Annual Conference

Session 1
Chair: Jason Nethercut, University of South Florida
“Defining Engagements: Approaching Genre in the Theognidea”   
Lawrence Kowerski, Hunter College  
 
“The use of aphorism in Heraclitus and Epicurus: two opposite models?”  
Ignacio García Peña, University of Salamanca 

Session 2
Chair: Stephen Lasse, University of South Florida  
“Tragedy and Horror in Euripides’s Medea”
Craig Jendza, Denison University,    
  
“The ‘Fabula Anilis’ for the Dead: Women and Imparted Knowledge of the Underworld” 
Stephen Fodroczi, Cornell University 
 

Session 3
Chair: Lillian King Abadal, University of South Florida
“Self-Knowledge in Tragedy, Comedy, Philosophy” 
Andrew Payne, St. Joseph’s University, 
 
“The Nature of Beauty Between Sappho and Plato” 
Jonathan Fine, Georgetown University

Session 4
Chair: Madeline Martin-Seaver, University of South Florida
“A Dialogue within a Dialogue: The Many Purposes of Plato’s Frames”  
Cara Cummings, Morgan State University 
 
“Persuasion and Justice in the Afterlife Myths of the Phaedo and the Gorgias” 
Nicholas Baima, Florida Atlantic University 

Session 5
Chair: Jessica Williams, University of South Florida
“Comic Sense and Tragic Sensibility in Plato’s Philebus”  
Kevin Kambo, University of Dallas  
  
“Multivalence and Candor in Plato’s Menexenus” 
Alfredo Watkins, Duke University 

Session 6
Chair: Jackson Garcia, University of South Florida
“The Four Causes of Tragedy”   
Benjamin Koons, University of St. Thomas 
  
“Probability and Necessity in Aristotle’s Physics”   
Eugene Garver, St. John’s University/ University of Texas

Session 7
Chair: Clinton Kinkade, University of South Florida
“Generic Cognition in Post-Hellenistic Rhetoric: ps.-Demetrius, Dionysius, and Hermogenes”  
Henry Bowles, University of Oxford 
 
“Poets and Pedagogues: A Comparison of Homeric Epimerisms”  
Arshy Azizi, University of Chicago

General Discussion & Farewell