{"id":513,"date":"2017-12-12T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/?p=513"},"modified":"2017-12-12T18:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T18:02:37","slug":"classics-seniors-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/2017\/12\/12\/classics-seniors-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Classics Seniors Presentations!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On December 5th and 7th 2017, the senior Classics majors presented the projects that they’ve been working on this fall semester.<\/p>\n

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Dylan Ingram, who’s also a Math major, talked about a project that he’ll be pursuing further next semester about how the ancient Greek language changed over the course of time. He’s particularly interested in how the contact between the cultures of Greece, Egypt, and Rome and their languages of Greek, Coptic, demotic, and Latin during the Hellenistic period changed the Greek language.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Katilin Breen presented her project about how religion was practiced during the Roman Empire by the people living in Akko, Israel. Katelyn was inspired by her work at the summer excavations there run by our own Dr. Risser. Because Akko is situated on the coast of Israel, the people living in that region had contact with a variety of nations in the Mediterranean, including the nearby Phoenicians. When the Romans conquered Akko, they overlaid their own religious practices onto the native ones already present.<\/p>\n

A double major in Economic and Classics, Tristan McConnell discussed his project on some\"\"<\/a> contentious issues surrounding Alexander the Great. Tristan has focused particularly on the so-called “brotherhood of mankind” theory that holds that Alexander was genuinely interested in unifying the cultures that he conquered. Another area of interest for Tristan’s project is Alexander’s relationship with his Persian subjects and his adopting of Persian customs. Did Alexander do these things with “noble or selfish intentions”?\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kelcie Finn continued the Alexander thread with her research into the relationship between the Macedonian leader and Hephaistion, one of his generals and a friend from childhood. Kelcie argued that Alexander and Hephaistion had an intimate relationship from comments made by the ancient historians Arrian and Diodorus of Sicily as well as the parallel with Achilles and Patroclus in Homer’s Iliad<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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A pre-med student, Sophie Akoundi presented the first half of her year-long thesis project, “An Introduction to Ancient Greek Gynecology.” She’s looking at three ancient sources that discuss women in ancient Greece: the epic poet Hesiod and the medical writers Hippocrates and Soranus.<\/p>\n

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The long reception history of Sappho was at the\"\"<\/a> center of Caroline Manns\u2019 presentation \u201cImagining Sappho: a Reception History.\u201d Unsurprisingly for a project focusing on a female poet of the Greek island of Lesbos, Caroline is a Classics and Gender Studies double major. She covered the different receptions and resulting re-interpretations of Sappho by the Christian church (a prostitute), by the Italian Renaissance (an unhappy woman), German scholars in the nineteenth century (schoolmistress), and contemporary thinkers (a lesbian).<\/p>\n

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Claudia Garrote, a History and Classics double major, presented on her project, \u201cOlive Oil Trade in the Roman Empire.\u201d She explained how the olive oil trade between the Roman province of Hispania (modern Spain) and the Roman Empire functioned through factors like Rome\u2019s location, the emperor\u00a0 Augustus\u2019 fiscal changes, and military demand for the oil.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Classics major on the history track, Winston Brewer was inspired to take up his project \u201cThe Roman Gentleman.\u201d His presentation defined the elements of a \u201cproper\u201d Roman man in antiquity: his family, class, his dress style (with the ever-popular toga<\/em>), and the quality of virtus<\/em> (\u201cexcellence\u201d; literally \u201cthe quality of being a vir<\/em> [man].\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\u201cUnderstanding Roman Reverence for Greek Education During the Middle Republic\u201d was the subject of Andy Rosenblatt\u2019s presentation. Andy discussed how Roman education changed via contact with Greek culture when the Romans conquered Greece in the first century BCE. He argued that, despite the sometimes too-large place that ancient Rome has in our collective imaginations, it \u201cowes a significant debt to the Greeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lydia Herndon presented the first part of her two-semester project on \u201cPagan Paideia<\/em> and\"\"<\/a> Christian Culture in the 4th<\/sup> century.\u201d Paideia<\/em>, the Greek word for \u201ceducation,\u201d was seen as an important tool for the construction of identity as well as for addressing the Roman emperor, and many early Christian writers and thinkers were teachers of rhetoric. As Lydia pointed out, however, some Christians were concerned about the non-Christian aspects of that system, and this tension is important for our understanding of the period.<\/p>\n

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A comparison between Ernest Hemingway\u2019s novel A Farewell to Arms<\/em> and Virgil\u2019s epic poem the Aeneid<\/em>, Will Verdeur\u2019s presentation was entitled, \u201cSpears & Rifles: War in the Work of Vergil and Hemingway.\u201d In addition to Hemingway\u2019s statement that Vergil was one of \u201cforebears\u201d, Will talked about the \u201cmoral ambiguity of war\u201d n both works, comparing the atrocities in the city of Troy in Aeneid Book 2 to war-time atrocities in the Italy of Hemingway\u2019s novel. We\u2019re excited to hear more about this project when it moves into its next phase in the spring, with a comparison of Hemingway\u2019s For Whom the Bell Tolls <\/em>to Vergil.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to all of the Classics seniors who presented on jobs well done!<\/p>\n

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