2025 Fall Meeting Program: Saturday, October 11

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7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.Continental Breakfast (Lobby)
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Registration (Lobby)
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Exhibitor & Vendor Hall Open (Cedar)
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.Paper Sessions 8-10; Workshop 1
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.Break with Refreshments (Lobby)
10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.Paper Sessions 11-13; Panel 6
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.Luncheon and Annual Business Session
with Gratulatio (Cypress)
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.Paper Sessions 14-15; Workshop 2

Saturday, October 11 | 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

SESSION OVERVIEWDETAILS
Paper Session 8
Tyrants and Conspirators: Critical Reflections on Ancient History’s Villains

Location: Persimmon I

Presiders: Dobrinka Chiekova (The College of New Jersey) and Sarah B. Ferrario (The Catholic University of America)
Herodotus on Tyranny Again
Marcaline Boyd (University of Delaware)

The Moral Use of Thrasybulus’ Victory over the Thirty Tyrants
Nicholas Cross (United States Naval Academy)

Dramatic History: Livy, Roman Comedy, and the Bacchanalian Affair
Felix Bieneman (Bryn Mawr College)
Paper Session 9
Roman Material Culture: Representing and Constructing in the Ancient World

Location: Persimmon II

Presiders: Raymond Capra (Queens College), CAAS Investment Liaison, and Joanne Spurza (Hunter College)
Gladiator Drawings and Statistics Graffiti at Pompeii: A Multimodal Method of Popular
Communication
Margaret Laird (University of Delaware)

Whose Family is it Anyway? Kinship and Commemoration in the Familia Caesaris
Danielle LaRose (Binghamton University)

Feasibility of Proposed Solutions to Moving the Trilithon Stones of Jupiter’s Temple at Baalbek
Omar Ibrahim (Montclair State University)
Mentor: Deborah Chatr Aryamontri
Paper Session 10
Classics and Popular Culture: From Direct Receptions to Indirect Resonances

Location: Walnut

Presiders: Andrea Kouklanakis (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center) and Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Saint Joseph’s University)
On the Road with Petronius: The Satyrica and New Queer Cinema
Robert Santucci (University of North Carolina Wilmington)

Alexander Senki: Postmodern Considerations on 20th Century Japanese Philhellenism
Juan Dopico (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

Sins of the Father: Familial Miasma in Mike Flanigan’s The Fall of the House of Usher
Patricia Hatcher (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
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Saturday, October 11 | 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

SESSION OVERVIEWDETAILS
Paper Session 11
Crossing Genres and Eras: Intertextual Threads in Ancient Literature

Location: Maple

Presiders: Marcaline Boyd (University of Delaware), Director of Delaware, and Tommaso Gazzarri (Union College), Director of New York (Eastern)
The End of Hesiod’s Theogony (963-1022) and Epic Chronology in Apollonius’ Argonautica
William Farris (Christendom College)

A Wise and Truthful Man: Aristophanic Echoes in Lucian’s True Histories
Bryce Hammer (Rutgers University)

Reading Dreams with Lucian: Interpretation and Irony in Lucian’s Life
Evan Waters (Catholic University of America)

Euripidean Tragedy in the Comic Fragments of Apollodorus of Carystus
Justin Dwyer (University of Rochester)

Don’t Delay the Drama: Josephus as a Tragic Narrator of Gaius’ Assassination in Jewish Antiquities (19.1-273)
Saga Herdeskoeld (Independent Scholar)
Paper Session 12
Labor, Status, and Abuse: Women’s Experiences in the Ancient World

Location: Persimmon I

Presiders: T. Corey Brennan (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) and Margaret Laird (University of Delaware)
How to Spin a Thread: Experimental Research in Greek and Roman Wool Processing
Molly Jones-Lewis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

Terentia, the Temple of Vesta, and the Tabula Valeria
Maria Marsilio (Saint Joseph’s University)

Enslaved Female Labor in the Production of Roman Luxury
Lauren Petersen (University of Delaware)

The Lives and Labor of Servae and Libertae
Marcus Beardsley (University of Delaware) Mentor: Lauren Petersen
Paper Session 13
Classical Reception in Modern Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Writing

Location: Persimmon II

Presiders: Caroline Stark (Howard University), David Kuyat (Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School), and Alison Williams Lewin (Saint Joseph’s University)
Classical Studies, Trans Joy, and Reparative Reading in Wrath Goddess Sing
Hannah Steele (University of Delaware)

Catullus Sails to China: Age and Identity in John Yau’s Catullan poetry
Katherine Wasdin (University of Maryland)

Pindar, Compagnonnage, and Surrealism
James Wells (DePauw University) 

Delenda Est America,” While Pyramids Decay: Emily Dickinson Declaims Latin
Stephen Rojcewicz (Independent Scholar)

Virginum Eruditissima”: A Student Commentary on the Works of Elizabeth Jane Weston
Claire Pettit (Princeton University)

Dido, Cleopatra, and the Dux Femina Trope: Writing the “Female Other”
Jo Bogart (Elon University)
Mentor: Kristina Meinking
Panel 6
Secondary School Panel

Location: Walnut

Organizer: Scott Barnard (The Lawrenceville School)
Dido, Venus, and the Son: Tragic Love Through the Lens of Freud 
Sophie Yang (The Lawrenceville School)

Artistic Propaganda on the Shield of Aeneas
Eric Xu (The Lawrenceville School)

From Enslaved to Empowered: How Roman Freedwomen Transformed their Lives During the Augustan Age
Yanxin Wu (The Pennington School)

Vergilian Poetic Devices and Perception in the Underworld
Michael Zampardi (The Lawrenceville School)
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Saturday, October 11 | 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

LUNCHEON and Annual Business sessionDETAILS
Luncheon and Annual Business Session

Location: Cypress

Karen Klaiber Hersch, CAAS President, Presiding
Financial Report: Henry Bender, CAAS Treasurer

Gratulatio for Mary Brown, CAAS Executive Director
– Authors: Faye Bakovsky (Independent Scholar) and Gareth Williams (Columbia University)
– Reader: Maria Marsilio, Awards Committee Chair and past CAAS Program Coordinator
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Saturday, October 11 | 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

SESSION OVERVIEWDETAILS
Paper Session 14
Heroic Conflicts in Homer: Honor, Selfhood, and Deception

Location: Maple

Presiders: Deborah Chatr Aryamontri (Montclair State University), Director of New Jersey (North), and Tyson Sukava (University of Delaware)
Success, Suffering, and Status in the Iliad
Alexander Neuschotz (Rutgers University)

ἔδμεναι και ἔδεσθαι” (To Eat and to be Eaten): Food as a Mirror to Achilles’ Humanity
Natalie Dean (University of Maryland) 

Nobody: Homeric Constructions of Odysseus as Liar and Truth-Teller 
Brendan Cullen (Tufts University) Mentor: Tommaso Gazzarri (Union College)
Paper Session 15
Layered Texts: Rethinking Meaning in Augustan Poetry

Location: Persimmon I

Presiders: Prudence Jones (Montclair State University) and Maria Silvia Sarais (Hunter College)
Color in Vergil’s Aeneid: A Case Study on the Red Sky
Hana Aghababian (Skidmore College)

Readers and Narrators in Aeneid 2: Intertextuality as a Threat to Meaning
Marissa Krmpotich (The Catholic University of America)

The Paragon of Animals: Crises of Recognition and the Animal Paradigm in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Thu Truong (Princeton University)
Workshop
Picturing Texts: Using Images to Make Authentic Ancient Literature Accessible

Location: Persimmon II
Organizers and Workshop Leaders: Laurie Hutcheson (Boston University) and Annmarie Patterson (University of Southern California)
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