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Profanum Vulgus: Representations of the Everyday in the Ancient World
Graduate Student Conference
Ph.D. Program in Classics
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York City
Saturday, April 12, 2008

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Augers, Gimlets, Weavers and Cheese Graters: Repetition Figures, Arts and Crafts, and Everyday Implements in Greek Epic
Todd Christopher Clary, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

The All-Purpose Amphora: Embodying Sympotic Pleasure in Attic Vase Painting
Helene A. Coccagna, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

A Perfectly Ordinary Journey: Horace Satires 1.5, Lucilius’ Iter Siculum, and the Vicarello Cups
Jennifer Ferriss, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

The Philosopher and the Occupatus: The Dialectic of Property in Seneca’s Epistuale Morales
Tommaso Gazzarri, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Citizen–Soldier Violence and Military Tribunals: A Critique of Administration and Militarization in Juvenal Satire 16
Kyle Johnson, New York University, New York, NY

Archaeological and Literary Evidence for Millers and Bakers in the Italian Peninsula
Lorraine E. Knop, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Satius Otiosum Esse: “Everyday” Anti-Satire in Pliny’s Epistulae
John Oksanish, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Leaping Lots: Inheritance in the Homeric Epics
Lochlan Shelfer, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Daily Aphrodite
Sarit Stern, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Humble Dietetics
Monika Urbanski, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

The Satirist’s ‘Rome’: Umbricius’ Vision in Juvenal’s 3rd Satire
Sara Watkins, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Depictions of Architecture on the Column of Trajan
Elizabeth Wolfram, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Questions about the conference may be addressed to Alissa Vaillancourt or Michael Broder.

Cosponsors include the Classical and Ancient Near East Studies Group and the Doctoral Students Council.

Organizing Committee includes Michael Broder, Rachael Goldman, Paul McBreen, Cameron Pearson, Jared Simard, Alan Sumler, Alissa Vaillancourt.