This year, Virginia Undergraduate Symposium in Classics VI will be hosted by the University of Virginia and sponsored by the University of Virginia Classics Department. It is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Location: University of Virginia, Rouss-Robertson Hall, Room 245
When: Friday, November 15, 2019; 1-5:30 PM

Symposium Program

1-1:45 - Keynote: Dr. Molly Swetnam-Burland, College of William and Mary
  • Imagining Egypt in Ancient Rome
1:45-2:00 - Questions and Answers
2:00-2:20 - Megan Sullivan (University of Virginia)
  • The Case for Domestication in the Comedic Tradition
2:20-2:40 - Tess Monks (University of Richmond)
  • The Relative Clause Anastrophe in Cato
2:40-3:00 - Will Wasta Werner (University of Richmond)
  • The Reception of Cato Uticensis and the Cult of the Confederate Lost Cause
3:00-3:15 - Break
3:15-3:35 - Guy Rahat (College of William and Mary)
  • Venus and the Transformation of Aeneas: From Mortal Hero to Divine Son
3:35-3:55 - Grace Burns (College of William and Mary)
  • A Mother's Embrace: Venus' Identity in the Aeneid
3:55-4:15 - Anshu Sharma (Randolph-Macon College)
  • Horace's Satire 2.1 and the Respectable Reach of Legem
4:15-4:35 - Kristin Myers (University of Virginia)
  • The Pathology of the Pathic: An Analysis of Effeminate Appearance in Juvenal Satire 2
4:35-5:30 - Reception (Lower Level of Cocke Hall)