Call for Papers: Stranger Things: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Marvels in the Ancient World

Graduate Student Conference University of Pennsylvania May 18, 2018 Keynote Speaker: Professor Courtney Ann Roby (Cornell University) The literatures and material cultures of the ancient Mediterranean world manifest an abiding interest in wonder and the wondrous, often described with such marked vocabulary as θαῦμα, ἄπιστος, and παράδοξος, on the Greek side, and mirabile, miraculum, and monstrum, on the Latin side. As early as the Homeric epics, we find a fascination in the emotional efficacy..