Friday, 13 March 2026
Friday, Fifth Paper Session 8:15 – 9:45 am
- Workers and Wages – Clipper
David Yates (Millsaps College), presider
Occupational Titles and Attitudes Toward Labor in Ancient Greece, Mills McArthur (Southern Adventist University)
Peasants, Farmers, or What? The Translation of Rusticus and the Economic Imagination, Margaret ten Berge (Grand Valley State University)
Nero in Greece: The Underlying Economic Motives of a Notorious Emperor, Sienna Mora (Washington University in St. Louis)
Rethinking the Communities of the Marginalized: Friendly Societies in Response to Systemic Oppression and Strategies for Better Futures, Tugce Akgul (University of Michigan)
The "Middle" Ages? Prochreiai as Advance Wages in Late Antique Egypt, William Sieving (Washington University in St. Louis)
- Aristophanes – Mobile Bay 1
Emma Warhover (Florida State University), presider
Philocleon at the Banquet in Aristophanes’ Wasps: The First Known European Case of Sundown Syndrome?, Kristin O. Lord (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Comic Commodities: Body Transformations in Aristophanes’ Acharnians and Birds, Charissa Skoutelas (Johns Hopkins University)
A hypothesis for the issue of interlocution in the prologue of Aristophanes’ Birds, Laura Nardulli (University of Virginia)
This is the Very Model of a Modern Major Lopado-: The Patter Songs of Aristophanes, Joshua Streeter (Hillsdale College)
C. Lucan Projected – Mobile Bay 2
Dustin Heinen (North Carolina State University), presider
‘Magnus, be great!’ Puns on Names as Transcultural Expression of Social Expectations in Lucan’s Pharsalia and the Pyramid Texts of Teti, Isabel Caspar (Cologne University)
Unmanning Rome: Cleopatra and Cross-Dressing the Body Politic in Lucan’s Civil War, Vivian Sandifer (Brown University)
Cornelia: Lucan's Strongest Soldier, Astrid Weisend (University of Missouri)
Lucan’s Phemonoe and Ovid, Debra Freas (Virginia Tech)
D. Greek Epic Traditions – Mobile Bay 3
Anne Groton (St. Olaf College), presider
Generative Poetics: Rethinking the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women as Narrative Device and Performance Strategy, Andromache Karanika (University of California, Irvine)
Beginning with Ἀρχόμενος: The Batrachomyomachia Proem and Alexandrian Allusivity, Zachary Chen (Hillsdale College)
Homeric Aēr in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica, Julius Grant-Gubbins (The Ohio State University)
Would that I did not live among the fifth men: apocalyptic narratives in Greek literature, Amy Dill (Florida State University)
Nonnus's Nicaea and Punishing Female Masculinity, Arianna Loewen (University of Arizona)
E. Greek History – Windjammer
Andy Montgomery (Samford University), presider
Simplicity and Stasis in Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plato, Daniel Orr (Duke University)
An Assessment of Tissaphernes and Cyrus' Peloponnesian War Diplomacy, Henry Dore’ (Florida State University)
Claiming power in Asia: Herodotus and Thucydides on the Negotiations for Ionia, Sydnor Roy (Marshall University)
"I would not praise the Boldness of Alexander...": Alexander the Great as an Imperial Foil in Twelfth-Century Byzantium, Luke Sturm (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
F. Undergraduate Posters 1 – Grand Bay Ballroom
Osman Umurhan (University of New Mexico), presider
Change in the Roman Constitution, Tarin H. Gatchell (Saint John’s University)
The Dating and Authorship of the Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi: A Case Study on the Birth Account, Maille Carrington (Randolph-Macon College)
Greeks in Sicily: Indigenous Sicilian and Greek Cultural Exchange in Colonialism, Audrey Marks (William & Mary)
Femininity, Fatality, and Fastening: The Roles of Gender and Physical Metaphor in Euripides' Hecuba, Cecil Barlow (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Signature of Sulpicia: Syntactic & Stylometric Analysis, Eleanor Riggs (University of Florida)
Teaching Place, Displacement, and Replacement in Ancient History and Literature: An Examination of the Treatment of Metoikos in Athenian Drama and Court Speeches, Jennifer Ruscitti (Monmouth College)
G. Workshop: A Critical Introduction to White Nationalist Classicism for Teachers and Researchers in Classics – Schooner
Curtis Dozier (Vassar College), organizer and
Denise McCoskey (Miami University), presider
H. Project Planning Workshop: Community Engagement for Classics Programs – Riverboat
Lisa Ellison (East Carolina University), organizer and presider
Friday, Sixth Paper Session 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
A. Workshop: Facing the Music: Approaches to Using Music for Performing Ancient Drama – Clipper
Christopher Bungard (Butler University), organizer and presider
Sponsored by Theatre in Greece and Rome (TIGR)
B. Reception of Classics in Early Modern Europe – Mobile Bay 1
Alyson Roy (University of Idaho), presider
Human Sacrifice from the Bacchanalia to Simon of Trent: The Typology of Religious Conspiracy Narratives in Latin Literature, Juan Dopico (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
An Aeneid for the Borgias: Vergilian Mythmaking in Ercole Strozzia’s Epicedium Caesaris Borgiae Ducis (1507), Tedd Wimperis (Elon University)
Ubertino Carrara's description of St. Peter's Square (1715) and Horace's Ode 3.3, Wolfgang Polleichtner (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
The End of Absolute Power: Suetonius in Early Modern Resistance Theory, Everett Lang (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
C. Epigraphy and Numismatics – Mobile Bay 2
James Sickinger (Florida State University), presider
A War Written in Stone: IEphesos V, no. 1450 and Ephesos’ Koinos Polemos, Jake N. Pawlush (Washington University in St. Louis)
Catullus and Catellae: Catullan Intertextuality in Canine Commemoration, Thomas O. McMath (The Ohio State University)
Dexileos’ Dates Deconstructed (IG II² 6217), Itamar Levin (Brown University)
The Roman Lysimachi, Phillip Register (Duke University)
Regalianus, Dryantilla, and the Carnuntum Mint, Kristof Szabo (Indiana University)
D. Reflections of Classics – Mobile Bay 3
Robert Simmons (Monmouth College), presider
Rivers in the Landscape of War: Changing Waters in Homer’s Iliad and Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, Amanda Rivera (Cristo Rey High School)
Mary Barnard's Sappho, Melissa Mueller (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Trimalchio and Gatsby: The Age of Nero in Jazz-Age America, Catherine Saccone (Oberlin College)
E. Workshop: Teaching The Virtues of Women: Working with Plutarch Across Your Curriculum – Schooner
Mallory A. Monaco Caterine (Tulane University), organizer and presider
F. Undergraduate Posters 2 – Grand Bay Ballroom
Osman Umurhan (University of New Mexico), presider
Analyzing Common Medieval Scripts, Sydney Larson (Furman University)
Medea’s Kin-Killing: A Perversion of Familial Bonds, Maria Curley (Furman University)
The Ethnobotany of Common Ivy (Hedera helix) in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Brian Do (University of Florida)
Numismatic Evidence for Multiculturalism in the Seleucid Empire, Bailey M. Aycock (Randolph-Macon College)
Blood is Thicker than Water: ἀναιρέω as a Verb of Purification, Anna (Moss) Darr (Furman University)
Ἐντεῦθεν ἐξελαύνει: How Modern Geospatial Analyses Reveal Authorial Intent in Ancient Texts, Cian Colgan (Furman University)
G. Greek Historiography Unplugged-1 – Schooner
Andrew Alwine (College of Charleston), presider
The Good Ole Days: Ephorus on the Early History of Sparta, David Yates (Millsaps College)
Xenophon and Theramenes, George E. Pesely (Austin Peay State University)
More Greek than a Greek: Herodotos’ Silence on the Lydian Pantheon, Benjamin Leach (Indiana University)
Polycrates’s Delia, Egypt, and his Plans for an Ionian Expedition, Benjamin S. Haller (Virginia Wesleyan University)
Rock, Paper, Spear?: How the Gamification of Classical Warfare has Corrupted our Reading of Xenophon, Jesse Obert (University of South Florida)
H. Iliad and Odyssey, Unplugged – Windjammer
Deborah Beck (University of Texas at Austin), presider
Iliad: Major Battle Episodes and Structure, William Clapp (Independent Scholar)
Iliadic erôs, Chenxi Zhang (University of Chicago)
Grieving his Way to Maturity: Telemachus and the Psychosomatic Processing of Ambiguous Loss, Allannah Karas (University of Miami)
A Better and Stouter Hero: Ecphrastic Resonances in Od. 6.224-37, Timothy Heckenlively (Baylor University)
Goat “I”sland and Imaginative Eremetic Spaces, Molly Mata (Trinity University)
Excursion to Africatown: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Friday, Seventh Paper Session 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- Roman Philosophy from Age-to-Age – Clipper
Luke Gorton (University of New Mexico), presider
Love Your Animals and Kill Them, Too: The Marriage of Empedocles and Epicurus in Lucretius’ Human-Animal Contract, Jordan Ardoin (University of Colorado Boulder)
Sublimity of Appearances in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, Samuel Shoemaker (University of Chicago)
Plutarch’s Phocion on the Limits of Philosophy, Samuel Turrigiano (Bowdoin College)
Poets and Plutarch: A Snapshot of the Middle Platonist Negotiation of Plato's Critique of Poetry, Mitchell Matthews (Independent Scholar)
“The Philosopher’s Task”: Plutarch and Nietzsche on Plato’s Sicilian Episode, Mark Mateo (Bowdoin College)
- Latin Literature After Antiquity – Mobile Bay 1
Scott DiGiulio (Mississippi State University), presider
From Ancient Hispania to the Heaven of the Sun: The Influence of Orosius on the Works of Dante, Davide Salvo (Indiana University Bloomington)
The Significance of Virgilian Intertext in the Ninth-Century Poem Hortulus, Rose Elaine Mandolia (Virginia Tech)
Foreignization as a Theory of Translation in C. S. Lewis’s Aeneid, Annika Currell (University of Notre Dame)
The 'Body' of Christ: Docetic Christology in Proba's Cento Vergilianus de laudibus Christi, Madeline Jones (Randolph Macon College)
Violence or Poetry: Philomela’s Weaving in Ovid and Chaucer, Sophie King (University of Notre Dame)
- Roman Republic – Mobile Bay 2
Jonathan Zarecki (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), presider
The Role of Estimation in Caesar’s Gallic Narratives, Halle D. Martin (Western Michigan University)
Physical libertas in the Late Republic and Early Empire, Timothy O'Sullivan (Trinity University)
Unraveling of Patrician Social-Engineering: Nexum, Stipendium, and the Politics of Labor in the Fifth- and Fourth-Century Republic, Henry S. Blume (Ohio Wesleyan University)
The Mask Behind the Shield: Comparing Combat Trauma Amongst Greek and Roman Soldiers, Emelia Brzakala (University of South Florida)
- Reading, Writing, and O’Rality – Mobile Bay 3
Andromache Karanika (University of California, Irvine), presider
The Sophists from Oral to Written, Michael Gagarin (University of Texas)
Negotiating Literacy and Orality in the Derveni Papyrus, Sashini Kannan (University of Cincinnati)
Registers of Greek on Papyrus: Orality, Literacy, and Gender in Private Correspondence, Cristian Șimon and Eleni Papadopoulou (University of Florida)
Prose Rhythm and Punctuation as an Interpretive Tool in Diogenes of Oinoanda, Thomas Francis (University of California, Los Angeles)
Learning to Write, Learning to Live: chirographum in Seneca Ep. 94, Mason Wheelock-Johnson (Lawrence University)
- Lucian, Rhetoric and Historiography – Schooner
Eleni Bozia (University of Florida), presider
An Ancient Prometheus: Prometheus as the Prototype for Lucian’s Satire in the Dialogi Deorum, Aidan M. Raine (University of Kansas)
A Courtesan's Lesson in Philosophic Heroism, Ori Bareket (Florida State University)
Thucydides at Syracuse: Lucian’s How to Write History and Rhetorical Historiography, Dylan Sailor (University of California, Berkeley)
Speechmaking as Crisis Resolution in Cassius Dio's Roman History, Books I and II, Mugdha Sanglikar (Brown University)
Masts in the Mists: Borysthenes as Ghost Town in Dio’s Oration 36, Gena N. Goodman (Independent Scholar)
- Ovid Unplugged – Grand Bay Ballroom
Joy E. Reeber (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), presider
Unraveling the Web: Arachne’s Artistic Agency in Metamorphoses Book VI, Gianna M. Dugan (Hillsdale College)
An Ovidian Allusion and a Saturnalian Joke in Martial Epigram 14.115, Emma Brobeck (Furman University)
Why Would Ovid Even Mention the Sabine Women in the Ars Amatoria?, Anand Mangal (Indiana University, Bloomington)
- Roman Cultural Studies – Riverboat
Kristen Ehrhardt (John Carroll University), presider
Charon’s Obol or Death-Coin? A Review of the Various Influences on the Deposition of Coins in Roman Burials, Lyssa Beiswenger (University of Arizona)
Justifiable Violence: The Paradox in Roman Attitudes toward Human Sacrifice and Ritual Killing, Naomi X. Quedensley (Texas Tech University)
The Magna Mater as Tellus in Roman Republican Literature, Krishni Burns (University of Illinois-Chicago)
- Mother Nature Unleashed (and Unplugged) – Windjammer
Tim Stover (Florida State University), presider
Sea Monsters: tempest-bearing, tsunami-born, Georgia L. Irby (William & Mary)
The Appearances and Functions of the Named Winds in Horace's Odes, Ashleigh J. Witherington (Florida State University)
Humanimals in Juvenal's Satires, Maurice S. Gonzales (Washington University in St. Louis)
Friday, Eighth Paper Session 4:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
- Roman Archaeologists – Schooner
Daniel Levine (University of Arkansas), presider
Animal Mirabilia and the Legitimacy of Empire, Aidan McKay (University of Notre Dame)
Heritage and Communities in War Context: New Photographs on Sicilian archaeology (1940-45), Antonino Crisa (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University)
A Roman Sailor’s Mysterious Voyage to New Orleans, Susann Lusnia (Tulane University)
- Homeric Studies – Mobile Bay 1
Suzanne Lye (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), presider
The Queer Menace (menis): Achilles as Affect Alien, Rachel Rucker (University of Iowa)
Recognition and Reasoning in the Homeric Poems, Sara Panteri (Tulane University)
ὢ πόποι: The Semantics of Surprise in Homeric Epic, Lorenzo Garcia, Jr. (University of New Mexico)
Where Poets Fear to Tread: Defining Gender at the Limits of Homeric Language, Mason Barto (Louisiana State University)
Epic Echoes in Domestic Contexts: Homeric Battle Language in Hellenistic Poetry, Anna C. Muh (University of Washington)
- Presidential Panel: Tacitus on Generalship and Provincial (Mis)Management – Mobile Bay 2
Bram ten Berge (Hope College), organizer and presider
Empty Boasting and Service to the Commonwealth: Tacitus’ and Seneca’s Dueling Visions of the Productive Life, Jonathan Master (Emory University)
Four Tacitean Women: Sex and Status on the Margins of Empire, Caitlin Gillespie (Brandeis University)
Bookish Generals and the Veracity of Historical Writing: Allusion and Ethnographic Knowledge in Tacitus’ Histories, Bram ten Berge (Hope College)
Expiating Mutiny with Sacrilege: The Cost of Roman Order in Tacitus Annals 1.49–51, Isabel Köster (University of Colorado Boulder)
Tacitus on the Integrity of Provincial Government, David Potter (University of Michigan)
Closing remarks on the life and career of Herb Benario, Jonathan Master (Emory University)
- Horace – Mobile Bay 3
Kristopher Fletcher (Louisianna State University), presider
The Fluttering Swan of Dirce: Horace's Play of Archaic Models in Carm. 4.1 and 4.2, Christopher D. King (The Ohio State University)
Doctus et Pheobi Chorus et Dianae: The Carmen Saeculare and Moral Education in Horace’s Corpus, Ronnie Hirsch (Brown University)
Horace Epode 3: Poetry, Sorcery, and …Garlic?, Kate Wilken (University of Dallas)
- Panel: Voices of the Non-Elite in the Epigraphic Record, sponsored by American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE) – Clipper
Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons (University of Mississippi), organizer and presider
Inscribing Invidia: The Epigraphic Expression of Envy in Pompeii, Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons (University of Mississippi)
Non-Elite Writing on Athenian Ostraka, James Sickinger (Florida State University)
Maternal Mortality on Roman Inscriptions: The Absent Voices of Non-Elite Women, Morgan Palmer (University of Nebraska – Lincoln)
Campanian Lovers or Phallic Pun?, Holly Sypniewski (Clarkson University)
- Latin Poetry in Conversation – Windjammer
Blanche C. McCune (College of Charleston), presider
Something Feminine: Female Pipes and Lucretian Narratives in Virgil's Eclogues, Acacia Oyler (University of Colorado Boulder)
Lucretian Echoes in Claudian's In Rufinum, Tim Stover (Florida State University)
Fama in Thebaid 5.486-504, Davis Roby (University of Kansas)
Refusing the Recusatio: Pliny's Epistle 7.5 as Ironic Pseudo-Elegy, Thomas S. Robinson (University of Kansas)
Divina Palladis Arte: A Metapoetic Reading of Hosidius Geta’s Medea (104-147), Beatrice Milanesi (Duke University)
- Roman Drama Unplugged – Riverboat
Christopher Bungard (Butler University), presider
Medea the Restorer? Reading Ovid’s Aeson through Pacuvius’ Aeetes, Lauren D. Ginsberg (Duke University)
The Use of the Balcony in Senecan and Pseudo-Senecan Tragedy, Thomas D. Kohn (Wayne State University)
Ius Vitae ac Necis: Oedipus as Paterfamilias in Seneca’s Phoenissae, Savannah R. Wahlgren (University of Cincinnati)
Domestic violence, status and spectacle in Seneca’s Hercules Furens, Sarah J. Cullinan Herring (University of Kansas)