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

Symposium Program

1-1:45 - Keynote: Dr. John Camp, Randolph-Macon College
  • Recent Excavations at the Athenian Agora
1:45-2:00 - Questions and Answers
2:00-2:20 - Marshall LeMert (University of Mary Washington)
  • The Tomb of Alexander the Great
2:20-2:40 - Rebekah Hale (Randolph-Macon College
  • Ancient Greek and Modern East African Tortoise Shell Lyres: An Ethnological Comparison
2:40-3:00 - Tess Monks (University of Richmond)
  • 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
3:30-3:50 - Tom Francis (University of Richmond)
  • Problems of Verbal Aspect in New Testament Greek: Inconsistencies in 1 John
3:50-4:10 -Thomas Broadwater (University of Mary Washington)
  • Compassion in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
4:10-4:30 -Joel Lai (University of Richmond)
  • Egyptian Revolt of 297/8 CE: Violence in the Time of Diocletian's Economic Reforms
4:30-5:30 - Reception​