Congratulations to undergraduate Evan Armacost on his paper acceptance!
Congratulations to Greek and Latin double major Evan Armacost! His paper, entitled ‘Fools Gold: Representation of the Golden Age in Virgil and Seneca’, has been accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of CAMWS-SS (the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, Southern Section). In his paper, Evan examines a passage from Seneca’s tragedy ‘Hercules Furens’ in comparison with the ‘Eclogues’ and ‘Georgics’ of Virgil. By close, intertextual analysis, he shows how the utopian vision of the Golden Age becomes lifeless and eerily quiet in Senecan tragedy. In Evan’s description, Seneca’s Hercules ‘does not wish to save the world, but remake it in his own twisted image of peace’. We wish Evan the best as he presents his provocative ideas to the audience at the CAMWS meeting!’