This year, Virginia Undergraduate Symposium in Classics V will be hosted by Randolph-Macon College and sponsored by the Randolph-Macon College Classics Department. It is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Location: Randolph-Macon College
When: Friday, November 10, 2017; 1-5 PM
Location: Randolph-Macon College
When: Friday, November 10, 2017; 1-5 PM
Symposium Program
1-1:45 - Keynote: Dr. John Camp, Randolph-Macon College
- Recent Excavations at the Athenian Agora
2:00-2:20 - Marshall LeMert (University of Mary Washington)
- The Tomb of Alexander the Great
- Ancient Greek and Modern East African Tortoise Shell Lyres: An Ethnological Comparison
- Redundant Dido: Repetition and Alliteration in Virgil and Ovid
3:00-3:10 - Break
3:10-3:30 - James Patton (Randolph-Macon College)
- Omnes Dimitte Notas: Thyestes' Loss of Stoic Masculinity over the Course of Seneca's Thyestes
- Problems of Verbal Aspect in New Testament Greek: Inconsistencies in 1 John
- Compassion in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- Egyptian Revolt of 297/8 CE: Violence in the Time of Diocletian's Economic Reforms
4:30-5:30 - Reception