Thursday, April 12, 2007

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7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration Fourth-Floor Foyer

8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Display Caprice

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

Section A

Latin Language

Stephen Smith (University of Minnnesota), presiding

1. Caesar's Declensional Triptych. John W. Thomas (Xavier University)
2. Is That A Pun? Observations on the Perception of Multiple Word Meanings in Latin. David Wharton (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
3. A Brief Introduction to the Origins of Spanish Vocabulary. Daniel N. Erickson (University of North Dakota)

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

Section B

Pompeii

Stephen L. Tuck (Miami University, Ohio), presiding

1. Explaining Nothing: The Aesthetic of Austerity on Roman House Facades. Jeremy Hartnett (Wabash College)
2. An Overview of the Pottery Industry at Pompeii. Myles McCallum (University of Nevada, Reno)
3. When Remembering Her Birthday Just Isn't Enough: Evidence for Aphrodisiacs at Pompeii. Christopher J. Parr (University of Arizona)
4. Isidorus: sex-slave or candidate for aedile? The value of advertising in Pompeii. Rebecca R. Benefiel (Washington and Lee University)

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

Section C

Thucydides

David W. Tandy (University of Tennessee), presiding

1. The Hiera Orgas: Land Use and Environmental Politics in Classical Greece. Timothy Howe (St. Olaf College)
2. Idealized Democracy? Socio-Economic Tensions in Thucydides 2.37. Edward J. Roe (Indiana University)
3. Telling the Tale of Athenian Hubris: A Tragic Messenger Speech in Thucydides' History. Rebecca F. Kennedy (George Washington University)

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

Section D

The Roman Body

Stephen A. Nimis (Miami University, Ohio), presiding

1. Floating Corpses, Shifting Signs: Disposal of Enemies in the Tiber. Nicholas Gresens (Indiana University)
2. Alopekia: Mangy as a Fox. Georgia L. Irby-Massie (College of William and Mary)
3. Vespasian and Hadrian: The Healing Emperors. Trevor S. Luke (The Florida State University)

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

Section E

Latin Didactic Poetry

David Bright (Emory University), presiding

1. Atomic Poetics: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura. Gwendolyn M. Gruber (University of Iowa)
2. Tragic Flames in Lucretius 1.471- 7. Daniel Markovic (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
3. Vergil's "Ultima Thule". Duane Roller (The Ohio State University)

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

Section F

Roman Comedy

Anne Groton (St. Olaf College), presiding

1. Plautus Menaechmi 210-211: Greek or Roman Meats? Lora L. Holland (University of North Carolina, Asheville)
2. Profitting from Manipulation: The Case of Lucrio in the Miles Gloriosus. Christopher W. Bungard (The Ohio State University)
3. Fraternal Culture Shock': Unchanging (Ex)changes of Identity in Plautus' Menaechmi and Terence's Adelphoe. Anita M. Valverde (Indiana University)
4. Plautine Pirates, or A Modern Interpretation of the Servus Callidus. Amber Scaife (Kenyon College)

10 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Rosewood

Section A

Bronze Age Archaeology

Aileen Ajootian (University of Mississippi), presiding

1. Rising and Setting Stars: Dynamic Elites in Pre- and Proto-Palatial South-Central Crete. Joanne M. Murphy (University of Akron)
2. Minoan Horns of Consecration: A Reevaluation of Their Origins, Symbolism, and Importance in the Minoan State Formation. Sarah L. Ward (University of Arizona)
3. The Middle Bronze Age in the Korinthia: Evidence from Dorati. Jeffrey L. Kramer (University of Cincinnati)
4. Making Ends Meet outside the Palace: The Informal Economy at Mycenae. Lynne A. Kvapil (University of Cincinnati)
5. Nestor's Dinner: Haute Cuisine at Mycenaean Pylos. Julie A. Hruby (University of Cincinnati)
6. Athens' Place in the Bronze Age: a Reexamination of the Evidence. Allisa J. Stoimenoff (University of Arizona)

10 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Rookwood

Section B

Greek Religion

Steve Reece (St. Olaf College), presiding

1. Near Eastern Influence on the Dioskouroi: Meslamtaea, Lugalirra and Twin Door Gods. Katie Rask (The Ohio State University)
2. From Shepherding Words to Sacrificing Paeans: Hymns Between Sacrificial Context and Imagery. Monica Signoretti (Hollins University)
3. Fear, Favor, or Thanks? Interpreting Figurines Dedicated to Greek Deities of Childbirth and Childcare. Susan J. Wise (Earlham College)
4. In the Nymph's Home. Robert S. Wagman (University of Florida)
5. New Finds from the Caves of the Nymphs. William N. Bruce (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
6. Landscapes of Memory: Topographical Imagery in the Orphic Gold Tablets. Jacquelyn H. Clements (Florida State University)

10 a.m.-noon. Second Paper Session Salon H-I

Section C

Roman Social History

James Lowe (John Burroughs School), presiding

1. An Invisible Grief: Reconsidering Parental Mourners. Judith de Luce (Miami University of Ohio)
2. Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et uetustissimus pro parente: Paternal surrogates in imperial Roman literature. Neil W. Bernstein (Ohio University)
3. Second Class Actors: Factors Leading to the Ostracizing of Roman Mimes. Kennethian M. Brown (Cleveland State University)
4. Sibi vivere: The Abdication of Responsibility Under Empire. Erin Taylor (Indiana University, Bloomington)
5. The Poetics of Space in Pliny's Tuscan Villa. Erika J. Nesholm (Georgetown University)

10 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Salon F-G

Section D

Plato

Stewart Flory (Gustavus Adolphus College), presiding

1. Comic Psychagogia in Plato's Phaedrus. Steve Heiny (Earlham College)
2. Plato Laughs Last: The Comic Agon in Plato's Symposium. Mike B. Lippman (Emory University)
3. Plato's Alcibiades. Stephen Fineberg (Knox College)
4. Being initiated into Beauty: Plato's use of the Eleusinian Mysteries in Symposium 210a-211c. Barbara M. Sattler (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
5. The Mathematician's Withdrawal: The Role of Theodorus in Plato's Theatetus. Martin A. Gallagher (University of Kansas)

10 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Salon D-E

Section E

Aeneid

Samuel Huskey (University of Oklahoma), presiding

1. Multa variarum monstra ferarum:  Monsters in the Aeneid. David F. Bright (Emory University)
2. Aeneas's Self-focalizations and the Fractured Self. Brian F. Cherer (University of Toronto, Mississauga)
3. Non Me Tibi Troia Externum Tulit: Evaluating Aeneas' Trojanness. Generosa A. Sangco-Jackson (University of Florida)
4. "Re-gifting" in Virgil's Aeneid. Sanjaya Thakur (University of Michigan)
5. Juno, Allecto and Ira. Edward Gutting (University of Mississippi)
6. Genus Ausonio mixtum: Shifting models and blurred identity in Vergil's war in Italy. Stephen Smith (University of Minnesota)

10 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Salon B-C

Section F

The Greek Poetic ego

Jenny S. Clay (University of Virginia), presiding

1. Sappho's Roses: Audience and Memory. William Tortorelli (Northwestern University)
2. Anacreon's 'I' and the Poet's Value System. Andrew Lear (Florida State University)
3. Whether Stranger Or Citizen: Guest-Friendship in Pindar's Fourth Pythian. Mercedes O. Asp (University of Virginia)
4. Epistolarity in Pindar's Olympian 12 2. Sean P. Northrup (North Broward Preparatory School)
5. Plundering the Vineyard: Foxes as Sexual Predators in Theocritus. Benjamin V. Hicks (University of Texas, Austin)
6. Dividing Aphrodite: Ptolemaic Propaganda in Theocritus. Lindsay G. Samson (The University of Iowa)

Noon-1:00 p.m. Boxed Luncheon Meeting for CAMWS Committees (Salon M)

1:15-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Rosewood

Section A

Greek Art

Stephen Fineberg (Knox College), presiding

1. Did the Phrygians Make Glass? Janet D. Jones (Bucknell University)
2. Early Greek Statues and the Egyptian Canon of Proportions. Jane B. Carter (Tulane University)
3. Craft Apprenticeship in Ancient Greece. Eleni Hasaki (University of Arizona)
4. From Pots to Performance: Dance and Image in Archaic Greece. Tyler J. Smith (University of Virginia)
5. Nothing in Excess, or Everything in Good Order: The “Portraits” of Solon and Khilon on a Late Archaic Attic Red-Figure Cup by Oltos. Jeremy J. Johnson (Florida State University)
6. Apulian Vase-painting in Context: A Reconsideration of Dramatic Scenes. Johanna M. Hobratschk (Washington University)

1:15-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Rookwood

Section B

Classics in Contemporary Media

Kathryn A. Thomas (Creighton University), presiding

1. Ned Rorem's “Ode to Man”: musical inspiration in Sophocles' Antigone. Philip V. Barnes (John Burroughs School)
2. Temporary Like Aeneas: Bob Dylan and the Classics. Thomas E. Strunk (Loyola Academy)
3. Penelope Speaks: Two Feminist Novels. Betty Rose Nagle (Indiana University, Bloomington)
4. Making the most of Atwood's Penelopiad. Lorina N. Quartarone (University of St. Thomas)

1:15-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Salon H-I

Section C

Early Greek Poetry

Ruth Scodel (University of Michigan), presiding

1. The Birth of the Author in Ancient Greece. Silas M. Peterson (University of New Mexico)
2. Hesiod and the Eros of Death: the problem of Keyx. Timothy S. Heckenlively (Baylor University)
3. The Fox and the Hedgehog: Narrative Style in Homer and Archilochus. Donald E. Lavigne (Texas Tech University)
4. The Iambistai of Syracuse. David G. Smith (San Francisco State University)
5. Timeo deos et dona ferentes: The perils of divine gifts in the Homeric Hymns. Polyxeni Strolonga (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
6. Nursemaid to a Monster: Typhon and Pytho in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo. Kelly E. Shannon (University of Virginia)

1:15-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Salon F-G

Section D

Panel

That Light at the End of the Tunnel Is Moving Toward You:
A Graduate Guide to the ABD Life

Mark A. Thorne (University of Iowa), organizer

1. Building Up Steam: Preparing for the Dissertation Years. Mark A. Thorne (University of Iowa)
2. The Right Track: How to Reduce the Stress of Selecting a Dissertation Topic. Tom Hawkins (Ohio State University)
3. The Right Crew: Choosing a Dissertation Advisor and Forming a Committee. Jenny S. Clay (University of Virginia)
4. Full Speed Ahead: The Dissertation as the Engine for Your Job Search. Carin M. Green (University of Iowa)
5. Keeping the Tender Full: Flexible Approaches to Funding and Finding Post-Doctoral Positions. Matthew McGowan (Wooster College)

1:15-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Salon D-E

Section E

Herodotus

Sophie Mills (University of North Carolina), presiding

1. Reflexive Ethnography and a Herodotean locus amoenus. Jonathan T. Chicken (Indiana University)
2. Direct Intercourse in Indirect Discourse: Sexual Nomoi in Herodotus' Histories. Katharine M. Bukowski (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)
3. Greek aggression in the opening of Herodotus's Histories. Mark Alonge (Boston University)
4. Reproductive Retribution: Cyrus' Death and a Mother's Revenge in the Histories. Yurie Hong (Arizona State University)
5. Style and Meaning in Herodotus 7.138-139: Athens as the Defender of Greece and the Historian as the Defender of Truth. Cecilia M. Peek (Brigham Young University)
6. Achilles at Thermopylae: A Homeric Allusion in Herodotus. Eric S. Ross (Hendrix College)

1:15-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Salon B-C

Section F

Catullus

Marilyn B. Skinner (University of Arizona), presiding

1. The Grammar of Love: Polyptoton in Catullus cc. 2 and 8. Ruth R. Caston (University of Michigan)
2. Catullan Invective: Meter and Masculinity in the Egnatius Poems. Ryan Platte (University of Washington)
3. When is a Philosopher not a Philosopher? Catullus 47 and Prosopographical Excess. Susan O. Shapiro (Utah State University)
4. Remus' Spoiled Brats: Wordplay in Catullus 58.5. Kevin Muse (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
5. The Hair that Was: Ovid's Amores I.14 and the Coma Berenices (Callimachus fr.110 Pf. = Catullus 66). Kristin O. Lord (Wilfrid Laurier University)
6. Catullan Influence on Ovid. Janice F. Siegel (Hampden-Sydney College)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Rosewood

Section A

Women in Antiquity

Judith de Luce (Miami University, Ohio), presiding

1. The Woman's Domain in the Iliad. Edward J. Kotynski (Vanderbilt University)
2. Nausicaa's ‘Song’ in Odyssey 6.99-109. Andromache Karanika (University of California, Irvine)
3. Textiles and Women in Greek Funerary Ritual. Wendy E. Closterman (Bryn Athyn College)
4. Women and Money within the Oikos: Their Financial Responsibilities According to Xenophon and Aristophanes. Katherine A. Bussinger (University of Arizona)
5. Women and Symposia in Macedonia. Elizabeth D. Carney (Clemson University)
6. Julia Domna & The Temple of Vesta. Susann S. Lusnia (Tulane University)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Rookwood

Section B

Roman Archaeology

Anne E. Haeckl (Kalamazoo College), presiding

1. How Many Lictors are on the Ara Pacis Augustae? Gaius Stern (University of California, Berkeley; San José State University)
2. A Newly Identified Sculpture and the Program from the Façade of Capua's Amphitheater. Steven L. Tuck (Miami University of Ohio)
3. The Sanctity of Caves: An Etruscan Artificial Cave Bath. Jared T. Benton (University of Arizona)
4. The Inscription that Wasn't There: the Roman Temple at Vienne and CIL XII. 1845. James C. Anderson, Jr. (University of Georgia)
5. Maxentius and Villas on the Via Appia: New Archaeological Contexts. Elizabeth L. Platte (Kalamazoo College)
6. Coinage and Identity in Roman Asia Minor. Marsha B. McCoy (Austin College)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Salon H-I

Section C

Attic Comedy

Andrew Becker (Virginia Tech.), presiding

1. IG II2 2325 and the History of the Comic Competitions in Athens. S. Douglas Olson (University of Minnesota)
2. Old Comedy and the Epic Cycle. Donald R. Sells (University of Toronto)
3. The Footwear of Democracy in Aristophanes' Wasps and Ecclesiazusae. Gwendolyn Compton-Engle (John Carroll University)
4. A dialogue of drag between Aristophanes and Euripides. Tom Hawkins (Ohio State University)
5. "This Isn't Television, It's National Therapy": Social Control in Aristophanes and Television Sketch Comedy. Anthony McCosham (Bowling Green State University)
6. Is this a bazaar economy or what? Comic market interactions preserved in Athenaeus' Deipnosophists. John F. Paulas (University of Chicago)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Salon F-G

Section D

Panel

Retaining Students in First Year Greek

Timothy F. Winters (Austin Peay State University), organizer

1. Beginning Greek Students: The Six Weeks Window of Opportunity. Dorothy A. Dvorsky-Rohner (University of North Carolina, Asheville)
2. What They Don't Know Won't Hurt Them: Paring Down Beginning Greek. Wilfred E. Major (Louisiana State University) **Note: Paul Brown (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) will read this paper since Dr. Major will not be able to attend the meeting.••
3. Teaching Beginning Greek through Culture. John C. Gruber-Miller (Cornell College)
4. Lighten Up! A Practical Approach to Keeping Students in Elementary Greek. Timothy F. Winters (Austin Peay State University)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Salon D-E

Section E

Roman Epic

Julia Dyson Hejduk (Baylor University), presiding

1. Vesta in the Aeneid. Antoinette Brazouski (Northern Illinois University)
2. We Are Family: Siblings in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Meredith D. Prince (Washington University)
3. Old Blooded Murder: Medea and the Morality of Rejuvenation in the Metamorphoses. Corinne E. Shirley (Indiana University, Bloomington)
4. Getting Ahead: Decapitation as Political Metaphor in Silius Italicus' Punica. Raymond D. Marks (University of Missouri, Columbia)
5. (M)others in Saguntum: Obliterating Roman Identity in Silius' Punica 2. Antony Augoustakis (Baylor University)
6. Phrixus in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus. Hugh Parker (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

3:30-5:30 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Salon B-C

Section F

Ciceronian Friendship

Christopher Craig (University of Tennessee), presiding

1. Commendo Unice: Recommending the Father, the Son, and the Recommender through Greek Quotations in Cicero's Ad familiares 13.15. Sarah L. Jacobson (University of Arizona)
2. Multis erat in ore: Anecdotal and Philosophical Discourse in Cicero's Laelius de Amicitia. Richard O. Fletcher (The Ohio State University)
3. Laelius : Scipio :: Cicero : Pompey: Cicero's Continuing Application of the Laelius/Scipio Friendship in His Relations with Pompey. John H. Starks, Jr. (Randolph-Macon Woman's College)
4. Cicero's De Amicitia in Nepos' Life of Atticus. Rex Stem (University of California)
5. When a Man Loves a Nomen: Pliny on Cicero and Poetry (Ep. 7.4). Timothy J. Stover (Florida State University)

5:30-6:00 p.m. Business Meeting of CAMWS Southern Section (Salon B-C)

5:30-6:30 p.m. Meeting of ACM/GLC/ACS Classicists (Salon D-E)

6:30-8:00 p.m. Dinner for CAMWS Vice-Presidents (Rookwood)

6:30-7:30 p.m. Happy Hour for Graduate Students (Salon H-I)

6:30-7:30 p.m. Vergilian Society Reception (Salon F-G)

8:00-10:00 p.m. Fifth Paper Session Rosewood

Section A

Classics in Media

Monica S. Cyrino (University of New Mexico), presiding

1. Missing in Action? The Role of the Gods in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy. Charles C. Chiasson (University of Texas, Arlington)
2. Spectacle or Side-show? Greek Tragedy via Film Noir. James V. Lowe (John Burroughs School)
3. "...Heroes Don't Compromise": Frank Miller's Transformation of Herodotus' Thermopylae. Vincent Tomasso (Stanford University)
4. HBO Rome on Roman Sexual Practices: Orgia Continua aut Interrupta? Art L. Spisak (Missouri State University)

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