UW grad student and faculty member win LCC and WCC prizes!

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Members of the University of Washington 海角网 department received multiple awards at this year鈥檚 SCS/AIA meeting. Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld won the Lambda Classical Caucus Graduate Student Paper Award for a paper on 鈥Aspasia, Cratinus and Hesiod Walk into a Bar...: Marital Invective in Cratinus鈥檚 Cheirons,鈥 delivered at the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest conference in March 2018. In a close reading of Cratinus fr. 259 K-A, SBB argues that the comic playwright, playing with imagery from Hesiod, levels an attack on Aspasia鈥檚 marital status in light of Pericles鈥 citizenship law of 451/0 BCE. Prof. Ruby Blondell, in turn, was the recipient of the Women鈥檚 Classical Caucus Leadership Award, given by the WCC to an individual for an outstanding contribution in encouraging women to enter and remain in the field of 海角网. As one of Ruby鈥檚 former students said: 鈥淭hank you, Ruby, for setting such a high bar with your scholarly rigor, personal integrity, and your inimitable individual flair. We may or may not meet that bar, but we鈥檒l have a lot of fun trying.鈥 Congratulations to both SBB and Ruby!