Session A 05 – Contrastive Socio-Pragmatic Studies of Greek and Latin Comedy

1. The Unquestionable Question: The Pragmatic Effects of ‘Don’t You See?’ in Greek and Latin Comedy (Maria Napoli)
2. Conversational Routines and Phrases: Storytelling in Greek and Latin Comedy (Michel Buijs, Rodie Risselada)
3. Towards a Contrastive Pragmatics of Dyadic Syntax in Greek and Latin Comedy (Ezra la Roi)

Session B 05 – The CSEL – Past, Presence, and Future

1. The CSEL – Past, Presence, and Future (Gottfried Eugen Kreuz)
2. Critical Editions of Palimpsests: Challenges and Solutions (Clemens Weidmann)
3. The Critical Edition of Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos in the CSEL Series (Lukas Dorfbauer)

Session C 05 – Institutional Approaches to Roman Political History

1. A ‘Biology of the Roman Senate’? Natural Processes and Mid-Republican Political Stability (Cary Barber)
2. State of Emergency and Dictators – the Case of the Roman Republic (Sema Karataş)
3. The Roman Senate in the Antonine Period: Writing the History of an Institution Without a History (John Weisweiler)

Session D 05 – Thucydides as a Political Teacher

1. Teaching powerlessness in The Peloponnesian War (Neville Morley)
2. The lessons of Book 5 of Thucydides (Edith Foster)
3. Alcibiades’ didactical value (Jan Anders Willing)

Session E 05 – Greeks in Bactria and India Revisited

1. El significado del elefante en las emisiones de los reyes greco-bactrianos (José Luis Aledo Martínez)
2. Representation of the “Barbarians” in Teodor Parnicki’s Historical Novel The End of the ‘Concord of Nations’ (Olga Kubica)
3. The Old Indo-Aryan barbara- and Ancient Greek bárbaros – Etymology, Meaning, and History of the Terms in the Context of Graeco-Indian Relations (Dariusz Piwowarczyk)

Session F 05 – (Don’t) Make Jokes With Antiquity: Classics and Humour in Pop Culture Behind the Iron Curtain

1. Laughing With Antiquity in Soviet Animation (Hanna Paulouskaya)
2. Classical Antiquity in Cartoons, Comics and Humour Sections in Periodicals for Children and Teenagers in People’s Poland (PRL), 1945–1989 (Marta Pszczolińska)
3. Classical Characters Crossing the Curtain: Translation as Rewriting in the Yugoslav Version of Alan Ford (David Movrin)

Session G 05 – Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and the Challenges of Poikilia

1. On Proteus and poikilia: How to Begin (Commenting on) Nonnus’ Dionysiaca (Fotini Hadjittofi)
2. δόμον ἐσκοπίαζεν… Κάδμος (Nonn. D. 3.131): The Visual Challenge of Ekphraseis of Buildings in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus (Laura Miguélez-Cavero)
3. The Story of Ill-Fated Actaeon: Commenting Narrators and Narrating Characters in the ‘Epyllion’ of Dionysiaca Book 5 (Berenice Verhelst)
4. σοφὸς αὐτοδίδακτος Ἔρως (Nonn. D. 7.110): Eros’ arrows, tradition, and narrative in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca (Katerina Carvounis)

Session H 05 – Romans and Indigenous Peoples on the Red Sea (Part II)

1. Cosmas’ Adventures at the Horn of Africa (Anna Kotłowska)
2. The Skin Colour of the ‘Others’ in the Art of Egypt and Nubia (Magdalena Łaptaś, Galia Gar El Nabi)
3. The Image of Arabs in Selected Byzantine Military Treatises (Łukasz Różycki)

Session I 05 – Between Tradition and Innovation: Teaching Ancient Greek in Peripheral Protestant Humanistic Gymnasia of Stettin (Szczecin) and Danzig (Gdańsk)

1. External Factors and Teaching Ancient Greek at Paedagogium Stetinense and Regium Gymnasium Carolinum in Szczecin (Małgorzata Cieśluk)
2. The Muses’ Workshop on the Baltic: Insights Into the Organization of Greek Teaching in the Early Years of the Academic Gymnasium in Danzig (Roberto Peressin)
3. Teaching and Learning Greek in a Period of Decline: The Case of the Eighteenth-Century Academic Gymnasium in Danzig/Gdańsk (Jacek Pokrzywnicki)

Session J 05 – Cicero and Rome: City, State, and Statesman

1. The causa Curiana and the Competitive Dynamics of Cicero’s Brutus (repeat) (Matthew Roller)
2. Role Theory and Social Power in Cicero’s Letters of 44–43 BCE (repeat) (Tyler Broome)
3. Cicero in Cilicia: The Roman Empire and Its Critical Eye (repeat) (Marsha McCoy)