As of  May 28, 2025

James Aglio
Homeric Formulas and the Verbs of the Iliad
First Reader: Scully

Griffin Budde
Anticipatory Aesthetics: Homer’s Epithets, with Input from Neuroscience.
First Reader: Scully

Damon Hatheway
Xenophon’s Odysseus: Homer’s Fourth Century Nostos
First Reader: Nelson

Colin Lacey
Gods and Quasi-gods in Aristophanes
First Reader: Nelson

Phillip Levine
I Speak a Twofold Tale: Empedokles and the Poetics of Technē
First Reader: Nelson

Joseph Watkins
Defilers of Delphi / Rivals of Rome: Greek and Roman Constructions of “Gallic” Ethnicity
First Reader: Várhelyi