programs, Best Practices, and How to Connect
Morgan Palmer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Organizer

Classical Studies as Public Humanities
Clifford Robinson, Princeton Public Library, and Emma Ianni, Columbia University, Organizers

Organizing an Ancient Narrative Interest Group
Evelyn Adkins, Case Western Reserve University, Valeria Spacciante, Columbia University, Umberto Verdura, Columbia University, JuliAnne N. Rach, University of California, Alessandra Migliara, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Victoria Hodges, Rutgers University, Organizers

VIRTUAL: L’Année philologique: innovating tradition
Mackenzie Zalin, Johns Hopkins University, Organizer

VIRTUAL: Hidden Labor and Academic Precarity
Lorenza Bennardo, University of Toronto, and Rebecca Moorman, Boston University, Organizers

Sixth Paper Session (11 sessions)

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Virtual

SCS-52: VIRTUAL: Between, Beyond, Bygone, Behind: Queer Time in the Ancient Mediterranean (Organizer-Refereed Panel)
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University, Organizer

T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University
Introduction
Kathryn Stutz, Johns Hopkins University
To Live by Night and Die by Day: (Having a) Queer Time in the Ancient Greek Arctic
Rowan Ash, University of Western Ontario
The Great Chain of (Queer) Being and Time: Temporal and Ontological Drag in the Greek Magical Papyri
Giovanni Lovisetto, Emory University
The (Queer) Time of the Ghost. A Hauntological Perspective on Achilles and Patroklos
Laura Harris, University of Washington
Repeating Nymphs and Repeating Trauma: Queer Time and the Narrative Structure of the Metamorphoses
Jaymie Orchard, University of Otago
Time After Time: Queering the Temporalities of the Temple of Hercules Musarum
Ryan Warwick, Haverford College
Knowing Tiro: Classics and the Queer Archive

2:00pm–5:00pm,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-53: HYBRID: Homer
Thomas Nelson, University of Oxford, Presider

Eden Riebling, The Horace Mann School
Empathy in Iliad 24
Erynn Kim, University of Notre Dame
Epic Dreamscapes: The Time and Space of Dreams in Homer and Gilgamesh
Frances Pickworth, University of Bristol
From mētis to biē: Idomeneus and Meriones as an intergenerational pair in the Iliad
Spiridon Iosif Capotos, Boston University
As long as it flows: didactic poetry and the deluge in Iliad XII, 16-33
Samantha Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
ἀνένευε δὲ Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη: The Narrative Function of the Failed Prayer to Athena in Iliad 6
Collin Moat, University of California, Los Angeles
Planting the Oar: the Avoidance of Tree Death in the Odyssey

2:00pm–5:00pm,
407-409

SCS-54: Ancient Greek Exegesis: The Work of Commentators from the Classical Period to Late Antiquity (Panel)
Matteo Milesi, University of Texas at Austin, and Matthieu Réal, Università degli Studi di Padova and Cornell University, Organizers

Matteo Milesi, University of Texas at Austin, and Matthieu Réal, Università degli Studi di Padova and Cornell University
Introduction
Mirjam Kotwick, Princeton University
(Dream) interpretation in the fifth century BCE
Bill Beck, Indiana University Bloomington
“Through this, Homer teaches us…”: The Exegetical Scholia on the Lessons of the Iliad
Kenneth Yu, University of Toronto
Emotions as Scholarly Virtues in Homeric Commentary
Peter Martens, Saint Louis University
How Christians Re-Addressed their Sacred Writings
Matteo Milesi, University of Texas at Austin, and Matthieu Réal, Università degli Studi di Padova and Cornell University
Response

2:00pm–5:00pm,
411-412

SCS-55: Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics (organized by the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics)
Jeremy Rau, Harvard University, Benjamin Fortson, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and Timothy Barnes, Oxford University, Organizers

Nadav Asraf, Harvard University
A Case Study in the Technique of Homeric Versification: The Homeric Forms πέρθετο (Il.12.15), περθομένη (Il.2.374 = 4.291 = 13.816), and πέρθαι (Il.16.708) as Bardic Usages
Krishnan Ram-Prasad, Oxford University
Tmesis in Homer: At the intersection of syntax, pragmatics and poetics
Jorge Wong, University of Richmond
Sappho’s Flowers: Sapphic ἄνθεσι and the Reconstruction of the Lesbian Dative
Andrew Merritt, Georgetown University
Seeming and Seemliness: An Etymological Account of κόσμος ‘ordered appearance’
Hana Aghababian, Cornell University
A look through the smoke: PIE *dheu̯- and TB tute ‘yellow’
Michael Weiss, Cornell University
Tense and Mood in Conditional Clauses in the Twelve Tables

2:00pm–5:00pm,
414-415

SCS-56: Imperial History
E.Del Chrol, Marshall University, Presider

Christiane-Marie Cantwell, University of Cambridge
Follow the Priest! : The adoption and perpetuation of the taurobolium in Roman Gaul
Alessandro Giovanni Battaglia, University of Cincinnati
The Ruins of the Telesterion: Conceptualizing the Eleusinian Mysteries after the Collapse of the Temples.
Collin Parks, The Ohio State University
The Theodosian Obelisk and the Rise of Rufinus
Christer Bruun, University of Toronto
Agrippa Postumus’ Unexpected Fall from Favour in 7 CE and His Presence in the Fasti Ostienses
James Alexander Macksoud, Stanford University
Perpetual Endowments and Civic Finances in the Early Roman Empire
Theodore Boivin, University of Cincinnati
Cassius Dio as a Reader of Tacitus: The Mutinies of 14 CE

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon G

SCS-57: CAMP Workshop. New Plays, New Directions: Ellen McLaughlin’s Conversations at the Return of Spring (Workshop organized by the SCS Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance)
Claire Catenaccio, Georgetown University, Al Duncan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Krishni Burns, University of Illinois, Organizers

Ellen McLaughlin, Freelance artist and playwright
Conversations at the Return of Spring
Timothy Power, Rutgers University, Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania, and Lane Flores, University of Texas, Austin
Response

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-58: HYBRID: Antiquity in Asia and the Mediterranean: A Comparative Approach (organized by the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus)
Christopher Waldo, University of Washington, Seattle, and Lorraine Abagatnan, University of Michigan, Organizers

Yanxiao He, Tsinghua University
Seres in Rome, Romantown in China, and Off-Chinatown Classics
Binh Nguyen, University of Washington, Seattle
The Vergilian Heroine of The Tale of Kie'u
Luke Soucy, Princeton University
Axis of Power: The Two Emperor Problem in Europe and East Asia
Shreyoshi Ghoshray
Pralaya and Kháos: Comparative Examinations of Creation, Dissolution and Flux within Ancient Indian and Ancient Greek Philosophical and Cultural Perspectives
Claire Jiang
Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Gendered Disparities in Early China, Ancient Rome, and Beyond
Cynthia Liu, Jesus College, Oxford
Comparing and translating the Greco-Roman chorus and Classical Chinese hé (和)

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-59: HYBRID: Global Classical Reception
Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania, Presider

Thomas Munro, Yale University
Postimperial Nostalgia in Some Modern British Odysseys
Gregory Baker, The Catholic University of America
“...leave the borders of our land, fruitful fields:” Aboriginal Alienation, Virgil and the Roman Vision of Christopher Okigbo
Trevor Lee, The Ohio State University
“Cancelling the Western Canon”: Classical Education in Hong Kong’s English Political Discourse
Michele Valerie Ronnick, Wayne State University
‘Turno Aeneas Provoca a la Gue[r]ra’: Episodes from Book 9 of the Aeneid on an Eighteenth Century Batea from Nueva España
German Campos-Munoz, Northwestern University
Fomos e Somos a Atlântida: Atlantean Etiologies in 20th-century Brazil

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon J

SCS-60: Slavery
Hannah Čulík-Baird, University of California, Los Angeles, Presider

Chance Bonar, Tufts University
Enslaved Religious Knowledge & Festival Disruption during Ancient Mediterranean Slave Revolts
Charles Muntz, University of Arkansas
Treat Your Slaves Well, For It Might Be You: The Ideology of Slavery in Diodorus Siculus
Christopher Jotischky-Hull, Brown University
Better than the Ancestors? Discourses of Enslavement around the Greek War of Independence
Gaia Gianni, Ohio State University
Desperately seeking Caecilia: the possibilities of critical fabulation
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University, and Javal Coleman, University of Texas–Austin
Cruelty against Property: The Rescript(s) on Enslaver Violence
Brittany Joyce, University of Michigan
A Household Charybdis: Sex and Slavery in Late Antiquity

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-61: HYBRID: Epic Interjections (Organizer-Refereed Panel)
Diana Librandi, California State University, Long Beach, Organizer

Ronald Blankenborg, Radboud University
Make Some Noise: Interjectional Phrases as Attentional Triggers
Kevin Nobel, CUNY Graduate Center
The Interjection ὢ πόποι as a Flexible Pragmatic Marker in Homeric Epic
Giacomo Scavello, Utrecht University
The Iliad ‘poem of kindness’: mortality compassion and generosity in the interjection ἆ δειλ(έ)
Marco Comunetti, University of Genoa
Discourses on Odysseus: a survey on interjections in the Odyssey
Maria Kovalchuk, University of Pennsylvania
Reading the Moralizing Interjection in Theocritus’ Idyll 26
Alicia Matz, San Diego State University
Ira pharetrae fertur satiata Diana: Identifying with the Victim via Interjection in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Eleni Papadogiannaki, University of Crete
Response

2:00pm–5:00pm,
Salon L

SCS-62: New Directions in Papyrology and Epigraphy in the 21st Century (organized by the American Society of Papyrologists and the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy)
C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba, and James Sickinger, Florida State University, Organizers

C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba
Introduction
Morgan Palmer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vestal Virgins and Roman Soldiers: Inscriptions and the Feriale Duranum (P.Dura 54)
Sheridan Marsh, University of Pennsylvania
Inscribing Revolts in Epigraphic Memory
Caroline van Toor, University of Groningen
In death not divided. Integrating text and image in the study of social history on the basis of funerary monuments
Helen Wong, University of Pennsylvania
“A good papyrus script”: multigenerational funerary inscriptions from the Tomb of Apollophanes
Qizhen Xie, Brown University
Apparition and Representation: Presence of “Toparchs” in Two "Non-Ptolemaic" Inscriptions
Egidia Occhipinti, University of Palermo
A multidisciplinary approach to the study of literary papyri

Sunday, January 5, 2025
Seventh Paper Session (13 sessions)
8:00am–11:00am, Virtual	SCS-63: VIRTUAL: A Rupture in Time: Queer Receptions of the Ancient Mediterranean (Panel) Cassandra Tran, Wake Forest University, Organizer Cassandra Tran, Wake Forest University Introduction Jillian White, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign La Loba Travesti Classical wolves and trans* temporal bodies in Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s La virgen cabeza and Camila Sosa Villada’s Las malas Michael Mignanelli, University of New Hampshire Crowley’s Symposium: Queer Classicisms in Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band Mal Main, New York University Queer Time and Gender Transition in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Kit Pyne-Jaeger, Columbia University Styling Queerness and Decorating Time: J.W. Waterhouse and Ovid’s Metamorphoses Francesca Beretta, Yale University Philology in the Streets: Feeling Sappho Backward in 1970s Italy Daniel Orrells, King's College London Queer History and Antiquity with Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
8:00am–11:00am, 401-403 (Hybrid)	SCS-64: HYBRID: Neronian and Flavian Literature Matthew Roller, Johns Hopkins University, Presider William Dingee, The Pennington School Color Arte Compositus: Staging Blackness in Petronius Gianmarco Bianchini, University of Toronto Juvenal the Historian: Analysing the Role of the Satires in the Scholia on Lucan’s Bellum ciuile Mallory Fitzpatrick, Bryn Mawr College Tricks, Treats, and Temptation: Trimalchio as Tantalus in the Satyricon Ryan Baldwin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pro volnere corpus: Atomic Dissolution in Lucan’s Snake Episode Emily Mitchell, Harvard University Modes of mourning: a reinterpretation of Martial, Epigrams 6.28 and 6.29 Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki, Arizona State University Keeping up with the Julio-Claudians: Plants and the Imperial Family in Pliny’s Natural History
8:00am–11:00am, 407-409	SCS-65: Ovid Stephen Hinds, University of Washington, Presider Evan Brubaker, University of Virginia Bellowing from the Bronze Bull: Allegory and Intertext in Ovid, Tristia 3.11 Catalina Popescu, Texas Tech University Achilles’ Hardened Shell. A Nuptial Metamorphosis in Ovid Kathleen Cruz, University of California, Davis Sight, Self-discovery, and Epistemological Horror in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Livvie May, Princeton University Three Approaches to Ars Amatoria 1.351-98 Sam Kindick, University of Colorado Boulder Anna Perenna and Ovid’s Sequel to the Aeneid Emily Hudson, University of California, Santa Barbara Abortion in the Amores: A Queer Intervention of Corinna’s Abortion
8:00am–11:00am, 411-412	SCS-66: Greek Tragedy Erika Weiberg, Duke University, Presider Amelia Bensch-Schaus, University of Pennsylvania Helen against Penelope, Euripides against Homer: The Helen and its Epic Models Yuecheng Li, Princeton University, and Jakob Barnes, Princeton University Oedipus, the Ethnographer King: A Reading of Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 337–45 Charissa Skoutelas, Johns Hopkins University A Torch “Like the Shining Moon”: Xenophanean threads in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Amit Shilo, University of California, Santa Barbara Democratic Theory and the Hand of the People in the Suppliants of Aeschylus Eric Blum, Cornell University “Maid of Many Cows”: Does Polyboea Lurk in Euripides’ Helen? Vanessa Stovall, Independent Scholar Changeable Chap(let)s: Tragic Tresses & (Un)godly Garlands in Euripidean Drama
8:00am–11:00am, 414-415	SCS-67: Liquid Poetics: Bodies of Water and Greek Poetry (Panel) Katelin Mikos, University of Michigan, and Lauren Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley, Organizers Katelin Mikos, University of Michigan An Unmeasured Evil: Shipwrecking in Simonides’ Danae Fragment Lauren Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley The Stream of the Persian Host: Water and Speech in Aeschylus’ Persae Megan Bowler, University of Oxford The Font of All Ignorance? Water as Insult in Aristophanes’ Knights and Acharnians Pauline LeVen, Yale University Allusion as Alluvium: Reading Helen’s Liquid Commons Frank van den Boom, Leiden University Callimachean Hydropoetics and the Risk of Metaphor Constance Everett-Pite, University of Oxford “Each glacier is lit from underneath \| as memory is”: Ice, Desire, and Remembering Antiquity Alex Purves, University of California, Los Angeles Response
8:00am–11:00am, Salon G	SCS-68: Readers and Reception Yopie Prins, University of Michigan, Presider Deborah Kamen, University of Washington Anne Lister as a queer reader of Martial’s epigrams Hans Peter Obermayer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich “A Jewish refugee from England”: Reconstructing Friedrich Solmsen’s exile according to the files Barbara Gold, Hamilton College Simone Weil’s Interpretation of Homer’s Iliad: What Is it? Harriet Fertik, The Ohio State University Hannah Arendt's Ulysses
8:00am–11:00am, Salon H (Hybrid)	SCS-69: HYBRID: Mabel Lang and Her Legacy: New Research in Greek History, Culture, and Archaeology (Panel, Joint Session) Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University, Organizer Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University Introduction Rebecca Ammerman, Colgate University Excavating in the Shade of the Temple of Athena at Paestum Leslie Kurke, University of California, Berkeley Herodotus’ Scythian Swarms Joan Breton Connelly, New York University Mabel Lang, Genealogical Succession Myth, and the Athenian Acropolis Jenifer Neils, Case Western Reserve University The Athenian Citizen, His Heroes and the Parthenon Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University From the Tyrant-Slayers to Alcibiades: Assassination and the Revolution of the Four Hundred in Athens Lucia Nixon, Wolson College, Oxford University Following Mabel Lang’s Example: The Importance of Combining Material and Textual Evidence
8:00am–11:00am, Salon I (Hybrid)	SCS-70: HYBRID: Myth Sheila (Bridget) Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania, Presider Alice Gaber, University of Wisconsin-Madison Before the Anthropocene: an Ecocritical Reading of Greek Myth Stella Fritzell, Bryn Mawr College Arriving from Elsewhere: Reconciling Maenad Myth and Argive History Katherine Hsu, College of the Holy Cross Courage, Cowardice, and the Architecture of kleos in Myth Collin Hilton, Villanova University Julianic Piety and Habituated ‘Reading’ of the Mother of the Gods: Allegorizing Myth as a Defense for Early Students on the Path to Neoplatonic Ascent
8:00am–11:00am, Salon J	SCS-71: Classical Greek History Jessica Lamont, Yale University, Presider Will Lewis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Udderly Different: Πρόβατα, Pastoral Others, and Challenges to Greek Identity in Herodotus James Hua, University of Oxford Population expulsions caused by natural disasters in the Classical Greek world: annihilation, revival, and identity Joseph Watkins, Boston University ἔξω Ἡρακλέων στηλέων? Herodotus on the Celts in context Joseph DiProperzio, Fordham University The Spartan Navy: The Second Sea Power of Greece K. Scarlett Kingsley, Agnes Scott College Militarism, Agrarianism, and the End of Herodotus’ Histories Jessica Penny Evans, University of Vermont Thucydides and the Masculinity Trap
8:00am–11:00am, Salon K (Hybrid)	SCS-72: HYBRID: Thinking about wealth and inequality in antiquity (Panel) John Weisweiler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Bart Danon, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, and Myles Lavan, University of St Andrews, Organizers John Weisweiler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Limits of Private Wealth in the Roman Empire Emily Mackil, University of California, Berkeley Wealth beyond Land in Classical Athens Bart Danon, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen The explanatory value of Roman wealth distributions Myles Lavan, University of St Andrews The distribution of wealth/income in a slave society Kim Bowes, University of Pennsylvania Everyday Inequality Sarah Murray, University of Toronto Wealth and Inequality in the Greek Early Iron Age: Questioning Some Basic Assumptions
8:00am–11:00am, Salon L	SCS-73: Reading Networks of Reading: ANT-ish Approaches to Reception Studies (Workshop) Jennifer Weintritt, Northwestern University; Erika Valdivieso, Yale University, Organizers Tara Welch, University of Kansas Valerius Maximus, Hierarchical Paratexts, and the Technology of the Book Charles Pletcher, University of Lausanne The Ajax Multi-Commentary: An interactive visualization of commentary networks Naomi Scott, University of Bristol Chapter Titles as Hermeneutic Actors: The Case of Julius Pollux’s Onomasticon Kate Meng Brassel, University of Pennsylvania Binding, agency, and authorship: the case of an erotic Vatican codex Enrico Prodi, Università di Cagliari Reassembling the poet: Hipponax in Alexandria Tori Lee, Boston University On Not Knowing Latin or Greek: Paratext & Indirect Translation in Daniel Lavery’s Chatner
8:00am–11:00am, Salon D	SCS-74: HYBRID: The Feel of Luxury: The Sense-scape of Roman Convivia (Panel, Joint Session) Alice Hu, Reed College, and Daira Nocera, IES Abroad Rome, Organizers Annalisa Marzano, Università di Bologna, Caitie Barrett, Cornell University, Kathryn Gleason, Cornell University, Lee Grana Nicolaou, Università di Bologna Gardens, Plants, and Social Status: The Multisensory Experience of Outdoor Dining at Pompeii Danilo Campanaro, Lund University A dining darkly: investigating the ancient banqueting space using combined digital methods Jeremy Simmons, University of Maryland The Spice of Life: Aromatics and the Sensoaesthetics of the Roman Convivium Friederike Brunzema, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Riddles and Rules in Food Performance River Deng, King's College London The Gap of Luxury: Clientela and Sensory Suffering at the Convivia
8:00am–1:30pm, Salon A	SCS-75: Ancient MakerSpaces (Workshop, Joint session) Eleanor Martin, Yale University, Alex Elvis Badillo, Indiana State University, Chiara Palladino, Furman University, Hugh McElroy, Sidwell Friends School, and Stephan Hassam, Randolph-Macon College, Organizers Peter J. Cobb, University of Hong Kong, and Juuso H. Nieminen, University of Hong Kong Virtual Reality for Spatial and Visual Learning about the Past Robert Stephan, University of Arizona, and Caleb Simmons, University of Arizona Bringing the World to You: Pedagogical and Practical Implications for Virtual Reality Course Design in Online Cultural Heritage Education Garth Henning, Running Reality, Valentina Mignosa, Università degli Studi di Udine, Stefania De Vido, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Arianna Esposito, Université de Bourgogne Mapping Ancient Sicily, TeMAES, and Running Reality: Exploring Coin and Inscription Data with the Running Reality Toolset Mervenur Sevil Kandemir, Koc University Identification of Osteological Information of Archaeological Remains through AI Michael McGlin, Brandeis University Laser cutting and the Ancient World Neel Smith, College of the Holy Cross, and Ashley Terjanian, College of the Holy Cross A Digital Complutensian Bible Guiliano Sidro, University of California, Berkeley, Sarah Tew, University of Florida Libraries, Todd Hickey, University of California, Berkeley, Maddie Qualls, University of California, Berkeley, and Millie You, University of California, Berkeley histpap.info: A New Digital-Edition Illuminating the Early History of Papyrology Hannah Lents, University of Texas at Austin, and Steven Friesen, University of Texas at Austin The Visual Cultures of Revelation
Eighth Paper Session (9 sessions)
11:30am–1:30pm, 401-403 (Hybrid)	SCS-76: HYBRID: Reproductive Justice in the Ancient and Modern Worlds (organized by Classics and Social Justice) Amy Pistone, Gonzaga University, and Kassandra Miller, Colby College, Organizer Kris McLain, Pennsylvania State University Resonances of Practice: Socratic Midwifery, Birthing Methods, and Reproductive Justice Misa Nguyễn, University of California at Santa Barbara “Safer to Prevent than to Destroy”: Abortion as Spectrum and Specter in Roman Law and Medicine Jennifer Stager, Johns Hopkins University Modern law & ancient medicine: abortion rhetoric, plant networks, and the Supreme Court Cassandra Tran, Wake Forest University Unplanned Pregnancies and Prescribed Lives: Decisions about Motherhood for the Meretrix and Virgo of Plautus’ Truculentus Ellen Lee, University of Pittsburgh Response
11:30am–1:30pm, 407-409	SCS-77: Graduate Student Firsts: Presenting and Publishing in Graduate School (organized by the SCS Graduate Student Committee) Christopher Parmenter, Ohio State University, and Nadhira Hill, Randolph Macon College Brandon Jones, Boston University Early Career Journal Publication: Some Advice from a Managing Editor William Farris, Christendom College Educational Benefits of Graduate Student Publishing Evelyn Adkins, Case Western Reserve University Not Just a Line on Your CV: Presenting and Publishing as Networking Philip Katz, Princeton University Beyond "Publish or Perish:" The Professionalization of Early-Career Scholars
11:30am–1:30pm, 411-412	SCS-78: Asian / Mediterranean Intersections Sanjaya Thakur, Colorado College, Presider Olga Levaniouk, University of Washington Megacles the Golden Goose: Herodotus and the Jataka Once Again Yiting (Karisa) Liu, University of Tokyo A comparison between the Hippocratic corpus and Huangdi Neijing- Ancient Medicine in cross cultures Sara Johnson, University of Connecticut Writing Fictions in the Shadow of Empire: From the Second Sophistic to the Heian Imperial Court
11:30am–1:30pm, 414-415	SCS-79: Roman Drama Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, University of Pittsburgh, Presider Andrew Gallia, University of Minnesota Toying with the Audience?: Paegnium and the Experience of Plautine Comedy Mac Carley, Brown University ‘Dum Haec Agitur Fabula’: The Spatial Imaginary in Republican Theater Erin Moodie, Purdue University Gelasimus as Tragic Poet-Figure in Plautus’ Stichus
11:30am–1:30pm, Salon G	SCS-80: Roman Republican History Harriet Flower, Princeton University, Presider Christopher Erdman, University of California, Santa Barbara P. Clodius’ 'Librarium Legum' and the Praetorship of 52 Emily Salamanca, Princeton University Perfect Imperfect Laws: The Paradox of Roman leges sumptuariae Elizabeth Heintges, Columbia University Missive Missiles: Inscribed Sling Bullets and Communication in the Late Republic John Morgan, University of Delaware The Ancestry of Cicero’s Supporter and Client T. Annius Milo
11:30am–1:30pm, Salon H (Hybrid)	SCS-81: HYBRID: Mater et materia: Maternal Experience and Embodied Motherhood in Latin Literature (Panel) Caitlin Hines, University of Cincinnati, and Simona Martorana, Australian National University, Organizers Allie Pohler, Kansas State University Like Mother, Like Daughter: Embodied Trauma and the "Regenerative Plot" in Terence Caitlin Hines, University of Cincinnati Reproductive Coercion and the Paradox of Elegiac Pregnancy Cristiana Roffi, University of Toronto Mother Earth: Ecofeminist Narratives in Ovid's Metamorphoses Simona Martorana, Australian National University Parta ultio est: Embodied Motherhood, Abjection, and Revenge in Seneca's Medea Nandini Pandey, Johns Hopkins University Response
11:30am–1:30pm, Salon J	SCS-82: Narrative History and "Big Books" in Classics: challenges and prospects (Workshop) Johanna Hanink, Brown University, Organizer Johanna Hanink, Brown University Introduction Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University For whom does one write or speak? Josephine Quinn, Oxford University Trade publishing in the US versus the UK Naoíse Mac Sweeney, University of Vienna Why stay in our lane? Tim Whitmarsh, Cambridge University Narrative as ana-lysis: closure and anti-closure in the histories we tell Rob Tempio, Princeton University Press Response
11:30am–1:30pm, Salon K (Hybrid)	SCS-83: HYBRID: American Classical Reception Clara Bosak-Schroeder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Presider Theodore Delwiche, Heidelberg University Overseas Philanthropy and Native American Classical Education: John Mettawan’s Latin Learning in 18th-century Connecticut Thu Truong, Princeton University Ocean Vuong, Allusion, and the Limits of Interpretation Emma English, University of Wisconsin–Madison Thomas Jefferson’s Pro-Slavery Classics
11:30am–1:30pm, Salon L	SCS-84: Decrees, Laws and Roman History Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania, Presider Catherine Steel, University of Glasgow Crisis, legitimacy and power: the ‘Senatus Consultum Ultimum’ and the Roman Senate Brandon Bourgeois, University of Southern California Fictions Made “Elsewhere than at Rome”: the dies imperii and Lex de imperio of Vespasian Zhengyuan Zhang, University of California, Berkeley Anticipatory Honors for Promised Gifts in the Cities of the Roman West Louis Polcin, University of Pennsylvania Seizing a “Perfect Storm”: Flaccus’ Decree, Gaius’ Policies, and the Alexandrian Pogrom
Ninth Paper Session (9 sessions)
2:30pm–5:00pm, 401-403 (Hybrid)	SCS-85: HYBRID: Medical Modernities (organized by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacology) Aileen Das, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Calloway Scott, University of Cincinnati, Organizers Aileen Das, University of Michigan Introduction Jesús Muñoz Morcillo, Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie Ancient Vivisection as Argument for Early Modern Medicine —On Galen and Andreas Vesalius Monica Green, Independent Scholar The ‘Genetics Turn’ in Disease History: What It Means to ‘Retrospectively Diagnose’ in an Age of Evolutionary Pathogen Histories Anna Gili, University of Padua/University of Wuerzburg Arabic 10th century physicians and the challenge of reconstructing the history of medicine Paul Hay, Hampden-Sydney College Celsus and the Temporality of Medical History in De Medicina Alex-Jaden Peart, University of Cambridge Medical Modernities: The Shift from Hippocratic Aporia to Galen’s Agnoia in On My Opinions
2:30pm–5:00pm, 407-409	SCS-86: Current Research in the World of Neo-Latin Studies (Panel) Patrick M. Owens, Colgate University, Organizer Patrick M. Owens, Colgate University Introduction Marquis Berrey, University of Maryland Literary Intention and Medical Realism in Antonio Benivieni’s De Abditis William Barton, The University of Innsbruck Improving Alexander von Humboldt’s Latin: Karl Benedikt Hase and the De distributione geographica plantarum secundum (1817) Paola Filisetti, Università di Trento Moralem Sensum Nostro Si Carmine Sumes. The Reception of Satire in the Stultifera Navis by Jakob Locher Christopher Mackay, University of Alberta Plus ça change: the relevance of the early-modern “Grammarians’ War” to contemporary pedagogy David White, Baylor University The Latin Poetry of Richard Crashaw
2:30pm–5:00pm, 411-412	SCS-87: Hellenistic and Imperial Literature Jackie Murray, State University of New York at Buffalo, Presider Vittorio Bottini, University of Toronto Iambos from Behind a Wall: The elusiveness of Babrius as an iambic narrator S. Elizabeth Needham, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Environmental Origins of Callimachean Water Imagery Samuel Green, University of Virginia Callimachus and his Quest for the Golden Fleece of Song: Pythian 4 in the Hymn to Apollo Kathleen Kidder, Wayne State University Dangling Stones and Cosmic Domination: An Allusion to Tantalus’ Punishment (Orestes 982–986) in Posidippus’ Epigram on a Darius Gem (AB 8) Han Hao, University of California, Santa Barbara Gifts, Songs, and Ekphrasis in Theocritus’ Idyll 1
2:30pm–5:00pm, 414-415	SCS-88: Reception as Writing Jeffrey Ulrich, Rutgers University, Presider Robert Santucci, University of North Carolina Wilmington Vomiting up Vergil: Seneca's Emetic Theory of Reception James Uden, Boston University Catullan Thefts in the Cena Trimalchionis Anna Grant, Princeton University Quotation as a Site of Social Critique in Horace’s Epistles Book 1 Esther Reichek, Harvard University Murdering Your Darlings: Toward A Lucianic Theory of Reception Scott DiGiulio, Mississippi State University Citation, Mediation, and Reception in Gellius’ Noctes Atticae: The Example of Historical Fragments and Quotations
2:30pm–5:00pm, Salon G	SCS-89: Hellenistic and Imperial History Kathleen Cruz, University of California, Davis, Presider Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Macquarie University Babylon and Antioch: Old and New Capitals under the Seleukids Dominic Machado, College of the Holy Cross, and Michael Taylor, University at Albany, SUNY The Carthaginian Masters: Settler Colonialism, Racecraft and Empire in Ancient North Africa Chiara Battisti, Princeton University Divine Vision and Memory in Sulla’s Dedicatory Epigram for Aphrodite Jeremy McInerney, University of Pennsylvania The Border between Ambrakia and Charadros: Negotiating Independence in the Shadow of Rome Maxwell Shiller, University of Southern California Creative Destruction: Natural Disasters, Sieges, and the Rise of Hellenistic Rhodes
2:30pm–5:00pm, Salon I (Hybrid)	SCS-90: HYBRID: Roman Performance Lauren Ginsberg, Duke University, Presider Elliott Piros, Loyola Marymount University Purple Motion: Pantomime Dance in Martial’s Epigrams Joseph Smith, San Diego State Univeristy Favored Rhythms in the Iambic Trimeters of Senecan Tragedy: New Evidence of Sound Sense in Imperial Theatre Anna Cambron, Duke University Cato’s Walkout: Investigating the Social Place of the Roman Floralia Rebecca Sears, Washington University in St. Louis Phrygio numero: Musical Multimodality as Intermediality in Republican Latin Poetry
2:30pm–5:00pm, Salon J	SCS-91: How Do We Teach Introductory Language? (organized by the The American Classical League, ACL) Philip Walsh, The Classical Outlook, James Ker, University of Pennsylvania, and Kathleen Durkin, Garden City High School Andrea Stehle, St. Timothy's Episcopal School How the Adolescent Brain Learns Latin Vocabulary and What We Can Do to Facilitate Learning John Ryan, Tempe Preparatory Academy A Morphophonological Approach to Teaching Latin Ric Rader, Montgomery Bell Academy An Honors-Level Course in Ancient Greek at an Independent School Christine Albright, University of Georgia Strategies of a Successful Elementary Latin Program at a Large State University AnnMarie Patterson, University of Southern California Hands-On Latin: Museums, Manuscripts, and In-Class Material Culture for First-Year Latin Students
2:30pm–5:00pm, Salon K (Hybrid)	SCS-92: HYBRID: Imperial Greek Literature II Tim Whitmarsh, University of Cambridge, Presider Seth Levin, Bryn Mawr College The Dogs Descend to Hades: Lucian's Cynic Subversion of the Classical Past Rebecca Arends, Rutgers University Pamphila's Preface and the Tradition of the Seven Sages in the First Century CE Molly Schaub, University of Pennsylvania Athenaeus’ Banquet and the Immersive Power of Taste Jenni Glaser, Bryn Mawr College Lucian, Fable, and Old Comedy in The Ignorant Book-Collector Gwendolyn Gibbons, Indiana University Sex and the Syrinx: Pipe-playing as Sexual and Literary Maturation in Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe
2:30pm–5:00pm, Salon L	SCS-93: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Unconventional Elements in Homeric Poetry (Panel) Ben Broadbent, University of Michigan, Organizer Elena Limongelli, Merton College, University of Oxford Beyond human, yet human nonetheless: how demigods approach death from Uruk to Troy Thyra-Lilja Altunin, Brasenose College, University of Oxford Intonational Patterns and Syntax in Homeric Song: A Case Study of the Iliad Book 24 Kieran Vernon, Queen's College, University of Oxford Monster-slaying and Monstrous Gods: Changing Standards of Proper Behaviour in the Homeric Hymns to Apollo and Hermes Charles Baker, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford Secrecy in Homeric Norm-Contravention: The Iliadic Scholia and Shame Culture Ben Broadbent, University of Michigan Hospitality Violation in the Odyssey and Astronautilia, a 1990s Ancient Greek sci-fi epic

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Seventh Paper Session (13 sessions)

8:00am–11:00am,
Virtual

SCS-63: VIRTUAL: A Rupture in Time: Queer Receptions of the Ancient Mediterranean (Panel)
Cassandra Tran, Wake Forest University, Organizer

Cassandra Tran, Wake Forest University
Introduction
Jillian White, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
La Loba Travesti Classical wolves and trans* temporal bodies in Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s La virgen cabeza and Camila Sosa Villada’s Las malas
Michael Mignanelli, University of New Hampshire
Crowley’s Symposium: Queer Classicisms in Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band
Mal Main, New York University
Queer Time and Gender Transition in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Kit Pyne-Jaeger, Columbia University
Styling Queerness and Decorating Time: J.W. Waterhouse and Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Francesca Beretta, Yale University
Philology in the Streets: Feeling Sappho Backward in 1970s Italy
Daniel Orrells, King's College London
Queer History and Antiquity with Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

8:00am–11:00am,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-64: HYBRID: Neronian and Flavian Literature
Matthew Roller, Johns Hopkins University, Presider

William Dingee, The Pennington School
Color Arte Compositus: Staging Blackness in Petronius
Gianmarco Bianchini, University of Toronto
Juvenal the Historian: Analysing the Role of the Satires in the Scholia on Lucan’s Bellum ciuile
Mallory Fitzpatrick, Bryn Mawr College
Tricks, Treats, and Temptation: Trimalchio as Tantalus in the Satyricon
Ryan Baldwin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
pro volnere corpus: Atomic Dissolution in Lucan’s Snake Episode
Emily Mitchell, Harvard University
Modes of mourning: a reinterpretation of Martial, Epigrams 6.28 and 6.29
Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki, Arizona State University
Keeping up with the Julio-Claudians: Plants and the Imperial Family in Pliny’s Natural History

8:00am–11:00am,
407-409

SCS-65: Ovid
Stephen Hinds, University of Washington, Presider

Evan Brubaker, University of Virginia
Bellowing from the Bronze Bull: Allegory and Intertext in Ovid, Tristia 3.11
Catalina Popescu, Texas Tech University
Achilles’ Hardened Shell. A Nuptial Metamorphosis in Ovid
Kathleen Cruz, University of California, Davis
Sight, Self-discovery, and Epistemological Horror in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Livvie May, Princeton University
Three Approaches to Ars Amatoria 1.351-98
Sam Kindick, University of Colorado Boulder
Anna Perenna and Ovid’s Sequel to the Aeneid
Emily Hudson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Abortion in the Amores: A Queer Intervention of Corinna’s Abortion

8:00am–11:00am,
411-412

SCS-66: Greek Tragedy
Erika Weiberg, Duke University, Presider

Amelia Bensch-Schaus, University of Pennsylvania
Helen against Penelope, Euripides against Homer: The Helen and its Epic Models
Yuecheng Li, Princeton University, and Jakob Barnes, Princeton University
Oedipus, the Ethnographer King: A Reading of Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 337–45
Charissa Skoutelas, Johns Hopkins University
A Torch “Like the Shining Moon”: Xenophanean threads in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
Amit Shilo, University of California, Santa Barbara
Democratic Theory and the Hand of the People in the Suppliants of Aeschylus
Eric Blum, Cornell University
“Maid of Many Cows”: Does Polyboea Lurk in Euripides’ Helen?
Vanessa Stovall, Independent Scholar
Changeable Chap(let)s: Tragic Tresses & (Un)godly Garlands in Euripidean Drama

8:00am–11:00am,
414-415

SCS-67: Liquid Poetics: Bodies of Water and Greek Poetry (Panel)
Katelin Mikos, University of Michigan, and Lauren Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley, Organizers

Katelin Mikos, University of Michigan
An Unmeasured Evil: Shipwrecking in Simonides’ Danae Fragment
Lauren Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley
The Stream of the Persian Host: Water and Speech in Aeschylus’ Persae
Megan Bowler, University of Oxford
The Font of All Ignorance? Water as Insult in Aristophanes’ Knights and Acharnians
Pauline LeVen, Yale University
Allusion as Alluvium: Reading Helen’s Liquid Commons
Frank van den Boom, Leiden University
Callimachean Hydropoetics and the Risk of Metaphor
Constance Everett-Pite, University of Oxford
“Each glacier is lit from underneath | as memory is”: Ice, Desire, and Remembering Antiquity
Alex Purves, University of California, Los Angeles
Response

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon G

SCS-68: Readers and Reception
Yopie Prins, University of Michigan, Presider

Deborah Kamen, University of Washington
Anne Lister as a queer reader of Martial’s epigrams
Hans Peter Obermayer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
“A Jewish refugee from England”: Reconstructing Friedrich Solmsen’s exile according to the files
Barbara Gold, Hamilton College
Simone Weil’s Interpretation of Homer’s Iliad: What Is it?
Harriet Fertik, The Ohio State University
Hannah Arendt's Ulysses

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-69: HYBRID: Mabel Lang and Her Legacy: New Research in Greek History, Culture, and Archaeology (Panel, Joint Session)
Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University, Organizer

Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University
Introduction
Rebecca Ammerman, Colgate University
Excavating in the Shade of the Temple of Athena at Paestum
Leslie Kurke, University of California, Berkeley
Herodotus’ Scythian Swarms
Joan Breton Connelly, New York University
Mabel Lang, Genealogical Succession Myth, and the Athenian Acropolis
Jenifer Neils, Case Western Reserve University
The Athenian Citizen, His Heroes and the Parthenon
Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University
From the Tyrant-Slayers to Alcibiades: Assassination and the Revolution of the Four Hundred in Athens
Lucia Nixon, Wolson College, Oxford University
Following Mabel Lang’s Example: The Importance of Combining Material and Textual Evidence

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-70: HYBRID: Myth
Sheila (Bridget) Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania, Presider

Alice Gaber, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Before the Anthropocene: an Ecocritical Reading of Greek Myth
Stella Fritzell, Bryn Mawr College
Arriving from Elsewhere: Reconciling Maenad Myth and Argive History
Katherine Hsu, College of the Holy Cross
Courage, Cowardice, and the Architecture of kleos in Myth
Collin Hilton, Villanova University
Julianic Piety and Habituated ‘Reading’ of the Mother of the Gods: Allegorizing Myth as a Defense for Early Students on the Path to Neoplatonic Ascent

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon J

SCS-71: Classical Greek History
Jessica Lamont, Yale University, Presider

Will Lewis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Udderly Different: Πρόβατα, Pastoral Others, and Challenges to Greek Identity in Herodotus
James Hua, University of Oxford
Population expulsions caused by natural disasters in the Classical Greek world: annihilation, revival, and identity
Joseph Watkins, Boston University
ἔξω Ἡρακλέων στηλέων? Herodotus on the Celts in context
Joseph DiProperzio, Fordham University
The Spartan Navy: The Second Sea Power of Greece
K. Scarlett Kingsley, Agnes Scott College
Militarism, Agrarianism, and the End of Herodotus’ Histories
Jessica Penny Evans, University of Vermont
Thucydides and the Masculinity Trap

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-72: HYBRID: Thinking about wealth and inequality in antiquity (Panel)
John Weisweiler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Bart Danon, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, and Myles Lavan, University of St Andrews, Organizers

John Weisweiler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Limits of Private Wealth in the Roman Empire
Emily Mackil, University of California, Berkeley
Wealth beyond Land in Classical Athens
Bart Danon, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
The explanatory value of Roman wealth distributions
Myles Lavan, University of St Andrews
The distribution of wealth/income in a slave society
Kim Bowes, University of Pennsylvania
Everyday Inequality
Sarah Murray, University of Toronto
Wealth and Inequality in the Greek Early Iron Age: Questioning Some Basic Assumptions

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon L

SCS-73: Reading Networks of Reading: ANT-ish Approaches to Reception Studies (Workshop)
Jennifer Weintritt, Northwestern University; Erika Valdivieso, Yale University, Organizers

Tara Welch, University of Kansas
Valerius Maximus, Hierarchical Paratexts, and the Technology of the Book
Charles Pletcher, University of Lausanne
The Ajax Multi-Commentary: An interactive visualization of commentary networks
Naomi Scott, University of Bristol
Chapter Titles as Hermeneutic Actors: The Case of Julius Pollux’s Onomasticon
Kate Meng Brassel, University of Pennsylvania
Binding, agency, and authorship: the case of an erotic Vatican codex
Enrico Prodi, Università di Cagliari
Reassembling the poet: Hipponax in Alexandria
Tori Lee, Boston University
On Not Knowing Latin or Greek: Paratext & Indirect Translation in Daniel Lavery’s Chatner

8:00am–11:00am,
Salon D

SCS-74: HYBRID: The Feel of Luxury: The Sense-scape of Roman Convivia (Panel, Joint Session)
Alice Hu, Reed College, and Daira Nocera, IES Abroad Rome, Organizers

Annalisa Marzano, Università di Bologna, Caitie Barrett, Cornell University, Kathryn Gleason, Cornell University, Lee Grana Nicolaou, Università di Bologna
Gardens, Plants, and Social Status: The Multisensory Experience of Outdoor Dining at Pompeii
Danilo Campanaro, Lund University
A dining darkly: investigating the ancient banqueting space using combined digital methods
Jeremy Simmons, University of Maryland
The Spice of Life: Aromatics and the Sensoaesthetics of the Roman Convivium
Friederike Brunzema, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Riddles and Rules in Food Performance
River Deng, King's College London
The Gap of Luxury: Clientela and Sensory Suffering at the Convivia

8:00am–1:30pm,
Salon A

SCS-75: Ancient MakerSpaces (Workshop, Joint session)
Eleanor Martin, Yale University, Alex Elvis Badillo, Indiana State University, Chiara Palladino, Furman University, Hugh McElroy, Sidwell Friends School, and Stephan Hassam, Randolph-Macon College, Organizers

Peter J. Cobb, University of Hong Kong, and Juuso H. Nieminen, University of Hong Kong
Virtual Reality for Spatial and Visual Learning about the Past
Robert Stephan, University of Arizona, and Caleb Simmons, University of Arizona
Bringing the World to You: Pedagogical and Practical Implications for Virtual Reality Course Design in Online Cultural Heritage Education
Garth Henning, Running Reality, Valentina Mignosa, Università degli Studi di Udine, Stefania De Vido, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Arianna Esposito, Université de Bourgogne
Mapping Ancient Sicily, TeMAES, and Running Reality: Exploring Coin and Inscription Data with the Running Reality Toolset
Mervenur Sevil Kandemir, Koc University
Identification of Osteological Information of Archaeological Remains through AI
Michael McGlin, Brandeis University
Laser cutting and the Ancient World
Neel Smith, College of the Holy Cross, and Ashley Terjanian, College of the Holy Cross
A Digital Complutensian Bible
Guiliano Sidro, University of California, Berkeley, Sarah Tew, University of Florida Libraries, Todd Hickey, University of California, Berkeley, Maddie Qualls, University of California, Berkeley, and Millie You, University of California, Berkeley
histpap.info: A New Digital-Edition Illuminating the Early History of Papyrology
Hannah Lents, University of Texas at Austin, and Steven Friesen, University of Texas at Austin
The Visual Cultures of Revelation

Eighth Paper Session (9 sessions)

11:30am–1:30pm,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-76: HYBRID: Reproductive Justice in the Ancient and Modern Worlds (organized by Classics and Social Justice)
Amy Pistone, Gonzaga University, and Kassandra Miller, Colby College, Organizer

Kris McLain, Pennsylvania State University
Resonances of Practice: Socratic Midwifery, Birthing Methods, and Reproductive Justice
Misa Nguyễn, University of California at Santa Barbara
“Safer to Prevent than to Destroy”: Abortion as Spectrum and Specter in Roman Law and Medicine
Jennifer Stager, Johns Hopkins University
Modern law & ancient medicine: abortion rhetoric, plant networks, and the Supreme Court
Cassandra Tran, Wake Forest University
Unplanned Pregnancies and Prescribed Lives: Decisions about Motherhood for the Meretrix and Virgo of Plautus’ Truculentus
Ellen Lee, University of Pittsburgh
Response

11:30am–1:30pm,
407-409

SCS-77: Graduate Student Firsts: Presenting and Publishing in Graduate School (organized by the SCS Graduate Student Committee)
Christopher Parmenter, Ohio State University, and Nadhira Hill, Randolph Macon College

Brandon Jones, Boston University
Early Career Journal Publication: Some Advice from a Managing Editor
William Farris, Christendom College
Educational Benefits of Graduate Student Publishing
Evelyn Adkins, Case Western Reserve University
Not Just a Line on Your CV: Presenting and Publishing as Networking
Philip Katz, Princeton University
Beyond "Publish or Perish:" The Professionalization of Early-Career Scholars

11:30am–1:30pm,
411-412

SCS-78: Asian / Mediterranean Intersections
Sanjaya Thakur, Colorado College, Presider

Olga Levaniouk, University of Washington
Megacles the Golden Goose: Herodotus and the Jataka Once Again
Yiting (Karisa) Liu, University of Tokyo
A comparison between the Hippocratic corpus and Huangdi Neijing- Ancient Medicine in cross cultures
Sara Johnson, University of Connecticut
Writing Fictions in the Shadow of Empire: From the Second Sophistic to the Heian Imperial Court

11:30am–1:30pm,
414-415

SCS-79: Roman Drama
Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, University of Pittsburgh, Presider

Andrew Gallia, University of Minnesota
Toying with the Audience?: Paegnium and the Experience of Plautine Comedy
Mac Carley, Brown University
‘Dum Haec Agitur Fabula’: The Spatial Imaginary in Republican Theater
Erin Moodie, Purdue University
Gelasimus as Tragic Poet-Figure in Plautus’ Stichus

11:30am–1:30pm,
Salon G

SCS-80: Roman Republican History
Harriet Flower, Princeton University, Presider

Christopher Erdman, University of California, Santa Barbara
P. Clodius’ 'Librarium Legum' and the Praetorship of 52
Emily Salamanca, Princeton University
Perfect Imperfect Laws: The Paradox of Roman leges sumptuariae
Elizabeth Heintges, Columbia University
Missive Missiles: Inscribed Sling Bullets and Communication in the Late Republic
John Morgan, University of Delaware
The Ancestry of Cicero’s Supporter and Client T. Annius Milo

11:30am–1:30pm,
Salon H (Hybrid)

SCS-81: HYBRID: Mater et materia: Maternal Experience and Embodied Motherhood in Latin Literature (Panel)
Caitlin Hines, University of Cincinnati, and Simona Martorana, Australian National University, Organizers

Allie Pohler, Kansas State University
Like Mother, Like Daughter: Embodied Trauma and the "Regenerative Plot" in Terence
Caitlin Hines, University of Cincinnati
Reproductive Coercion and the Paradox of Elegiac Pregnancy
Cristiana Roffi, University of Toronto
Mother Earth: Ecofeminist Narratives in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Simona Martorana, Australian National University
Parta ultio est: Embodied Motherhood, Abjection, and Revenge in Seneca's Medea
Nandini Pandey, Johns Hopkins University
Response

11:30am–1:30pm,
Salon J

SCS-82: Narrative History and "Big Books" in Classics: challenges and prospects (Workshop)
Johanna Hanink, Brown University, Organizer

Johanna Hanink, Brown University
Introduction
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University
For whom does one write or speak?
Josephine Quinn, Oxford University
Trade publishing in the US versus the UK
Naoíse Mac Sweeney, University of Vienna
Why stay in our lane?
Tim Whitmarsh, Cambridge University
Narrative as ana-lysis: closure and anti-closure in the histories we tell
Rob Tempio, Princeton University Press
Response

11:30am–1:30pm,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-83: HYBRID: American Classical Reception
Clara Bosak-Schroeder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Presider

Theodore Delwiche, Heidelberg University
Overseas Philanthropy and Native American Classical Education: John Mettawan’s Latin Learning in 18th-century Connecticut
Thu Truong, Princeton University
Ocean Vuong, Allusion, and the Limits of Interpretation
Emma English, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas Jefferson’s Pro-Slavery Classics

11:30am–1:30pm,
Salon L

SCS-84: Decrees, Laws and Roman History
Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania, Presider

Catherine Steel, University of Glasgow
Crisis, legitimacy and power: the ‘Senatus Consultum Ultimum’ and the Roman Senate
Brandon Bourgeois, University of Southern California
Fictions Made “Elsewhere than at Rome”: the dies imperii and Lex de imperio of Vespasian
Zhengyuan Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
Anticipatory Honors for Promised Gifts in the Cities of the Roman West
Louis Polcin, University of Pennsylvania
Seizing a “Perfect Storm”: Flaccus’ Decree, Gaius’ Policies, and the Alexandrian Pogrom

Ninth Paper Session (9 sessions)

2:30pm–5:00pm,
401-403 (Hybrid)

SCS-85: HYBRID: Medical Modernities (organized by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacology)
Aileen Das, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Calloway Scott, University of Cincinnati, Organizers

Aileen Das, University of Michigan
Introduction
Jesús Muñoz Morcillo, Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie
Ancient Vivisection as Argument for Early Modern Medicine —On Galen and Andreas Vesalius
Monica Green, Independent Scholar
The ‘Genetics Turn’ in Disease History: What It Means to ‘Retrospectively Diagnose’ in an Age of Evolutionary Pathogen Histories
Anna Gili, University of Padua/University of Wuerzburg
Arabic 10th century physicians and the challenge of reconstructing the history of medicine
Paul Hay, Hampden-Sydney College
Celsus and the Temporality of Medical History in De Medicina
Alex-Jaden Peart, University of Cambridge
Medical Modernities: The Shift from Hippocratic Aporia to Galen’s Agnoia in On My Opinions

2:30pm–5:00pm,
407-409

SCS-86: Current Research in the World of Neo-Latin Studies (Panel)
Patrick M. Owens, Colgate University, Organizer

Patrick M. Owens, Colgate University
Introduction
Marquis Berrey, University of Maryland
Literary Intention and Medical Realism in Antonio Benivieni’s De Abditis
William Barton, The University of Innsbruck
Improving Alexander von Humboldt’s Latin: Karl Benedikt Hase and the De distributione geographica plantarum secundum (1817)
Paola Filisetti, Università di Trento
Moralem Sensum Nostro Si Carmine Sumes. The Reception of Satire in the Stultifera Navis by Jakob Locher
Christopher Mackay, University of Alberta
Plus ça change: the relevance of the early-modern “Grammarians’ War” to contemporary pedagogy
David White, Baylor University
The Latin Poetry of Richard Crashaw

2:30pm–5:00pm,
411-412

SCS-87: Hellenistic and Imperial Literature
Jackie Murray, State University of New York at Buffalo, Presider

Vittorio Bottini, University of Toronto
Iambos from Behind a Wall: The elusiveness of Babrius as an iambic narrator
S. Elizabeth Needham, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Environmental Origins of Callimachean Water Imagery
Samuel Green, University of Virginia
Callimachus and his Quest for the Golden Fleece of Song: Pythian 4 in the Hymn to Apollo
Kathleen Kidder, Wayne State University
Dangling Stones and Cosmic Domination: An Allusion to Tantalus’ Punishment (Orestes 982–986) in Posidippus’ Epigram on a Darius Gem (AB 8)
Han Hao, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gifts, Songs, and Ekphrasis in Theocritus’ Idyll 1

2:30pm–5:00pm,
414-415

SCS-88: Reception as Writing
Jeffrey Ulrich, Rutgers University, Presider

Robert Santucci, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Vomiting up Vergil: Seneca's Emetic Theory of Reception
James Uden, Boston University
Catullan Thefts in the Cena Trimalchionis
Anna Grant, Princeton University
Quotation as a Site of Social Critique in Horace’s Epistles Book 1
Esther Reichek, Harvard University
Murdering Your Darlings: Toward A Lucianic Theory of Reception
Scott DiGiulio, Mississippi State University
Citation, Mediation, and Reception in Gellius’ Noctes Atticae: The Example of Historical Fragments and Quotations

2:30pm–5:00pm,
Salon G

SCS-89: Hellenistic and Imperial History
Kathleen Cruz, University of California, Davis, Presider

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Macquarie University
Babylon and Antioch: Old and New Capitals under the Seleukids
Dominic Machado, College of the Holy Cross, and Michael Taylor, University at Albany, SUNY
The Carthaginian Masters: Settler Colonialism, Racecraft and Empire in Ancient North Africa
Chiara Battisti, Princeton University
Divine Vision and Memory in Sulla’s Dedicatory Epigram for Aphrodite
Jeremy McInerney, University of Pennsylvania
The Border between Ambrakia and Charadros: Negotiating Independence in the Shadow of Rome
Maxwell Shiller, University of Southern California
Creative Destruction: Natural Disasters, Sieges, and the Rise of Hellenistic Rhodes

2:30pm–5:00pm,
Salon I (Hybrid)

SCS-90: HYBRID: Roman Performance
Lauren Ginsberg, Duke University, Presider

Elliott Piros, Loyola Marymount University
Purple Motion: Pantomime Dance in Martial’s Epigrams
Joseph Smith, San Diego State Univeristy
Favored Rhythms in the Iambic Trimeters of Senecan Tragedy: New Evidence of Sound Sense in Imperial Theatre
Anna Cambron, Duke University
Cato’s Walkout: Investigating the Social Place of the Roman Floralia
Rebecca Sears, Washington University in St. Louis
Phrygio numero: Musical Multimodality as Intermediality in Republican Latin Poetry

2:30pm–5:00pm,
Salon J

SCS-91: How Do We Teach Introductory Language? (organized by the The American Classical League, ACL)
Philip Walsh, The Classical Outlook, James Ker, University of Pennsylvania, and Kathleen Durkin, Garden City High School

Andrea Stehle, St. Timothy's Episcopal School
How the Adolescent Brain Learns Latin Vocabulary and What We Can Do to Facilitate Learning
John Ryan, Tempe Preparatory Academy
A Morphophonological Approach to Teaching Latin
Ric Rader, Montgomery Bell Academy
An Honors-Level Course in Ancient Greek at an Independent School
Christine Albright, University of Georgia
Strategies of a Successful Elementary Latin Program at a Large State University
AnnMarie Patterson, University of Southern California
Hands-On Latin: Museums, Manuscripts, and In-Class Material Culture for First-Year Latin Students

2:30pm–5:00pm,
Salon K (Hybrid)

SCS-92: HYBRID: Imperial Greek Literature II
Tim Whitmarsh, University of Cambridge, Presider

Seth Levin, Bryn Mawr College
The Dogs Descend to Hades: Lucian's Cynic Subversion of the Classical Past
Rebecca Arends, Rutgers University
Pamphila's Preface and the Tradition of the Seven Sages in the First Century CE
Molly Schaub, University of Pennsylvania
Athenaeus’ Banquet and the Immersive Power of Taste
Jenni Glaser, Bryn Mawr College
Lucian, Fable, and Old Comedy in The Ignorant Book-Collector
Gwendolyn Gibbons, Indiana University
Sex and the Syrinx: Pipe-playing as Sexual and Literary Maturation in Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe

2:30pm–5:00pm,
Salon L

SCS-93: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Unconventional Elements in Homeric Poetry (Panel)
Ben Broadbent, University of Michigan, Organizer

Elena Limongelli, Merton College, University of Oxford
Beyond human, yet human nonetheless: how demigods approach death from Uruk to Troy
Thyra-Lilja Altunin, Brasenose College, University of Oxford
Intonational Patterns and Syntax in Homeric Song: A Case Study of the Iliad Book 24
Kieran Vernon, Queen's College, University of Oxford
Monster-slaying and Monstrous Gods: Changing Standards of Proper Behaviour in the Homeric Hymns to Apollo and Hermes
Charles Baker, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
Secrecy in Homeric Norm-Contravention: The Iliadic Scholia and Shame Culture
Ben Broadbent, University of Michigan
Hospitality Violation in the Odyssey and Astronautilia, a 1990s Ancient Greek sci-fi epic

AIA/SCS 2025 Joint Annual Meeting, January 2–5, 2025, Philadelphia, PA, with a photo of Philadelphia