Virginia Undergraduate Symposium in Classics I was hosted by Randolph-Macon College and sponsored by the Shelton H. Short III Professorship, the Randolph-Macon Department of Classics, and the Randolph-Macon Women's Studies Program.

Location: Randolph-Macon College, Brock Commons 201-202
When: Friday, November 14, 2014; 1-5 PM

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Symposium Program

1-1:40 - Keynote: Dr. Vassiliki Panoussi, College of William and Mary

• Mourning Becomes Orpheus? Poetry and Women's Rituals in Ovid's Metamorphoses 10 and 11

1:40-1:50 - Response: Dr. Bartolo Natoli, Randolph-Macon College
1:50-2:00 - Questions and Answers

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2:00-2:20 - Olivia Garner, University of Mary Washington

• The Thesmophoria: A Reversal of Gender Roles in Classical Athens

2:20-2:40 - Ben Strawsburg, University of Richmond

• Ancient Athenian Sexuality and Encomiastic Rhetoric

2:40-3:00 - Sarah Keith, Randolph-Macon College

• Paraclausithrya in Cicero's First Catilinarian​

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3:10-3:30 - Mary McCulla, College of William and Mary

• The Laudatio Turiae as a Bridge between Eras

3:30-3:50 - Victoria Jansson, College of William and Mary

• Feta Armis: Pregnancy in Vergil's Aeneid

3:50-4:10 - Hali Johnson, Randolph-Macon College

• Widows and Daughters: The Impact of Judaism on the Rise of the 'New Woman' in Imperial Rome

​4:10-4:30 - Julie Kinsella Gavin, University of Mary Washington

• ​Narcissism and Enabling: A Portrait of Marital Dysfunction at Trimalchio's Dinner Party

​4:30-4:50 - Kara Jonas

• How Nero Turned Everyone Gay: An Analysis of the Change in the Representation of Male Same Sex Relationships

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4:50-5:50 - Reception​