Meeting

Friday, April 3, 2009

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7:00-8:00 a.m. Buffet Breakfast sponsored by the Vergilian Society (Deer/Elk Lake)

7:30 a.m.-noon Registration (Registration Area)

8:00 a.m.-noon Book Display (Ballroom 3)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Excelsior Bay)

Section A

Panel

New Approaches to Student Engagement

Albert T. Watanabe (Louisiana State University), co-organizer

Jane Poynter Webb (Louisiana State University) co-organizer

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  1. Games Students Play: "Reacting to the Past" and Student Engagement in Learning. Carl A. Anderson (Michigan State University), T. Keith Dix (University of Georgia) co-presenters
  2. Caesar, The Master Communicator, As A Tool for CxC. Jane Poynter Webb (Louisiana State University)
  3. Communication Across the Curriculum Through Mythology. Albert T. Watanabe (Louisiana State University)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Lake Nokomis)

Section B

Greek Historians

Mark T. Gustafson (University of Minnesota), presiding, presiding

  1. Thucydides as a Borderline, High-functioning Autistic. Stewart Flory (Gustavus Adolphus College)
  2. Brasidas RHIPSASPIS? Charles F. Pazdernik (Grand Valley State University) -- will be read by Peter J. Anderson (Grand Valley State University)
  3. Herculean Historians. Abram Ring (Franklin and Marshall College)
  4. Plutarch on the Rise and Fall of Alexander. Jeffrey S. Beneker (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  5. Why did Macrinus plot against Caracalla? Andrew G. Scott (Hendrix College)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Spring Park Bay)

Section C

Reception Studies 2

Mark Edward Clark (University of Southern Mississippi), presiding

  1. "Me miserable!": Ovid, Apollonius, and The Distressed Heroine in Paradise Lost. Amanda R. Regan (University of Michigan)
  2. B.G. Niebuhr's Romantic Imagination. Alexander Conison (University of Michigan)
  3. Popular Magazines and the Classical Past in the Post-War Boom (1945-1970). John V. Carlevale (Berea College)
  4. HBO Rome Series' Conflicted Representation of Octavian. Art L. Spisak (Missouri State University)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Lake Calhoun)

Section D

Thucydides & Sophocles

P. Andrew Montgomery (Samford University), presiding

  1. Pericles' Consolation and Solon's Happiest Life. Andrew W. Sweet (Cornell University)
  2. Inference & Expectation in Thuc. 6-10. Joseph A. Ponczoch (University of Texas, Austin)
  3. Profit in Learning: Economic and Educational Identities in Sophocles' Antigone. Brett M. Rogers (Gettysburg College)
  4. κέρδος 2.0: Profit and Linguistic Confusion in the Antigone. Jameson C. Farmer (Samford University)
  5. Problematic Endings and Ethical Attachments in Sophocles. Francis M. Dunn (Unversity of California, Santa Barbara)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Wayzata Bay)

Section E

Cicero 2

Robert W. Cape, Jr. (Austin College), presiding

  1. Elephant in the Room: Cicero's use of iniquitatem temporum in pro Roscio Amerino. Jennifer L. LaFleur (University of Virginia)
  2. The Conspiracy Narrative and Cicero's Verrines. Walter E. Spencer
  3. Asconius' Influence on the Bobbio Scholiast: Cicero's Pro Milone and its Ancient Commentaries. Jane W. Crawford (University of Virginia)
  4. Cicero's self-stereotyping in Pro Sulla, §§18-19. Christopher P. Craig (University of Tennessee)
  5. Magnae spes altera Romae: Cicero and Vergil in later Latin tradition. Caroline B. Bishop (University of Pennsylvania)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Lake Harriet)

Section F

Greek Ritual and Orphism

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

  1. Danae in the Chest: Female Coming-of-Age and Marriage. Marie-Claire A. Beaulieu (Dartmouth College)
  2. Ritual Theory and the Funeral Games of Iliad 23. Daniel J. Griffin (Duke University)
  3. Children of Earth and Starry Sky: Reconsidering Gender and Identity in the Orphic Gold Tablets. Evelyn W. Adkins (University of Michigan)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Excelsior Bay)

Section A

Euripides & Aristophanes

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

  1. For Us the Living: Lament in Euripides’ Ion. Cat L. Wilson (University of British Columbia)
  2. Euripides’ Ion, Poetic Genealogies, and the Ethnic Identity of Eastern Sicily. David G. Smith (San Francisco State University)
  3. Helen’s Changeable Hermes. Mary L. McMenomy (St. Olaf College)
  4. Staging Andromeda in Euripides and Aristophanes. Wilfred E. Major (Louisiana State University)
  5. Political and Martial Fantasy in Aristophanes’ Babylonians. Jennifer S. Starkey (University of Colorado)
  6. Lysistrata as Athena. Hollister N. Pritchett (Indiana University)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Lake Nokomis)

Section B

Greek Poetry

Alexandra Pappas (University of Arkansas), presiding

  1. Hesiod’s Erga, Genre Theory, and Greek Lyric Poetry. William A. Tortorelli (Northwestern University)
  2. Diomedes on Iambus: Genre in Ancient Educational Sources. Andrea Rotstein (Tel Aviv University)
  3. Dancing Before Dawn: The Performance of Alcman’s Partheneion. Thomas K. Hubbard (University of Texas, Austin)
  4. Xenophanes’ Reinvention of Poetic Authority. Derek Smith (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  5. Time and Ritual in Archaic Greek Poetry: Two Perspectives. Steven R. Lundy (University of Texas, Austin)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Spring Park Bay)

Section C

Cleopatra

Mary R. McHugh (Gustavus Adolphus College), presiding

  1. Ptolemaic Religious Patronage: How Cleopatra Became “King”. Cecilia M. Peek (Brigham Young University)
  2. Formae confisa suae: Ancient Traditions on the Beauty of Cleopatra. Gregory N. Daugherty (Randolph-Macon College)
  3. The Iconography of Ptolemaic Queens. Kathryn McBride (University of Arizona)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Lake Calhoun)

Section D

Aeneid 2 & Influence

Helena Dettmer (University of Iowa), presiding

  1. “Tune hinc spoliis indute meorum eripiare mihi?…”: tune, furor, and power reversals in the Aeneid. Susan E. Drummond (University of Mary Washington)
  2. Invisus Apollini Turnus. Timothy S. Heckenlively (Baylor University)
  3. Levels of Metaphor in the Hercules-Cacus Episode. Noelle D. Jacot (Baylor University)
  4. Mechanisms for a Coming-of-Age Gender Transformation in Statius’ Achilleid: Persuasion, Association, and Performance. Matthew P. Vieron (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  5. Reading Augustine Reading Virgil: “Tolle Lege” Redux. Mary C. Russell (Baylor University)
  6. The Figure of Creusa in Augustine’s Confessions. Rocki T. Wentzel (Augustana College)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Wayzata Bay)

Section E

Panel

Uses of Narrative in Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum

Aislinn A. Melchior (University of Puget Sound),
Rex Stem (University of California, Davis), co-organizers

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  1. The Bellum Gallicum and the Development of the Historical Monograph in the Late Republic. Debra L. Nousek (University of Western Ontario)
  2. Making an Example of Sabinus (BG 17-19, 26-37). Rex Stem (University of California, Davis)
  3. Bridging the Rhine (BG 17). Robert Brown (Vassar College)
  4. Violence and Closure in Bellum Gallicum, Book One. Aislinn A. Melchior (University of Puget Sound)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Lake Harriet)

Section F

Ancient Philosophy 1

Michael Gagarin (University of Texas), presiding

  1. From Author Presentation to Audience Perception: The Case of Empedocles. Carrie L. Galsworthy (Miami University)
  2. Rational Action in Protagoras’ Theory of Punishment and Gorgias’ Palamedes. David J. Riesbeck (University of Texas, Austin)
  3. Philo of Alexandria’s Philosophy of Dreams. (Michael) Jason A. Reddoch (University of Cincinnati)
  4. Topography as Epistemology in Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Yasuko Taoka (Southern Illinois University)
  5. Wisdom and Rituals of Old: Divine Authority in Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs. James W. Hosler (Florida State University)
  6. The Use and Abuse of Philosophical Successions. Kendra J. Eshleman (Boston College)

NOTE: All Friday-afternoon sessions will take place on the campus of the University of Minnesota, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Center. Transportation will be provided to the campus.

1:15 pm.-3:00 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (HHH 180)

Section A

Minoan & Greek Art

Lora L. Holland (University of North Carolina, Asheville), presiding

  1. The Use of Heirlooms on Minoan Crete. Sarah R. Linn (University of Arizona)
  2. Bull-Leaping in Minoan Courts: Reality or Myth? Perspectives from Modern Rodeo Arenas. Theodore B. Gatchell, Dwanna Crain, Eleni Hasaki (University of Arizona)
  3. Mourning women: the Tanagra larnakes and the Minoan connection. Margaretha Kramer-Hajos (Indiana University)
  4. Hephaistos’ Winged Shoes and the Birth of Athena. Daniel B. Levine (University of Arkansas)
  5. Parthenoi to Watch Out For? Looking at Female Couples in Vase-Painting and Lyric. Meryl Altman (DePauw University)
  6. Holding Fast: Images Relating to Aphrodite (Venus) Euploia on Greek and Roman Lead Anchor Stocks. Harry R. Neilson, III (St. Joseph’s University)

1:15 pm.-3:00 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (HHH 215)

Section B

Pottery and Glass

Andrew Reinhard (Bolchazy- Carducci Publishers, Inc.), presiding

  1. Share and Share Alike: Cultural Blending and the Orientalizing Phenomenon in Magna Graecia. Allisa J. Stoimenoff (University of Texas at Austin)
  2. The Southern Italian Lebes Gamikos: its unique features and their cultural relevance. Bruce L. Warren (Indiana University, Bloomington)
  3. Satyric Divination. Leigh A. Lieberman (Princeton University)
  4. Volute kraters in Apulian funerary contexts. Bice Peruzzi (University of Cincinnati)
  5. Gift Exchange and the Etruscan Kantharos: From Drinking to Diplomacy to Dionysos. Jennifer L. Muslin (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
  6. Roman Glass Workers: Some Social Considerations. Lucinda Jaffe (University of Arizona)

1:15 pm.-3:00 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (HHH 35)

Section C

Pindar

Wilfred E. Major (Louisiana State University), presiding

  1. Interpreting the Crux at Pythian 14-18, an “Occasion for Bad Scholarship”. Christopher C. Eckerman (University of Oregon)
  2. The Negatable Difference: A Speech Act Approach to Epinician Prayers. James B. Wells (Hamilton College)
  3. The Form and Function of Direct Speech in Pindar’s Victory Odes. Henry Spelman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  4. The Erginos myth at Pindar, Ol. 19-27. Simon P. Burris (Baylor University)

1:15 pm.-3:00 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (HHH 184)

Section D

Presidential Panel:

Vox Humana, non solum Romana: Neo-Latin Literature and our Heritage

Robert W. Ulery, Jr. (Wake Forest University), organizer

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  1. The Use of Latin as a Spoken Language in the Humanist Age. Terence D. Tunberg (University of Kentucky)
  2. The Heroides of Eobanus Hessus (1488-1540): Toward an Evangelical Paideia. Diane L. Johnson (Western Washington University)
  3. Scatology and Eschatology: Reading Luther’s Latin Verse. Carl P. E. Springer (Southern Illinois University)

1:15 pm.-3:00 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (HHH 170)

Section E

Hellenistic & Roman Poetry

Peter J. Anderson (Grand Valley State University), presiding

  1. From the homosocial to the heterosocial: Societal development in Argonautica. T.H.M. Gellar-Goad (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  2. Lucretius’s Broken Jar: Philosophical Transformations of a Poetic Image. Christopher S. Welser (Brown University)
  3. The Catalepton: Conception and Misconception. David K. Oosterhuis (Macalester College)
  4. The “Bucket List”: Virgil and Cicero on Gardening and Old Age. Alden Smith (Baylor University)
  5. Plowing as a Metaphor for Poetic Composition in Vergil’s Georgics. John H. Henkel (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  6. Generic Symbiosis and Self-Presentation in Statius's Silvae. Stephen M. Kershner (Denison University)

1:15 pm.-3:00 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (Cowles Auditorium)

Section F

Panel

Philmology: Tracing Relations between Films and the Ancient World

Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr. (University of New Mexico), organizer

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  1. Degrees of Invitation: How to Recognize Oedipus in a Dark Alley. Life Blumberg (University of Iowa)
  2. Augustus in the Mezzogiorno: The Role of the Roman Past in Constructing Ethnic Identity. Vincent E. Tomasso (Stanford University)
  3. The Classical Western Archetype: Shane via Greek and Roman Epic. Kirsten Day (Augustana College)
  4. Reading Text like Film: Tracing Cinematic Conventions in Ancient Texts. Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr. (University of New Mexico)

3:15-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (HHH 180)

Section A

Iliad 3

Daniel B. Levine (University of Arkansas), presiding

  1. The Knees of Athena: Constructing Homer's Troy in Ancient Scholarship. Cassandra Borges (University of Michigan)
  2. Pelôrios Aias: Size Isn't Everything. Robin N. Mitchell-Boyask (Temple University)
  3. Paris/Alexander, Pandarus, Peisander, and Some Related Iliadic Doublets. Jonathan B. Fenno (University of Mississippi)
  4. Maternal Genealogies in Homer's Iliad. Laura K. McClure (University of Wisconsin)
  5. Trojan Phthia: Achilles as Exile in the Iliad. Ryan E. McConnell (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

3:15-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (HHH 215)

Section B

Lucian & Theon

Susan O. Shapiro (Utah State University), presiding

  1. Sweet roots, bitter fruits: Lucian's Rhetorum Praeceptor as ironic rebuttal of a chreia. Craig A. Gibson (University of Iowa)
  2. Constructing and Deconstructing Identity in Theon's Progymnasmata. Arti Mehta (Indiana University, Bloomington) -- paper will be read by Susan O. Shapiro (Utah State University)
  3. Paradoxography and Self Presentation in Lucian's Prolaliai. Valentina Popescu (University of Cincinnati)
  4. Lucian's Megilla/us: Rethinking Gender, Agency, and Same-Sex Relationships. Allison Fields (University of Cincinnati)

3:15-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (HHH 35)

Section C

Roman Art & Archaeology

Stephen C. Fineberg (Knox College), presiding

  1. The Temple of Mars Ultor: What Was Being Avenged? Duane W. Roller (Ohio State University)
  2. Sharing the Wealth: Common Motifs in Third Style Wall Painting, Jewelry, and Metalware. Elizabeth A. Wueste (University of California, Berkeley)
  3. Varus' Legacy After Teutoburger Wald: Roman POWs, Tiberius, and the Ara Pacis. Gaius Stern (San Jose State University)
  4. Reconciling Rome's Regionary Catalogues with the Severan Marble Plan. Daniel W. Moore (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  5. The Economics and Social Conceptions of Religiosity and Divine Patronage: Painted Lararia and Depictions of Vesta in Pompeii's Pistrina. Erin M. Pitt (University of Colorado Boulder)
  6. East and West: Patterns of Dynastic Display in the Antonine Age. Rachel Meyers (Iowa State University)

3:15-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (HHH 184)

Section D

Greek Cities

Liane Houghtalin (University of Mary Washington), presiding

  1. Lykourgan Brauron: A New Analysis of SEG LII 104. Elizabeth T. Bose (University of Texas, Austin)
  2. The Temple as Courtroom: Judicial Inscriptions from Roman Imperial Lydia. Lochlan Shelfer (The Johns Hopkins University)
  3. Building F in Athens: Palace, Workshop or Proto-Prytaneion. Barbara Tsakirgis (Vanderbilt University)
  4. Honors for a Roman Official at Corinth by the The Association of the Artists of Dionysos from the Isthmos and Nemea. Paul A. Iversen (Case Western Reserve University)
  5. The Odeion at Ancient Corinth: New Discoveries. Aileen Ajootian (University of Mississippi)

3:15-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (HHH 170)

Section E

Tacitus

Victoria E. Pagán (University of Florida), presiding

  1. Tacitus' Ethnographies: the Role of the Other in the Germania, the Agricola and Histories. H. Paul Brown (Southern Illinois University)
  2. Memory and Authority in Tacitus' Treatment of the Res Gestae. Gabriel P. Grabarek (Indiana University)
  3. Political Revolutions and the Mistreatment of Women: Tacitus on Livia and Augustus. Thomas E. Strunk (Xavier University)
  4. Seneca and Petronius in Tacitus' Annals. Emlen M. Smith (University of Pennsylvania)
  5. Devotiones: The Deaths of Galba and Otho in Tacitus' Histories. Rebecca M. Edwards (Wright State University)
  6. Roman Embassies and Flavian Generals: Tacitus, Histories 80-8. Kathryn F. Williams (Canisius College)

3:15-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (Cowles Auditorium)

Section F

Panel

Greek Drama on the American University Campus

John P. Given (East Carolina University),
Bradley B. Buszard (Christopher Newport University), co-organizers

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  1. From choreut to chorodidaskalos: when students are left to their own theatrical devices. Eric K. Dugdale (Gustavus Adolphus College)
  2. Musical Choruses for Euripides’ Medea. Bradley B. Buszard (Christopher Newport University), Raychel Pekoe Loney (Christopher Newport University), co-presenters
  3. Helen in Egypt, at the Beach, and in a Black Box. Peter H. Burian (Duke University)
  4. Outside Inside: Performing Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen in a Midwest Spring. Kathryn G. Bosher (Northwestern University)
  5. In a Dream of Passion: The Classical Greek Theatre Festival. James T. Svendsen (University of Utah)

5:00-6:00 p.m. Reception on the campus of the University of Minnesota, Hubert H. Humphrey Center.

NOTE: Friday-afternoon events held on the University of Minnesota campus will conclude with the reception at the Hubert H. Humphrey Center. Transportation will be provided back to the Minneapolis Marriott City Center hotel.

7:00-7:30 p.m. Cash Bar (Atrium)

7:30-10:00 p.m. Banquet (Ballroom 1 & 2)

Presiding: Eddie R. Lowry, Jr. (Ripon College)

Welcome: James A. Parente, Jr., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota

 Response: Michele V. Ronnick (Wayne State University), President-Elect

 Ovationes: James M. May (St. Olaf College), Orator

 Address: Robert W. Ulery (Wake Forest University), President

Title: “De senectute studiorum: On Old Age and Antiquity”

10:00-11:00 p.m. President's Reception (Cash Bar) (Ballroom 1 & 2)

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