Classical Studies Colloquium 2025
In the context of ancient Eurasia and the Mediterranean world, the Greeks and Romans had frequent contact with peoples whom they viewed as alien or foreign to themselves, describing them individually and collectively as “barbarians” (βάρβαροι, barbari). Sometimes these encounters were hostile and violent and sometimes abusive and exploitative, but at other times they were friendly and collaborative. Greek and Roman attitudes toward other peoples likewise ran the gamut from contempt and suspicion to respect and admiration. All of these encounters left their mark on the Greeks and Romans and helped to shape both who they were and who they thought they were (or should be). Encounters with foreign peoples affected every aspect of Greek and Roman culture.
Colloquium Schedule:
FIRST SESSION, Tuesday April 29, 11:00 am - 12:20 pm, Tucker 127a
Maia Tindall - Sacred Struggles: Hero Cults and the Shaping of Panhellenic Space
Hailey Bowman - Ethnicity and Treatment of Public and Private Slaves in Athens
Audrey Marks – Hellenization and Hybridization of Indigenous Sicily
Lorelei Peterson - Killing the Sacred Child: Chosen Ones and Human Sacrifice
Caro Lipsitz – The Mythos of the DC Amazons: Gods and Heroes of Antiquity in the Modern World
Alexa Pargoe - Chariton’s Dionysius: Greek Identity under Roman Imperial Rule
SECOND SESSION, Thursday May 1, 11:00 am - 12:20 pm, Tucker 127a
Alexandra Mendelsohn – Long Distance: Love and Foreign Identity in Medea’s Mythology
Grace Kirk - The Adaptation of the Isiac Cult in Greece and Rome
Julia Dunn - From Byzantium to Islam: Textiles of Cultural Transitions
Linnea Mason – Hannibal Barca: The Roman Barbarian
Elissa Press – The Symbol of the Menorah: The Typology of Resistance
Sarah Long - Ancient Women as Actors in the Legal Systems of Arabia Petraea: Evidence from the Babatha Archive