Eta Sigma Phi Sponsors Panel at the Classical Association of Atlantic States

By Katherine Panagakos on September 13, 2026.

Eta Sigma Phi sponsors an undergraduate panel at the upcoming Classical Association of Atlantic States.

October 8-10, 2026 • Hotel Du Pont – Wilmington, Delaware

ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM 

Saturday October 10, 2026, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Paper Session 16

Eta Sigma Phi Sponsored Undergraduate Session

Presider: Katherine Panagakos (Stockton University)

•  The Role of Nausicaa in Homer’s Odyssey: A New Approach

Madison Grohman (Stockton University; mentor: )

•  Reading the Cyclops Painter’s Namesake Vase as Depicting a Messenger Speech

Kate Stout (University of Rochester; mentor: )

•  Ostia, Portus, and Labor-Based Identity in Roman Ports

Marcus Beardsley (Cornell University; mentor: Lauren Petersen, University of Delaware)

•  Res Gestae Divi Augusti: Political Literacy and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus

Julia Prendergast (Villa Nova University; mentor:)

•  Reading Lavinia as an Addressee of Heroides 7

          Jasper Chen (Columbia University; mentor: Gareth Williams, Columbia University)