8am – 5pm Registration Ballroom Foyer
8am – 5pm Exhibits Triad Ballroom West
10am-11:45am Paper Session 1
Session 1 A – Georgia
Vergil
Sarah McCallum (University of Arizona), presider
Female Suicide and Narrative Closure in the Aeneid Caroline Murphy-Racette (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)
Digging More Deeply: Questions in Vergil’s Georgics Sarah Herbert (Independent Scholar)
What Time Is It? The Shields of Achilles and Aeneas as Past, Present, and Future T. Davina McClain (Scholars’ College at Northwestern State University, LA)
Session 1 B – Carolina
Greek and Roman Comedy
Niall Slater (Emory University, GA), presider
Literary Wars in Aristophanes’ Birds Charles Platter (University of Georgia)
Heroes and Fools: Uses of Mythical References by Low-Status Characters in Plautus Ashley Walker (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Helping through Harming: Divine Intervention in the Prologues of Aulularia and Rudens Aidan Mahoney (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Session 1 C – Virginia
Ancient Ways of Thinking
Bartolo Natoli (Randolph-Macon College, VA), presider
The Representation of Athena and the Autochthony Myth in Plato’s Timaeus Valerio Caldesi Valeri (University of Kentucky)
Strange, Ancient, Esoteric, and Indeterminate, but True: Plato and Egyptian Mythology Luther Riedel (Florida State University)
Aristotle on the Infinite Takashi Oki (University of Oxford)
12:00 noon – 1:00pm Lunch Break
1:15pm – 3:00pm Paper Session 2
Session 2 A - Georgia
People, Places, and Things: Roman History and Rhetoric
John H. Starks, Jr. (Binghamton University, NY), presider
Sallust’s Re-evaluation of Sulla in the Bellum Iugurthinum P. Andrew Montgomery (Samford University)
Octavianus Maior: Cicero’s Rhetorical Strategy Concerning Octavian in Philippics 3-5 Jonathan P. Zarecki (University of North Carolina-Greensboro)
The Reign of Aristobulus I in Josephus’ Jewish War and Pseudo-Hegesippus’ De excidio Hierosolymitano Ashleigh Witherington (Florida State University)
The Patronus of Allia Potestas Matthew D. Panciera (Gustavus Adolphus College)
The Elder Rome: The Topography of Places and Power during the Amal Administration Caleb J. Whittington (Florida State University)
Session 2 B – Carolina
Mythology
Valerio Caldesi Valeri (University of Kentucky), presider
(Dis)ability in Ancient Greek Literature Alexander Maltby (Texas Tech University)
The Divine Word: Hermes and the Power of Language Blanche C. McCune (College of Charleston)
Plato and the Reception of the Persian Wars in The Myth of Atlantis Daniel A. Rose (Florida State University)
Session 2 C – Virginia
Science, Magic, and Religion
Andrew Burrow (Carson-Newman University, TN), presider
Druidism in the Roman Empire: A Constructed Mystery Cult Halle Martin (Florida State University)
Why Do Natural Science?: Goals and Purposes of Scientific Compendia in Imperial Rome Kathleen Burt (Middle Georgia State University)
The Teacher in St. Augustine’s Confessions Samuel Henthorn (University of Georgia)
Did you know that the mascot of UNCG is the Spartans? I wonder if they have 300 of them….
3:15pm – 5:00pm Paper Session 3
Session 3 A – Georgia
Sophocles
Jeffrey Buller (Florida Atlantic University), presider
“Suicide Is Painless”? Suicidal Impulse as Theme in Sophocles and Euripides Victor Castellani (University of Denver)
“Do Not Speak of Her; For She Exists No More”: Reading Necropolitics in Sophokles’ Antigone Alex-Jaden Peart (University of Pittsburgh)
“Not So Much His Condition but My Own”: Parallels in Iliad 10 and Sophocles’ Ajax Caleb Hartman (University of Dallas)
From Shield to Sword: Ajax’s Struggle for Identity in Sophocles’ Ajax Lucia Hayes (University of Dallas)
Session 3 B – Carolina
Homer, Hymns, and Heroes: Greek Poetry
Sophie Mills (University of North Carolina - Asheville), presider
Dreams and Sleep-threshold Experiences in Homeric Epic Kenneth M. Silverman (The College of Wooster)
The Problem of the Hyper-competent Subordinate John Esposito (Independent Scholar)
Son of Maia, son of Zeus: Shifting patronymics in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes Stephen C. Smith (Florida State University)
A Human Hero and a Distant God: Jason and Apollo in the Argonautica Jordan H. Brady (North Carolina State University)
Telesicrates would be a great groom: marriage imagery as structural element in Pindar, Pythian 9 Luiza dos Santos Souza (University of Cincinnati)
Session 3 C – Virginia
Poetic Prose
Charles Platter (University of Georgia), presider
Lucretius and Thucydides on Stasis: De Rerum Natura 3.59-64 Daniel Orr (Duke University)
Amor and Amicitia: Catullan Subtexts in De Amicitia Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina)
Dining, Foodways, and Meat Consumption in Juvenal 5 and the Cena Trimalchionis Alex JB Reese (University of Cincinnati)
High and Low (Neg)Otium: an Examination of Bucolic Elements in Pliny’s Epistulae Brandon E. Leggott (Florida State University)
Augustine’s Pagan Pleasure: the Aeneid’s Influence on the Confessions Nathan A. Debar (University of Georgia)
Please visit our Exhibitors
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
The National Committee for Latin and Greek
The Paideia Institute
The Vergilian Society
Rumor has it that there is coffee and other things in the Exhibit Room!
8am-12pm Registration Ballroom Foyer
8am-12pm Exhibits Triad Ballroom West
Nota Bene: Afternoon Session will take place on the campus of the University of North Carolina – Greensboro
8:30am – 10:00am Paper Session 4
Session 4 A – Georgia
Ovid
Anne Groton (St. Olaf College, MN), presider
A Change of Place: Intertextual Remodeling of the Abduction of Proserpina in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Christopher Nappa (Florida State University)
Sculpting the Text: Ekphrasis in Ovid's Story of Phaethon Christine L. Albright (University of Georgia)
Lusus qui placuere: Generic Play in Pont. 1.4 Joy E. Reeber (University of Arkansas)
Session 4 C Virginia
Here’s Looking at you, Kylix: Faces, Gazes, and Health in Art and Archaeology
Robyn L. LeBlanc (University of North Carolina – Greensboro), presider
The Kylix Conundrum: A Study on an Early Red-Figure Symposium Kylix from the David M. Robinson Collection Gwendolyn R. Pfrenger (University of Mississippi)
Aphrodite's Gaze: Examining the Sacred Landscape of Roman Amathous Dustin A. Thomas (University of Virginia)
Herodes Atticus, Polydeukion, and Health at Brauron Aileen Ajootian (University of Mississippi)
Faces from the Fayum: Cultural Bricolage in the Fayum Portraits Cheyenne M. Strickland (Florida State University)
10:15 – 12:00 Paper Session 5
Session 5 A – Georgia
Keep the Meter Running: Latin Poetry
E. Del Chrol (Marshall University, WV), presider
Poetic Uses of Structure and Meter in Catullus 108, 51, and 23 Walter C. Price (University of Missouri)
Greek Intellectuals at Rome: Caecilius Calactinus and Roman Poetry Paul C. Hay (Hampden-Sydney College, VA)
Discussing the “Other” in Roman Tragedy: Ethnography and anxiety in Seneca’s Phaedra Vasileios Dimoglidis (University of Cincinnati)
The Division of Fas and Libido in Seneca’s Thyestes Emily Wiley (Rutgers University, NJ)
How Can We Help You? How Can You Help? Service and CAMWS
An Informal Discussion with Presidents and Secretary-Treasurers
Hunter H. Gardner, (University of South Carolina) CAMWS President 2022
Sophie JV Mills, (University of North Carolina – Asheville) CAMWS President 2023
Anne Groton, (St. Olaf College, MN) CAMWS President 2020 and Secretary-Treasurer 2004-2012
T. Davina McClain (Scholars’ College at Northwestern State University) CAMWS Secretary-Treasurer, 2020-present
Session 5 C – Virginia
So Dramatic! Drama from Euripides to Late Antiquity
Caroline S. Kelly (Mitchell Community College, NC), presider
“Men Behaving Manly”: Orestes & εὐανδρία in Euripides’ Electra Derek Keyser University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Giving away the Farm … to Mimes! Vox populi and the (Un?)stable Economy of Women Onstage in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds John H. Starks, Jr. (Binghamton University, NY)
Prompters on the Late Antique Stage? Niall W. Slater (Emory University, GA)
12:00pm -1:45pm Lunch and travel to the campus of UNC-Greensboro
The Afternoon Sessions will take place on the campus of the University of North Carolina – Greensboro in the
Elliott University Center
2:00pm – 4:00pm Paper Session 6
Session 6 A – Claxton (Elliott University Center)
Can you Hear Me Now? Classical Reception
Andromache Karanika (University of California – Irvine), presider
Philoctetes and Me Sophie J. V. Mills (University of North Carolina-Asheville)
Si non obstet reverentia: Pygmalion and his ivory maiden in 21st c. science fiction Hunter H. Gardner (University of South Carolina)
"There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism:" Boundary Objects in the Croesus Logos and the Teixcalaan Duology Alex Claman (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill)
Cleopatra on Screen: How Western Biases and Orientalism Informed Early Film Adaptations of Cleopatra Marissa Duffield (Elon University, NC)
Session 6 B – Dail (Elliott University Center)
Female Speech in Latin Poetry
Sharon James (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill), organizer and presider
Disperii, perii misera! Listening to Antiphila in Terence’s Heautontimorumenos Allie Pohler (University of Cincinnati)
Greek Women Authors and Roman Female Authorship in Sulpicia's *Eligidia* Alison Keith (University of Toronto)
Singing Sappho: Female Poetic Skill in the First Century BCE Jessica Westerhold (University of Tennessee – Knoxville)
Elegiac Mors in Dido’s Final Speech (Aeneid 4.651-62) Sarah McCallum (University of Arizona)
Me mihi, se sibi: Divine Impersonation, Ovid's Arachne, and the Integrity of the Self Caitlin Hines (University of Cincinnati)
Session 6 C – Kirkland (Elliott University Center)
Truth and History: Greek Prose Writers
Andy Montgomery (Samford University, AL), presider
Τοιόσδε and Truth in Herodotus’ Histories Charles C. Chiasson (University of Texas-Arlington)
Judging Theramenes George E. Pesely (Austin Peay State University) peselyg@apsu.edu
Plato's Historical Myths and Athenian Social Memory Cole Bennett (Florida State University)
Rise of the Warlord: Crisis in Hellenic Hegemony Luke A. Mahler (Florida State University)
Was Lysias 1 ("On the Murder of Eratosthenes") a Rhetorical Exercise? Andrew Wolpert (University of Florida)
Bean Berets and Lupine Lamellar: Armor and Plant Anatomy of the Selenetai in Lucian’s True History RJ Palmer (Johns Hopkins University, MA)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Reception at the invitation of the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro
The Taylor Garden
(rain location – Alexander (Elliott University Center))
4:45pm – 5:30pm Return to the Hotel
6:30-9:00pm Cash Bar
7:00-9:30pm Banquet
Presidential Address:
Lemnian Women and Amazons in Pink: Barbie and the Representation of Matriarchal Societies
T. Davina McClain (Scholars’ College at Northwestern State University)
8am-12pm Registration Ballroom Foyer
9am-10am Business Meeting Carolina
10:15am-12noon Paper Session 7
Session 7 A- Georgia
Becoming Suburani: A Teacher Panel on the successful transition to a new textbook
Amy Leonard (Midtown High School, GA) andJuli Fleming (The Lovett School, GA), organizers and presiders
Randy Fields (The Matthews School)
Micheal Posey (Mountain Brook Junior High)
Lindsay Samson (The Lovett School)
Session 7 B – Carolina
Roundtable
Anne Groton (St. Olaf College, MN), organizer and presider
Session 7 C – Virginia
Bianca Chan (North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics), organizer and presider
12noon – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm – 3:00pm Paper Session 8
Session 8 A – Georgia
Ways of Teaching
Joy Reeber (University of Arkansas), presider
Introducing Superhero Tales into the Classroom: Greek Myth and the Changing Nature of Story Richard Phillips (Virginia Tech)
The Path to Easy Mastery of Latin's Conjugations: How to Identify the Mood and Tense Without Memorizing Paradigms Michael W. Brinkman (Independent Scholar)
Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day: 14 Weeks About Does It: Gamification in the Classics Classroom E. Del Chrol (Marshall University, WV)
Session 8 B – Carolina
Workshop
What is the ACTFL Latin Interpretive Reading Assessment (ALIRA)?
Caroline S. Kelly, (Mitchell Community College, NC) organizer and presider
Session 8 C – Virginia
Jose T. Diaz, Michael P. Kolcun, and Christopher M. McDonough (University of the South [Sewanee], TN), organizers and presiders
3:15pm – 5:00pm Paper Session 9
Session 9 A – Georgia
Coins in the Classroom: A Hands-on Primer
Robyn L. LeBlanc (University of North Carolina – Greensboro) and
Lora Holland Goldthwaite (University of North Carolina – Asheville), organizers and presiders
Session 9 C - Virginia
A Little Horace-ing Around
Lisa Ellison (East Carolina University), presider
Nemo quam sibi sortem: On being content with one’s lot in Horace’s Satires and Epistles David J. White (Baylor University, TX)
Chaste Penelope and Glassy Circe: Epic Gender Allegory in Horace Odes 1.17 Isaac T. Lang (Florida State University)
Problems in Epicurean Readings of Horace Robert Greene (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)