2015 conference program

The Fourth Annual University of Tennessee
Undergraduate Classics Research Conference
University of Tennessee,
Howard H. Baker Center
Saturday February 21, 2015
Sponsored by the Classics Enrichment Fund of the Department of Classics,
with generous co-sponsorship by:
The College of Arts & Sciences, The Chancellor’s Honors Program,
The Office of Undergraduate Research,
The Departments of English, History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies,
and the School of Art
9:00-9:10 Welcome
Dr. Theresa Lee, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Toyota Auditorium
9:15-10:15 Keynote Presentation
Toyota Auditorium
Dr. Jackie Murray, University of Kentucky
The greater stars were hiding: Time Dilation in Lucan's Bellum Civile
10:15-10:30 Morning Break
10:30-12:00 First Paper Session
Session#1
Toyota Auditorium
Presider: Dr. Jessica Westerhold
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Abbey Elder, University of Tennessee
Crossing the Line: Gender Performance in Greek Drama
Lien Van Geel, Mississippi State University
Powerful Threads as Female Defense Mechanisms in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Austin Lee Ard, Florida State University
Family Planning in Antiquity
Elizabeth Hunter, University of Buffalo
Defining Gender Roles in the Ars Amatoria
Session#2
Room 204
Presider: Dr. Theodora Kopestonsky
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Simone Bates-Smith, University of Cincinnati
Evidence for the Eastern Origin and Transmission of the Cult of Dionysos
Megan Cope, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Fish through Time: The Maioumas Festival and Christianity
Carly Sokach, University of Pennsylvania
A Potion for the Goddess: Controlling ancient Greek Menstruation and Fertility through
the Thesmophoria
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Room 205
Presider: Dr. John Friend
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Jacob Kirchner, Ohio Wesleyan University
“Gone” in Euripides’ Medea; How One Word Can Summarize a Tragedy
Alex Moskowitz, Swarthmore College
New Perspectives on Greek Colonization in Southern Italy
Robert Bassett, College of Charleston
Aesthetic Dissent in Classical Athens
Lydia Schriemer, University of Ottawa
Undressing the Female Nude: The Paradox of Morality in Ancient Greek Sculpture
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:10 Second Paper Session
Session#4
Toyota Auditorium
Presider: Dr. Aleydis Van de Moortel
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Daniel Hamaker, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Skylla and the Etruscan Sea-Monster: Artistic Elements in a Bronze Figurine from
Cetamura del Chianti, Italy
Amanda Gaggioli, Cornell University
Cosmopolitan Household Contests: the commoner and the Late Bronze Age economy
Abby Durick, University of Tennessee
Kolonna: Cultural Identity and Maritime Trade
Session#5
Room 204
Presider: Dr. Stephanie McCarter
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Richard McDaniel Culbertson, The University of the South
Di or Me?: Vergil, the Muse, and the Overdetermination of the Epic Task
David Housewright, University of Tennessee
Orpheus and Eurydice in Vergil’s 4th Georgic
Samantha Koyler, Austin Peay State University
Petronius’ Greek-based Hapax legomena
Session#6
Room 205
Presider: Dr. Christopher Craig
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Zoe Elise Thomas, University of Washington
Claudius the Fool: An Explanation of Roman Social Values through the Lens of Stoicism
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Brittany Hardy, Millsaps College
Rebirth of Classical Love: Reading Botticelli’s Birth of Venus through a LiteraryPhilosophical Lens
Mason Johnson, Rhodes College
Hold On My Heart: Reevaluating the Platonic Theory of Love in the Symposium
2:10-2:30 Break
2:30-3:40 Third Paper Session
Session#7
Toyota Auditorium
Presider: Dr. Aleydis Van de Moortel
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Nathan Carmichael, University of Texas at Austin
The Imperial Baths of Rome and their Environs
Casey Hughes, Baylor University
The Boundaries of Caesar
David Royce, University of Tennessee
3D Model of the Forum Augustum Brings the Roman Site to Life
Session#8
Room 204
Presider: Dr. Robert Sklenar
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Amelia Stout, Rhodes College
Senecan Epigrams and the Genre of Exile Poetry
Megan Bandel, Austin Peay State University
The Roman Gaze as Knowledge in Apuleius’ “Cupid and Psyche”
Ken Duarte, Hofstra University
The Violence of Education in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe
Session#9
Room 205
Presider: Dr. Daniel Moore
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Kristen Beard, University of Tennessee
Avoid Pain or Die Trying
Vanessa Felsö, Bryn Mawr College
Etruscans in Latium: A New Interpretation of the Cult of Minerva Tritonia at Lavinium
Elizabeth Ross, Rhodes College
The Sphere of Penetrability in Ancient Rome
3:50-4:10 Closing Remarks
Dr. Christopher Craig, Professor and Head of Classics
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