A 08 – “Let Us Sing Our Own Praises”: Women and Rhetorical Strategies in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae and Lysistrata

1. Appeals to etymology in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae (Megan Bowler)
2. The language of deliberative conformity in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae (Charlotte Susser)
3. Proverbial speech in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata: Stereotypes, Power, and Solidarity (Marina Paschalidou)

B 08 – Erasmus and His Reception in Lexicography and Textbooks on Rhetoric in 16th-Century Europe

1. Classical Greek erudition in Elementa rhetoricae by German humanist Joachim Camerarius the Elder (Bartosz Awianowicz)
2. The rhetorical legacy of Erasmus in the lexicography of Jerónimo Cardoso (Ana Isabel Correia Martins)
3. Serio ludere: The theory of humour of Erasmus of Rotterdam (Elaine Cristine Sartorelli)

C 08 – Quantitative Epigraphy and History in the Eastern Mediterranean (Part III)

1. Writing culture and epigraphic culture in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt (Agnieszka Wojciechowska)
2. Rome and the Greek epigraphic culture (Wojciech Pietruszka)
3. Manumission in the familia Caesaris (Myles Lavan)

D 08 – Fragmenta Rerum Scytharum (FRS) Project

1. Fragmenta Rerum Scytharum: With some examples in Pliny the Elder’s Historia Naturalis (Jaewon Ahn, Seok-Chan Yun)
2. Imperial Japanese reception of Greco-Roman narrative on Scythians (Kwangho Kim)
3. Scythians, the Mediterranean herald in the Korean Peninsula (Hanuri Son)

E 08 – The Crown of Philosophers: Alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis

1. Compilation Practices in the Greek Alchemical Corpus: The Case of Zosimos of Panopolis (Michèle Mertens)
2. Zosimos’ Alchemical Oeuvre: New Insights Into Its Structure (Matteo Martelli)
3. Gnostic and Hermetic Influences on the Treatises of Zosimos of Panopolis (Grzegorz Sus)

F 08 – Revitalizing Classics in Modern Education

1. Proposal for a model of literary education in Latin classes (Bořivoj Marek)
2. Engaging students with creative Latin challenges (Martina Vaníková)
3. Enhancing Latin Teaching Through Modern Literary Translations: Insights and Applications (Tomáš Weissar)

G 08 – Rhetoric and Poetics in Prudentius

1. Wordplay and Allegory in the Preface of Prudentius’ Psychomachia (Paul Roche)
2. Dark and Light in the Wakeful Night: Prudentius’ Cathemerinon 1 (Before Dawn) and Cathemerinon 5 (On the Lighting of the Lamps) (Dawn LaValle Norman)
3. All at Sea – Rhetoric and Poetics in the Opening of Prudentius’ Contra Symmachum 2 (Michael Hanaghan)

H 08 – “Positive Peace” Attitudes in Classical and Post-Classical Antiquity

1. War-weariness in the Roman Republic (Toni Ñaco del Hoyo)
2. Was peace a women’s issue in Roman times? (Elena Torregaray Pagola)
3. Peacemaking strategies in post-classical Iberia (Purificación Ubric Rabaneda)

I 08 – Landscape, Nature, and Experience in Greek Historical Narratives

1. Humanity and the natural world in Phylarchus’ Histories (Marcin Kurpios)
2. Alexander versus Nature: Landscape Descriptions and the Reader in Arrian’s Anabasis and Indica (Vasileios Liotsakis)
3. Landscapes of Power: Narrative Construction of Borders in Polybius’ Histories (Nicolas Wiater)

J 08 – Law and Society in Athenian Legal Discourse

1. Age, experience, and authority in Athenian legal discourse (Lene Rubinstein)
2. Legal proceedings and gender dynamics compared: Women’s status and marriage in Classical Athens and early Han China (Mengzhen Yue)
3. Rhetorical strategies in forensic cases involving slaves and freed persons (Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz)