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
Location: Randolph-Macon College, Brock Commons 201-202
When: Friday, November 14, 2014; 1-5 PM
Symposium Program
1-1:40 - Keynote: Dr. Vassiliki Panoussi, College of William and Mary
1:50-2:00 - Questions and Answers
- Mourning Becomes Orpheus? Poetry and Women's Rituals in Ovid's Metamorphoses 10 and 11
1:50-2:00 - Questions and Answers
2:00-2:20 - Olivia Garner, University of Mary Washington
- The Thesmophoria: A Reversal of Gender Roles in Classical Athens
- Ancient Athenian Sexuality and Encomiastic Rhetoric
- Paraclausithrya in Cicero's First Catilinarian
3:10-3:30 - Mary McCulla, College of William and Mary
- The Laudatio Turiae as a Bridge between Eras
- Feta Armis: Pregnancy in Vergil's Aeneid
- Widows and Daughters: The Impact of Judaism on the Rise of the 'New Woman' in Imperial Rome
- Narcissism and Enabling: A Portrait of Marital Dysfunction at Trimalchio's Dinner Party
- How Nero Turned Everyone Gay: An Analysis of the Change in the Representation of Male Same Sex Relationships
4:50-5:50 - Reception