Images of the Underworld from Dante to Disney; presented by Andrea Stehle, author and Latin teacher at Basis Schools of San Antonio, Texas. “The mysterious and magical realm known as the Underworld has inspired poets and painters for millennia. This presentation will explore images of Hades, Cerberus, Orpheus and more, from Dante’s ‘Inferno’ to modern depictions in books and film.”
Sappho’s Luminosity; presented by Zachary Borst, Classics doctoral candidate at UCLA. “My approach to light offers us another way of thinking about how temporality and memory are represented in Sappho. I argue in my paper that Sappho’s depiction of the visual qualities of light throughout her corpus may help us understand, for example, why Hades can both be represented as dark and visible, and how her desire to see illuminates the darkness of Hades and brings it to life. Similarly, recent work on temporality in film and photography has focused on what light makes visible and how it captures aspects of time.
The Lure of Lyra: An ACL Tribute and Centennial Star Presentation; presented by Katie Robinson and with remarks by Dr. Mary Pendergraft, American Classical League President and Professor and Chair of Classical Languages at Wake Forest University, North Carolina.
