Preliminary programme

PARALLEL SESSIONS

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TUESDAY, 8 JULY 2025

Session A 01 (TUE, 8 JUL, 10:15)

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 A 02 (TUE, 8 JUL, 12:00)

VOLTERRA SEMPER IN FLORE (Part II)

  1. Challenges and Opportunities of Virtual Reconstruction of Ancient Architecture
    Wiesław Kopeć, Anna Jaskulska, Małgorzata Biłozór-Salwa, Mateusz Salwa
  2. Preservation and Strategies of the Theatre’s Reuse
    Riccardo Rudiero, Emanuele Romeo
  3. International Festival of the Roman Theater in Volterra
    Simone Migliorini

Session A 03 (TUE, 8 JUL, 14:30)

CONTEXTUALIZING LITERARY FORMS OF ITALIAN POPULAR THEATRE: ATELLANE COMEDY, MIME, AND PANTOMIME

  1. The ‘Slightly Absurd’ (subabsurda) Jokes from Mime and Atellane Comedy in Cicero, De oratore Book 2
    Costas Panayotakis
  2. The Contribution of Epigraphy to the Study of Fragmentary Dramatic Genres: Atellana, Mime, Pantomime
    Víctor González Galera
  3. Dating of the Atellana Based on Surviving Fragments of the Comedies
    Joanna Pieczonka

Session B 01 (TUE, 8 JUL, 10:15)

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 B 02 (TUE, 8 JUL, 12:00)

A ‘PERIEGEMATIC’ VIEW ON EKPHRASIS: FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN (Part II)

  1. A Northern Periegesis: Topographies in Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum
    Henrique Verri Fiebig
  2. Ekphrasis in a Modern-Popular Context: The Topography of Bossa Nova
    Guilherme Pezzente Pinto

Session B 03 (TUE, 8 JUL, 14:30)

CROSSING CONFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES: NEO-LATIN LITERATURE IN THE 16TH- AND EARLY 17TH-CENTURY BOHEMIAN LANDS

  1. Non-Catholic Authors in the Library of the Provost of the Metropolitan Chapter Georgius Bartholdus Pontanus of Braitenberg and the Reflection of Their Works in Pontanus’ Poetry
    Marta Vaculínová
  2. Haec Maria, Virgo dia: The Once Reformed Hymnographer Johannes Campanus (1572–1622) on the Virgin Mary
    Marcela Slavíková
  3. Trans-Confessional Aspects of the Neo-Latin Works of Ioannes Dubravius: Different Styles and Strategies of a Humanist Bishop Around 1550
    Lucie Storchová

Session C 01 (TUE, 8 JUL, 10:15)

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 C 02 (TUE, 8 JUL, 12:00)

TEXTS AND THE FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS NETWORKS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE (Part II)

  1. To the Emperors and Empresses: Interlocal Networks and Religious Negotiation Strategies in the Aegean During the Early Roman Empire
    Sofia Bianchi Mancini
  2. Early Christian Universalism in Marginal Decorations of Inscriptions From the Eastern Mediterranean
    Paweł Nowakowski
  3. Textual Formation and Textual Experimentation in Late Antiquity: The Prefaces of Jerome
    Lucy Grig

Session C 03 (TUE, 8 JUL, 14:30)

(RE)CREATING DOCUMENTS IN ROMAN ANTIQUITY – ON THE CROSSROADS OF LAW AND PHILOLOGY

  1. Philological Approach to Experiencing Legal Documents or Rather a Legal Perspective on a Literary Source?
    Wiktoria Saracyn
  2. When Language Meets Law: A Linguistic Analysis of Greek Legal Documents From the Archives of the Aphrodite Village
    Aleksandra Świdurska
  3. Reconstructing the Narrative From Multi-Level Texts: A Philological Approach to P. Fam. Tebt. 15 and Other Papyrological Evidence
    Kacper Żochowski

Session D 01 (TUE, 8 JUL, 10:15)

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 D 02 (TUE, 8 JUL, 12:00)

THUCYDIDES AND POWER: MIGHT, IMPERIALISM AND MODERATION (Part II)

  1. Athenian Power and the Battle at Delium
    Jano Meyer
  2. The Law of Power Is the Unity of Opposites: Stasis and the Physis / Nomos Distinction in Thucydides
    Rory O’Sullivan
  3. The Relativity of Power in Thucydides
    Christian Wendt

Session D 03 (TUE, 8 JUL, 14:30)

THE POLIS AND ITS TERRITORY: DEFINING FRONTIERS IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD

  1. Western Greek Poleis and the Dispute for Territories
    Maria Beatriz Borba Florenzano
  2. Frontiers and Contacts Between Island Poleis and Continental Foundations in the Northern Aegean: The Case of the Peraía of Samothrace
    Juliana Figueira da Hora
  3. Sparta and Its Frontiers: Military Defense and the Organization of Space
    Marcia Cristina Lacerda Ribeiro

Session E 01 (TUE, 8 JUL, 10:15)

‘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 E 02 (TUE, 8 JUL, 12:00)

‘COLONIAL’ ENCOUNTERS: RE-CONCEPTUALIZATIONS FROM THE ARCHAIC PERIOD TO POSTMODERNISM. SETTLERS AND NATIVES IN ANCIENT CONTEXTS (Part II)

  1. The Land Speaks: Making New Worlds in the Latin Literature of 17th-Century New France
    Zachary Yuzwa
  2. The Ideological Underpinnings of Ex Oriente Lux Thinking
    Franco De Angelis
  3. “Comment on écrit l’histoire”: Greeks in the Western Pontus and the Writing of Romanian History
    Dana Madalina

Session E 03 (TUE, 8 JUL, 14:30)

DIVINE SIGNS, OBJECTS, NATURE AND POLITICS IN ANTIQUITY

  1. The Ominous City
    Lovisa Brännstedt
  2. augur adest ensis. Neglected Omens and Failed Leadership in Flavian Epic
    Bernhard Söllradl
  3. Suetonius on Divine Signs
    Darja Šterbenc Erker

Session F 01 (TUE, 8 JUL, 10:15)

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 F 02 (TUE, 8 JUL, 12:00)

NAVIGATING NEW DIRECTIONS FOR CLASSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH

  1. Who Teaches Classics in the UK? An Analysis of Teacher Workforce Data
    Arlene Holmes-Henderson
  2. Co-ordinating a Major International Classics Education Research Collaboration: Lessons Learned
    Katarzyna Marciniak
  3. New directions in Classics teaching workshop

Session F 03 (TUE, 8 JUL, 14:30)

APPRENDRE LE GREC ET LE LATIN AUJOURD’HUI : ENTRE LEXIQUE, LECTURE ET ÉCRITURE DE PARAPHRASES ET LECTURE ET CRÉATION LITTÉRAIRES

  1. L’acquisition du lexique en grec ancien : histoire et perspectives numériques
    Malika Bastin-Hammou
  2. Des paraphrases pour mieux lire les textes
    Christophe Cusset
  3. De la lecture sensible de textes poétiques latins à la création littéraire au lycée
    Antje Kolde

Session G 01 (TUE, 8 JUL, 10:15)

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 G 02 (TUE, 8 JUL, 12:00)

NEW ANONYMOUS HEXAMETERS FROM OXYRHYNCHUS

  1. P.Oxy. inv. 18/8(c) (A.84): Hexameters on Troy and Odysseus?
    Marco Perale
  2. Student Hexameter Compositions
    Michael McOsker
  3. P.Oxy. inv. 10 1B.160/E(f): Draft of a Poem About the Underworld?
    Enrico Prodi

Session G 03 (TUE, 8 JUL, 14:30)

THE ILIAS LATINA AS A HELLENISTIC POEM

  1. Hellenisms and Complexity: On the Structure(s) of the Ilias Latina
    Christoph Schubert
  2. Making an Epyllion: Stylistic Considerations on the Aesthetic of Brevity
    Amandine Chlad
  3. A Significant Case Study: Alexandrian Elements in the Description of the Shield
    Maria Jennifer Falcone

Session H 01 (TUE, 8 JUL, 10:15)

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 H 02 (TUE, 8 JUL, 12:00)

RHETOR AND RHETORIC

  1. The Role of the Rhetor
    Mirhady David
  2. Isocrates’ Essentially Contested Rhetors
    Robert Sullivan
  3. PHTOPIKH Before Plato’s Gorgias
    Gaines Robert

Session H 03 (TUE, 8 JUL, 14:30)

RHETORIC AND ORATORY IN DIALOGUE

  1. Epideixis’ and ‘Epideictic’ in Gorgias, Plato and Aristotle – Problems and Anachronistic Approaches
    Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho
  2. Collective Honour and Individual Distinction in the Funeral Orations of Classical Athens
    Myrto Aloumpi
  3. Plato and the Critique of the Epitaphic Tradition
    Giombini Stefania

Session I 01 (TUE, 8 JUL, 10:15)

LISTS AND CATALOGUES IN GREEK AND INDO-EUROPEAN LITERATURE: COSMOLOGICAL, MYTHO-POETIC, 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 I 02 (TUE, 8 JUL, 12:00)

LISTS AND CATALOGUES IN GREEK AND INDO-EUROPEAN LITERATURE: COSMOLOGICAL, MYTHO-POETIC, ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND GNOSEOLOGICAL ASPECTS (Part II)

  1. Comparing Catalogues: Once Again on Pind. Pyth. 3.47–51
    Laura Massetti
  2. Catalogues and the Organisation of Knowledge in Archaic Greek Poetry
    Athanassios Vergados
  3. Early Irish Catalogic Material
    Christina Cleary

Session I 03 (TUE, 8 JUL, 14:30)

APOCALYPTIC THEMES IN EARLY IMPERIAL LITERATURE: THE CLASSICAL CANON AND BEYOND

  1. City-Destruction in the Sibylline Oracles
    Helen Van Noorden
  2. One Day of Destruction: A Cross-Cultural Study of an Ancient Apocalyptic Motif
    Christopher Star
  3. Narratives of Heavenly Ascent in Plutarch
    Katarzyna Jażdżewska

Session J 01 (TUE, 8 JUL, 10:15)

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

Session J 02 (TUE, 8 JUL, 12:00)

ANTI-NORMATIVE NARRATIVES OF ANCIENT WELLNESS AND ILLNESS

  1. Wellbeing in War: Achilles’ Withdrawal and Return to Battle in the Iliad
    Il-Kweon Sir
  2. Doing Wellness Wrong; Non-normative family and gender choices in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
    Cecily Bateman
  3. Lucian’s Podagra as anti-cure narrative: Pain
    Mar A. Rodda

Session J 03 (TUE, 8 JUL, 14:30)

LE BIBLIOTECHE PRIVATE A ROMA TRA POLITICA E IDENTITÀ CULTURALE: IL CASO CICERONE

  1. Le Biblioteche Private a Roma tra Politica e Identità Culturale
    Rosa Otranto
  2. La Bibliotheca Graeca di Cicerone
    Maria Stefania Montecalvo
  3. La Biblioteca Giuridica di Cicerone
    Maria di Martino

WEDNESDAY, 9 JULY 2025

Session A 04 (WED, 9 JUL, 10:15)

CONTRASTIVE SOCIO-PRAGMATIC STUDIES OF GREEK AND LATIN COMEDY

  1. Pragmatic Noise in Greek and Latin Comedy
    Łukasz Berger
  2. Introducing Requests: Alerters in Greek and Latin Comedy
    Luis Unceta Gómez
  3. Rare but Fair? A Socio-Pragmatic Account of Apologies in Greek and Latin Comedy
    Chiara Fedriani

Session A 05 (WED, 9 JUL, 12:00)

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 04 (WED, 9 JUL, 10:15)

L’ESEGESI PROSOPOLOGICA DEL SALTERIO

  1. Teodoro di Mopsuestia e l’approccio storico
    Ippolita Giannotta
  2. La prosopologia nel Commento ai Salmi di Teodoreto di Cirro
    Eva Tivelli
  3. La prosopologia nei tituli del Breviarium in Psalmos dello Pseudo-Gerolamo
    Marta Zinutti

Session B 05 (WED, 9 JUL, 12:00)

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 04 (WED, 9 JUL, 10:15)

INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES TO ROMAN POLITICAL HISTORY

  1. The Praetor’s Edict and Written Law in the Late Republic
    Clifford Ando
  2. Exceptions to the lex Cornelia annalis
    Robinson Baudry
  3. The Development of the Senate’s Powers in the Late Roman Republic
    Catherine Steel

Session C 05 (WED, 9 JUL, 12:00)

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 04 (WED, 9 JUL, 10:15)

THE COLLAPSES OF THE POLIS IN THUCYDIDES

  1. Ageing Athens in the Sicilian expedition
    Rachel Bruzzone
  2. Logoi and Erga in stasis: Thucydides on the death of persuasion
    Seth Nathan Jaffe
  3. Athens’ moral collapse? History versus tragic themes in Thucydides
    Robert Wallace

Session D 05 (WED, 9 JUL, 12:00)

THUCIDIDES 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 04 (WED, 9 JUL, 10:15)

GREEKS IN BACTRIA AND INDIA REVISITED (Part I)

  1. TBA
    Wojciech Sowa
  2. Of Which Before We Knew But Little. Empire, Borderlands, and the Ethnographic Invention of the Central Asian Barbarian
    Marco Ferrario
  3. Achaemenid and Hellenistic Impact on the Royal Hunts of the Mauryas – a Hypothesis
    Kacper Lepionka

Session E 05 (WED, 9 JUL, 12:00)

GREEKS IN BACTRIA AND INDIA REVISITED (Part II)

  1. El significado del elefante en las emisiones de los reyes grecobactrianos
    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 04 (WED, 9 JUL, 10:15)

NEW EXPERIENCES IN WORKING WITH THE CLASSICS: SCHOLARS GOING EXTRAMURAL

  1. Antiquity, Politics and Games: Learning About the Ancient World and the Theory of Forms of Government
    Priscilla Gontijo Leite
  2. Popularizing Classics: Reflections on Contributions From Polish Experiences
    Ilona Chruściak
  3. Mythology Teaching in Brazil: Selected Case Studies From Fundamental Education
    Marina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza

Session F 05 (WED, 9 JUL, 12:00)

(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 04 (WED, 9 JUL, 10:15)

POESIA SULLE STELLE E POTERE IMPERIALE

  1. Augusto nei Phaenomena di Germanico
    Fabrizio Feraco
  2. Un’astrologia al servizio dell’Impero: gli Astronomica di Manilio
    Matteo Rossetti
  3. Astrologia, poesia e politica alla corte di Giuliano Imperatore
    Nicola Zito

Session G 05 (WED, 9 JUL, 12:00)

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 ῎Ερως (Nonn. D. 7.110): Eros’ Arrows, Tradition, and Narrative in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca
    Katerina Carvounis

Session H 04 (WED, 9 JUL, 10:15)

ROMANS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ON THE RED SEA (Part I)

  1. Roman Soldiers and the Red Sea
    Conor Whately
  2. Cosmopolitan Port – Cultural and Religious Diversity: Berenike on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt Within a Broad Late Antique Context
    Iwona Zych
  3. Priscus of Panion and the Ethiopians
    Jan Prostko-Prostyński

Session H 05 (WED, 9 JUL, 12:00)

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 04 (WED, 9 JUL, 10:15)

ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: BRIDGING BOOK HISTORY AND CLASSICAL RECEPTION STUDIES

  1. Demosthenes in Action: Receptions of His Printed Work in Early Modern Europe
    Han Lamers, Natasha Constantinidou
  2. Lucian Reclaimed: Early Modern Receptions of Lucian’s Works Beyond the Alps
    Alexandros Theodoropoulos
  3. In gratiam studiosae iuventutis: Ancient Greek Literature, Philosophy, and Morality in the Sententiae Collections of Michael Neander and Johann Volland
    Eleni Leontidou

Session I 05 (WED, 9 JUL, 12:00)

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 04 (WED, 9 JUL, 10:15)

CICERO AND ROME: CITY, STATE, AND STATESMAN (Part I)

  1. Cicero: The Statesman and the Municipia
    Roman Roth
  2. The Role of Clientela in Cicero’s Exile and Recall
    Cesare Barba
  3. The Declamatory Tyrant in Cicero’s Pro Milone
    Meredith Huff

Session J 05 (WED, 9 JUL, 12:00)

CICERO AND ROME: CITY, STATE, AND STATESMAN (Part II)

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

THURSDAY, 10 JULY 2025



Session A 06 (THU, 10 JUL, 10:15)

ANIMALS AND INVECTIVE

  1. From Guarddog to Hellhound: Animal Invective in Aristophanes’ Comedies
    Babette Puetz
  2. Politics and Mockery in The Entertaining Tale of the Quadrupeds: Classical Themes in a Byzantine Setting and Their Long Durée
    Guendalina Daniela Maria Taietti

Session A 07 (THU, 10 JUL, 12:00)

ANIMALS AND INVECTIVE

  1. ‘The Sound of Violence’ – Heretics, Schismatics and the Sounds of Wild Animals in Early Christian Polemics in the Latin West
    Rafał Toczko
  2. Nature-based invective and ‘zoological’ imagery of Epiphanius of Salamis
    Sławomir Poloczek
  3. ‘Barking Now and Then Against God’: Dogs and Pigs in Late 4th- and 5th-Century Polemics Between Nicenes and Arians
    Marta Szada

Session A 08 (THU, 10 JUL, 14:30)

“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

Session B 06 (THU, 10 JUL, 10:15)

AULO GIANO PARRASIO, THE INTERPRETER OF CLASSICAL TEXTS

  1. The Philological Method of Parrasio
    Giancarlo Abbamonte
  2. The Repository of Parrasio’s Knowledge: His Library
    Rita Saviano
  3. Parrasio’s Commentaries on Latin Works
    Amalia Vanacore

Session B 07 (THU, 10 JUL, 12:00)

AULO GIANO PARRASIO (1470–1521): THE LAST SUCCESSFUL ITALIAN HUMANIST

  1. The Literary Interests of Aulo Giano Parrasio
    Fabio Stok
  2. Parrasio and the Printing of Classics
    Orsola Lorena Purcaro
  3. The Memory of Parrasio in the Sixteenth Century Cosenza
    Jessica Ottobre

Session B 08 (THU, 10 JUL, 14:30)

ERASMUS AND HIS RECEPTION IN LEXICOGRAPHY AND TEXTBOOKS ON RHETORIC IN THE 16TH CENTURY EUROPE

  1. Classical Greek Erudition in Elementa rhetoricae by German Humanist Joachim Camerarius the Elder (1500–1574)
    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

Session C 06 (THU, 10 JUL, 10:15)

QUANTITATIVE EPIGRAPHY AND HISTORY IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (Part I)

  1. Counting Inscriptions: Methodological Issues
    Anna Heller
  2. Epigraphic Curve and Universal History
    Krzysztof Nawotka
  3. Evaluating the Representativity of an Epigraphic Corpus: The Example of the Roman Imperial Domains in Asia Minor
    Alberto Dalla Rosa, Nathalie Prévôt

Session C 07 (THU, 10 JUL, 12:00)

QUANTITATIVE EPIGRAPHY AND HISTORY IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (Part II)

  1. Women and Men in Asia Minor in the Late Hellenistic and Imperial Periods: A Quantitative Survey
    Gabrielle Frija
  2. Ancient Greek Prosopography: Between Macro and Micro Approaches
    Karine Karila-Cohen
  3. Great Greek Sanctuaries and Epigraphic Culture
    Dominika Grzesik

Session C 08 (THU, 10 JUL, 14:30)

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

(Part IV in Session C 09 on Fri, 11 Jul.)

Session D 06 (THU, 10 JUL, 10:15)

NATURE IN THE HOME – THE USE OF THE GARDEN FOR DECORATION AND PRIVATE SPACE IN ANCIENT ROMAN HOUSES

  1. Sacred and Profaned Space — On Understanding Ancient Garden
    Roksana Maria Łajkosz
  2. Natural Beauty – Indoor Frescoes Depicting Gardens: Examples From Villa Livia, the Fruit Orchard House, and the Golden Bracelet House
    Aleksandra Knapik, Maria Frasunkiewicz
  3. Creatures of the River and the Sea
    Zuzanna Rybińska, Aleksandra Tęgowska

Session D 07 (THU, 10 JUL, 12:00)

CASE STUDIES ON SPATIAL PLANNING IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN

  1. Tel Dor, Its Urban Planning From Persian to Roman Times
    Maria Cristina N. Kormikiari
  2. Studies of the Urban Grid and Monetary Circulation in Roman Tel Dor
    Vagner Carvalheiro
  3. Strabo XIV, 6, the ἱερὰ of Cyprus
    Leonardo Fuduli

Session D 08 (THU, 10 JUL, 14:30)

ON 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

Session E 06 (THU, 10 JUL, 10:15)

NEGATION AND IRONY IN PLATO: PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY BETWEEN BEING AND NON-BEING

  1. Non-Being in the Prologues of Plato’s Sophist
    Allonzo Murríel Perez
  2. Irony as an Attribute of the Wise: Plato’s Apology of Socrates
    Arkadiusz Sobków

Session E 07 (THU, 10 JUL, 12:00)

PERSPECTIVES ON TRUTH IN HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY: EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, AND SEMANTICS

  1. Beyond Anachronism: Epicurus on Concepts and Conceptions
    Arianna Castelli
  2. What Worried Epicurus? Epicurus, Dummett and the Principle of Bivalence
    Leonardo Mazzanti
  3. The Stoic Account of Demonstratives’ Reference Failure
    Leonardo Chiocchetti

Session E 08 (THU, 10 JUL, 14:30)

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

Session F 06 (THU, 10 JUL, 10:15)

REVITALIZING CLASSICS IN MODERN EDUCATION

  1. Secondary School Teachers as Researchers
    Suzanne Adema
  2. The Teacher as Canon
    Bas Clercx
  3. Europa Ciceroniana
    Lidewij van Gils

Session F 07 (THU, 10 JUL, 12:00)

REVITALIZING CLASSICS IN MODERN EDUCATION

  1. Humanistic Aspects of Latin Medical Terminology and Their Didactic Use
    Petr Honč
  2. Connecting Curricula: Ten Steps Towards Successful Interdisciplinary Education in Gymnasia in the Netherlands
    Sandra M. Karten
  3. Pseudo-Philo of Byzantium’s Περὶ τῶν ἑπτὰ θεαμάτων and Its Use in Teaching Ancient Greek
    Jakub Kuciak

Session F 08 (THU, 10 JUL, 14:30)

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

Session G 06 (THU, 10 JUL, 10:15)

MUSAE IN TITULIS. LATIN LITERATURE IN INSCRIPTIONS, INSCRIBED LATIN LITERATURE

  1. Virgilio en Fortuna
    Marc Mayer Olivé
  2. Ut Cato vel Cicero: Literary Culture and Mentions of Popular Authors in Latin Epigraphic Poetry
    Víctor González Galera
  3. Ancient Values for Modern Times: Uses of Classical Verse Inscriptions in the Renaissance
    Alejandra Guzmán Almagro

Session G 07 (THU, 10 JUL, 12:00)

PARALLEL TRANSMISSIONS AND PHILOLOGICAL DIVERGENCES: THE TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF CATULLUS, TIBULLUS AND PROPERTIUS

  1. Alcune considerazioni su due codices recentiores di Catullo
    Letizia Brandani
  2. I grammatici tardoantichi come fonti sul testo di Tibullo
    Piergiuseppe Pandolfo
  3. La tradizione manoscritta di Properzio e la constitutio textus: nuove prospettive di studio
    Alfredo Mario Morelli

Session G 08 (THU, 10 JUL, 14:30)

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 and 5
    Dawn LaValle Norman
  3. All at Sea – Rhetoric and Poetics in the Opening of Prudentius’ Contra Symmachum 2
    Michael Hanaghan

Session H 06 (THU, 10 JUL, 10:15)

“EUREKA? INVENTION BEYOND GENIUS”

  1. Ancient Invention Narratives and the Role of Nature
    Henric Jansen
  2. Another One: Athenaeus and the Invention of a New Cup
    Friederike Brunzema
  3. Vere Ferreus: Inventing Weapons in Lucretius DRN and Tibullus 1.10
    Hylke de Boer

Session H 07 (THU, 10 JUL, 12:00)

THEOPHRASTUS TRANSMITTING AND THEOPHRASTUS TRANSMITTED

  1. Theophrastus on the Pre-Socratics: The Manuscript Tradition
    Dimitrija Rašljić
  2. Theophrastus Transmitting Empedocles: the Topic of Kinship
    Sandra Šćepanović
  3. From Theophrastus to Porphyry: Transmission and Variations in the Legends of Buphonia
    Isidora Tolić

Session H 08 (THU, 10 JUL, 14:30)

“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

Session I 06 (THU, 10 JUL, 10:15)

HYBRIDITY, TRANSFORMATION, AND HORROR IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD (Part I)

  1. Hybridity, Transformation, and Horror in the Graeco-Roman World: A Lexical and Semantic Focus
    Nadia Scippacercola
  2. Depictions of Fear and the Sublime – Locus horrendus in Roman Painting
    Catarina dos Santos Madeira
  3. The Messengers of Horror: Predatory Centaurs, Satyrs, and the Terror of Mythic Hybrids
    Joana Pinto Salvador Costa

Session I 07 (THU, 10 JUL, 12:00)

HYBRIDITY, TRANSFORMATION, AND HORROR IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD (Part II)

  1. Medusa and the Feminization of Horror
    Nuno Simões Rodrigues
  2. Metamorphosis and Hybridization in Seneca’s Medea
    Josefa Fernández Zambudio
  3. The Horror of the Chimaera: How and Why She Frightens
    Edmund P. Cueva

Session I 08 (THU, 10 JUL, 14:30)

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

Session J 06 (THU, 10 JUL, 10:15)

LAW AND RHETORIC IN ATHENIAN FORENSIC ORATORY

  1. Precedents Between Law and Rhetoric in Athenian Courts
    Roger Brock
  2. Legal Reality and Literary Fiction in Defences of Socrates
    Jakub Filonik
  3. Law and Rhetoric in Athenian Inheritance Disputes: The Structure of Isaeus’ Speeches
    Brenda Griffith-Williams

Session J 07 (THU, 10 JUL, 12:00)

LAW AND RHETORIC IN ATHENIAN FORENSIC ORATORY

  1. Rhetorical Deception in the Paragraphē-Speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus
    Christos Kremmydas
  2. Sentencing in Athenian Law and Rhetoric
    Janek Kucharski
  3. Axiology of Law in Antiphon’s Speeches: The Spirit of Law in Late Fifth-Century Athens
    Radosław Miśkiewicz

Session J 08 (THU, 10 JUL, 14:30)

LAW AND RHETORIC IN ATHENIAN FORENSIC ORATORY

  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

FRIDAY, 11 JULY 2025

Session A 09 (FRI, 11 JUL, 10:15)

DÉCRIRE ET THÉORISER LE LUXE À LA RENAISSANCE: GIOVANNI PONTANO (1429–1501) À NAPLES

  1. Luxe et mythologie : figures mythologiques et abondance dans la poésie pontanienne
    Florence Bistagne, Antonietta Iacono
  2. Le luxe comme expression de la vertu : influences stoïciennes et aristotéliciennes dans le De liberalitate de Giovanni Pontano
    Giovanna Coscone
  3. Le visage public du luxe : Giovanni Pontano et la vertu princière de la « magnificence »
    Gianluca del Noce

Session A 10 (FRI, 11 JUL, 12:00)

CHRISTIANIZING THE CLASSICAL EPIC: A STUDY OF LATIN HAGIOGRAPHICAL EPICS (10TH–15TH CENTURIES)

  1. Epic Virtue: Hrotsvitha’s Portrayal of Saint Agnes’ Martyrdom
    Krzysztof Bekieszczuk
  2. Transforming Hagiography Into a New Aeneid – Maffeo Vegio’s Antoniad
    Mariusz Plago
  3. The Vitae of Holy Men by Baptista Mantuanus as an Example of Christian Epic
    Elżbieta Górka

Session B 09 (FRI, 11 JUL, 10:15)

ORAL TRADITION AS A PICTURE OF THE ORAL CULTURE (Part I)

  1. Devious or Merely Developing? The Epic Poet and His Audience
    Ronald Blankenborg
  2. Transmission of the New Testament Text in the Light of the Research on Orality
    Sławomir Torbus

Session B 10 (FRI, 11 JUL, 12:00)

ORAL TRADITION AS A PICTURE OF THE ORAL CULTURE (Part II)

  1. Rhetoric at the Border of Oral and Textual Culture – Identity of Audiences in Political and Judicial Speech in 4th Century BC Athens
    Joanna Janik
  2. Why Is Homeric World in Fact Egalitarian?
    Karol Zieliński

Session C 09 (FRI, 11 JUL, 10:15)

QUANTITATIVE EPIGRAPHY AND HISTORY IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (Part IV)

  1. Religious Epigraphy of Palmyra and Dura-Europos: Semitic and Greek Traditions
    Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider
  2. Archaeological Sources and Their Use in Studies on Greek Epigraphic Culture
    Joanna Porucznik

Session C 10 (FRI, 11 JUL, 12:00)

SACRED MAKING IN THE ANCIENT GRECO-ROMAN WORLD

  1. Processing, Handling, Making: Material Transformation as a Crucial Aspect of Greek Religious Practice
    Katie Rask
  2. Temple Construction and Divine Presence in Statius’ Silvae 3.1
    Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Saskia Peels-Matthey
  3. Mortal Makers, Sacral Things: Representations of Sacred Making in Roman Visual Culture
    Jordan Rogers

Session D 09 (FRI, 11 JUL, 10:15)

GOSSIP ACROSS TIME AND CULTURES

  1. Gossip in Late Antique Fictional Epistolary Collections
    Sabira Hajdarević
  2. Medieval Last Wills and Testaments as a Source for Gossip
    Anita Bartulović
  3. Gossip in the Letters of Croatian Humanist Antun Vrančić
    Diana Sorić

Session D 10 (FRI, 11 JUL, 12:00)

THE MONUMENTA POLONIAE LITHUANIAEQUE LATINA (MPLL) PROJECT

  1. Monumenta Poloniae Lithuaniaeque Latina: History, aims, and scope
    Gościwit MalinowskI
  2. Eques polonus sum, Latīnē loquor: Prevalence of Latin in post‐medieval Poland
    Jan Oko

Session E 09 (FRI, 11 JUL, 10:15)

EARLY ROMAN METRE: INTERPRETATION AND RECEPTION

  1. Saturnian Variations: Linear Analysis and Rhythmus
    Domenico Giordani
  2. Stat sententia, sed metrum incertum: Metrical and Prosodic Licenses in the Fragments of Roman Poetry
    Vincent Graf
  3. Metre, Method and the Record of Early Roman Poetry
    Jackie Elliott

Session E 10 (FRI, 11 JUL, 12:00)

DEATH OF THE POET

  1. Dead Poets Society: Mortality and Immortality in Aulus Gellius’ Attic Nights
    Katarzyna Ochman
  2. The Double Drowning of Menander: Vita Terenti 5 and the Early Roman Literary Canon
    Katarzyna Pietruczuk
  3. The Death of Euripides and the Pattern of Poetic Sparagmos: a Study in Biographical Fiction
    Camila de Moura

Session F 09 (FRI, 11 JUL, 10:15)

OPUSCULA MEDIAEVALIA (Part I)

  1. Competing with local scientist; 14th-century physician Thomas of Wrocław’s innovative approach to medieval medicine discussed on selected passages from his works
    Karolina Szula
  2. El pájaro onocrotalus en la obra exegética de Erico de Auxerre (841-876)
    Łukasz Krzyszczuk
  3. Inschriften auf mittelalterlichen Siegeln von Pfarrern schlesischer Pfarrkirchen – Inhalt und Funktionen
    Jagna Rita Sobel

Session F 10 (FRI, 11 JUL, 12:00)

OPUSCULA MEDIAEVALIA (Part II)

  1. The role of the Manuscript fragments in research on the oldest history of the book in Poland
    Marcin Starzyński
  2. Thomas of Wrocław (1297-1378) and his Collectorium secundum alphabetum (1360)
    Peter Murray Jones

Session G 09 (FRI, 11 JUL, 10:15)

TRANSLATING STOBAIOS. NEW TRANSLATION AND DIRECTIONS OF STUDY (Part I)

  1. Turning Point: New Directions in the Study of Stobaios
    Krzysztof Bielawski
  2. Searching for Stobaios in the Second Book of Eclogae
    Matylda Amat Obryk
  3. Apophthegmatic Fragments (Eclogues) in Books III and IV of Stobaios’ Anthology
    Jakub Kuciak

Session G 10 (FRI, 11 JUL, 12:00)

TRANSLATING STOBAIOS. NEW TRANSLATION AND DIRECTIONS OF STUDY (Part II)

  1. Intellectual History of Late Antiquity as Reflected in Stob. 1.49 – On the Soul
    Mateusz Kula
  2. Atheistic Poet on Greek Piety and Customs in Stobaios
    Bartłomiej Dudek
  3. (Re)Creating Canons: The Poetic Passages in Book III of Stobaios and the Literary Canon(s) of Antiquity
    Aleksandra Klęczar

Session H 09 (FRI, 11 JUL, 10:15)

THE UNDERWORLD AS A CROSSROAD: NARRATIVE, MYTH, AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE (Part I)

  1. Phantom Limbs: Bodies in Homer’s Underworld
    Rebecca Laemmle
  2. Beyond Belief: Underworld as Narrative ‘Technique’
    Karolina Sekita
  3. Insular Mentalities and the Isles of the Blessed: Lucian on the Edge of the Underworld
    Tim Whitmarsh

Session H 10 (FRI, 11 JUL, 12:00)

THE UNDERWORLD AS A CROSSROAD: NARRATIVE, MYTH, AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE (Part II)

  1. The Underworlds of Trophonios
    Renaud Gagné
  2. A Handful of Dust? Satan and Hades in the Epic Underworld
    Emma Greensmith
  3. Disrupting Hades: (Re)Organising the Underworld in the Poem of the Sinai Palimpsest
    Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui

POSTERS

  1. RIDERS. Equestrian Officers as an Innovative Tool for Developing a Middle-out Approach to Roman Imperial EliteS (1st–3rd c. CE)
    Tiziana Carboni
  2. Aristu vel Aristoteles apud Arabes, somnium æternum quoddam
    François Cerruti-Torossian
  3. Towards the ornamenta decurionalia and Their Beneficiaries
    Alberto Barrón Ruiz de la Cuesta
  4. Characters’ Variation in Plautus and Terence. Preliminaries for Sociolinguistic Studies of Archaic Latin
    Monika Kluskiewicz
  5. Los autores clásicos en la Methodus oratoria de Andreu Sempere
    Luis Pomer Monferrer
  6. Defining Disability in the Justinianic Legal Writings
    Lenka Skoupá
  7. Body Parts in The Iliad (Uses and Functions)
    Tamar Sukhishvili
  8. Transformation of Mythological Personages Into Literary Characters in Nonnian Dionysiaca
    Maria Uvarova
  9. P. V. Maronis Bucolicon Liber: Visible Design
    John van Sickle
  10. The Latin Verses of Charles Baudelaire
    Karol Wapniarski
  11. The Greek Poems of John Milton
    Karol Wapniarski