Session A 01 – Volterra Semper in Flore (Part I)

1. Radical Modifications of the Stage Design Archetype in the First-Century BCE Roman Theater in Volterra (Władysław Fuchs)
2. The Stage for the Palliata (Ewa Skwara)
3. Fabula Palliata on the Stage (Barbara Bibik, Wiesław Kopeć)

Session B 01 – A ‘Periegematic’ View on Ekphrasis: From Ancient to Modern (Part I)

1. The Senses of Ekphrasis: An Overview (Paulo Martins)
2. Ekphrasis and Argumentation on Cicero’s De Signis: A Study Concerning the Ekphrasis of the Syracusan Temple of Minerva (Luciana Mourão Maio)
3. The Ekphrasis in Pliny the Elder: An Analytical Study (Ana Carolina Aquarolli Martins)

Session C 01 – Texts and the Formation of Religious Networks in the Roman Empire (Part I)

1. Between Greek ktiseis and Ancient Roman Gods – Religion Under Tiberius According to Velleius Paterculus (Friedrich Enno)
2. Learning From the Wise: Religion and Economy in Gnomic Literature (Jörg Rüpke)
3. Reading the Book of Nature: Animal Narratives as Shared Imaginaries (Dorothee Elm von der Osten)

Session D 01 – Thucydides and Power: Might, Imperialism and Moderation (Part I)

1. Continuities and Changes in the Concept of Power in Thucydides (Mathieu González Pauget)
2. Thucydides and Power: Might, Imperialism and Moderation (Smaro Nikolaidou-Arampatzi)
3. Reinterpreting Democratic Advantage: Thucydides on Athenian Power (Mark Fisher)

Session E 01 – ‘Colonial’ Encounters: Re-Conceptualizations from the Archaic Period to Postmodernism. Settlers and Natives in Ancient Contexts (Part I)

1. Shifting Identity Constructs in the Foundation Legends of Massalia and Other Phokaian Colonies (Coskun Altay)
2. Indigenous Women in Love: Between Facilitators and Betrayers (Marta Oller Guzmán)
3. Peaceful Co-Existence or a ‘Colonial’ Conflict? The ‘Priest’s Letter’ From Olbia (SEG XLII 710) (Joanna Porucznik)

Session F 01 – Navigating New Directions for Classics Education Research

1. A Battle of Pedagogies: The Independent Learning of Latin in the UK (Melissa Addison)
2. Does Learning Latin Make You Smarter? A Literature Survey and Interim Findings From an Empirical Study in Flanders (Alexandra Verveeck)
3. Recruiting Schools in England to Participate in Classics Education Doctoral Research: Opportunities and Barriers (Phoebe Graham)

Session G 01 – Atomism in Greco-Roman Poetry

1. Lucretius on the Nature of Death (Jenni Glaser)
2. Atomism and Cataclysm in Lucan’s Sicoris Flood (BC 4.48–147) (Matthew Wainwright)
3. Classical and Modern Atomism in the Astronautilia, a 20th Century Ancient Greek Epic (Ben Broadbent)

Session H 01 – The Rhetoric of Breaking the Rules – Succeeding Against the Norms

1. Opposing Rules in Early Greek Rhetoric (Laura Viidebaum)
2. Don’t try this yourself: Negative examples in the Rhetorica ad Herennium (Kathrin Winter)
3. The Scrupulous Cannibal. Breaking the Rules and Renegotiating Ethical Norms in Ps. Quintilian’s Declamationes maiores (Nicola Hömke)

Session I 01 – Lists and Catalogues in Greek and Indo-European Literature: Cosmological, Mythopoetic, Anthropological and Gnoseological Aspects (Part I)

1. Taxonomies of the Universe in Lists and Catalogues in Indo-Iranian, Anatolian and Mediterranean Sacred Text Traditions (Velizar Sadovski)
2. Geographical Catalogues in Greek and Indian Epic: Comparing the Catalogue of Ships in Homer and the Catalogue of the Tirthas (Pilgrimage Places) in the Mahabharata (Ian Rutherford)
3. ‘Listenwissenschaft’ and Mesopotamian Epistemics (Gebhard Selz)

Session J 01 – Cicero’s Verrines and Their Reception: Between Oratory and Biography

1. Traces of Hortensius’ Speech Pro Verre in the Verrines (Tomasso Ricchieri)
2. Cicero and His Apprentice: The Reception of the Verrines in the Speeches by M. Caelius Rufus (Damian Pierzak)
3. Cicero the Biographer. The Verrines and Their Impact on Roman Life Writing (Matthias Grandl)