Poster Session

This paper will discuss some differences between the Homeric technique of verse-making and the technique of later epic poetry by analyzing constructions for the verb προσέειπεν in the epics. The concept of construction, borrowed from Usage-Based Linguistics and Language Acquisition studies, is a refinement and expansion of Parry’s formula, and proves to be a very powerful tool for analyzing a poet’s technique (Bozzone 2010).

My paper is concerned with the translation into Chinese of the participles in 10a1-11b5 of Plato’s Euthyphro, with the larger goal of testing scholarly hypotheses on the relationship between language and thought.

In this poster, I propose to analyze alliteration systematically across a large body of Latin literature using an algorithmic approach. For my dataset, I will use the Latin texts found in the Perseus Digital Library. The texts will be analyzed using the programming language Python, with each line (and group of adjacent lines) scored and ranked for "alliterative density." I recently presented preliminary work on this subject at a recent digital methodologies conference; that paper, however, dealt primary with methodological and theoretical concerns.

This paper presents the initial results of an ongoing study which focuses on using the Reacting to the Past pedagogy in introductory Greek culture classes. The study was first conducted during spring semester, 2013. It seeks to measure the effect on learning outcomes of not only playing a Reacting to the Past game but also of using the pedagogy to structure an entire course.

This paper discusses a well-known, but as yet unexplained semantic peculiarity confined to Attic (para)tragedy, namely the recurrent use of ἔγχος in the sense of 'sword' and other weapons, and βέλος of non-missile weapons (cf. LSJ s.vv.). The tentative explanation offered here for their origin and application suggests that Sophocles' Ajax antedates Aeschylus' Oresteia, itself datable to 458 BC.