CAMWS: Meetings

Friday, April 13, 2007

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7:00-8:00 a.m. Buffet Breakfast sponsored by Vergilian Society (Salon M)

7:30 a.m.-noon Registration Fourth-Floor Foyer

8:00 a.m.-noon Book Display Caprice

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session Rosewood

Section A

Athens

Timothy Winters (Austin Peay State University), presiding

  1. Ostracism and the Foundation of the Athenian Agora. James P. Sickinger (Florida State University) **Note: This paper will be read by will be read by Mark Alonge (Boston University).**
  2. The Site of the Lesser Mysteries in Athens. Zoe S. Kontes (Duke University)
  3. Lighting the Way: Natural and Artificial Light in the Greek House. Barbara Tsakirgis (Vanderbilt University)
  4. Family and Polis in Athenian Funerary Monuments. Kathryn L. Seidl Steed (University of Michigan)
  5. Contesting the Lessons from the Past: Aeschines' Recourse to Family History. Bernd K. Steinbock (University of Western Ontario)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session Rookwood

Section B

Propertius

Christopher Nappa (University of Minnesota), presiding

  1. Roman Morals Reconsidered: Power and Ideaalization in Propertius 3.13 and 14. Barbara P. Weinlich (The University of Montana, Missoula)
  2. Propertius 3.20 and 4.8: the amator as husband, wife, lover, and meretrix. Melanie J. Racette-Campbell (University of Saskatchewan)
  3. The Screen and Sign of Desire: Propertius 4.1.70 and the Meta Sudans. Richard J. King (Ball State University)
  4. Tarpeia's Betrayal: Reading Sexual Difference in the Augustan City. Denise E. McCoskey (Miami University)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session Salon H-I

Section C

Neronian Literature

Susan Shapiro (Utah State University), presiding

  1. Like Father Like Son: Intertextuality in Seneca the Elder and Younger. Christopher V. Trinacty (University of Arizona)
  2. Victrix augebat Cynthia regnum: On Seneca's Astronomical Dating at Apocolocyntosis 2.1. Simon P. Burris (Baylor University)
  3. Seneca's 114th Letter and the Poetics of Decadence. Robert John Sklenár (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
  4. Seneca's Stoic Reading of Ovid's Phaethon. Emily E. Batinski (Louisiana State University)
  5. A Lucanian Reading of Ovid's Medea (De Bello Civili 6 and Metamorphoses 7). Sean M. Easton (Arizona State University)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session Salon F-G

Section D

Odyssey I

Nancy Felson (University of Georgia), presiding

  1. The Odyssey and Delphi: Notes on Greek Divination. C. Michael Sampson (University of Michigan)
  2. Proteus' Seals, Odysseus, and Poseidon. Bruce Louden (University of Texas, El Paso)
  3. Lady in the Water: Ino, Eidothea, and Their Indo-European Relatives. Emily B. West (The College of St. Catherine)
  4. Odysseus, grandson of Minos, the king of Knossos. Valerio Caldesi-Valeri (University of Texas, Austin)
  5. Odysseus Weaving Penelope's Epithets. Jeannie T. Nguyen (University of Wisconsin)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session Salon D-E

Section E

Roman Religion

James S. Ruebel (Ball State University), presiding

  1. Cato and the Control of Ritual Authority. Britta K. Ager (University of Michigan)
  2. Nulla etiam ratione: Cicero's Roman Fideism in ND 3. David C. Noe (University of Iowa)
  3. Who in the Hell? : An Exploration of the Meaning of Lucan's De Bello Civili 6.745-749. Casey S. Shamey (University of Missouri, Columbia)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session Salon B-C

Section F

Hellenistic Epic

Elizabeth Carney (Clemson University), presiding

  1. The Origin of Iron and Its Discontents in Hellenistic Poetry. Chad M. Schroeder (University of Michigan)
  2. Antimachus and his Critic: The Aetia Prologue. Jackie Murray (Temple University)
  3. The Argonauts' Specialized Roles and oratio recta in Apollonius Rhodius: A Case Study Using the Pilots. Kris F. Fletcher (Western Michigan University)
  4. Cycles of Time: The Legacy of Empedocles in the Argonautika. Rob Groves (University of California, Los Angeles)
  5. Advice and Distance in the Argonautica. Morgan Grey (University of Missouri, Columbia)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session Rosewood

Section A

Imperial Identities

Judith Evans-Grubbs (Washington University), presiding

  1. The Tertullus Monument: a Funerary Monument from Roman Carthage. Marilyn Evans (University of Georgia) **Note: T. Keith Dix (University of Georgia) will read this paper.**
  2. Poverty and Philanthropy: The Inscriptional Evidence from the Fourth Century CE. Jinyu Liu (DePauw University)
  3. Love and Salvation in the Roman Underground. Dennis E. Trout (University of Missouri, Columbia)
  4. Whatever Happened to Claudian Claudianus? David T. Fletcher (Elon University)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session Rookwood

Section B

Greek Language

Theodore A. Tarkow (University of Missouri, Columbia), presiding

  1. Similes And Metaphors: Like, What's The Real Difference? John E. Ziolkowski (George Washington University)
  2. Satis est Semel Accidisse: The Significance of Homeric Hapax Phrases. James H. Dee (University of Illinois, Chicago - Emeritus)
  3. Homeric Δαιμόνιε. Paul Brown (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
  4. Epic Knees. Steve T. Reece (St. Olaf College)
  5. Silent Reading in Antiquity, More or Less? Stewart Flory (Gustavus Adolohus College)
  6. Jah Qab sa Juhiza du Attin: The Gothic Spirants and the Pronunciation of Koine Greek. William D. White (University of Colorado, Boulder)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session Salon H-I

Section C

Greek Tragedy

S. Douglas Olson (University of Minnesota), presiding

  1. A Reconsideration of the Meaning of Sôzein. Sally MacEwen (Agnes Scott College)
  2. The Politics of Philoctetes. Ruth S. Scodel (University of Michigan)
  3. Dissa pneumata pneis, Eros: Doubling Desire on the Euripidean Stage. Nicholas C. Rynearson (University of Georgia)
  4. Euphonic Criticism and the Euripidean Ear. Allen J. Romano (University of Chicago)
  5. Dionysus' Inversion of Philia in the Bacchae. Robert H. Simmons (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session Salon F-G

Section D

Roman History

Rebecca Edwards (Wright State University), presiding

  1. The Consuls Hirtius and Pansa and the End of the Republic. Robert Chenault (University of Michigan)
  2. Tiberius and the Libraries. George Houston (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  3. Legal Institutions and the Management of Businesses in the Roman Economy. Dennis P. Kehoe (Tulane University)
  4. Intensification, Roman Imperialism, and the North African Pre-desert Agricultural Community: In Defense of a "Bottom-Up" Perspective. Joseph Lemak (Elmira College)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session Salon D-E

Section E

Ovid

Betty Rose Nagle (Indiana University), presiding

  1. Seruitium, the Puella, and the Narrator in Ovid's Amores. Caroline A. Perkins (Marshall University)
  2. Reading Rival Positions: Dido and Penelope in Ovid's Heroides. Alena Allen (Cathedral Catholic High School)
  3. A Therapoetics of Exile: The Cure for a Limping Poem. Julia Hawkins (The Ohio State University)
  4. Homer and Ulysses in Ovid's Poetry of Exile. Matthew M. McGowan (The College of Wooster)
  5. Shafts from the Black Sea. Julia Dyson Hejduk (Baylor University)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session Salon B-C

Section F

Imperial Prose

Edmund Cueva (Xavier University), presiding

  1. The Pastoral Parents of Daphnis and Chloe. Arum Park (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  2. Becoming Cleitophon: Mimesis and the Reader in Achilles Tatius. Max L. Goldman (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  3. Lucian's Epistolary Symposiast (Symposion or The Lapiths, 22-7) Athanassios Vergados (University of Virginia)
  4. Fishing for a Laugh: Lucian's Fisherman and its Relationship to Aristophanic Comedy. Anna Peterson (The Ohio State University)
  5. Authoritative and Explanatory Dreams in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. David C. Carlisle (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  6. The Charite Episode and Lucius' Failure in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. Jean Alvares (Montclair State University)

IMPORTANT NOTE:

The Eighth and Ninth Paper Sessions will be held on the campus of Xavier University.  Free shuttle busses will depart from the Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel every 10 minutes, beginning at 11:30 a.m.; the last bus will leave the hotel at 12:40 p.m.

1:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Kelley Auditorium in Alter Hall

Section A

Panel

Contextualizing Trajan's Column: The 2006 NEH Summer Seminar

Gregory N. Daugherty (Randolph-Macon College), presiding

Eleni Manolaraki (University of South Florida), organizer

  1. The Dacian Wars beyond Trajan's Column. Jinyu Liu (DePauw University)
  2. Aqua Trajana: Pliny and the Column of Trajan. Eleni Manolaraki (University of South Florida)
  3. Seeing as the Romans Saw: Trajan's Column and the 2nd Century Viewer. Jeffrey T. Winkle (Calvin College)
  4. A Structure Singular under Heaven: Trajan's Column and the Imperial Roman Habitus. Thomas N. Sizgorich (University of New Mexico)
  5. Response. Richard J. A. Talbert (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  6. Response. Michael R. Maas (Rice University)

1:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Rm. 2 in Hailstones Hall

Section B

From Demetrias to the Danube

Julie Langford-Johnson (University of South Florida), presiding

  1. Dialogues with the Dead: Examining the Hellenistic Population of Demetrias. Christina A. Salowey (Hollins University), Sarah N. Chandlee (Hollins University) and Stephanie M. Woods (Hollins University)
  2. Drusilla diva and Julia Livilla in the Athenian Agora. Aileen Ajootian (University of Mississippi)
  3. The Mystery of the Rotating Ceiling in the Domus Aurea. Travis R. Rupp (The University of Iowa)
  4. ‘Pompeii at the Gates of Vienna’: Romans on the Danube. Avery R. Springer (John Burroughs School)

1:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Rm. 1 in Hailstones Hall

Section C

Lucan

Shannon Byrne (Xavier University), presiding

  1. A New Manuscript of Lucan's Bellum Civile. Samuel J. Huskey (University of Oklahoma)
  2. Exempla Mala: The Crisis of Memory in Lucan. Mark A. Thorne (University of Iowa)
  3. War More Punic than Civil: Carthage in Lucan's De Bello Civili. Philip T. Waddell (University of Missouri, Columbia)
  4. Lucan's Bellum Civile 7. 617-646: Rhetorical Questions and an “Open-Ended” History? Matt Crutchfield (University of Missouri, Columbia)
  5. Lucan's Amphitheatrical Scene for the Death of Pompey: Book 8 of De Bello Civili. James M. Lohmar (University of Florida)

1:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Rm. 222 in Alter Hall

Section D

Classical Tradition

Janice Siegel (Hampden-Sydney College), presiding

  1. Raphael's School of Athens: The Big Picture. Emil A. Kramer (Augustana College)
  2. Vatum Columbus: The Epics of Francisco Cabrera. William H. Cooper (Translator, Dark Virgin Books)
  3. Wanton Wiles, Wreathed Smiles: Milton's L'Allegro and Roman Love Elegy. Cat L. Wilson (University of Kansas)
  4. Mommsen and Verdi. Herbert Benario (Emory University)
  5. The Duce Salutes the Poet: Mussolini and the Virgil Monument. Sophie Mills (University of North Carolina, Asheville)
  6. The Parallel Lives of M. Tullius Cicero and Nikolai I. Bukharin. Joseph J. Hughes (Missouri State University)

1:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Rm. 323 in Alter Hall

Section E

Greek Historiography

T. Keith Dix (University of Georgia), presiding

  1. Herodotus as the First Historian of Ideas. J. D. Noonan (University of South Florida) **Note: T. Keith Dix (University of Georgia) will read this paper.**
  2. The Bravest of the Greeks: Alcibiades Through Western Eyes. Christopher A. Baron (University of Notre Dame)
  3. Repeated Narratives and Didactic History in Polybius Book 3. Bradley Potter (Pontifical College Josephinum)
  4. Trapped by Tradition: Strabo, Arrian, and the Geography of India. Lee E. Patterson (Centre College)

1:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Rm. 201 in Alter Hall

Section F

Odyssey II

Dorothy Dvorsky-Rohner (University of North Carolina, Asheville), presiding

  1. Crisis Management in Homer. Scott Garner (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  2. Two Birds of the Weather: Alkyone/Keux allusions in the speeches of Phoenix and Eumaios. Katherine L. Kretler (University of Chicago)
  3. (Re-)describing Odysseus: Homer and the human ecphrasis. Cassandra Borges (University of Michigan)
  4. Geras and Guest-Gifts in the Odyssey. Rick M. Newton (Kent State University)
  5. min auton versus min autoi: What is Athena hiding at Odyssey 13.190? Benjamin S. Haller (University of Pittsburgh)
  6. The Non-Homeric Side of the Homeric Cyclops. Andrew T. Alwine (University of Florida)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Ninth Paper Session Kelley Auditorium in Alter Hall

Section A

Panel

A Ben-Hur Centennial

Jon Solomon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), organizer

  1. From Santa Fe to Jerusalem: Governor Lew Wallace and the Idea of Empire in Ben-Hur. Monica S. Cyrino (University of New Mexico)
  2. Manifest Virtue. Margaret Malamud (New Mexico State University) **Note: Dr. Malamud's paper will be read by Gregory N. Daugherty (Randolph-Macon College)**
  3. Ben-Hur on Stage and in Moving Pictures. Jon Solomon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  4. The Chariot Race in William Wyler's Ben-Hur. Martin M. Winkler (George Mason University)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Ninth Paper Session Rm. 2 in Hailstones Hall

Section B

Greek Cultural Poetics

Sally MacEwen (Agnes Scott College), presiding

  1. A Tragical History: The Function of Disaster Narratives about Early Classical Greek Schools. Brett M. Rogers (University of Georgia)
  2. The Serial Killer of Temesa (Pausanias 6.6.7 11). Debbie Felton (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  3. The Persistence of Ethne. Denver Graninger (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
  4. Thonis the Courtesan and the Problem of Dreamt Sex. William F. Hansen (Indiana University, Bloomington)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Ninth Paper Session Rm. 1 in Hailstones Hall

Section C

Roman Historiography

Dennis Trout (University of Missouri, Columbia), presiding

  1. The Enemy in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae. Aislinn A. Melchior (University of Puget Sound)
  2. No Man is an Island: Tacitus and Tiberius on Capri. Rebecca Edwards (Wright State University)
  3. "An Extraneous Interlude"? How Tacitus Begins Annals 16. Salvador Bartera (University of Virginia; University of Tennessee)
  4. Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: The Year of the Four Emperors in Tacitus' Histories. Amanda Regan (University of Michigan)
  5. Genealogies and Mothers in Suetonius' Caesares. Molly M. Pryzwansky (Duke University)
  6. Caesar on the Brink: Writing about the Rubicon in the Early Empire. Jeffrey Beneker(University of Wisconsin)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Ninth Paper Session Rm. 222 in Alter Hall

Section D

Euripides

Casey Dué (University of Houston), presiding

  1. Visualizing pain in tragedy: the death of Glauke. Mary Ebbott (College of the Holy Cross)
  2. Exercise in Shame: The Messenger's Influence in Euripides' Hippolytus. Sean W. Larson (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
  3. Kassandra in Euripides' Trojan Women: The Perversion of the Wedding Ritual. Rebecca M. Muich (University of Illinois)
  4. Three Plausible Villains: Polymestor, Eurystheus, and Menelaus. Michael H. Shaw (University of Kansas)
  5. Hermes and the interpretive framework of Euripides's Ion. Emily C. Jusino (University of Chicago)
  6. Mixing Religion and Politics in Euripides' Bacchae. Ann-Marie Knoblauch (Virginia Tech)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Ninth Paper Session Rm. 323 in Alter Hall

Section E

Greek Oratory

Jon Bruss (The University of the South), presiding

  1. Hubris and the Unity of Greek Law. David D. Phillips (University of California, Los Angeles)
  2. Attic Old Comedy and the Development of Theoretical Rhetoric. Thomas K. Hubbard (University of Texas, Austin)
  3. "Don't Trust a Woman, Even When She's Dead" and Other Fine Schoolboy Maxims. Heather I. Waddell Gruber (University of Iowa)
  4. The doctor as poisoner: Medical (mal)practice in Sophistopolis. Craig A. Gibson (University of Iowa)
  5. The Eloquence of Silence: Narrative Power in Lucian's Demonax. Stephen A. Maiullo (The Ohio State University)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Ninth Paper Session Rm. 201 in Alter Hall

Section F

Augustan Poetry

Ruth Caston (University of Michigan), presiding

  1. Vergil's Sixth Eclogue and Creative Freedom. Aaron M. Seider (University of Chicago)
  2. Cave, Cave: Iambic Rabies as Poetic Inspiration in Horace's Epodes. Michael W. Ritter (University of Florida)
  3. Horace's parvum opus: Ode 1.38. Thomas M. Cirillo (University of Southern California)
  4. Go on Galatea, See If I Care: Horace's Ode 3.27. Sharada Price (University of Iowa)
  5. The Silence of the Virgin in Horace, Odes 3.30. Jana Adamitis (Christopher Newport University)
  6. Horace, Epistles 1.2 and the Moral Utility of Poetry. Stephanie McCarter (University of Virginia)

5:45-6:45 p.m. Reception at the Cintas Center, Xavier University

IMPORTANT NOTE: Free shuttle busses will run continuously from the Cintas Center on the Xavier University campus to the Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, picking up passengers every 10 minutes, beginning at 5:30 p.m.; the last bus will leave the Cintas Center at 7:00 p.m.

7:00-7:30 p.m. Cash Bar, Hall of Mirrors

7:30-10:00 p.m. Banquet, Hall of Mirrors

Presiding: Kathryn J. Gutzwiller (University of Cincinnati)
Welcome: Fr. Michael Graham, S.J., President, Xavier University
Response: Sherwin D. Little (Indian Hill High School), First Vice-President
Ovationes: James M. May (St. Olaf College), Orator
Address: Marilyn B. Skinner (University of Arizona), President
Title:  “Catullus 64:  Through a Myth Darkly”

10:00-midnight President's Gala, Hall of Mirrors

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