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Thursday, January 3, 2013

8:00 p.m.

10:00 p.m.

Session 1: Pathways to the Program (organized by the SCS Program Committee)

Friday, January 4, 2013

First Paper Session

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 2: Myth and History in Early Imperial Latin Poetry

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 3: Ideology, Dramaturgy, and Textuality in Greek Tragedy

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 4: Thematics and Narratology of Greek Historiography

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 5: Problems in Greek and Roman Economic History

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 6: New Adventures in Greek Pedagogy

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 7: Islamic and Arabic Receptions of Classical Literature (organized by the SCS Committee on Classical Tradition and Reception)

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 8: Roman Comedy in Performance (Workshop)

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 9: Going Green: The Emergence of Bucolic in Augustan Rome

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 10: Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Early Byzantine Egypt (organized by the American Society of Papyrologists)

8:30 a.m.

11:30 a.m.

Session 11: The Cultural Dynamics of Ancient Empires (Seminar)

Second Paper Session

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 12: Seneca, Thyestes: Ethics, Theatricality, and the Passions

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 13: Classical Presences in Modern and Contemporary Music, Cinema, and Poetry

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 14: Rhetoric in Cicero and the Ciceronian Tradition

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 15: Technologies of Time and Memory

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 16: Appearance and Reality in the Ancient Novelistic Discourse

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 17: Themes of Roman Historiography

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 18: Literary Theory in Graduate and Undergraduate Classics Curricula (organized by the SCS Education Committee)

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 19: The Discourse of Marriage in Hellenistic and Imperial Literature (organized by the International Plutarch Society)

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 20: Current Research in Neo-Latin Studies (organized by the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies)

Third Paper Session

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 21: Technical and Symbolic Language in Ancient Philosophy

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 22: Pindar's Thoughtworld

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 23: Canon Formation and Intellectual History

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 24: Problems in Greek Legal History

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 25: Eros and Generic Enrichment

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 26: Bodies in Motion: Contemporary Approaches to Choral Performance (organized by the SCS Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance)

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 27: Binding Spells Abound: New Tools for the Comprehensive Study of Graeco-Roman Curse Tablets (Workshop)

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 28: Campanian Cultures: Poetics, Location, and Identity

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 29: Letters in Late Antiquity (organized by the Society for Late Antiquity)

1:30 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

Session 30: Historiography, Poetry, and the Intertext (Seminar)

4:30 p.m.

6:30 p.m.

PRESIDENTIAL PANEL: Comic Dimensions of Greek Myth

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Fourth Paper Session

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 31: Stagecraft and Dramaturgy of Greek Tragedy

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 32: Language and Memory in Thucydides and his Reception

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 33: Unruly Satire from Horace to Spenser

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 34: Myth and Mythography in Roman Poetry

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 35: Attica beyond Athens: The Athenian Countryside in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods (Joint SCS/AIA Panel)

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 36: Classical Tradition in Brazil: Translation, Rewriting, and Reception

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 37: Re(imagining) Caesar (organized by the American Classical League)

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 38: Transgressive Spaces in Classical Antiquity (organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus)

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Session 39: Ancient Greek Philosophy (organized by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy)

8:30 a.m.

11:30 a.m.

Session 40: Religion and Violence in Late Roman North Africa (Seminar)

Fifth Paper Session

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 41: Some Late Antique Vergils

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 42: Gender and Civic Identity

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 43: Alexander and the Hellenistic World

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 44: Claiming Troy: Receptions of Homer in Imperial Greek Literature

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 45: Authors Meet Critics: Pushing the Geographical Boundaries of Classics (organized by the SCS Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups)

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 46: Truth Value and the Value of Truth in Roman Historiography

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 47: From Temple Banks to Patron Gods: Religion, Economy, and the Investigation of Ancient Mediterranean Ritual (organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions)

11:15 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

Session 48: Greek and Latin Linguistics (organized by the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Languages and Linguistics)

11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. Joint APA/AIA Roundtable Discussion Session

Sixth Paper Session

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 49: Triumviral and Imperial Roman History

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 50: Horatian Metapoetics

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 51: Plato and Platonism

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 52: Paratragedy, Paracomedy, Tragicomedy

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 53: Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (organized by the SCS Outreach Committee)

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 54: Alternative Employment for Ph.D.s and Advanced Graduate Students in Classical Studies/Archaeology (organized by the SCS/AIA Placement Committee)

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 55: Reacting to Athens, 403 BC: Historical Simulation in the Classroom (Workshop)

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 56: Vergil’s Detractors, Grammarians, Commentators, and Biographers: The First Fifteen Hundred Years (organized by the Vergilian Society of America)

1:30 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

Session 57: Poetry on Stone: Verse Inscriptions in the Greco-Roman World (organized by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy)

1:30 p.m.

4:30 p.m.

Session 58: Intellectual Culture in the Third Century CE: Philosophy, Religion, and Rhetoric between the Second and Third Sophistic (Seminar)

4:30 p.m.

6:15 p.m.

Plenary Session featuring Presidential Address: A Brief History of Athenian Political Comedy (ca. 440 - ca. 300)

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Seventh Paper Session

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 59: Late Antique Literary Culture: Rome, Byzantium, and Beyond

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 60: Problems of Flavian Poetics

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 61: Greek Myth, Ritual, and Religion

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 62: Teaching History and Classics with Inscriptions (organized by the SCS Ancient History Committee)

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 63: Teaching Classical Reception Studies (Workshop)

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 64: Sexual Labor in the Ancient World (organized by the Women’s Classical Caucus)

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 65: The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students (organized by Eta Sigma Phi)

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 66: Medical Humors and Classical Culture: Blood (organized by the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacy)

8:00 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Session 67: Coins and History (organized by the Friends of Numismatics)

10:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

Business Meeting of Members

Eighth Paper Session

11:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

Session 68: Metaphor from Homer to Seneca

11:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

Session 69: Selected Exostructures of Hellenistic Epigram

11:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

Session 70: Catullan Identities, Ancient and Modern

11:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

Session 71: Political Maneuvering in Republican Roman History

11:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

Session 72: Language and Meter

11:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

Session 73: (Dis)Continuities in the Texts of Lucian

11:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

Session 74: Latin Translations in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (organized by the Medieval Latin Studies Group)

11:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

Session 75: The Literary and Philosophical Dimensions of Allegory in Neoplatonic Discourse (organized by the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies)

11:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

Session 76: Ancient and Modern: Selected Papers from the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association