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Matthew Naglak, University of Michigan
**You’ve Got a Friend in Me: The Principles of De Amicitia in Cicero’s Philippics
Bart Van Wassenhove, University of Chicago
**Friendship, admonition and moral rhetoric in Seneca’s Consolations
Adrian Brändli, University of Oxford, Lincoln College
**Ambrose of Milan and the limits of Christian friendship
Matthew Watton, University of Western Ontario
**Friendship, Pleasure, and Poetry in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura
Jan Maximilian Robitzsch, University of Pennsylvania
Rachel Lesser, University of California, Berkeley
Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi, University of Cambridge
**Sexlessful Lover: A Radical Reappraisal of Diotima’s Speech