First session for the reading of papers
8:30am Section 1 Gramercy B
Three-Year Colloquium on Ancient Rhetoric: The Ethics of Rhetoric and the Defense of Discourse
William W. Batstone, Organizer
1. Wilfred E. Major, Loyola University
Aristophanes and the Ethical Character of Protagoras' Logoi (15 min)
2. Jerome A. E. Bons, Utrecht University
Rhetoric and Morality in Isocrates (15 min)
3. Gregory S. Aldrete, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Quintilian's Dilemma: Effective Delivery Versus Aristocratic Reserve (15 min)
4. Gerald Sandy, University of British Columbia
Apuleius Apology: Plato in Defense of Rhetoric (15 min)
Respondent: Terry L. Papillon, Virginia Tech (20 min)
8:30am Section 2 Murray Hill A
Organizer Refereed Panel Session: Choosing a Translation: What is at Stake?
Elizabeth Vandiver, Organizer
1. Peter Meineck, University of South Carolina and Aquila Theatre Company of London
The Power of the Translator: A Practical Examination of the Translation
Process of Greek Dramatic Texts (20 min)
2. Sarah E. Ruden, University of Cape Town
Beyond Translation: The Satyricon in South Africa (20 min)
3. Steven J. Willett, University of Shizuoka
The Translator Faces the Formal Music (20 min)
4. David L. Wray, Kennesaw State University
Modernist and Postmodernist Paradigms of Translation, and the Choice of an English Aeneid for Undergraduates (20 min)
Respondent: Peter M. Green, University of Texas at Austin (15 min)
Discussion (25 min)
8:30am Section 3 Murray Hill B
Paper Session:
Text and Transmission
Mervin Dilts, Presider
1. James L. Butrica, Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Name and Date of Aristophanes' Lost Thesmophoriazusae (15 min)
2. S. Douglas Olson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Reconstruction of a Lost Manuscript of Aristophanes' Peace (15 min)
3. Archibald Allen, Pennsylvania State University
Iphigone/Iphigeneia (15 min)
4. Athanasia Worley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Per linearum tractus: The Reception of Terence by German Humanists,
Strasbourg, 1496 and 1499 (15 min)
Discussion
8:30am Section 4 Nassau A
Paper Session: Vergil's Aeneid
Michael R. Halleran, Presider
1. Christine Perkell, Emory University
Aeneid Ekphraseis and the Aeneid (15 min)
2. Andreola Rossi, Harvard University
Peripeteia in Virgil's Battle Scenes (15 min)
3. Lyn Straka, University of Florida
Pronuba Iuno/Atrox Iuno: Aeneid 1.73 & 4.126 (15 min)
4. Kathryn Chew, Drew University
Inscius Pastor: Pastoral Imagery and Aeneas' Identity in the Aeneid (15 min)
Discussion
8:30am Section 5 Sutton Center
Three-Year Colloquium on Early Greek Culture and Society Culture-Change in Early Greece (c. 1200-600 BC)
Joanna S. Smith and John R. Lenz, Organizers
1. Ruth Palmer, Ohio University
From Mycenae to Homer: The Continuity of Greek Agriculture (20 min)
2. Jeremy McInerney, University of Pennsylvania
Ethnic Identity and Altertumswissenschaft (20 min)
3. Nigel Spencer, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford
Migration and Culture Change in the Northeast Aegean: Material Fact or
Myth? (20 min)
4. Donald W. Jones, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Conundrum of Greek Population Growth in the 8th Century
BC: Burials, Settlements, and Wells (20 min)
Response: John R. Lenz (15 min)
Joanna S. Smith (15 min)
8:30am Section 6 Regent Parlor
Paper Session: Naval History
D. Neal Smith, Presider
1. Rob S. Rice, University of Pennsylvania
The Peregrinations of the Queen: Transfer of Technology in the Hellenistic World (15 min)
2. T. Davina McClain and Nicholas K. Rauh, Loyola University of New Orleans and Purdue University
Pirates, Prostitutes, and the Maritime Mob. Sexual Democracy and Labor Discontent at the End of the Hellenistic World (15 min)
3. William M. Murray, University of South Florida
The Leontophoros of Lysimachus (15 min)
4. Antony G. Keen, The Queen's University of Belfast
Xenophon and Iteration in the Spartan Nauarchy (15 min)
Discussion
8:30am Section 7 Nassau B
Paper Session: Greek Literature of the Roman Empire
Peter Simpson, Presider
1. Warren S. Smith, University of New Mexico
Lucius and Luke Tell a Story (15 min)
2. George W. M. Harrison, Xavier University, Cincinnati
Problems with the Genre of ``Problems'': Plutarch's Literary Innovations (15 min)
3. Jean Alvares, Montclair State University
Love and Learning: Chaireas, Dionysios and Artaxerxes in Chariton's Chaireas and Callirhoe (15 min)
4. Charles Weiss, Yale University
The Charm of a Small Bath: Dream as Metaphor and Programme in Aelius
Aristides' 47.19 Kaibel (15 min)
Discussion
8:30am Section 8 Sutton South
Panel Session: With Winged Words: The Performance of Homeric Epic
Steve Reece, Organizer
(Sponsored by the Committee for the Performance of Classical Texts)
Introduction (10 min)
1. Richard Janko, University College, London
Thunder but No Clouds: the Genesis of the Homeric Text (20 min)
2. Lillian Doherty, University of Maryland
Performance Dynamics and the Internal Audiences of the Odyssey (20 min)
3. John Miles Foley, University of Missouri
Homer and South Slavic Epic (20 min)
Discussion and Recordings from the Milman Parry Collection (10 min)
4. John Wright, Northwestern University
Homer and Appalachian Bluegrass (20 min)
Discussion and Performance of Appalachian Bluegrass (10 min)
Discussion (30 min)
8:30am Section 9 Rotunda
Panel Session: The Year 96: Did it Make a Difference?
E. Badian, Organizer
Introduction (10 min)
1. Richard P. Saller, University of Chicago
Domitian and his Successors: Methodological Traps in Assessing
Emperors (25 min)
2. T. Corey Brennan, Bryn Mawr College
Principes and Plebs: Nerva's Reign as a Turning-Point? (25 min)
3. Kathleen M. Coleman, Trinity College, Dublin
Latin Literature after AD 96: Change or Continuity? (25 min)
4. Mary T. Boatwright, Duke University
Public Architecture in Rome and the Year A.D. 96 (25 min)
Discussion
8:30am Section 10 Trianon Ballroom
Panel Session: Gnosticism and Platonism: Crosscurrents in Late Antiquity
John F. Finamore, Organizer
(Sponsored by the International Society of Neoplatonic Studies)
1. Roy T. Zyla, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Christian-Gnostic-Neoplatonic Debate over Free Will and
Determination (20 min)
2. John Turner, University of Nebraska
In Search of Life: On the Origins of the Principle of Dynamic Emanation (20 min)
3. Michael Waldstein, International Theological Institute St. Zdislava
Splitting the Ancestral God into Platonist Deity and Biblical Devil (20 min)
Commentator: John F. Finamore, University of Iowa (10 min)
Second session for the reading of papers
11:00am Section 11 Gramercy B
Panel Session: Philosophy After Aristotle
Anthony Preus, Organizer
(Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy)
Chair: Phillip Mitsis, Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies, NYU
1. William W. Fortenbaugh, Rutgers
Cicero, On Invention 1.51-77: Hypothetical Syllogism and the Early
Peripatetics (30 min)
2. John A. Stevens, East Carolina University
Impulse and Animal Action in Stoic Psychology (30 min)
3. Emidio Spinelli, Center for Hellenic Studies and University of Rome
On Using the Past in Sextus Empiricus: The Case of Democritus (30 min)
11:00am Section 12 Murray Hill A
Panel Session: New Research on Hellenistic Karia
Gary Reger, Organizer
1. A. R. Meadows, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum
The Ptolemaic Province of Caria (20 min)
2. John Ma, All Souls College, Oxford University
Seleukid Karia (20 min)
3. Charles Crowther, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
Carian Horizons (15 min)
4. Beate Dignas, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University
Carian Cults under Hellenistic Rule (15 min)
5. Gary Reger, Trinity College
Agriculture and the Rural Landscape of Hellenistic Mylasa (20 min)
Commentator: Simon Hornblower, Oriel College, Oxford University (15 min)
11:00am Section 13 Murray Hill B
Panel Session: Greek in the Latin Middle Ages
Carmela Vircillo Franklin, Organizer
(Sponsored by the Medieval Latin Studies Group)
Chair: Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University
1. Mark Mastrangelo, Brown University
Prudentius's Knowledge of Greek: A Reappraisal (15 min)
2. Luciana Cuppo Csaki, CUNY
The Work of Anatolius Graecus in the Latin Manuscript Tradition of the
Early Middle Ages (15 min)
3. Bernice M. Kaczynski, McMaster University
A Newly Discovered Text and Translation of Mark the Hermit's Peri Nomou Pneumatikou (15 min)
4. Francis Newton, Duke University
Bilingual Scribes and Scholars. Some Evidence for Knowledge of Both Greek
and Latin in Italy, Saec. XI-XII (15 min)
Respondent: Carmela Vircillo Franklin, Columbia University (15 min)
11:00am Section 14 Nassau A
Panel Session: Statius in the Court of Domitian: A Fresh Assessment
Patricia A. Johnston and Alexander G. McKay, Organizers
(Sponsored by The Vergilian Society)
Introduction: Patricia A. Johnston, Brandeis University (10 min)
1. S. Georgia Nugent, Princeton University
Statius' Hypsipyle: Following in the Footsteps of the Aeneid (15 min)
2. Donka D. Markus, University of Michigan
Statius' Vatic Presence in the Thebaid (15 min)
3. Carole E. Newlands, University of California at Los Angeles
Ecphrasis and Poetic Authority: Silvae 1.5 (15 min)
4. Hans Smolenaars, Universiteit van Amsterdam
The Poetic Technique of Multiple Imitation in Statius' Thebaid
Respondent: Alexander G. McKay, York University (20 min)
Discussion (15min)
11:00am Section 15 Trianon Ballroom
Panel Session: Odysseys in Cyberspace: Computerized Research in Classics
Ann DeVito and Patrick Sinclair, Organizers
(Sponsored by the Consortium for Latin Lexicography)
1. Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London
In nova fert animus...: Computing the Metamorphoses in the
Analytical Onomasticon Project (15 min)
2. Dee Clayman, City University of New York
Beyond Word Searches: Text as Data (15 min)
3. John F. Oates, Duke University
Research in Papyrology: The Near Future (15 min)
4. Gregory Crane, Tufts University
An Electronic LSJ 9 and the Future of Greek Lexicography (15 min)
5. Patrick Sinclair, University of California at Irvine
Coordinating Desires in an Electronic TLL (15 min)
Moderator: Ann DeVito, University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon
Discussion (20 min)
11:00am Section 16 Rotunda
Paper Session: Hellenistic Poetry
John Van Sickle, Presider
1. Julie Nishimura-Jensen, Arizona State University
The Chorus of Argonauts in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica (15 min)
2. Ruth Rothaus Caston, Brown University
The Ball of Eros: Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 3.131-44 (15 min)
3. Jennifer Lynn, Princeton University
Between Wish and Fulfillment: Callimachus Aetia Frr. 1-2 (15 min)
4. Stephanie L. Larson, University of Texas at Austin
The Telchines: New Reflections on Callimachus' Literary Quarrel in Light of
Philodemus' On Poems (15 min)
5. Jennifer Larson, Kent State University
Astacides the Goatherd (Callimachus Ep. 22 Pf) (15 min)
6. Kathryn Gutzwiller, University of Cincinnati
Cleopatra's Ring (15 min)
Discussion
11:00am Section 17 Nassau B
Panel Session: The Island of Salamis: New Solutions to Old Problems
Timothy F. Winters, Organizer
1. Kerry Christensen, Williams College
From Private Venture to Public Enterprise: Solon and the Struggle
for Salamis (25 min)
2. Stephen Lambert, Center for Hellenic Studies
The Attic Genos Salaminioi and the Island of Salamis (25 min)
3. Martha Taylor, Loyola University, Maryland
Coins, Klerouchs, and Salamis (25 min)
4. Timothy F. Winters, Vanderbilt University
Unexcavated Sites on Salamis (25 min)
Respondent: John M.C.K. Camp, Agora Excavations (20 min)
Discussion
11:00am Section 18 Sutton South
Organizer Refereed Panel Session: Crossing the Ancient Stage
Leanora Olivia and Mary-Kay Gamel, Organizers
Introduction: Mary-Kay Gamel, University of California
1. Pamela R. Bleisch, University of Georgia
Plautine Travesties of Gender and Genre: Transvestitism and Tragicomedy in Amphitruo (15 min)
2. Mary DeForest, University of Colorado
Female Choruses in Greek Tragedy (15 min)
3. Catherine Freis, Millsaps College
Kathakali and Greek Drama (15 min)
4. James S. Whitta, Brown University
Adest Sponsus, qui est Christus: Performing the Male Monastic Body in
Sponsus (15 min)
Commentators: Eva Stehle, University of Maryland (10 min)
Leanora Olivia, Millsaps College (10 min)
Discussion
11:00am Section 19 Petit Trianon
Paper Session: Language and Linguistics
Zeph Stewart, Presider
1. David Engel,The Pennsylvania State University
Homer's Psychological Parts: You Can Tell One from Another (15 min)
2. Vassilis Vagios, National Taiwan University
Aspect, Tense and Context in Classical Greek (15 min)
3. Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, University of Chicago
Genitive Confusions in Plato's Symposium (199d2-7) (15 min)
4. Michael Weiss, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
On Some Problems of Final Syllables in South Picene (15 min)
5. J. Bradford Churchill, University of Colorado, Boulder
Dice Facieque: Elements of Archaic Orthography, Morphology, and Syntax
in the Textual Tradition of Quintilian and Plautus (15 min)
Discussion
11:00am Section 20 Regent Parlor
Organizer Refereed Panel Session: Ethnicities: Ancient and Modern
Bella Zweig and Daniel Tompkins, Organizers
(Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups)
Introduction: Bella Zweig, University of Arizona (10 min)
1. D. Brendan Nagle, University of Southern California
Macedonian Appropriation of Greek Kulturgeschichte (20 min)
2. Eugene N. Borza, Penn State University
Who Were (and Are) the Macedonians? (20 min)
3. Ellen O'Gorman, University of Bristol
Return of the Living Dead: Carthage and Roman Ethnic Identity (20 min)
4. John H. Starks, Jr., University of North Carolina
Fides Aeneia: The Transference of Punic Stereotypes in the Aeneid (20 min)
Respondent: Daniel Tompkins, Temple University (15 min)
Third session for the reading of papers
1:30pm Section 21 Gramercy B
Panel Session: Trojan Writing, Greek Grammar, Latin Syntax
Roger D. Woodard, Organizer
(Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin
Language and Linguistics)
1. David Wharton, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Semantic, Syntactic and Discourse Features of Prepositional
Phrases in Latin Noun Phrases (30 min)
2. Edwin L. Brown, University of North Carolina
Linear A on Trojan Spindlewhorls, Luvian Anax at Knossos? (30 min)
3. Joshua T. Katz, Harvard University
, , : The Poetics of a Particle in Homer (30 min)
4. Henry M. Hoenigswald, University of Pennsylvania
A Systemic View of Rough Breathing and Aspiration (30 min)
5. Alan J. Nussbaum, Cornell University
Greek , and especially ``see'' (30 min)
6. Apostolos N. Athanassakis, University of California at Santa Barbara
Akhilleus' Horse Balios: Old and New Etymologies (30 min)
1:30pm Section 22 Nassau A
Panel Session: Medicine, Miracles, Magic
Ann Ellis Hanson and Heinrich von Staden, Organizers
(Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Medicine)
Introduction: Heinrich von Staden (5 min)
1. Robert Arnott, University of Birmingham (UK)
Medicine and Magic in the Sanctuaries of Minoan Crete (20 min)
2. Ann Ellis Hanson, University of Michigan
Talking Recipes in Hippocratics' ``Rationalized'' Medicine (20 min)
3. Julie Laskaris, University of California at Los Angeles
Keeping Isonomia Pure (20 min)
4. Sarah Iles Johnson, Ohio State University
The Leaf Alone is Nothing: Remarks on the Problem of ``Medicine''
vs. ``Magic'' (20 min)
5. Ian Rutherford, University of Reading (UK)
Katharmos/Katharsis: Modes of Purification in Aelius Aristides (20 min)
Discussion: (30 min)
Business Meeting (15 min)
1:30pm Section 23 Nassau B
Paper Session: Greek Tragedy
Helene Foley, Presider
1. Peter Burian, Duke University
: Debating Democratic Speech in Athenian
Tragedy (15 min)
2. Edwin Carawan, Southwest Missouri State University
The Edict of Oedipus (OT 223-42) (15 min)
3. Robert C. Ketterer, University of Iowa
Dialogue and Mediation: Aristophanes' Birds and Euripides' Ion (15 min)
4. Katerina Zacharia, University College, London
Reading Apollo's Oracle in the Ion (15 min)
5. Jonathan B. Fenno, College of Charleston
Agamemnon's Character in the Prologue to Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis (15 min)
6. Paul T. Keyser, Cornell University
Powerlessness Corrupts: Re-presenting the Dramatic and Thematic Unity of Euripides' Hecuba (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 24 Murray Hill A
Panel Session: Beyond Rome: Frontier Responses to Romanization
Pamela Vaughn, Organizer
(Sponsored by the American Classical League)
1. Philip M. Freeman, Boston University
Beyond the Western Frontier: Ireland and the Classical World (20 min)
2. Victoria Erhart, Dumbarton Oaks
The Impact of Romanization on the Syriac Church and the Sasanian
Empire (20 min)
3. Kathy L. Gaca, Ball State University
An Early Christian Strategy for Resisting Romanization (20 min)
4. Barbara McLauchlin, San Francisco State University
A Chimera by the Tail: the Archaeology of Romanization in Anatolia (20 min)
Commentator: Pamela Vaughn, San Francisco State University (10 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 25 Gibson Suite
Workshop:
Database of the Classical Bibliography
Dee Clayman, Organizer
(Sponsored by the Education Committee)
Presider: Sean Redmond, New York University
1:30pm Section 26 Regent Parlor
Paper Session: Greek and Roman Philosophy
Diskin Clay, Presider
1. Joseph Cotter, Pennsylvania State University
Phoinix Son of Philippos: in Plato's Symposium (15 min)
2. Daniel McLean, University of Pennsylvania
Comic Technique and Comic Inversion in the Protagoras (15 min)
3. Gary Berkowitz, University of Cincinnati
On Plato's Sincere Recommendation of Hedonistic Calculus to the Masses (15 min)
4. Sophia M. Elliott, Cambridge University
Formal Cause and the Generation of Testacea in Aristotle's De Generatione Animalium (15 min)
5. John Glucker, Tel-Aviv University
Fighting on the Enemy's Ground: Chrysippus on the ``First Impulse'' (15 min)
6. James B. Ker, University of California, Berkeley
The Day as a Unit of Philosophical Practice in Seneca's Letters (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 27 East Ballroom Foyer
Paper Session:
Women in History
Madeleine Henry, Presider
1. Rosanna Omitowoju, King's College, Camridge University
Regulation, Reconstruction and Rhetoric: Rape as a Lacuna in Athenian
Law (15 min)
2. Frank Russell, Dartmouth College
The Day of the Potagogis: Women and Stereotypes in Greek Espionage (15 min)
3. Ilse Mueller, University of Chicago
Concubinage as a Strategy for Survival (15 min)
4. Ronald G. A. Cluett, Pomona College
Roman Women and Triumviral Politics, 43-37 BC (15 min)
5. Tina Saavedra, University of Chicago
Stone as the Great Equalizer: Gender in Inscriptions from Roman Spain (15 min)
6. Mark E. Vesley, Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, MN
Organized Girls' Athletics in the Roman Empire? (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 28 Sutton South
Three-Year Colloquium on
Classical Antiquity in the Cinema: Classical Literature and Film
Martin M. Winkler, Organizer
1. Martin M. Winkler, George Mason University
Introduction: Masks and Faces in Cinematic Tragedy (20 min)
2. Arthur G. Robson, Beloit College
Pasolini and Sophocles: Oedipus Rex (20 min)
3. Gonda Van Steen, Cornell University
Aristophanes' Lysistrata on Film under the Greek Military Dictatorship (20 min)
4. Matthew Munich, Brown University
Birds of a Feather: Aristophanes `Birds and the Marx Brothers' Duck
Soup (20 min)
Discussion (25 min)
1:30pm Section 29 Rotunda
Workshop: Homosocial to Homoerotic: Problems and Methods in the Study of Women's Relationships
to Women in Antiquity
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger, Organizers
1. Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Hamilton College
Excavating Ancient Greek Female Homoeroticism: New Theoretical
Approaches (20 min)
2. Lisa Auanger, University of Missouri
Excavating Ancient Roman Female Homoeroticism: Materials, Methods and Questions (20 min)
3. John Younger, Duke University
Illustrating the Homosocial World of Women in Classical Greece (20 min)
Commentators: Mireille Lee, Bryn Mawr (10 min)
Louise Hitchcock, UCLA (10 min)
1:30pm Section 30 Petit Trianon
Organizer Refereed Panel Session:
Roman Law as a Reflection of Social and Economic Life
A. J. Boudewijn Sirks and Jean-Jacques Aubert, Organizers
Introduction: Bruce W. Frier, University of Michigan (10 min)
1. Peter Wyetzner, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
The Social and Economic Significance of Sulla's Innovations in
Sumptuary Law (15 min)
2. Susan D. Martin, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Roman Law and the Study of Land Transportation (15 min)
3. A. J. Boudewijn Sirks, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sailing Times and Legal Financing Constructions (15 min)
4. Peter King, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Who is the furiosus? (15 min)
5. Thomas A. J. McGinn, Vanderbilt University
Criminal lenocinium in Roman Law and Life (15 min)
6. Jean-Jacques Aubert, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Double Standard and Social Structure as Evidenced by the Application
of Roman Criminal Law (15 min)
Respondent: Bruce W. Frier (10 min)
Discussion
5:00pm - 7:00pm Presidential Forum Trianon Ballroom
Organizer: Robert A. Kaster, APA President
Fruitful Disputes: Controversy and Its Consequences in the (More or Less Recent) History of Classical Studies
Introduction: Robert A. Kaster, University of Chicago
Discussants:
1. Glen W. Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study
Beloch and the Birth of Demography
2. Natalie Boymel Kampen, Barnard College
Otto Brendel's Prolegomena in 1950s America
3. Glenn Most, University of Heidelberg
Classical Scholarship in 19th-Century Europe
4. Christopher A. Stray, University College Swansea
Thucydides or Grote? The Politics of Pure Scholarship
Respondent:
Gerald Graff, University of Chicago
Discussion:
fourth session for the reading of papers
8:30am Section 31 Gramercy B
Panel Session: Vox Flebilis Senecae Tragoedi: Sound or Fury?
Matthew Dillon and Thomas D. Kohn, Organizers
(Sponsored by the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature)
Stephen G. Daitz, Presiding
1. Thomas D. Kohn, University of Minnesota
Illuminating the Use of Dactylic Hexameter in Senecan Tragedy (12 min)
2. Christopher W. Marshall, Trent University (Ontario)
Backstage Seneca (12 min)
3. Elaine Fantham, Princeton University
Midline Speaker Changes in Senecan Tragedy: Drama or Metrics? (12 min)
4. John Fitch, University of Victoria
Variations in Seneca's Trimeters (12 min)
Demonstrator and Workshop Session
1. Robert Sonkowsky, University of Minnesota, Commentary
Performance: Elaine Fantham and Robert Sonkowsky (10 min)
2. Workshop: Reading the Senecan Iambic Trimeter Aloud (45 min)
Conducted by Stephen G. Daitz, City University of New York
8:30am Section 32 Regent Parlor
Panel Session: Feminist Pedagogy and Classics
Lillian E. Doherty and Laura McClure, Organizers
(Sponsored by the Women's Classical Caucus)
1. Barbara Gold, Hamilton College
``She Heard the Gates of the Temple of Learning Clang as They Closed'' (15 min)
2. Polly Hoover, Ohio State University
Interrogating the Latin Language Texts (15 min)
3. Eileen Mooney, Miss Porter's School
Weaving a Tapestry of Knowledge: A Collaborative Approach to the Somnium Scipionis (15 min)
4. Judith deLuce, Miami University of Ohio
Roman Civilization and Feminist Pedagogy (15 min)
Discussion
Sunday, December 29, 1996
8:30am Section 33 Murray Hill B
Paper Session: Greek Perspectives on Rome and the Romans
Nina Coppolino, Presider
1. Kenneth Mayer, University of Texas at Austin
Coriolanus, Assimilation, and the Frontiers of Loyalty (15 min)
2. Edward D. Clark, University of British Columbia
Heracleides of Tarentum and the Lost Biography of Archimedes (15 min)
3. C. M. C. Green, University of Iowa
The - Antithesis in Polybius's Portrait of Scipio Aemilianus (15 min)
4. Clifford Ando, University of Michigan
Was Rome Merely a Polis? (15 min)
Discussion
8:30am Section 34 Murray Hill A
Paper Session: Transformations of Homer
Carole E. Newlands, Presider
1. Ingrid E. Holmberg, University of Victoria
The Formation of the Epic Cycle (15 min)
2. William C. Stull, University of Chicago
The Callimachean Hymn to Demeter and Its Homeric Counterpart (15 min)
3. Elizabeth H. Sutherland, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Manipulations of Homer in Callimachus' Hecale (15 min)
4. Karen E. Klaiber, Rutgers University
The Transformation of Circe (Petronius Satyricon 126) (15 min)
5. Mark D. Usher, University of Chicago
The Homeric Centos and the Re-generation of Homeric Verse (15 min)
Discussion
9:00am Section 35 Sutton Center
Joint Workshop Session: Small Classics Departments and Programs
Michael Gagarin, Organizer
Introduction: Michael Gagarin, University of Texas/APA Campus Advisory Service (5 min)
1. William Ziobro, College of the Holy Cross/APA Secretary-Treasurer
The APA Database of Information (10 min)
2. Frances Titchener and Mark Damen, Utah State University
Starting a New Classics Program (15 min)
3. Leslie Day, Wabash College
The Archaeologist and the Small Classics Program (15 min)
4. Kenneth Morrell, Rhodes College
Classics, Consortiums and Technology in the Small Liberal Arts College (15 min)
Response: Karl Petruso, University of Texas, Arlington (10 min)
Barbara McManus, College of New Rochelle (10 min)
Discussion
8:30am Section 36 Sutton South
Panel Session: Political Change and the Classics: Classics in Southern Africa
Karl Galinsky, Organizer
Introduction: Karl Galinsky, University of Texas at Austin (5 min)
1. Louise Cilliers, University of Bloemfontein
Classics in West and South Africa: Past, Present, and New Challenges (15 min)
2. William Dominik, University of Natal
Classics in West and South Africa: Brief Overview and Some New
Developments (15 min)
3. Corrie Schumann, University of Pretoria
The Schola Project: Latin in the New South Africa
4. A. D. Callinicos, University of Zimbabwe
Classics in Zimbabwe (15 min)
5. T. J. Knight, University of Zimbabwe
Classics in Malawi (15 min)
Respondent: Caroline Alexander (20 min)
Discussion (30 min)
8:30am Section 37 Nassau A
Paper Session: Poetic Intertexts
Michele Lowrie, Presider
1. Shirley Werner, Rutgers University
Whose Text is it? Latin Poets in English and the Multiplicity of Meaning (15 min)
2. Timothy P. Hofmeister, Denison University
``...silhouettes I once saw as Hellas'': The Classical Tradition in the Lyric Poetry
of Derek Walcott (15 min)
3. Joseph Pucci, Brown University
Ausonius on the Lyre: De Bissula and the Traditions of Classical Latin
Lyric (15 min)
4. Thomas K. Hubbard, University of Texas, Austin
The Allusive Technique of Nemesianus' Bucolics (15 min)
5. Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and the Graduate School, CUNY
Assimilative Strategies and Moral Discourse in Catullus 11 and Horace Odes 2.9 (15 min)
6. Kelly Jennings, Idaho State University
Strange Desire: The Overwhelming of the Reader in Eclogue 6 (15 min)
Discussion
8:30am Section 38 Petit Trianon
Paper Session: Character and Type in Plautine Comedy
James Tatum, Presider
1. John R. Clark, Fordham University
Aristophanes, Socrates, and Plautus' Pseudolus (15 min)
2. Mahalia L. Way, University of California, Berkeley
Ratio Veneris: The Mathematics of Lust in Plautus' Truculentus (15 min)
3. Kathleen McCarthy, University of California, Berkeley
Jupiter and Other Dirty Old Men: The Senex Amator in Plautus'
Amphitruo (15 min)
4. Dorota Dutsch, McGill University, Montreal
The Politics of Speech. A Study of Plautus' Characterization of Uxores and Meretrices through Conversational Styles (15 min)
5. Alexa Jervis, University of Pennsylvania
Homosocial Bonds and National Identity in Plautus' Poenulus (15 min)
Discussion
Sunday, December 29, 1996
8:30am Section 39 Nassau B
Paper Session: Roman Religion
Judith Evans-Grubbs, Presider
1. C. Robert Phillips, III, Lehigh University
Ghosts and the Roman Religious Calendar: Parentalia, Lemuria, Mundus (15 min)
2. John E. Ziolkowski, George Washington University
The Tuba in Roman Religious Cult (15 min)
3. Leah Himmelhoch, University of Texas at Austin
The Phantasmagoric Structure of Book II in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (15 min)
4. Peter Aronoff, Cornell University
A Ciceronian Argument Against the Fear of Death (15 min)
5. Barbette Stanley Spaeth, Tulane University
Religious Ideology in the Pisonian Conspiracy (On Tac. Ann. 15.51-55) (15 min)
6. Christopher Michael McDonough, Princeton University
Proca and Porca: Interpreting the Kalends of June (15 min)
Discussion
Fifth session for the reading of papers
11:00am Section 40 Gramercy B
Panel Session: Gender and Sexuality in the Classical World
John G. Younger, Organizer
(Sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Classical Caucus)
1. David Halperin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality (15 min)
2. Cashman Kerr Prince, Stanford University
Pederasty and Pedagogy in Democratic Athens (15 min)
3. Charles Lloyd, Marshall University
The Evander-Anchises Connection: Fathers, Sons, and Homoerotic Desire (15 min)
4. Naomi Finkelstein, Columbia University
Girls in Uniform: An Analysis of Some South Italian Erinyes (15 min)
5. Kirk Ormand, Loyola University, Chicago
Male Homosocial Desire in Sophocles' Trachiniae (15 min)
6. Jeffrey S. Carnes, Syracuse University
Beyond Constructionism: The Future of Ancient Gay/Lesbian Studies (15 min)
11:00am Section 41 Regent Parlor
Panel Session: Little Latin, Less Greek: Teaching Greek to Students Today
Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr., Organizer
(Sponsored by the APA Education Committee)
1. Steve Hays, Ohio University
Winged Words: Recruiting Greek Students (20 min)
2. Connie Rodriguez, Loyola University of New Orleans
Teaching Greek to the Grammarless: Lessons for the `90's (20 min)
3. Anne Groton, St. Olaf College
If You Write It, They Will Come: A New Greek Textbook for a New Generation (20 min)
4. Charles Platter, University of Georgia
Intensive Elementary Greek: Building on Undergraduate Success (20 min)
5. Kenneth Kitchell, Louisiana State University
``Some Koine in the Attic: Adapt or Die'' (20 min)
Discussion (20 min)
11:00am Section 42 Murray Hill B
Paper Session: Poetics of the Self in Imperial Latin Literature
Elaine Fantham, Presider
1. Catharine Edwards, University of Bristol
The Suffering Body: Philosophy and Pain in Seneca's Letters (15 mi~)
2. Roxannne Gentilcore, Harvard University
The Landscape of Grief: Seneca's Epigrams from Exile (15 min)
3. Steven H. Rutledge, University of Maryland
Empire and Literature: The Rhetoric of Social Identity in Tacitus'
Dialogus (15 min)
4. Ralph M. Rosen, University of Pennsylvania
Naevolus and the Satiric Program in Juvenal Satire 9 (15 min)
5. Ellen Finkelpearl, Scripps College
Cultural Identity in Apuleius' Apology and Florida (15 min)
6. Margaret Edsall, Columbia University
Gaudens Obibam: Lucius' Self-Portrait in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (15 min)
Discussion
11:00am Section 43 Murray Hill A
Paper Session: Greek History
Thomas Figueira, Presider
1. Eric W. Robinson, University of North Florida
Thersites and the Homeric Assembly (15 min)
2. Mark Toher, Union College
The of a Spartan King (15 min)
3. Sellers C. Lawrence, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Funeral Mound of the Athenians at Marathon (15 min)
4. Francis M. Dunn, University of California, Santa Barbara
Athens, Meton, and the Civic Uses of Time (15 min)
5. Duane A. March
Palaioploutoi and Khreokopidai: The Origins of the Family of Konon the
Athenian (15 min)
Discussion
11:00am Section 44 Nassau A
Three-Year Colloquium on Aristotle's Poetics
Dale Grote, Organizer
1. Karen Bassi, University of California at Santa Cruz
The Therapeutics of Drama: Aristotle's Katharsis and Freud's Oedipal
Dream (15 min)
2. Tom Coates, University of Bristol
My Hero...Identification and Catharsis in Aristotle and Freud (15 min)
3. John T. Kirby, Purdue University
Katharsis and Cognition (15 min)
4. Richard Armstrong, University of Houston
From Katharsis to Recognition: Freud's Mechanics of Literary Pleasure (15 min)
Discussion
11:00am Section 45 Petit Trianon
Paper Session: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Joseph Farrell, Presider
1. Sara H. Lindheim, University of California, Santa Barbara
I Am Dressed Therefore I Am?: Vertumnus in Propertius 4.2 and in
Metamorphoses 14.622-771 (15 min)
2. Julia T. Dyson, University of Texas at Arlington
Lilies and Violence: Lavinia's Blush in the Ovidian Song of Orpheus (15 min)
3. Shilpa Raval, Brown University
Of Readers and Lovers: Byblis in Metamorphoses 9 (15 min)
4. Leslie Cahoon, Gettysburg College
Tragic Undercurrents: The Presence of Euripides in the Song of Orpheus
(Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.1-11.84) (15 min)
5. Diane T. Pintabone, University of Southern California
The Incidental Rape in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Discussion
11:00am Section 46 Nassau B
Paper Session: Money and History
Stephen Tracy, Presider
1. John H. Kroll, University of Texas at Austin
Bullion, Profitability, and the Spread of Silver Coinage in 6th Century B.C.
Greece (15 min)
2. David M. Schaps, Bar Ilan University
The Monetization of Athenian Politics (15 min)
3. Lisa Kallet-Marx, University of California, Santa Barbara
Parallel Devastation: Athenian Finance and the Massacre at Mykalessos, Thucydides 7.27-29 (15 min)
4. Michelle Kwintner, Duke University
Perdiccas' Wages of Sun (15 min)
5. John D. Morgan, University of Delaware
The 30th Day (15 min)
6. J. Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma
Roman Coins and Roman History (15 min)
Discussion
11:00am Section 47 Sutton South
Paper Session: Social History through Latin Literature: The Republican Period
Erich Gruen, Presider
1. Myles McDonnell, University of Washington
The Social Explanation for the Use of Greek in Plautus: Soldiers, Senators, or
Slaves? (15 min)
2. Andrew Lear, University of Virginia
Punishment of Adulterers in Republican Rome (15 min)
3. Alain M. Gowing, University of Washington
Memory and Silence in Cicero's Brutus (15 min)
4. Daniel B. McGlathery, University of Michigan
The Poetics of Sexual Indeterminacy: Ephebic Liminality and Gender Inversion in
Catullus' Attis (15 min)
Discussion
11:00am Section 48 Gibson Suite
Panel Session:
New Perspectives on the Ancient Economy
Edward M. Harris, Organizer
(Sponsored by the Friends of Ancient History)
1. Edward M. Harris, Brooklyn College and the Graduate School
The Debate about the Ancient Economy after a Century (15 min)
2. William Loomis, Union College
A Standard Athenian Wage? (20 min)
3. Darel Engen, University of California at Los Angeles
Who was Responsible for Trade in Fourth-Century B.C. Athens? (20 min)
4. Willem Jongman, University of Groningen
The Spell of Moses Finley (20 min)
5. Alexander Ingle, Boston University
The Economic Typology of the Small-Scale Farmer in the Roman World (20 min)
Response: William Harris, Columbia University (15 min)
Discussion
11:00am Section 49 Sutton Center
Three-Year Colloquium on Late Antiquity:
Ceremony and Spectacle in Late Antiquity
Geoffrey Harrison and Michael Roberts, Organizers
1. Ralph W. Mathisen, University of South Carolina
Emperors and Subjects: Consular Ceremony in Late Antiquity (20 min)
2. Jon E. Lendon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Adoration of the Purple and the Imperial Regime of Honors (20 min)
3. Michele Salzman, University of California, Riverside
Festival Time and Religious Space in Late Antique Rome (20 min)
4. Paul E. Kimball, State University of New York, Buffalo
Bloodless Victory and the Sea of Fire: Triumphal and Apocalyptic Symbols
in Liturgical Processions (20 min)
Discussant: Richard Lim, Smith College (15 min)
Sixth session for the reading of papers
1:30pm Section 50 Gramercy B
Paper Session: Greek Rhetoric in Theory and Practice
Jon Mikalson, Presider
1. Jonathan J. Price, Tel Aviv University
Stasis and Rhetoric in Thucydides (15 min)
2. Patrick O'Sullivan, University of Cambridge
Gorgias and the Psychology of Images (15 min)
3. Brian Fuchs, Yale University
To Be or Not To Be: An Early Rhetorical Topos in the Sophists (15 min)
4. Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, University of Chicago
Offering Advice: Textual Gifts and Guest-friendship in Isocrates (15 min)
5. Peter T. Struck, University of Chicago
The Talismanic ``Symbol'': The Poet as Conjurer in Ancient Literary
Theory (15 min)
6. Robert J. Penella, Fordham University
Themistius on Extempore Oratory (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 51 Murray Hill A
Paper Session: Poetics of Early Greek Epic
Helen North, Presider
1. Andre Lardinois, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
The Wrath of Hesiod: Homeric Reproaches and the Structure of Hesiod's
Works & Days (15 min)
2. Richard S. Pianka, University of Texas at Austin
Seasons in Hesiod and Homer (15 min)
3. Frances L. Spaltro, University of Chicago
Hesiodic Poetics and the Discourse of Fiction (15 min)
4. Daniel S. Richter, University of Chicago
A Reevaluation of the Homeric Simile, Achilles Beneath the Walls (15 min)
5. Hilary Mackie, Rice University
No Pain, No Gain: Helen's Bad Drug (15 min)
6. Bruce M. King, University of Chicago
Nestor's Youth and the Obsolescence of Poetic Tradition in the Iliad (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 52 Nassau A
Paper Session: Construction of Genre in Latin Poetry
Matthew Santirocco, Presider
1. George Fredric Franko, Hollins College
Greek Vices, Roman Virtues, and the Appeal of the Palliata (15 min)
2. Charles Martindale, University of Bristol
Green Politics: The Two Discourses of Virgil's Eclogues (15 min)
3. Joy P.T. Connolly, University of Pennsylvania
Roman Elegy, Roland Barthes: The Structure of Erotic Narrative (15 min)
4. Basil Dufallo, University of California, Los Angeles
Satis/Satura: Reconsidering the ``Programmatic Intent'' of Horace's Satires 1.1 (15 min)
5. Molly C. Pasco-Pranger, University of Michigan
Vates Operosus: The Antiquarian Pose of Ovid's Fasti (15 min)
6. Anthony Hollingsworth, Brown University
Ancient Recitation and Senecan Tragedy: Is There a Similarity? (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 53 Nassau B
Paper Session: Ethnography and Geography
Philip Stadter, Presider
1. John Dillery, University of Michigan
Hecataeus of Abdera and the Autopsy of the Hyperboreans (15 min)
2. Bezalel Bar-Kochva, Tel-Aviv University
The First Greek Account Concerning the Jews: Theophrastus' Anthropological Theory and Jewish Sacrificial Practices (15 min)
3. Scott Bradbury, Smith College
Religious Intolerance and the Forced Conversion of Jews in the Later Roman Empire (15 min)
4. Jerise Fogel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sicily and the Roman Past (15 min)
5. Brice Erickson, University of Texas at Austin
Technology, Virtus, and Caesar's Defeat of the Veneti (15 min)
6. Philip Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
Strabo and Homer (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 54 Murray Hill B
Panel Session: Papyrology
Jennifer A. Sheridan, Organizer
(Sponsored by the American Society of Papyrologists)
Presider: Roger S. Bagnall, Columbia University
1. Terry Wilfong, University of Michigan
Hieratic Fragments from Karanis: An Egyptian Religious Handbook among the Greek Papyri (15 min)
2. Kim Haines-Eitzen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Education, Training, and ``Status'' of Early Christian Scribes (15 min)
3. Gideon Bohak, University of Michigan
Hebrew, Hebrew Everywhere? Interpreting Voces Magicae (15 min)
4. Raffaella Cribiore, Columbia University
Letter Writing in the Schools (15 min)
5. James G. Keenan, Loyola University, Chicago
Abu Nabulsi's Survey of the Fayum (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 55 Petit Trianon
Three-Year Colloquium: Greek Law
Edward M. Harris, Organizer
1. David Mirhardy, University of Alberta
Theophrastus as Practitioner of Comparative Law (20 min)
2. Lene Rubinstein, Royal Holloway, University of London
Synegoroi (20 min)
3. Mark Sundahl, Brown University
Gunaiki Peithomenos (20 min)
4. Angelos Chaniotis, New York University
Formulaic Language and Forged Legal Documents in Greek Inscriptions (20 min)
Respondent: Alan Boegehold, Brown University (20 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 56 Sutton South
Paper Session: Aristophanes and Old Comedy
Jeffrey Henderson, Presider
1. Elizabeth Scharffenberger, Columbia University
Political Unity and the Politics of Division in Aristophanes' Peace (15 min)
2. Gwendolyn Compton-Engle, Cornell University
Food, The Symposium and the Comic Genre in Aristophanes' Peace (15 min)
3. Bryan K. James, University of Texas at Austin
Gnats, Marathon, and History: Lysistrata 1014-42 (15 min)
4. Paul Ludwig, University of Chicago
Aristophanes' Defense of Rhetoric in Acharnians (15 min)
5. Daniel Thibodeau, University of California, Santa Barbara
(Re-) visiting Old Comedy (15 min)
6. Gregory W. Dobrov, University of Michigan
Targeting Innovation: ``Paracomedy'' and ``Paradithyramb'' (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 57 Madison
Paper Session: Ritual and Commemoration in Greek and Latin Poetry
Robert Lamberton, Presider
1. Lael Hanerfeld, University of Chicago
``Reading'' Iambe: The Social Significance of Iambe in the Homeric
Hymn to Demeter (15 min)
2. Barbara Goff, University of Texas, Austin
Poetry in Action: Ritual in the Sapphic Corpus (15 min)
3. Richard J. King, Purdue University
Ritual and Autobiography in Ovid's Tristia 4.10(15 min)
4. Rebecca L. Frost, University of Pennsylvania
The Epitaph and the Poet's Authority in Latin Love Elegy (15 min)
5. Martin Bates, Brown University
Grief and Narcissism in Propertius 3.7 (15 min)
6. Fred Naiden, Harvard University
Sappho, Corinna and the Latin Love Poets (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 58 Sutton Center
Panel Session: Classica Africana: The Graeco-Roman Heritage and People of Afro-American Descent
Michele Valerie Ronnick, Organizer
(Sponsored by the Committee on the Classical Tradition)
1. Denise McCoskey, Miami University
`An Inclination for the Latin Tongue': The Classical Education of Phillis
Wheatley (18 min)
2. Shelley Haley, Hamilton College
A Peculiar Triangle: Nineteenth Century Black American Women, `The Gentleman's Course, and the Civic Ideal' (18 min)
3. Michele Valerie Ronnick, Wayne State University
William Sanders Scarborough: The First Professional Classicist of Afro-American Descent (15 min)
4. Edmund Cueva, Xavier University
The Medea of Countee Cullen (18 min)
5. Joy King, University of Colorado
An Incurably Perennial Student: Ruth Cave Flowers
(Fairview H.S., Boulder, CO) (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 59 Regent Parlor
Three-Year Colloquium on Cultural Poetics: Cultural Transactions: Economies of Art and Text
Carol Dougherty and Leslie Kurke, Organizers
Introduction: Leslie Kurke, University of California, Berkeley (10 min)
1. Nigel Nicholson, Reed College
Pederastic Poets and Adult Patrons: Maintaining Authority in Commissioned
Poetry (15 min)
2. Lowell Bowditch, University of Oregon
The Economy of Otium: Representations of Horace's Estate (20 min)
3. Kate Gilhuly, University of California, Berkeley
Bronze for Gold? Exchange in Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans (20 min)
4. Laura Slatkin, University of Chicago
The Poetics of Measurement in the Works and Days (15 min)
5. Katharine Toll
Transactions Concerning Pallas and Lavinia in Aeneid 7-12 (20 min)
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Plenary Session West Ballroom
President-Elect Susan Treggiari Presiding
- Presentation of the Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics
- Presentation of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit
- Presidential Address, Robert A. Kaster The Shame of the Romans
Seventh session for the reading of papers
9:00am Section 60 Rotunda
Panel Session: Ovid's Metamorphoses: Redrawing the Boundaries of Intertextuality
Andrew Zissos, Organizer
1. Andrew Zissos, Princeton University
Iliadic Echoes in Ovid's Phaethon (20 min)
2. Ingo Gildenhard, Princeton University
Ovid's Narcissus: An Echo of the Oedipus `Complex' (20 min)
3. Alison Keith, University of Toronto
Tragic Thebes: Greek & Roman Tragedy in Ovid's Thebaid (20 min)
4. Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University
Intertextuality in the Metamorphoses: Expanding the Theoretical Model (20 min)
5. Thomas Habinek, University of Southern California
The Lost Ideologeme (20 min)
Respondent: Stephen Hinds, University of Washington (20 min)
9:00am Section 61 Sutton South
Paper Session: Peoples of the Roman Empire
Cynthia Damon, Presider
1. F. E. Romer, University of Arizona
The ``Map'' of Pomponius Mela: An Hypothesis (15 min)
2. Trevor Murphy, University of California, Berkeley
Triumphal Exposition in Naturalis Historia Books 3-6 (15 min)
3. Stephen Brunet, University of Texas at Austin
Athletes and their Predecessors during the Roman Empire (15 min)
4. Joel Allen, Yale University
The ``Obses'' Obsession: Hostage Exchange and the ``Overclass'' in
Ammianus Marcellinus (15 min)
5. Noel Lenski, University of Colorado
New Evidence for Isauria in the Fourth Century AD (15 min)
Discussion
9:00am Section 62 Regent Parlor
Paper Session: Roman Historiography
Harry Evans, Presider
1. Christina S. Kraus, University College, London
Looking at Sallust's Histories (15 min)
2. Rex Stem, University of Michigan
The Dating of Caesar's Bellum Civile (15 min)
3. James C. Abbot Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nihil ex his Caesari Incognitum: Germanicus and History (15 min)
4. Victoria Pagán, University of Chicago
Beyond Teutoburg: Time in Tacitus' Annals 1.61-62 (15 min)
5. John W. Burke, Kent State University
What's in a Genealogy?: The ``Tiberius'' in Suetonius' Tiberius (15 min)
6. Mario Erasmo, Wellesley College
The Emperor's ``Used'' Clothes: Reading Fashion in Suetonius (15 min)
Discussion
9:00am Section 63 Murray Hill A
Paper Session: Prophecy and Divination
Leslie Dean-Jones, Presider
1. Laurel Bowman, University of Victoria
The Use of Prophecy in Thucydides (15 min)
2. Jacques A. Bailly, Colby College
Socrates' Divine Sign: Rational and Consequentialist (15 min)
3. Gavin Sundwall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Luck of the Draw or the Will of the Gods? Casting Lots in Republican
Rome (15 min)
4. Brian A. Krostenko, University of Notre Dame
A Stone Reset: Cicero's Poetry in de Divinatione (15 min)
5. John C. Traupman, St. Joseph's University
A Scientific Basis for Roman Divination by Entrails? (15 min)
6. Darryl A. Phillips, Vanderbilt University
Seeking New Auspices: Audience Response to Technical Aspects of Roman
Religion in Virgil's Aeneid (15 min)
Discussion
9:00am Section 64 Murray Hill B
Paper Session: Re-reading the Hero in Early Greek Epic
Anthony Podlecki, Presider
1. Joseph P. Wilson, University of Scranton
Homer's Aias: The Hero and the Poet (15 min)
2. Stephen Kline, Rutgers University
Ajax the Orator in Iliad 17 (15 min)
3. Mark S. Farmer, Loyola University, Chicago
Sophocles' Ajax and Homer's Hector: A Soliloquy for Two (15 min)
4. Richard Sacks, Columbia University
Odysseus Traditions and the of the Odyssey (15 min)
5. Erwin F. Cook, University of Texas, Austin
Odysseus as Passive Aggressor (15 }in)
Discussion
9:00am Section 65 Gramercy B
Paper Session: Women's Voices and the Representations of Power
Jenny Strauss Clay, Presider
1. Lisa Maurizio, Stanford University
Cassandra's Curse and the Pythia's Honor: The Social Conditions of
Female Prophetic Authority (15 min)
2. Susan Prince, University of Michigan
: Avowal and Disavowal in Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris (15 min)
3. Elias J. Theodoracopoulos, Columbia University
The Vocabulary of Social Status in Euripides' Hecuba (15 min)
4. Laura McClure, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gender and Obscenity in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae (15 min)
5. Elizabeth Manwell, University of Chicago
``If a Tree Falls in the Woods...'': Recovering the Voice of Philomela (15 min)
6. Fannie J. LeMoine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
An Intercessor's Authority: Perpetua's Subversion of Roman Civic
Spectacle (15 min)
Discussion
9:00am Section 66 East Ballroom Foyer
Three-Year Colloquium: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship
Judith P. Hallett and Thomas Van Nortwick, Organizers
1. Sarah Dougher, University of Texas at Austin
An Epic for the Ladies: Contextualizing Samuel Butler's Theory of Odyssey Authorship (20 min)
2. Bella Zweig, University of Arizona
Feminism, Women's Spirituality, Helen, Multi-Ethnicity: The Woven Fabric of My
Perspective on Ancient Greek Drama, Literature and Culture (20 min)
3. Mary Kay Gamel, University of California at Santa Cruz
``Apollo Knows I have no Children'': Scholarship and Motherhood (20 min)
Respondents: Charles R. Beye, Lehman College/CUNY (15 min)
Vanda Zajko, University of Bristol (15 min)
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Hamilton College (20 min)
9:00am Section 67 Nassau A
Paper Session: Imperial Latin Epic
Peter White, Presider
1. Netta Berlin, Tulane University
Fabula and Historia in the Narration of Dreams: The Cases of Cicero
and Lucan (15 min)
2. Vanessa B. Gorman, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Libera fortunae mors est: Heroes and Battle Scenes in the Pharsalia (15 min)
3. Katherine Owen Eldred, Princeton University
All for One: The Sacrifice of Vulteius, Pharsalia 4. 448-501 (15 min)
4. Thomas D. Frazel, University of California, Los Angeles
How Clement is Statius' Ara Clementiae? (Theb. 12.481-511) (15 min)
5. Richard Gilder III, University of Pennsylvania
The Lateness of Jupiter in Statius' Thebaid (15 min)
Discussion
9:00am Section 68 Nassau B
Paper Session: Greek Lyric, Elegy, and Iambus
David Sider, Presider
1. Elizabeth Irwin, University of Cambridge
Biography, Fiction, and the Archilochean (15 min)
2. Ippokratis Kantzios, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
The Trajectory of Evolution of Archaic Greek Iambus (15 min)
3. Phillip L. Lenihan, University of Chicago
The and Oral Composition in Archaic Poetry (15 min)
4. Stephen B. Heiny, Earlham College
Nemea 8 and Pindar's Persuasion (15 min)
5. Emil V. Bova, University of Chicago
Starting from the Scratch: Pythian 2 90ff. Considered Again (15 min)
Discussion
9:00am Section 69 Petit Trianon
Workshop on Benefit or Burden? Assessing the Role of and Perceptions About M.A. and Post-Baccalaureate Programs
Pamela Vaughn, Organizer
1. Jo-Ann Shelton, University of California, Santa Barbara
The `Other' Graduate Education (10 min)
2. Nancy Felson-Rubin, University of Georgia
A Blueprint for the Classics Future? New Venues, Services and Networks for
M.A. Programs (10 min)
3. William S. Morison, University of California, Santa Barbara
The M.A. Risk: A Doctoral Student's Perspective (10 min)
4. David L. Blank, University of California, Los Angeles
Post-Baccalaureate Programs: The Realistic Solution? (10 min)
5. Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania
Weighing the Success of an Established Post-Baccalaureate (10 min)
Commentators: Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland (15 min)
Glen M. Knudsvig, University of Michigan (15 min)
Discussion
Eighth session for the reading of papers
1:30pm Section 70 Murray Hill B
Panel Session: Rhetoric and Gender in Roman Culture
Amy Richlin, Organizer
1. Erik Gunderson, Ohio State University
Oral Gratification and Rhetorical Chastity (20 min)
2. Martin Bloomer, Stanford University
A Grammared Society: The Division of Gender in Roman Rhetoric (20 min)
3. Amy Richlin, University of Southern California
The Roman Forum as Gendered Space (20 min)
4. Margaret Imber, Stanford Humanities Center
Declamation and the Ideology of Roman Matrons (20 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 71 Nassau B
Paper Session: Greek Religion
Sarah Peirce, Presider
1. Jonathan Burgess, University of Toronto
Heaven Can Be Hell: Afterlife in Early Greek Myth (15 min)
2. Rajeshwari Pandharipande and Albert Watanabe, University of Illinois, Champaign- Urbana; University of Memphis
Thetis, Ganga and Immortality (15 min)
3. Sarah T. Cohen, University of Chicago
Thunderstruck in Elysium: Death by Lightning in the Thurii Lamellae (15 min)
4. Victoria Wohl, University of Texas, San Antonio
Tyrants and Tyrannicide at the Panathenaia (15 min)
5. Hugh J. Mason, University of Toronto
Thucydides 3.3.3; The Festival of Apollo Maloeis Outside the City (15 min)
6. Cynthia White, University of Arizona
The Sacrum Mysterium of Marriage (Pagan & Christian) (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 72 Murray Hill A
Paper Session: Roman Republican History
Ethyle Wolfe, Presider
1. Kai T. Heikkilä, Universität Heidelberg
In Ious Educito (15 min)
2. Judy E. Gaughan, University of California, Berkeley
The Struggle for Judicial Authority in the Roman Republic (15 min)
3. Stefan G. Chrissanthos, University of Southern California
The Assassination of A. Postumius Albinus (15 min)
4. Peter White, University of Chicago
Publication of Acta in Late Republican Rome (15 min)
5. Robert M. Kallet-Marx, University of California, Santa Barbara
Publicity and Popularity in the Commentariolum Petitionis (15 min)
6. Pamela D. Lackie, Bryn Mawr College
The Roman Military Consilium (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 73 Sutton Center
Joint Panel Session: The Social Life of (Roman) Things
Jacqui Sadashige and Andrew M. Riggsby, Organizers
1. Pedar W. Foss, University of Cincinnati
The Life and Times of the Lectus (20 min)
2. Penelope J.E. Davies, University of Texas
Dialogue with the Dead: the Social Function of the Roman Tomb (20 min)
3. Anthony Corbeill, University of Kansas
Thumbs in Ancient Rome: Pollex as Index (20 min)
4. Andrew M. Riggsby, University of Texas
The Farmer's Daughter: Land and Value in Roman Culture (15 min)
5. Jacqui Sadashige, University of Pennsylvania
Catullus' Masculine Napkins: Reification and Roman Identity (15 min)
Respondent: Eleanor Winsor Leach, University of Indiana (15 min)
Discussion (15 min)
Monday, December 30, 1996
1:30pm Section 74 Petit Trianon
Paper Session: Greek Historiography
James Romm, Presider
1. Rachel Sternberg, Bryn Mawr College
Scenes of Compassion in the Histories of Herodotus (15 min)
2. A.J. Hollmann, Harvard University
: The Psychology of Pity and Grief in Herodotus
(Hist. 3.14) (15 min)
3. Steven Lattimore, University of California, Los Angleles
The Shield of Brasidas: Thucydides 4.1-41 (15 min)
4. John M. Marincola, Union College
Alliance and Alienation: The Historian's Attitude (15 min)
5. Hartmut Melchert, Brown University
How to Explain Ktesias' Persika? (15 min)
6. Frances Skoczylas Pownall, University of Alberta
Nothing to Do with Philip?: Theopompus' view of Demosthenes (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 75 Regent Parlor
Paper Session: Heroic Women
Katherine King, Presider
1. Hardy C. Fredricksmeyer, Ravencroft School
Penelope Polutropos: The Crux at Odyssey 23.218-24 (15 min)
2. Donna F. Wilson, University of Texas at Austin
Figuring the Female: Omophagy and the Construction of Heroic Identity
in the Iliad (15 min)
3. Kathleen McNamee, Wayne State University
Augmenting Women's Work (15 min)
4. Kate M. Manuel, Duke University
`` ``: Suicide and the Paradoxes of Identity in Euripides'
Helen (15 min)
5. Jill Connelly, University of Chicago
Reading Penelope's Reaction: Ovid Heroides I. 39-44 (15 min)
6. Alison Futrell, University of Arizona
``Barbarian Queens: Shifting Sophonisba'' (15 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 76 Gramercy B
Paper Session: Myth and Metaphor in Greek and Latin Literature
John Peradotto, Presider
1. Robert L. Kane, Miami University
Nauplius, Clytemnestra and the `Truth' of Beacons (15 min)
2. Stephen Esposito, Boston University
The Wheel of Fortune in Sophocles' Maidens of Trachis (15 min)
3. Victor Castellani, University of Denver
Playing with Fire: Torches, Lamps, and Fire-Pots in Aristophanes (15 min)
4. Michael Hendry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
The Marriage of Greece and Rome in Horace, Epistle 2.1 and
Epodes 8 and 12 (15 min)
5. René Nuenlist, University of Basel, Switzerland
Thespis' Chariot Reconsidered (15 min)
6. Katharina Volk, Princeton University
Cum Carmine Crescit et Annus: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of Simultaneity (15 min)
Discussion
2:00pm Section 77 Gramercy A (the demo room adjacent to the Technology Showcase Exhibit)
Panel Session: Classics, Computers, and Pedagogy
William A. Johnson, Organizer
(Sponsored by the APA Committee on Computer Activities)
1. Ross Scaife, University of Kentucky
Diotima, in Practice and in Theory (20 min)
2. Kenneth Morrell, Rhodes College
Technology, Collaboration, and the Small College Consortium (20 min)
3. Suzanne Bonefas, Associated Colleges of the South
MOO: Virtual Spaces and Collaborative Learning (20 min)
4. Andrew Wiesner, University of Pennsylvania
The Vergil Project: A Case Study in Early Internet Scholarship (20 min)
Discussion
1:30pm Section 78 Nassau A
Panel Session: Ius ac fas: Exploring the Intersections of Law, Religion, and Latin Literature
Hans-Friedrich Mueller, Peter Cohee, and Tadeusz Mazurek, Organizers
Introduction: Hans-Friedrich Mueller, The Florida State University (5 min)
1. Peter Cohee, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Munich)
Recludere fontes: Reading Roman Religion (15 min)
2. Daniel J. Gargola, University of Kentucky
Rites and the Language of Prayer in Cicero's De Republica and
De Legibus (15 min)
3. Tadeusz Mazurek, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scribae and Literati at Law: Audience and Literary Agenda in Horace's
Satires (15 min)
4. Debbie Felton, Ball State University
The Haunters and the Haunted -- and their Legal Rights (15 min)
Respondent: W. Jeffrey Tatum, The Florida State University
Response: Literary Criticism and the Intersection(s) of Law, Religion, and
Latin Liturature (25 min)
Discussion (25 min)
1:30pm Section 79 Gibson Suite
Three-Year Colloquium on Ideology and Poetic Form: Latin Lyric
Paul Allen Miller, Organizer
1. David Fredrick, University of Arkansas
Catulus 4: Sound, Gender, Ideology (20 min)
2. Ellen Greene, University of Oklahoma
Gendered Domains: Public and Private in Catullus 5 and 11 (20 min)
3. Micaela Janan, Duke University
Infidelities: (Un)Making Belief in Propertius 4.8 (20 min)
4. Paul Allen Miller, Texas Tech University
Catullus, the Elegists, and the Emergence of the Real (20 min)
Respondent: Sharon James, University of California, Santa Cruz (20 min)
Discussion (20 min)
Paper to be read by title only:
1. Joshua D. Sosin, Duke University
Servius' Role in Jevenal's 4th-Century Renaissance