Venereal Disease and the Ox-Eyed Goddess: Valerius Flaccus’s Venus and Juno as Vergilian Vectors of Disease
By Darcy Krasne
This paper examines the parallelism, in Valerius’s Argonautica, of the pairs Venus and Fama (Lemnos episode, Bk.2) and Juno and Tisiphone (Io-epyllion, Bk.4), and the connecting bridge of Juno and Dryope (Hylas episode, Bk.3). I argue that Valerius intensifies the disease element of the traditional equation between love, disease, and madness—so vividly depicted in Vergil’s Aeneid—by repeatedly drawing on the actual plague in Georgics 3, as well as other plague episodes from pre- and post-Vergilian literature, for language and imagery.
The Erotics of Anacreontea 1
By James Jope
This paper examines the erotic subtext of Anacreontea 1 and its literary and social implications.
Athens on Mount Olympus: portraying gods in Aristophanes’ Birds
By Francesco Morosi
A paradoxical travel to another dimension, Birds is one of Aristophanes’ most enigmatic comedies: it stands out as the only surviving Aristophanic comedy that bears no evident connection with the life of the polis. But this does not mean that in shaping his Cloudcuckooland Aristophanes did not keep Greek reality in mind.
Annual Meeting Paper Registration (2017)
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Visions Of Ancient Cities, Sanctuaries And Landscapes In The Literature, And In Art And Coinage (AFG-2017)
Sponsored by the Friends of Numismatics
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Organizer
Submitting Proposals and Abstracts to the SCS Program Committee
SCS members in good standing may now submit proposals and individual abstracts to the SCS Program Committee for review at its meeting in June. Before you make a submission, please read these descriptions of the types of sessions held at the meeting. This document also contains detailed lists of the materials required by the Program Committee for each type of submission.
Theatre, Performance, and Audiences: Ways of Spectating in Antiquity
Sponsored by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance
Organized by Hallie Marshall and Melissa Funke, University of British Columbia
Digital Classics and the Changing Profession (AFG-2017)
Sponsored by the Digital Classics Association
Organized by Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY
The Villa dei Papiri Then and Now: From 79 to 2017 CE (AFG-2017)
Sponsored by the American Friends of Herculaneum
Organized by David Sider (New York University)