Students from Union, Hamilton, Skidmore, and 澳门六合彩 gathered on campus recently to share their research in the at the eighth-annual Parilia undergraduate conference.
Alan Dowling 鈥15, Shitong Kang 鈥14, and 鈥14 represented 澳门六合彩 at the all-day conference designed to bring together some of the finest classics research.
Dowling鈥檚 paper, 鈥淩endering Classics in the Visualization Laboratory,鈥 examines the marriage of technology with the study of history and literature, specifically the work that went into producing 鈥淢urder on the Ides,鈥 now playing in the Ho Tung Visualization Lab.
Kang鈥檚 paper, 鈥淩evisiting the Temple of Jupiter and its New Position on the Capitoline Hill,鈥 is a study of the Temple of Jupiter as the religious center of Rome, and how environmental archaeology improved modern understanding of the structure.
Li鈥檚 paper, 鈥淧lato Goes to China: Participles, Ontology, and Chinese Translations of Euthyphro 10a-11b,鈥 is concerned with the Chinese translation of Plato鈥檚 Euthyphro, one of his dialogues, with a larger goal of testing hypotheses on the relationship between language and thought. Li examined seven Chinese translations, dating back to 1932, comparing them with the Greek text and how they deal with Greek participles.