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, Brock Commons 202
When: Friday, November 9, 2018; 1-4:30 PM
Location: Randolph-Macon College, Brock Commons 202
When: Friday, November 9, 2018; 1-4:30 PM
Symposium Program
1-1:45 - Keynote: Dr. Angela Pitts, University of Mary Washington
- The Iliad and the Human Cost of War
2:00-2:20 - Robert Yancey (College of William and Mary)
- Blood on the Altar: Artemis Ortheia and the Near East
- The Fable of the Pears
- Ancient Attic Apiculture as Role Reinforcement
3:00-3:15 - Break
3:15-3:35 - Rebecca Gaborek (College of William and Mary)
- Gardens beneath the Ash: Contextualizing Natural Imagery within Pompeii's Urban Fabric
- Visceral Visuals: Gendered Violence as Artistic Subject Matter
- The Erasure of Female Queerness in Roman Culture
4:15-5:00 - Reception (in Brock Commons 201)