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Last Revised - January 5, 2017 |
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Friday, January 5 |
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First Paper Session (8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.) |
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Session 1: Classics and Social Justice (Organized by Jessica Wright, University of Southern California, and Amit Shilo, University of California, Santa Barbara) |
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Elina Salminen (University of Michigan) |
"At Intersections: Teaching about Power and Powerlessness in the Ancient World" |
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Casey C. Moore (Ridge View High School) |
"Engaging Minority Students: Modifying Pedagogical Practice for Social Justice" |
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Rodrigo Verano (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) |
"Reading Homer in and outside the Bars: An Educational Project in Post-Conflict Colombia" |
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Molly Harris (University of Wisconsin - Madison) |
"The Warrior Book Club: Advancing Social Justice for Veterans through Collaboration" |
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Amy Pistone (University of Michigan) |
"First Do No Harm: Responsible Outreach and Community Engagement" |
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Session 2: Classical Reception Studies (Organized by the American Classical League) |
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Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center) |
Introduction |
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Andrea Kouklanakis (Bard High School Early College-Manhattan) |
"Colonial and Post Colonial Representations of the Classics in the works of two mulatto writers in Brazil" |
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Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (CUNY Graduate Center) |
"Dining like Nero: Antiquity and Immersive Dining Experiences in the Late 19th-century and early 20th-century New York" |
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Peter J. Miller (University of Winnipeg) |
"The Imaginary Antiquity of Physical Culture" |
| Emilio Capettini (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
"'Greek Characters Erasing in the Weather': The Politics of Memory during the AIDS Crisis" |
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Jared Simard (New York University) |
Response |
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Session 3: Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text (Organized by the American Friends of Herculaneum) |
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Mantha Zarmakoupi (University of Birmingham) |
"The Place Between: Villa Gardens and Garden Paintings" |
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Ambra Spinelli (University of Southern California) |
"Beyond the Salutatio: Looking at Archaeological and Literary Evidence for the Tablinum in the Houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum" |
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David Saunders (Getty Museum) |
"Working with Wax: Observations on the Manufacture of Ancient Bronzes from Herculaneum and Pompeii" |
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Brent Seales (University of Kentucky) |
"Virtual Unwrapping of Herculaneum Material: Overcoming Remaining Challenges" |
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Sonya Wurster (University of Melbourne) |
Epicurean Emotional Theory and Philodemus' On the Gods |
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Session 4: Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry (Organized by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University, and Lisa Whitlatch, St. Olaf College) |
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T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University) and Lisa Whitlatch (St. Olaf College) |
Introduction |
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Philip Thibodeau (Brooklyn College) |
"The teacher's dilemma in Greek didactic texts" |
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Brian Hill (Rutgers University) |
"Didactic warfare: Military imagery and progressive exposure in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura" |
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Alexander Schwennicke (Harvard University) |
"Teaching without text: Didaxis and media in Hor. Serm. 2.3" |
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Raymond Kania (Stanford University) |
"Virgil's imagined audience: Second-person fiction in the Georgics" |
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Session 5: Teaching, Living, and Learning: Classical Studies in Secondary Schools (Organized by Mary English, Montclair State University, and Philip Walsh, St. Andrew's School) |
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Cynthia White (University of Arizona) |
Introduction |
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John Jacobs (Montclair Kimberly Academy) |
Participant #1 - Workshop |
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Eric Casey (Trinity School) |
Participant #2 - Workshop |
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Edward Zarrow (Westwood High School) |
Participant #3 - Workshop |
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Jane Brinley (School Without Walls) |
Participant #4 - Workshop |
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Session 6: Medicine and Disease in Galen (David Blank presiding) |
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Claire Bubb (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) |
"Galen: Text Production and Antiquity" |
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Amy Koenig (Harvard University) |
"Conflict, Constraint, and the Physical Voice in Galen" |
| Rebecca Flemming (University of Cambridge) |
"Galen, aDNA and the Plague" |
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Session 7: Argumentation in Plato (Charles Platter presiding) |
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Kenneth Draper (Williams College) |
"Parmenides, Stesichorus, and Antilogy in Plato's Phaedrus" |
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Dale Parker (University of California, Los Angeles) |
"Aristotelian Refutations in the Protagoras and Gorgias" |
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Matthew James Shelton (University of St. Andrews) |
"At the boundaries of the dialectical art: collection and division in Plato's Phaedrus" |
| Collin Miles Hilton (Bryn Mawr College) |
"The Road to Didactic is Long and Steep: Xenophon and Plato on the Hesiodic 'Path to Arete' Image" |
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Session 8: Latin Epigraphy and Paleography (Paul Iversen presiding) |
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Jeffrey Easton (University of Toronto) |
"The descendants of Roman municipal freedmen in the ordo decurionum and the limits of the macula servitutis" |
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Orla F. Mulholland (Translator & Editor, Berlin) |
"Roman numeral palaeography: a hazard and a help to editors of Latin texts" |
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Sarah L. Veale (University of Toronto) |
"Rogo te ut me vindices: A Social Demography of Cursing at Mogontiacum" |
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David Allen Wallace-Hare (University of Toronto) |
"Seeing the Silva Thorough the Silva: The Religious Economy of Timber Communities in Aquitania and Gallia Narbonensis" |
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Session 9: Agency in Drama (Helene Foley presiding) |
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Mary Clare Dolinar (University of Wisconsin - Madison) |
"The Agency and Power of the Dying Alcestis" |
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Jonathan Fenno (The University of Mississippi) |
"Electra's Living Death in Sophocles' Electra" |
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Caleb P. Simone (Columbia University) |
"Choreographing Frenzy: Auletics, Agency, and the Body in Euripides' Heracles" |
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Edwin Wong (Independent Scholar) |
"Low-Probability, High-Consequence Events in Greek Tragedy: A look at Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes" |
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Session 10: Visions of Ancient Cities, Sanctuaries, and Landscapes in Literature, Art and Coinage (Organized by Friends of Numismatics) |
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Britta Ager (Vassar College) |
"Fragrant Temples: Scent and the Sacred Landscape" |
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Nathan Elkins (Baylor University) |
"Architectural Representation on the Coinage and Imperial Praise from Augustus to Trajan" |
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Alexis Belis (J. Paul Getty Museum) |
"Mt. Argaios in Cappadocia: Reception of a Sacred Mountain in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods" |
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Jane DeRose Evans (Temple University) |
"A Mountain, its Temples and Cultural Identity: Mt. Gerizim and the Self-Identification of the Inhabitants of Neapolis" |
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Alexandra Yen (Boston University) |
"The City Gate and Cityscape: Fanum Fortunae, the Arch of Augustus, and the Roman City" |
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Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University) |
Response |
Second Paper Session (10:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.) |
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Session 11: Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (Organized by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy) |
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Mark Wheeler (University of California at San Diego) |
Introduction |
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Takashi Oki (Kyoto University) |
"Aristotle on Zeno's Arrow" |
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Robin Weiss (American University in Cairo) |
"The Furthermost Reaches of Community: The Stoics on Justice for Humans and for Animals" |
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David Kaufman (Transylvania University) |
"Philodemus and the Peripatetics on the Role of Anger in the Virtuous Life" |
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Session 12: Harassment and Academia: Old Battles and New Frontiers (Organized by the Committee on Gender and Sexuality In the Profession and WCC) |
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Rebecca F. Kennedy (Denison University) |
Introduction |
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Fiona McHardy (University of Roehampton) |
"Strategies for Creating Positive Work Environments in Classical Academia" |
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Donna Zuckerberg (Eidolon) |
"How to Be the Perfect Victim of Internet Harassment" |
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Patrice Rankine (University of Richmond) |
"Harassment in the Workplace: An Administrator's Perspective" |
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Session 13: Workshop on Outreach and the Function of the SCS Legates (Workshop organized by the Membership Committee) |
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Kathleen M. Coleman (Harvard University) |
Introduction |
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Charles Platter (University of Georgia) |
"Initiatives in Georgia" |
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Sharon James (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
"Initiatives in North Carolina" |
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Session 14: Approaching Risk in Antiquity (Organized by Paul Vadan, University of Chicago, and Anna Bonnell-Freidin, Princeton University) |
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Esther Eidinow (University of Nottingham) |
"Dicing with Danger: Some Vocabulary and Concepts of Ancient Greek Risk" |
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Stephen Kidd (Brown University) |
"Calculating Risk at the Dicing Table" |
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Paul Vadan (University of Chicago) |
"Risk and Hellenistic Decision-Making" |
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Anna Bonnell-Freidin (Princeton University) |
"Fortuna and Risk: Embodied Chance in the Roman Empire" |
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Brent Shaw (Princeton University) |
Response |
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Session 15: The Online Public Classics Archive: Classics in the Press (Workshop) (Organized by Ariane Schwartz, Harvard University/I Tatti Renaissance Library, and Jason Pedicone, The Paideia Institute) The organizers have created the Online Public Classics Archive, a public media Classics database that archives and organizes the public media engagement with antiquity on the Internet. The workshop will be a space for SCS attendees to: (a) see a demonstration of the features of this new database and consider trends in public classics scholarship; and b) participate in a vibrant general discussion on the benefits and challenges of discussing antiquity in the public sphere. |
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Session 16: Virgil and his Afterlife (Michael Putnam presiding) |
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Pramit Chaudhuri (The University of Texas at Austin) and Joseph Dexter (Harvard University) |
"More Latian Anagrams (Aen. 8.314-36)" |
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Shannon Dubois (Boston University) |
"The Cupidity of Ascanius in Vergil and Vegio" |
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India Watkins (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
"Dramatic Manipulations of Vergil's Georgics in Seneca's Phaedra" |
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Tedd A. Wimperis (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
"Italus, Italia, and Ethnic Ideology in Aeneid 7-12" |
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Session 17: Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context (Patricia Rosenmeyer presiding) |
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Chaya Cassano (CUNY Graduate Center) |
"The Exagoge of Ezekiel Tragicus in its political and historical context" |
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Barnaby Chesterton (Texas Tech University) |
"Inscriptional Conventions in Early Hellenistic Book-Label Epigram" |
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Alissa A. Vaillancourt (Villanova University) |
"The Dedication of a Hetaera and Poetic Program: Layering of Sapphic and Homeric Allusion in an Epigram of Leonidas of Tarentum" |
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Kathryn Dorothy Wilson (Washington University in St. Louis) |
"The Life Cycle of a Sign in Aratus' Phaenomena" |
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Session 18: Foreign Policy (Julia Wilker presiding) |
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Gregory Callaghan (University of Pennsylvania) |
"Andriscus, Aristonicus, and How to Rebel from Rome: Comparing Republican and Imperial Revolts" |
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Bret Devereaux (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
"Carthaginian Strategy and Expenses in the First Punic War" |
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Aaron Hershkowitz (Rutgers University) |
"How Odious was the Athenian Tribute System?" |
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Paul A. McGilvery (University of Western Ontario) |
"Xenophon and the Elean War: Garbled Chronology or Deliberate Synchronism?" |
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Session 19: The Politics of Linguistic Metaphors in Latin (Organized by Basil Dufallo, University of Michigan, and William Short, University of Texas at San Antonio) |
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Basil Dufalo (University of Michigan) |
Introduction |
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Carolyn MacDonald (University of New Brunswick) |
"Going Underground: Linguistic Metaphors and the Politics of Varro's De lingua Latina" |
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Brian Channing Walters (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
"Speech as Medicine in Ciceronian Oratory" |
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Alexander Forte (Colgate University) |
"Squaring Off: Boxing as a Metaphor for the Politics of Virgilian Poetry" |
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Adam Gitner (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae) |
"Words as Citizens in Romulus's Asylum" |
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Session 20: "The Classics Tuning Project": Competencies, Value and Visibility in the Classics at Small Liberal Arts Schools (Joint AIA-SCS Workshop) |
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Clara Hardy (Carleton College) |
Introduction |
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Sanjaya Thakur (Colorado College) |
"Presentation of the core competencies list generated at workshop" |
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Lisl Walsh (Beloit College) |
"Presentation of the alumni survey data" |
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Angela Ziskowski (Coe College) |
"Presentation of sample materials in the online repository" |
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SCS Poster Session (11:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.) |
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Sophia S. Dill (Randolph College) |
"New Methods in Engineering Greek Theatrical Masks" |
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John D. Morgan (University of Delaware) |
"The Dates of Roman Triumphs and the Nundinae" |
Third Paper Session (1:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.) |
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Session 21: Epigraphy and Religion Revisited (Organized by the American Society for Greek and Latin Epigraphy) |
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| Jessica Paga (College of William & Mary) | "Administration and Topography in IG I3 4A-B, the Hekatompedon Decrees" |
| Irene Salvo (University of Goettingen) | "Religious Experience, Ritual Knowledge, and Gender in the Athenian Curse Tablets" |
| Jessica Lamont (Yale University) | "The Koine of Cursing in Early Greece: Bindings and Incantations from the Epigraphic Evidence" |
| John Bodel (Brown University) | "Ex visu / κατ᾽ ὄναρ Dedications and the Spiritual Lives of Greek and Roman Slaves" |
| Santiago Castellanos (University of Leon) | "Religion and Epigraphy in Post-Roman Iberia: The Case of Eleutherius" |
| Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (University of Oxford) | "Asklepios and St. Artemios: comparative perspectives on Hellenistic, late ancient, and early Byzantine narratives of incubation" |
| Session 22: Deterritorializing Classics: Deleuze, Guattari, and their Philological Discontents (Organized by Kyle Khellaf, Yale University) | |
| Kyle Khellaf (Yale University) | Introduction |
| Richard Ellis (University of California, Los Angeles) | "Αἰών as Virtual Multiplicity: Durational Thinking in Heraclitus and Empedocles" |
| Assaf Krebs (Tel Aviv University and Shenkar College of Art Design and Engineering) | "Minority and Becoming: Deleuze, Guattari, and the Case of Apuleius' Metamorphoses" |
| Nancy Worman (Barnard College) | "Euripidean Assemblages" |
| Michiel van Veldhuizen (Brown University) | "Back on Circe's Island: Becoming-Animal with Deleuze and Guattari" |
| Richard Hutchins (Princeton University) | "Animal Revolt and Lines in Flight in Lucretius Book Five" |
| Alex Purves (University of California, Los Angeles) | Response |
| Session 23: The Sounds of War (Organized by MOISA - The Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage) | |
| Sean Gurd (University of Missouri) | Introduction |
| Andreas Kramarz (Legion of Christ College of the Humanities) | "What Brought the Walls of Jericho Down?" |
| Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago) | "Loud trumpets and low bodies" |
| Spencer Klavan (University of Oxford) | "Martem Accendere Cantu: Trumpets and Bloodlust in Hellenistic Aesthetics" |
| Brad Hald (University of Toronto) | "Towards a Thucydidean theory of affect" |
| Mark Thorne (Brigham Young University) | "Civil War in the Key of Caesar: Traumatic Soundscapes in Lucan" |
| Session 24: Professional Matters at Religiously Affiliated Institutions: A Conversation with Insiders (Workshop) (Organized by Christopher Polt, Boston College, and James Uden, Boston University) | |
| Julia Dyson Hejduk (Baylor University) | Presentation #1 |
| Arum Park (University of Arizona) | Presentation #2 |
| Anne H. Groton (St. Olaf College) | Presentation #3 |
| Alexander Loney (Wheaton College) | Presentation #4 |
| Alexander Sens (Georgetown University) | Presentation #5 |
| Session 25: Slavery and Sexuality in Antiquity (Organized by the Lambda Classical Caucus) | |
| Jason Porter (University of Nottingham) | "Strategies of Control: The Rationale of Classical Athenian Slave-Owners in Dictating the Sexual Lives of their Slaves" |
| Allison Glazebrook (Brock University) | "Dangerous Liaisons: Sex, Slavery, and Violence in Classical Athens" |
| Katharine Huemoeller (University of British Columbia) | "'The Natural Savagery of Slaves'? Slaves as Sexual Aggressors in Revolt Narratives" |
| Anise Strong (University of Western Michigan) | "Recovering Publilius: Male Slave Rape and Social Reform" |
| William Owens (Ohio University) | "Psyche Ancilla: Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche Tale as an Ancient Slave Narrative" |
| Kathy Gaca (Vanderbilt University) | "Minding the Mistress: The Household Power Struggle to Control Female Slaves Sexuality in the Ancient Mediterranean" |
| Session 26: New Approaches to the Homeric Formula (Organized by Deborah Beck, University of Texas at Austin, and Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan) | |
| Deborah Beck (University of Texas at Austin) | Introduction |
| William Beck (University of Pennsylvania) | "'Even the Epithets are Necessary': Ancient Approaches to 'Illogical' Homeric Epithets" |
| Jonathan Ready (Indiana University) | "Folkloristic Perspectives on Why Poets and Audiences Like Shared Formulas" |
| Chiara Bozzone (University of California, Los Angeles) | "The Lives of Formulas: Linguistic Productivity and the Development of Epic Greek" |
| Adrian Kelly (Oxford University) | "'Intraformularity' in epos" |
| Ruth Scodel (University of Michigan) | Response |
| Session 27: Elegiac Desires (Erika Zimmerman Damer, University of Richmond, Presiding) | |
| E. Del Chrol (Marshall University) | "The Naso Equilibrium: Game Theory and the Game of Love in the Ars Amatoria" |
| Julie Laskaris (University of Richmond) | "Ovid's Enchanted Ring Poem: Amores 2.15" |
| Aaron Palmore (The Ohio State University) | "Horace, Cinara, and the Elegiac Discourse of Desire" |
| Justin Anthony Stover (University of Edinburgh) | "Propertius, Martial and the Monobiblos" |
| Nicole Elizabeth Taynton (University of California, Santa Barbara) | "Roman Elegy Remixed: Gender and Genre in Catalepton 4" |
| Session 28: Didactic Poetry (Helen van Noorden presiding) | |
| Katherine Lu Hsu (Brooklyn College CUNY) | "Injured Immortals: The Painful Paradoxes of Chiron and Prometheus" |
| Michelle M. Martinez (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) | "How to 'Bee' a Good Wife" |
| Andre Matlock (University of California, Los Angeles) | "Hesiod's Two Plows: Materiality and Representation in Works and Days" |
| Floris Overduin (Radboud University Mijmegan) | "A didactic kettle of fish? Literary dimensions of Marcellus' De Piscibus (GDRK 63) |
| Stephen A. Sansom (Stanford University) | "Eternal Motionlessness in the Hesiodic Aspis and Early Greek Philosophy" |
| Brett L. Stine (Texas Tech University) | "Monsters Must Bear Monsters: Genealogical Continuity and Poetic Awareness in Theogony 287-94 and 979-83" |
| Session 29: Language and Linguistics (Joshua Katz presiding) | |
| Peter J. Anderson (Grand Valley State University) | "Xylander's Latin Translation of Marcus Aurelius" |
| Erik Z. D. Ellis (University of Notre Dame) | "Greek, Latin, Roman: Language and Identity in late Antqiuity and the Early Middle Ages" |
| Tommaso Mari (Otto-Friedrich-Universität) Bamberg) | "Spoken Greek and the work of notaries in the Acts of the Council of Chalcedon" |
| Duane W. Roller (The Ohio State University) | "When is a queen truly a queen: the term basileia in Greek literature" |
| Stephanie Roussou (University of Oxford) | "Distinguishing between concrete and abstract nouns: a terminological innovation in Herodian?" |
| Session 30: Material Girls: Gender and Material Culture in the Ancient World (Organized by the Womens Classical Caucus, Joint AIA-SCS Panel) | |
| Stamatia Dova (Hellenic College Holy Cross) | "Procne, Philomela and the Voice of the Peplos" |
| Anne-Sophie Noel (Harvard University) | "Unveiling female feelings for objects: Deianeira and her ὄργανα in Sophocles' Trachiniai" |
| Teresa Yates (University of California, Irvine) | "Binding Male Sexuality: Tacility and Female Autonomy in Ancient Greek Curse tablets" |
| Hérica Valladares (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) | "Of Soleae and Self-Fashioning: Roman Women's Shoes from Vindolanda to Sidi Ghrib" |
| Anne Truetzel (Princeton University) | "Ritual Implements and the Construction of Identity for Roman Women" |
| Mira Green (University of Washington) | "Butcher Blocks, Vegetable Stands, and Home-Cooked Food: Resisting Gender and Class Constructions in the Roman World" |
Presidential Panel and Plenary Session (5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.): "The Ph.D. Today: This is Your Brain on Classics" |
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| Katherine Eldred (Attorney) | |
| Ted Zarrow (Westwood High School) | |
| Michael Zimm (Digital Surgeons) | |
| S. Georgia Nugent (Society for Classical Studies) | |
Plenary Session (6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.) |
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| S. Georgia Nugent (Society for Classical Studies) | "Chiron meets Charon: On Crossing Over to “The Dark Side” |
Saturday, January 6 |
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All-Day Workshop (8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) |
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| Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Welcome |
| 9:00-9:40 Scott Arcenas (Stanford University) | "Working with Geospatial Networks of the Roman World using ORBIS" |
| 9:50-10:30 Sebastian Heath (New York University) | "Semantic Inferencing for the Archaeologist" |
| 10:40-11:20 Adam Rabinowitz (University of Texas at Austin) | "How to use the PeriodO gazetteer of period definitions: browsing, submitting, and referencing authoritative period definitions" |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lightning Presentations |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch Break |
| 1:30-2:10 Casey Dué (Center for Hellenic Studies) | "How to create a citable, machine-actionable data model with the Homer Multitext" |
| 2:20-3:00 T.J. Bolt, Adriana Casarez, Jeffrey Hill Flynt (University of Texas at Austin) | "How to do Philology with Computers" |
| 3:00-4:00 | Panel - Moderated by Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston University) |
Roundtable Discussion Session 1 (8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.) |
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| Are You Contingent? | Organized by Elizabeth La Fray and Timothy Heckenlively, Baylor University |
| Teaching Classics in Community Colleges | Organized by Caroline S. Kelly, Mitchell Community College, and Mary English, Montclair State University |
Fourth Paper Session (8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.) |
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| Session 31: New Age Servius (Organized by the Publications and Research Committee) | |
| Dirk Obbink (University of Oxford) | Introduction |
| E. Christian Kopff (University of Colorado Boulder) | "How Servius Dealt with Variant Readings in the Text of Virgil |
| Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania) | "Evidence from Servius on the Use of Greek Models by Virgil and his Commentators" |
| James Brusuelas (University of Oxford) | "Servius Redux" |
| Hugh Cayless (Duke University Libraries) | "Modeling Servius for the Digital Latin Library" |
| Ward W. Briggs (University of South Carolina) | Response |
| Session 32: Greek and Latin Linguistics (Organized by the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics) | |
| Angelo Mercado (Grinnell College) | "Accent in Ennius' Hexameters" |
| Coulter George (University of Virginia) | "πάνυ δὴ δεῖ χρηστὰ λέγειν ἡμᾶς: Expressions of obligation and necessity in Aristophanes" |
| Laura Massetti (University of Cologne and Center for Hellenic Studies) | "Tradition and Renewal in Pindaric Diction: Some Remarks on the IE Background of Pindar P. 2.52-6" |
| Matilde Serangeli (University of Copenhagen) | "Gk. ταπεινός 'low, low-lying' (Hdt., Pind. +) and IE *temp- 'to stretch, extend' |
| Alexander Nikolaev (Boston University) | "Greek Etymology in the 21st century" |
| Session 33: Performing Problem Plays (Organized by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance) | |
| Jonathan MacLellan (University of Texas at San Antonio) | "The Performance of Ezekiel's Exagoge Re-Addressed" |
| Colleen Kron (The Ohio State University) | "Prometheus Bound in a Sicilian Performance Context" |
| Daniel E. Anderson (Cambridge University) | "Burning Down the Fifth-Century Stage" |
| Emmanuel Aprilakis (Rutgers University) | "What Chorus? Using Performance to Appreciate the Chorus of Menander's Dyskolos" |
| Mark Damen (Utah State University) | Response |
| Session 34: The Future of Teaching Ancient Greek (Workshop) (Organized by Wilfred E. Major, Louisiana State University) | |
| Rex Wallace (University of Massachussets Amherst) | "Teaching Ablaut in Elementary Ancient Greek" |
| Michael Laughy (Washington and Lee University) | "The Function and Context of an Ancient Greek Textbook: A New Approach" |
| John Gruber-Miller (Cornell College) | "Imagining Ancient Texts through Material Culture and the Spatial Environment" |
| C. Emil Penarubia (Boston College High School) | "Sustaining a Secondary School Greek Program" |
| Session 35: The Art of Praise: Panegyric and Encomium in Late Antiquity (Organized by the Society for Late Antiquity) | |
| Paul Kimball (Bilkent University) | Introduction |
| Moysés Garcia Marcos (University of California, Riverside) | "Praising the Emperor and Promoting his Religious Program: The Panegyrics of Claudius Mamertinus, Himerius, and Libanius to Julian, 362-3 CE" |
| Jacqueline Long (Loyola University Chicago) | "Eusebia and Encomium: Julian Writes the Power of Praise" |
| Angela Kinney (University of Vienna) | "Celestial Celebrity: The Multifaceted Fama of Jerome's Epistles" |
| Philip Polcar (University of Vienna) | "Praising the Rich: Jerome's consolation for the widow Salvina in Ep. 79" |
| Robert Penella (Fordham University) | Response |
| Session 36: Texts and Contexts: Learning from History (Matthew Roller presiding) | |
| Brian Jorge Bigio (Stanford University) | "Dialogues with History: The Platonic Picture of Critias and the Thirty" |
| Rachel Bruzzone (Bilkent University) | "Thucydides' Peloponnesian War as Multifaceted Disaster" |
| Julie Levy (Boston University) | "Seneca's Philosophical Thyestes" |
| Daniel Walker Moore (University of Virginia) | "Experiencing the Past: Polybius, ἐμπειρία, and Learning from History |
| Andrew G. Scott (Villanova University) | "Cassius Dio's depiction of Septimius Severus: context and implications" |
| Session 37: After the Ars: Later Ovid (Stephen Hinds presiding) | |
| Megan Elena Bowen (University of Virginia) | "Patterns of Prayer: Pleas for Help in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Suppressed Rape of Lavinia" |
| Rachael Cullick (Oklahoma State University) | "Transforming Violence in Ovid's Metamorphoses" |
| Caitlin Hines (University of Toronto) | "Ovid's viscera: Tristia 1.7 and Metamorphoses 8" |
| Aaron Kachuck (Trinity College, Cambridge) | "Somnium Ovidi: Dreams and the Metamorphoses" |
| Ursula M. Poole (Columbia University) | "Tempus ad Hoc: Synchrony in Ovid's Ibis" |
| Session 38: Style and Rhetoric (Jeffrey Rusten presiding) | |
| Christopher S. Dobbs (University of Missouri - Columbia) | "A Song of Dice and Ire: Games of Chance and Anger in Greek Oratory" |
| Scott Kennedy (The Ohio State University and Dumbarton Oaks) | "Historiography and intertextuality: the case for classical rhetoric" |
| Alyson L. Melzer (Stanford University) | "The Agency of Style: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Sappho and Pindar" |
| Aldo Tagliabue (University of Notre Dame) | "Cupid's palace in Apuleius' Metamorphoses: An unnoticed reenactment of the prologue's 'poetics of seduction'" |
| Session 39: Roman Freedmen: Community, Diversity, and Integration (Joint AIA-SCS Panel) | |
| Dorian Borbonus (University of Dayton) | Introduction |
| Marc Kleijwegt (University of Wisconsin - Madison) | "Fitting In: Freedmen Adaptation in the Roman World" |
| Kristof Vermote (Ghent University) | "Equally Different: The Performative Function of Late Republican and Early Imperial Elite Discourse on Roman Freedmen" |
| Devon Stewart (Angelo State University) | "The Gens Togata: Costume and Character in Freedmen's Funerary Monuments" |
| Rose MacLean (UC Santa Barbara) | "Roman Manumission and Citizenship in a Provincial Context" |
| John Bodel (Brown University) | Response |
Career Networking Event (12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.) |
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Fifth Paper Session (10:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.) |
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| Session 40: Afterlives of Ancient Medicine: Reception Studies or History of Medicine? (Organized by Brooke Holmes, Princeton University) | |
| Luis Salas (Washington University) | "De Galeni Corporis Fabrica: Vesalius' Use of Galen and Galenism in the Preface of his Fabrica" |
| Erin McKenna Hanses (Fordham University) | "'The Big O': Ancient Discourses on the Process of Female Pleasure" |
| Paul Keyser (Independent Scholar) | "The Longue Durée of Classics and Succession in Ancient Scientific and Medical Traditions" |
| Marquis Berrey (University of Iowa) | "Reading Celsus in Early Modern Italy" |
| Ralph Rosen (University of Pennsylvania) | Response |
| Session 41: Outreach Open Mic: Share your ideas with Communications and Outreach! (Organized by the SCS Communications Committee) | |
| Matthew M. McGowan (Fordham University) | Introduction |
| T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University) | "The SCS online: Reflections from the Communications Committee" |
| Mallory Monaco Caterine (Tulane University) | "Non sibi sed suis: Service-Learning in an Advanced Latin Course" |
| Tara Mulder (Vassar College) | "Classics in Public: Year I of the Committee on Public Information and Media Relations" |
| Wells Hansen (National Taiwan University and Amphora Editor) | "The State of Ampohra, the Outreach Publication of the SCS" |
| Session 42: Resist Together: A Practical Guide to Combatting Harassment in Classics (Workshop) (Organized by the Womens Classical Caucus, Anna E. Simas, University of Washington, and Caitlin Hines, University of Toronto) | |
| Rebecca Futo Kennedy (Denison University) | "Creation and Implementation of Anti-harassment Policy at the University Level" |
| Barbara Gold (Hamilton College) | "Harassment in Academe: Reflections and Coping-Resisting Strategies" |
| Regina M. Ryan (Discrimination and Harassment Solutions, LLC) | "Training on Combatting Harassment in Academia" |
| Session 43: Classical Advocacy: The National Committee for Latin and Greek (Workshop) (Organized by Mary Bilger Pendergraft, Wake Forest University) | |
| Mary Bilger Pendergraft (Wake Forest University) | "The National Committee for Latin and Greek" |
| Keely Lake (Wayland Academy) | "Communication, Cohesiveness, and Continuity: Fighting for the Survival of the Classics" |
| Thomas Sienkewicz (Monmouth College) | "A Seal of Biliteracy for Classical Languages" |
| Kyle A. Jazwa (Monmouth College) | "Teaching Classics in Community College" |
| Session 44: Letters in the Ancient World (Barbara Weiden Boyd presiding) | |
| Chris Bingley (University of California, Los Angeles) | "Foreign Anxiety in the Letters of Philostratus" |
| Nathaniel S. Katz (University of Texas at Austin) | "The Clementia of Burning Letters" |
| Kathryn A. Langenfeld (Rice University) | "Imperial Spies and Intercepted Letters in the Late Roman Empire" |
| Scott Aran Lepisto (Hillsdale College) | "Enlisting the Voice, Engaging the Soul: Seneca's 84th Epistle" |
| Christian Lehmann (University of Southern California | "Female Networks in Ovid's Epistulae ex Ponto 1-4" |
| Session 45: Roman Republican Prose and Its Afterlife (Christopher Krebs presiding) | |
| Kyle Khellaf (Yale University) | "Recolonizing North Africa: Sallust, French Algeria, and the Maghreb Fantasia" |
| Julia Mebane (University of Chicago) | "Negotiating Exile: The Ship-of-State in Cicero's Post-Reditum Speeches" |
| Charles E. Muntz (University of Arkansas) | "Sallust and the Mytilenean Debate" |
| Christopher van den Berg (Amherst College) | "A Ciceronian Blind Spot: Caecus, Cethegus, and Ennius in Cicero's Brutus" |
| Session 46: Mind and Matter (Brad Inwood presiding) | |
| Chiara Ferella (Topoi/Humboldt University of Berlin) | "The Interaction between Mind and Soul in Empedocles' Philosophy" |
| Matthew M. Gorey (University of Washington) | "Atomism and the Receptacle in Plato's Timaeus" |
| Peter Osorio (Cornell University) | "Analogy, Argument, and Prolepsis in Lucretius DRN, 2.112-141" |
| Brandon Zimmerman (Catholic University of America) | "'Matter is not a principle.' Neopythagorean Attempts at Monism" |
| Session 47: Reception (Emily Wilson presiding) | |
| Zachary B. Elliott (Brandeis University) | "Using Oral Histories to Conceptualize the Place of Classics in Marginalized Communities" |
| Amy S. Lewis (University of Pennsylvania) | "Plinian themes in Italio Calvino's Cosmicomiche, Città Invisibili and Palomar" |
| Verity Walsh (Stanford University) | "Triumphant Orpheus: Orphic Platonism and Sir Orfeo" |
| Session 48: Bloody Excess: Roman Epic (Julia Hejduk presiding) | |
| Paul Hay (Case Western Reserve University) | "The Programmatic Ordior of Silius Italicus" |
| Andrew M. McClellan (Florida State University) | "Hannibal's Bloody Homecoming in Silius' Punica" |
| Scott Weiss (Stanford University) | "Lucan, Seneca and the plus quam Aesthetic" |
| David J. Wright (Rutgers University) | "They Might be Romans: The Giants and Civil War in Augustan Poetry" |
Roundtable Discussion Session 2 (12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.) |
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| Mapping Roads Toward Real Inclusivity | Organized by Deborah Beck, University of Texas at Austin, and Katherine von Stackelberg, Brock University |
| Fragments and Forgeries: Research-led Teaching Strategies for Engaging Learning | Organized by Fiona McHardy and Katherine Tempest, University of Roehampton |
| Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Ancient Book | Organized by Joseph A. Howley, Columbia University, Hannah Čulík-Baird, Boston University, and Stephanie Ann Frampton, MIT |
| Classical Traditions in Science Fiction and Fantasy | Organized by Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College, Brett Rogers, University of Puget Sound, and Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University |
| A New "Texts and Transmission" |
Organized by Justin Stover, University of Edinburgh |
| Approaching Christian Receptions of the Classical Tradition | Organized by Nicholas Kauffman, Gonzaga University, Alexander Loney, Wheaton College, and Jed Adkins, Duke University |
| Return to Philology? | Organized by Charles Stocking, Western University, and Don Lavigne, Texas Tech University |
Sixth Paper Session (1:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.) |
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| Session 49: New Directions in the Late Republican Roman Empire (Organized by Josiah Osgood, Georgetown University, and Kit Morrell, University of Sydney) | |
| Jessica Clark (Florida State University) | Introduction |
| Kit Morrell (University of Sydney) |
"Scaevola and Rutilius in Asia" |
| Josiah Osgood (Georgetown University) | "Modicum imperium: New Visions of Empire in the 70s BCE" |
| T. Corey Brennan (Rutgers University) | "Rome's Late Republican Empire: The View from the Danube" |
| Hannah Mitchell (University of Warwick) | "Provincial Commanders in the Sphere of Antonius the Triumvir: the Negotiation of Relationships" |
| Kathryn Welch (University of Sydney) | "'What Was He Thinking': Marcus Antonius, Parthia and 'Caesarian Imperialism'" |
| Session 50: Philology's Shadow II (Organized by Catherine Conybeare, Bryn Mawr College) | |
| Tim Whitmarsh (Cambridge University) | Introduction |
| Irene Peirano (Yale University) | "Ad fontes: source and original in the shadow of theology" |
| Constanze Güthenke (Oxford University) | "Philology's Roommate: Hermeneutics, Rhetoric, and the Seminar" |
| Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge University) | "Praeparatio Rabbinica: Zacharias Frankel (1801-1875), the Wissenschaft des Judentums, and the Septuagint" |
| Renaud Gagné (Cambridge University) | "Philological Apologetics: Hellenization and Festugière" |
| Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College) | Response |
| Session 51: Dido in and after Vergil (Organized by the Vergilian Society) | |
| James J. O'Hara (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) | Introduction |
| Robin N. Mitchell-Boyask (Temple University) | "Deianeirian Dido" |
| Elena Giusti (Cambridge University) | "Dido in the light of Livy" |
| Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne (High Point University) | "Dido Docta: A Scholarly Revision of Aeneid 4 in the Historica Apollonii Regis Tyri" |
| Christopher Nappa (University of Minnesota) | "The Lamentations of Dido: Genre, Gender, and Character in Two Medieval Poems" |
| Barbara Leigh Clayton (Stanford University) | "From Epic to Opera to Dance and Back: Mark Morris Dances Dido" |
| Lissa Crofton-Sleigh (Santa Clara University) | "Heavy Metal Dido: Heimdall's 'Ballad of the Queen'" |
| Sarah Spence (Medieval Academy of America) | Response |
| Session 52: Technē and Training: New Perspectives on Ancient Scientific and Technical Education (Organized by James L. Zainaldin, Harvard University, and Katherine D. van Schaik, Harvard University) | |
| James L. Zainaldin (Harvard University) | Introduction |
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Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University) |
"Teaching Trees - Tree Teaching; The Ancient Art of Grafting" |
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Katherine D. van Schaik (Harvard University) |
"Teaching Clinical Judgement: Methodist and Galenic Approaches" |
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Jane Draycott (University of Glasgow) |
"Jack of All Trades? Medical Practitioners and the Design, Manufacture, and Use of Instruments, Apparatuses, and Machines" |
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Valeria V. Sergueenkova (University of Cincinnati) |
"Smelling and Smelting: Learning with the Senses in Theory and Practice" |
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Session 53: The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research (Organized by the American Association of Neo-Latin Studies) |
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Michael Spangler (Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary) |
"Catullus Transformed: Antiquity Resurrected for Reformation in Theodore Beza's 1579 Psalmorum Davidis et Aliorum Prophetarum Libri Quinque" |
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Rodney John Lokaj (Università Kore di Enna) and Alessandro Tosco (Università Kore di Enna) |
"Translating Confucius: Intorcetta's First Attempts" |
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Carl Springer (University of Tennessee Chattanooga) and Mr. Alexander R. Spanjer (University of Tennessee Chattanooga) |
"A Neo-Latin Theological Bestiary of the Seventeenth Century" |
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Albert Baca (California State University) |
"Michael Serveto vs. John Calvin: a Deadly Conflict" |
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Anne Mahoney (Tufts University) |
"Viribius in Pascoli's Laureolus" |
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Session 54: Ritual and Religious Belief (Michele Salzman presiding) |
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Christian Barthel (Goethe Universtät Frankfurt am Main) |
"In God's Army? Socialhistorical Aspects of Early Egyptian Monasticism" |
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Mattias Gassman (University of Cambridge) |
"Debating Paganism in a Christian Empire" |
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Richard Janko (University of Michigan) |
"The cult of the Erinyes in the Derveni Papyrus" |
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Christopher Stedman Paramenter (New York University) |
"Semeta lygra: Reading hieroglyphics with Archaic Greeks" |
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Adam Rappold (Brock University) |
"For the wheel's still in spin: the evolution of the Skira festival in Classical Athens" |
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Katheryn Whitcomb (Franklin and Marshall College) |
"Mare pacavi a praedonibus: Divus Augustus and the Pacification of the Sea" |
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Session 55: Rhythm and Style (Mario Telo presiding) |
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Abigail Akavia (University of Chicago) |
"Meter and Voice in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus" |
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Amelia Margaret Bensch-Schaus (University of Pennsylvania) |
"Dinner Bells and War Drums: Dactylic Hexameter in Old Comedy" |
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James H. Dee (Austin, Texas) |
"The Uniqueness of Homer, Reconsidered" |
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Lawrence Kim (Trinity University) |
"'Asianist' Prose Rhythm from the Hellenistic Era to the 'Second Sophistic'" |
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Session 56: Lyric from Greece to Rome (Ellen Oliensis presiding) |
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Claas Lattmann (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) |
"The Snake-Throttler in Saffron Clothes. Baby Herakles in the Hippodrome (Pindar, Nemean 1)" |
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Enrico Emanuele Prodi (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) |
"Explaining Archilochus in antiquity: the indirect tradition" |
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Justin Hudak (University of California, Berkeley) |
"Integrating Sappho and Alcaeus in Horace Odes 1.22" |
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Brittney Szempruch (Stanford University) |
"Horace on the Hymnic Genre" |
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David F. Driscoll (University of California, Davis) |
"The Pleasures of Lyric in Plutarch's Hierarchy of Taste" |
| Courtney Evans (University of Virginia) |
"A Defense of Horace, Ars Poetica 172" |
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Session 57: Carthage and the Mediterranean (Joint AIA-SCS Panel) |
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Michael J. Taylor (Santa Clara University) |
Introduction |
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Peter Van Dommelen (Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology) |
"Ground Truths: Reconsidering Carthaginian Domination" |
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Chiara Blasetti fantauzzi (University of Goettingen) |
"Origin and development of Punic settlements in Sardinia until the age of Romanization" |
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Salvatore De Vincenzo (Freie Universität, Berlin) |
"Punic Sicily Until the Roman Conquest" |
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Nathan Pilkington (Harvard University) |
"The Sufetes of North Africa: Comparative Contexts" |
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Michael J. Taylor (Santa Clara University) |
"Carthaginian Manpower" |
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Eve MacDonald (Cardiff University) |
"Carthage and Hannibal from Zama to Apamea" |
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Josephine Quinn (University of Oxford) |
Response |
Rhetoric: Then and Now (5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.) (Organized by the SCS Program Committee) (Paul Allen Miller presiding) |
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| Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina) |
"Introduction: Reflections on Truth and Rhetoric, or We Need Some Alternative Facts" |
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Johanna Hanink (Brown University) |
"Fake Olds: Fudging History in Classical Athenian and Contemporary American Political Rhetoric" |
| Curtis Dozier (Vassar College) |
"Teaching Trump: The Art of the Appeal" |
| James Engell (Harvard University) |
"Democracy is Deliberation: Rhetoric is Inescapable - Use or Be Used" |
| Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University) |
"The Death of a Discipline" |
| Joy Connolly (City University of New York Graduate Center) |
"Against Purity: Classical Strategies for Collective Thought and Action Now" |
Presidential Reception (6:45-7:45) |
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Sunday, January 7 |
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Seventh Paper Session (8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.) |
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Session 58: Global Classical Traditions (Organized by Erik Hermans, Renbrook School) |
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Bobby Xinyue (University of Warwick) |
"The Classical Tradition and the Translation of Latin Poetry in Twentieth-Century China" |
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William J. Dominik (University of Otago and Federal University of Bahia) |
"The Development of the Classical Tradition in Africa: Theoretical Considerations and Interpretive Consequences" |
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Sarah Midford (La Trobe University) |
"Vergil in the Antipodes: the Classical Tradition and Colonial Australian Literature" |
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Erika Valdivieso (Brown University) |
"Neoplatonism in Colonial Latin America" |
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Erik Hermans (Renbrook School) |
"Aristotle from Reykjavík to Bukhara. The first global phase of the classical tradition" |
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Glen W. Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) |
Response |
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Session 59: Characterizing the Ancient Miscellany (Organized by Diana Guth, University of Manitoba, and Dawn LaValle, University of Oxford) |
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Michiel Meeusen (King's College) |
"'As Each Came to Mind': Plutarch's Quaestiones and the Mentality of Intricacy" |
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Joseph A. Howley (Columbia University) |
"What was the Roman Table of Contents? Making Meaning from miscellany in ancient and early modern paratext" |
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Dina Guth (University of Manitoba) |
"Historiographic Frames and Ancient Miscellanies" |
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Scott J. DiGiulio (Mississippi State University) |
"Aelian's De Natura Animalium and Varia Historia: Between Greek and Latin Traditions of Miscellaneity" |
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Dawn LaValle (University of Oxford) |
"Polyvalent Poikilia: The Slippery Concept of Variety in Methodius of Olympus' Symposium" |
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Session 60: Translation and Transmission: Mediating Classical Texts in the Early Modern World (Organized by the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception) |
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Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins University) |
Introduction |
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Susanna Braund (University of British Columbia) |
"The economics of translating Virgil: a prospectus" |
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Courtney Roby (Cornell University) |
"The fruits, not the roots: translating technologies in early modern Europe" |
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Charles McNamara (Columbia University) |
"Neither Nasty nor Brutish, but Short: Thomas Hobbes' Abbreviated Translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric" |
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Anna Peterson (Pennsylvania State University) |
"Dialoguing with a Satirist: Lucian, Thomas More, and the Visibility of the Translator" |
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Salvador Bartera (Mississippi State University) |
"Tacitus in Italy: Between Language and Politics" |
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Julia Gaisser (Bryn Mawr College) |
Response |
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Session 61: The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students (Organized by Eta Sigma Phi) |
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Shea Whitmore (Hillsdale College) |
"Penelope's Recognition of Odysseus: the Importance of Simile in Odyssey 23" |
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Emily Barnum (Hillsdale College) |
"Language as an Indicator of Cultural Identity in Herodotus' Histories" |
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Moly Schaub (University of Michigan) |
"The Curious Case of Phryne: Finding Comedy in Phryne's Trial" |
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Evan Armacost (Boston University) |
"Setting Sun: Light and Darkness in Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile" |
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Noah Diekemper (Hillsdale College) |
"The 'Twin' Gates of Sleep in Vergil's Aeneid VI" |
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Kathryn Gutzwiller (University of Cincinnati) |
Response |
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Session 62: Goddess Worship, Marian Veneration, and the Female Gender (Organized by Diliana Angelova, University of California, Berkeley) |
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Ivan Foletti (Masarykovy University) |
"The Mother of God, a Mirror of Women in Late Antiquity" |
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Svetlana Makuljevi (Universitet Metropolitan Beograd) |
"From Ephesian Artemis to Wonderworking Virgin Mary: The Case of Treskavec" |
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Kriszta Kotsis (University of Puget Sound) |
"The Virgin, the Magi, and the Empress" |
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Mati Meyer (The Open University of Israel) |
"The Survival and Rhetoric of Aphrodite in Byzantine Art" |
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Francesca Dell'Acqua (University of Birmingham) |
"Mary and the City" |
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Diliana Angelova (University of California, Berkeley) |
Response |
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Session 63: Digital Textual Editions and Corpora (Organized by the Digital Classics Association) |
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Gregory Crane (Tufts University) |
Introduction |
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Samuel Huskey (University of Oklahoma) and Hugh Cayless (Duke University) |
"The Digital Latin Library and the Library of Digital Latin Texts" |
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Gregory Crane (Tufts University) |
"Open Greek and Latin: corpora, editions, and libraries" |
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Peter Heslin (University of Durham) |
"Learning from Git: Critical Editions as Version Control" |
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Thomas Köntges (University of Leipzig) |
"Detecting the Influence of the Corpus Platonicum on Ancient Greek Literature using LDA-Topic Modeling" |
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Cynthia Damon (University of Pennsylvania) |
"The Editor(s) in the Classroom" |
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Session 64: Whose Homer? (Gregory Nagy presiding) |
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Joel P. Christensen (Brandeis University) |
"Rethinking the Odyssey's Amnesty: Historical and Modern Perspectives" |
| Matthew C. Farmer (University of Missouri) | "Theopompus' Homer: Epic in Old and Middle Comedy" |
| Louise Pratt (Emory University) | "Bringing up Achilles: Child Heroes in Homer and Pindar" |
| Asya C. Sigelman (Bryn Mawr College) | "Subversion of the Homeric Simile in Pindar's Victory Odes" |
| Henry Spelman (University of Cambridge) | "Pindar and the Epic Cycle" |
| Session 65: Livy and Tacitus (David Levene presiding) | |
| David Chu (University of Colorado, Boulder) | "Reconsidering Livy's Relationship to Valerius Antias" |
| Elizabeth Palazzolo (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae) | "Nec fuit cum Tusculanis bellum: Bloodless Conquests and the Rhetoric of Surrender in Livy" |
| Jordan Reed Rogers (University of Pennsylvania) | "The Comings and Goings of Scipio Africanus: Locating the Arch of Scipio in a Livian Profectio" |
| Caitlin Gillespie (Columbia University) | "Family, Land, and Freedom in Tacitus' Agricola" |
| Dominic Machado (Brown University) | "Germanicus, Mutiny and Memory in Tacitu's Annales 1.31-49" |
| Mitchell R. Pentzer (Emory University) | "Tacitus' Humor in Annals 13-16" |
| Session 66: Epigraphy and Civic Identity (Graham Oliver presiding) | |
| John Aldrup-MacDonald (Duke University) | "Intertextuality in Athenian Interstate Legislation: The Case of IG II^2 1" |
| Stephanie P. Craven (University of Texas at Austin) | "Apolides kai Xenoi: OGIS 1.266 and the Civic Status of Mercenaries Abroad" |
| Paul Keen (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) | "Ptolemaic Power and Local Response in Hellenistic Cyprus" |
| Cameron Glaser Pearson (San Patricio, Toledo) | "Herodotus Reinscribed: The New Thebes Epigram and Croesus" |
| Philip Sapirstein (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) | "IG XIV 1 and the digital enhancement of inscriptions using photogrammetric modeling" |
| Ching-Yuan Wu (University of Pennsylvania) | "Three Documents of the Koinon of the Cities in Pontus" |
| Session 67: Coins and Trade: The Evidence of Long-Distance Exchange (Joint AIA-SCS Panel; Organized by Irene Soto, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and University of Basel) | |
| Giuseppe Castellano (The University of Texas at Austin) | "Small Change from a Big Island: The Spread of the Sicilian Silver Litra Standard and its Implications for the Tyrrhenian Trade" |
| Ruben Post (University of Pennsylvania) | "Panhellenic Sanctuaries and Monetary Reform: The Spread of the Reduced Aiginetan Standard Reconsidered" |
| Jeremy Simmons (Columbia University) | "Funds, Fashion, and Faith: the many lives of Roman coins in Indo-Roman Trade" |
| Benjamin Hellings (Yale University) | "Roman Coins and Long-Distance Movement. East to West" |
| Jane Sancinito (University of Pennsylvania) | "Inter-Provincial Trade in Late Antique Syria from Excavation Coins" |
| Irene Soto (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and University of Basel) | "Trade and Economic Integration in Fourth Century CE Egypt: The Evidence from Coins and Ceramics" |
| Gilles Bransbourg (American Numismatic Society and Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) and Lucia Carbone (American Numismatic Society and Columbia University) | Response |
SCS Business Meeting of Members (11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.) |
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Eighth Paper Session (11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.) |
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| Session 68: Teaching Greek and Latin Elements in English Vocabulary (Workshop) (Organized by Emily Albu, University of California, Davis, and John Rundin, University of California, Davis) | |
| Emily Albu (University of California, Davis) | Introduction |
| John Rundin (University of California, Davis) | "Choosing the textbook; team-teaching; testing and worksheets" |
| Timothy Brelinski (University of California, Davis) | "Sample lectures" |
| Valentina Popescu (University of California, Davis) | "Sample lectures" |
| Session 69: Porphyry: The Polymath (Organized by the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies and John F. Finamore, University of Iowa) | |
| Aaron Johnson (Lee University) | "Personal Knowledge in Porphyry's Thought: The Epistemological Role of Experience" |
| Jacob Lollar (Florida State University) | "'At Once a Poet, Philosopher, and Expounder of Mysteries:' Porphyry's Embodiment of Homeric Scholarship" |
| Svetla Slaveva-Griffin (Florida State University) | "The Medical Side of Porphyry's Intellectual Portrait" |
| Session 70: Graduate Literature Surveys (Workshop) (Organized by Celia E. Schultz, University of Michigan, Carole Newlands, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Ruth Caston, University of Michigan) | |
| Celia E. Schultz (University of Michigan) | Introduction |
| Session 71: Lucretius: Author and Audience (Katharina Volk presiding) | |
| Sonja K. Borchers (Tuebingen University) | "Creating an Epicurean Audience - Lucretius and his Reader" |
| Anna D. Conser (Columbia University) | "Empedocles in the Crossfire: Two Critical Subtexts in De Rerum Natura 1.716-733" |
| Giulia Fanti (University of Oxford) | "Lucretius' multiple interlocutors in the DRN" |
| Christopher V. Trinacty (Oberlin College) | "Lucretius was Wrong!: Seneca's De Rerum Natura" |
| Session 72: Gender and Reception (Hunter Gardner presiding) | |
| Victoria Burmeister (Boston University) | "Hector's Wife: Andromache in Vergil and Racine" |
| Emily Chow-Kambitsch (University California, Santa Barbara) | "'Domesticating' Roman Religion on the Contemporary Screen" |
| Kay Gabriel (Princeton University) | "The Modernist Sappho and the Genre of the Fragment" |
| Stavroula Kiritsi (Royal Holloway University of London) | "Neaira: A Greek New Comedy: From Renaissance Italy to Athens in 1985" |
| Session 73: Augustan Rome (Andrew Riggsby presiding) | |
| Phebe Lowell Bowditch (University of Oregon) | "Cynthia's Imperium sine fine: Propertius 2.3 and Roman Cultural Imperialism" |
| Brahm H. Kleinman (Princeton University) | "Regulating Bribery or Generosity? Augustus' Laws on Ambitus" |
| John Matthew Oksanish (Wake Forest University) | "Machine, munus, and monument: triumphs of architectural text" |
| Aaron M. Seider (College of the Holy Cross) | "Remembering Marcellus in the Poetry and Landscape of Augustan Rome" |
| Session 74: Digital Pedagogy (Workshop) (Gregory Crane presiding) | |
| Sarah E. Bond (University of Iowa) | "The Cartographic Satyricon: Digital Pedagogy for the Mapping of Literary Geographics" |
| Sarah A. Buchanan (University of Missouri) and Clarabelle Fields (University of Missouri) | "Representation and Student Research Topics: The Archives of Classical Scholarship" |
| Timothy J. Moore (Washington University in St. Louis) | "An Online Database of the Meters of Roman Comedy" |
| Session 75: Winning the People: Crowds, Triumphs and Games (Daniëlle Slootjes presiding) | |
| Andreas Bendlin (University of Toronto) | "Spoils from Hera? Fulvius Flaccus at Cape Lacinium and Political Competition in Mid-Republican Rome" |
| Bryan Brinkman (Loyola University in Maryland) | "Modeling Crowd Behavior in Ancient Rome: Claques and Complex Adaptive Systems" |
| Charles W. Oughton (Utah State University) | "Generic Forumlae and Geographic Variation in the Tabulae Triumphales" |
| Joshua R. Vera (University of Chicago) | "By the People, for the People? Structural Reactions in the Landscapes of Roman Athens" |
Ninth Paper Session (2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.) |
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| Session 76: The Art of Biography in Antiquity (Organized by the International Plutarch Society) | |
| Barbara Del Giovane (University of Florence) | "Anonymous Verses in Notorious Lives: the Historia Augusta through the Mirror of Suetonius" |
| David West (Boston University) | "Plutarch and Cassius Dio on Cicero: Flawed Philosopher-Ruler or Unscrupulous Megalomaniac?" |
| Mitchell Parks (Knox College) | "Agesilaus, Athens, and Communicating Civic Virtue" |
| Carson Bay (Florida State University) | "Pilgrimage as Biography in Antiquity: Travel, Process, and Liminality in Philostratus's Life of Apollonius of Tyana" |
| Dorota Dutsch (University of California, Santa Barbara) | "Women in Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers" |
| Session 77: Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (Organized by the American Society of Papyrologists) | |
| Ronald Forero Alvarez (Universidad de La Sabana) | "Musical Performance of Sappho's Songs in the New Posidippus Papyrus" |
| Andreas Winkler (University of Oxford) | "New Old Horoscopes" |
| Mark de Kreij (Stockholm University) | "Dark Sappho. The 'Method of Chamaeleon' in P. Oxy. 2506" |
| Emily Cole (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) and Lincoln Blumell (Brigham Young University) | "New Papyri from Karanis" |
| Nicholas Venable (University of Chicago) | "Abraham of Hermonithis and the Use of Legal Cultural Archetypes within the Coptic Church" |
| Session 78: Lucan after Deconstruction. Thirty Years of 'The Word at War' (Organized by Giulio Celotto, Concordia College) | |
| Giulio Celotto (Concordia College) | Introduction |
| Giulio Celotto (Concordia College) | "Empedoclean Echoes in Lucan: The Dialectic of Love and Strife in the Proem of the Bellum Civile" |
| Martin Dinter (King's College London) | "The Remains of the Day. A Reading of Bellum Civile 8" |
| Andrew Zissos (University of California, Irvine) | "Pompey's Groan: Collective Heroism in Lucan's Bellum Civile" |
| Tim Stover (Florida State University) | "Thirty Years' War: Lucan's Cato since 1988" |
| Paul Roche (University of Sydney) | Response |
| Session 79: Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece (Organized by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions) | |
| Sarit Stern (Johns Hopkins University) | "Tragic Artemis: Between Homer and Cult" |
| Alexandre Johnston (University of Edinburgh) | "Performing Archaic Ethics and Religion in Sophoclean Tragedy" |
| Lisa Maurizio (Bates College) | "Performing and Contesting Delphic Oracles in Euripides' Ion" |
| Rebecca Raphael (Texas State University) | "Enemy of the Gods: Prometheus Bound as a Religious Critique" |
| Session 80: Reframing Alexandrology: The Frameworks of Commonplaces in Ancient Discourse on Alexander the Great (Organized by Christian Thrue Djursley, University of Edinburgh, and Yvona Trnka-Amrhein, Harvard University) | |
| Christian Thrue Djurslev (University of Edinburgh) | Introduction |
| Pierre Briant (College de France) | "Past, Present and Future of Alexander-Studies: beyond Commonplaces and Alexandrocentrism" |
| Yvona Trnka-Amrhein (Harvard University) | "Alexander Commonplaces as a Roman Imperial Idiom" |
| Sulochana Asirvatham (Montclair State University) | "Conqueror or Monument? Unpacking an Alexander-Commonplace in Plutarch and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana" |
| Christian Thrue Djurslev (University of Edinburgh) | "Creating a Commonplace: Alexander's Visit to Jerusalem in Judeo-Christian Narratives" |
| Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne (High Point University) | Response |
| Session 81: Voicing (Sean Gurd presiding) | |
| Ellen D. Finkelpearl (Scripps College) | "Pliny's Cultured Nightingale" |
| Erik Fredericksen (Princeton University) | "Vergil's Bucolic Soundscapes: Song and Environment in the Eclogues" |
| Flora Iff-Noël (University of Lille 3) | "Ariadne loquens, Ariadne muta: Catullus 64 and the Illusionism of Hellenistic ekphrastic Epigrams" |
| Kathleen Kidder (University of Cincinnati) | "The Silence of the Sirens in Lycophron's 'Alexandra'" |
| Simone Antonia Oppen (Columbia University) | "The articulate landscapes of Aeschylus' Persians" |
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Session 82: The Body and its Travails (Lesley Dean-Jones presiding) |
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Marcaline Julia Boyd (University of Delaware) |
"Sleeping with the Tyrant: The Death of Alexander of Pherae in Plutarch's Life of Pelopidas" |
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Robert L. Cioffi (Bard College) |
"Writing the Unmentionable: Ekphrasis, Identity, and the Phoenix in Achilles Tatius" |
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Afroditi Manthati Angelopoulou (University of Southern California) |
"Making Sense of Plato's Taste" |
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Sarah C. Murray (University of Toronto) |
"Undressed for Success? Contradictions of Early Greek Nudity in Text and Image" |
| Nicole Nowbahar (Rutgers University) |
"Forced Cross-Dressing: Women in Togas and the Law of Charondas" |
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Session 83: Historiography and Identity (Jeremy McInerney presiding) |
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Branden D. Kosch (University of Chicago) |
"Interstitial Politics: Thucydides, Demosthenes, and the Athenian Character" |
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Edward E. Nolan (University of Michigan) |
"Athenians, Amazons, and Goats: Language Contact in Herodotus" |
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Matthew A. Sears (University of New Brunswick) |
"Brasidas and the Myth of the Un-Spartan Spartan" |
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Session 84: Getting the Joke: Roman Satire and Comedy (David Larmour presiding) |
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Hans Bork (University of California, Los Angeles) |
"Plautine Prayers and Holy Jokes" |
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Steven Brandwood (Rutgers University) |
"Irrumator/Imperator: A Political Joke in Catullus 10?" |
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Brian S. Hook (University of North Carolina at Asheville) |
"The End of Juvenal Satire 1 and the Imitation of Lucilius and Horace" |
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Catherine Keane (Washington University in St. Louis) |
"Summus Minimusque Poeta: Silent Epigram in Juvenal Satire 1.1-30" |