The MCA’s Conference of Contemporary Research in Classics series is dedicated to showcasing ongoing or recently completed research in any field of Classics study, with a particular emphasis on the work of postgraduate students and early career scholars from around the world. The April 2025 Conference took place online between Thursday 24th and Saturday 26th April following the below programme.
Thursday 24th
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Tackling the Crises in Classics and the Humanities
George Connor, Working Classicists
The Narrative of the Legio Linteata in Livy and Samnite Elites during the Social War: the Many Adaptations of a Myth.
Lorenzo Serino
The Rise and Fall of Family and Female Potential in Plutarch’s Life of Caesar
Lien Van Geel
Friday 25th
Reception of Ancient Myths in Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne
Nana Mukeria
The Image and Portrayal of Zeus in The Lightning Thief
Ilona Lőrincz
Another New Example of “Mythological Pairs” – The Representation of the Myth of Odysseus and Polyphemus in Caucasian Folklore
Giorgi Barnabishvili
Judeo-Christian Eschatology and Late Antique Mystery Praxis
Prof. Eugene Afonasin
Empedocles’ Love and Strife: should we regard them as manifestations of good and evil beginnings?
Dr Anna Afonasina
Saturday 26th – Morning Session
Hecuba in Sri Lanka: A Study of Kamala Wijeratne’s Poems on Motherhood and Warfare
Dr Anushka Dhanapala
A Feminist Rereading of Desire in the Odyssey’s Calypso Episode
Alexandra Meghji
Greek Religion(s) in Miletus and its Aegean Colonies: a New Perspective
Iulia Petrariu
The Preposition ΣΥΝ in Plutarch’s Moralia
Dr Adamantia Katsoula
“Silent” Seduction in Aristaenetus’ Erotic Letters
Prof Sabira Hajdarević
Hecuba’s Social Responsibility: Euripides’ Hecuba between Sophistic and Platonic Thought
Valentino Gargano
The Mirror of Guilt: Theseus’ Projection of Moral Failure onto Hippolytus
Angela Hurley
Non-verbal Communication in Aristophanes’ Frogs
Marino Marinović, Ivana Šimić
Saturday 26th – Afternoon Session
Plato and Saussure On the Correctness of Names
Beka Gkelasvili
What did medieval historiography take from Antiquity? The case of the Lithuanian Chronicles
Dr Vytas Januskas