Meeting

Friday, March 26, 2010

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7:00-8:00 a.m. Breakfast sponsored by the Vergilian Society (Room 14)

7:30 a.m.-noon Registration (Great Hall D)

7:30 a.m.-noon Book Display (Great Hall D)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Great Hall E)

Section 6.A

Archaeology IV

Barbara Tsakirgis (Vanderbilt University), presiding

  1. Greek and Roman Coins of Tel Dor: A Study of Material Culture and Cultural Identity. Rosa M. Motta (University of Virginia)
  2. Roman Ashkelon and Herod's “Building Program”. Robyn L. Le Blanc (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  3. The Archaeology of Ethiopia, the Far-Off Land. Elizabeth A. Fisher (Randolph-Macon College)
  4. An Economic Explanation for the Republican Colonies of Southern Coastal Etruria. Robert E. Vander Poppen (Rollins College)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Room 16)

Section 6.B

Homer and Greek Epic

Keyne A. Cheshire (Davidson College), presiding

  1. Homeric Criticism in the Hippias Minor. Kelli C. Rudolph (Grand Valley State University)
  2. Conflicting Epic Pasts in the Iliad. Daniel Turkeltaub (Millsaps College)
  3. Walls, Menis, and Time in Iliad Book 12. Elizabeth Jones (Stanford University)
  4. Damning Hesiod in Homer's Underworld. Timothy S. Heckenlively (Baylor University)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Room 17)

Section 6.C

Pedagogy I

Christopher D. Wood (Villanova Preparatory School), presiding

  1. Abandoning the meta-language: Teaching Latin and Greek with less terminology. Stephen Smith (University of Minnesota)
  2. Endings (and Middles!): a new reference tool for struggling Latin students. Kay Suleiman (University of Illinois)
  3. Strategy for Today's Strategoi: Teaching Thucydides to Modern Commanders. Jim Tucci (Air University)
  4. The History of Oral Methods in Latin Pedagogy. Antha Whitehorn (University of Arizona)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Room 18)

Section 6.D

Sophocles

Michael H. Shaw (University of Kansas), presiding

  1. Divine Agency and Human Agency: Rereading the Chorus in Sophocles’ Antigone. Umit S. Dhuga (Calvin College)
  2. Ajax, Hector, and the Unity of Sophocles Homeric Drama. Jonathan Strain (University of Texas, Austin)
  3. The Soldier and the Sophists: Deceitful Language in Sophocles' Ajax (vv. 646-692). Scott A. Barnard (University of New Mexico)
  4. The First Speech of Creon in Sophocles' Antigone. Ruth Scodel (University of Michigan)
  5. Herakles the Savior and the “Tragi-comic” in Sophokles' Philoktetes. Emily A. Kratzer (Unversity of California, Los Angeles)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Room 19)

Section 6.E

Greek Religion

Carol J. King (Memorial University), presiding

  1. Return to Sender: Failed Reciprocities in Ancient Greek Religion. Charles H. Stocking (University of California, Los Angeles)
  2. Barren Women and Helpless Babies: Deceptive Bodies of the Gods. Bridget S. Buchholz (Ohio State University)
  3. Sacrificing and Slaughtering Women: Rethinking Women's Roles in Greek Sacrificial Ritual. Kristen M. Gentile (Union College)
  4. Battlefield Omens in the Historiography of Alexander the Great. Brandon R. Olson and Jeffrey T. Herrick (Pennsylvania State University)

8:15-9:45 a.m. Sixth Paper Session (Room 20)

Section 6.F

Ovid II

Antonia J. Syson (Purdue University), presiding

  1. Water, Women & Bodies in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Laura A. Behymer (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  2. Ovid's Song of Philomela: “germanaeque suae carmen miserabile” (Meta. VI.582). Garrett A. Jacobsen (Denison University)
  3. Conscia Littera: Ovid's Helen as Reader, Writer, and Agent. Kerry Lefebvre (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  4. Playing Board Games with Ovid. Stacie Raucci (Union College)
  5. That Old Black Magic: Intratextuality Between Metamorphoses 7 and 14. Katie A. Lamberto (University at Buffalo)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Great Hall E)

Section 7.A

Plautus and Terence

Niall W. Slater (Emory University), presiding

  1. The Dangers of Theater in Miles Gloriosus. Christopher W. Bungard (Butler University)
  2. Pervert, Prostitute, Politician, Prankster: Plautine Allusion in Catullus 21, 24, and 49. Christopher Polt (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  3. Quid “ego sum”?: Alienation, Interpellation, and “Epic”-ness in the Amphitruo. Angela E. Holzmeister (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  4. Beings are like Buildings are like Beings: Plautus and Vitruvius on Identity and Architecture. Gillian E. McIntosh (San Francisco State University)
  5. Typecastaways: Stock-type shifting in Plautus' Persa. T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  6. Rape and Comedy in Terence's Eunuch. John Gruber-Miller (Cornell College)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Room 16)

Section 7.B

Panel

The Outskirts of Iambos

Donald E. Lavigne (Texas Tech University), co-organizer

Allen J. Romano (Florida State University), co-organizer

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  1. Xenophanes, the Cercopes, and Pindar's Beautiful Monkey. David G. Smith (San Francisco State University)
  2. Iambic Parody of the Sacred: Genre and Religion in Herodas. Allen J. Romano (Florida State University)
  3. The Iambic Voice of Catullus 8. Donald E. Lavigne (Texas Tech University)
  4. Discipline and Punish: Iambic Violence and Invective in Horace and Lucilius. Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina)
  5. Hairacles and the Laughing Cercopes. Tom Hawkins (Ohio State University)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Room 17)

Section 7.C

Women and Rome

Madeleine M. Henry (Iowa State University), presiding

  1. Envisioning Rhea Silvia's Dream in Art and Text. Emma Scioli (University of Kansas)
  2. Clodia and Cleopatra. Marilyn B. Skinner (University of Arizona)
  3. The Death of Cleopatra: There Was No Asp. Duane W. Roller (Ohio State University)
  4. Livia's Putrid Corpse (Suet. Tib. 51.2). Molly M. Pryzwansky (Duke University)
  5. Galba and Pasiphae: nobility in the first century CE. Karen Acton (University of Michigan)
  6. Just How Significant Was Boudicca's Revolt. Jacob D. Feeley (University of Michigan)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Room 18)

Section 7.D

Arrian and Plutarch

Abram C. Ring (Franklin and Marshall College), presiding

  1. Anachronism and Characterization in Arrian's Anabasis. Christopher L. Caterine (University of Virginia)
  2. From West to East: The Progression of Wise Advice in Arrian's Anabasis. Sarah J. Miller (University of Virginia)
  3. Exiling Achilles? Banishment and Retribution in Plutarch's Lives. Michael Nerdahl (University of Richmond)
  4. Dionysiac Spectacle and Role-Playing in Plutarch's Crassus. Asya Sigelman (Brown University)
  5. Sulla and Delphi in Plutarch's Life of Sulla. Isabel Köster (Harvard University)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Room 19)

Section 7.E

Roman History II

Seth L. Kendall (Georgia Gwinnett College), presiding

  1. Understanding an “Illiad of Woes”: Civic militarism and the course of the slave wars in Sicily 135-101 B.C.E.. Adam Donaldson (University of Arizona)
  2. Geography and the Construction of Character in Sallust's Jugurtha. John J. Ryan (University of Cincinnati )
  3. Being Atticus: The Politics of Friendship at the End of the Republic. Taylor S. Coughlan (University of Cincinnati )
  4. Overseeing the Republic: Farmers and Overseers in Roman Political Ideology. Grant A. Nelsestuen (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  5. Prefaces in the Fragmentary Historians of the Roman Republic. Trudy Harrington Becker (Virginia Tech University)
  6. Dueling Memories: Augustus's Res Gestae vs. Lucan's Bellum Civile. Mark Thorne (Wheaton College)

10:00 a.m.-noon Seventh Paper Session (Room 20)

Section 7.F

Herodotus

Anthony J. Papalas (East Carolina University), presiding

  1. Herodotus and the Politics of ethnos. Rebecca F. Kennedy (Denison University)
  2. Fishing for Power: Reading Herodotean Polykrates through Diktynna. Maria Sarinaki (University of Texas, Austin)
  3. Eastern Leaders and Greek Oracles: a Narrative Pattern in Herodotus. Blanche M. Conger (University of Virginia)
  4. Herodotus' Prologue and the Greek Poetic Tradition. Charles C. Chiasson (University of Texas, Arlington)
  5. What is a Woman's Oikos Herodotus and Kinship. Meryl Altman (DePauw University)
  6. Stylistic and Methodological Comparison in Herodotus and Thucydides. Drew Stimson (University of Arizona)

NOTE: All Friday-afternoon sessions will take place on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. Transportation will be provided to the campus.

1:15 pm.-2:45 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (Meacham)

Section 8.A

Presidential Panel I

Practice and Perception of Black Classicism: Chavis, Tolson and Eezzuduemhoi

Michele Valerie Ronnick (Wayne State University), organizer

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  1. John Chavis, African American Latin Teacher in the Antebellum South. John H. Starks, Jr. (Binghamton University, State University of New York )
  2. The Pindar of Harlem: the Life and Work of Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966). James H. Tatum (Dartmouth College)
  3. An African-US Collaboration on a New Elementary Text for Ancient Greek. Glenn Storey (University of Iowa)
  4. Response. Catherine A. John (University of Oklahoma)

1:15 pm.-2:45 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (Governors)

Section 8.B

Panel

Salvation in the Mystic Cults

Patricia A. Johnston (Brandeis University), organizer

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  1. Beyond Silence: Soteriology, Samothrace, and the concept of secrecy. Sandra Blakely (Emory University)
  2. A Demeter Temple in Latium. Kathryn Lucchese (Texas A & M University)
  3. Mater Matuta at Capua and at Rome. Patricia A. Johnston (Brandeis University)

1:15 pm.-2:45 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (Scholars)

Section 8.C

Aeschylus and Euripides

Ruth Scodel (University of Michigan), presiding

  1. The Pathos of Thebes in Aeschylus' Seven: A New Context for Homeric Spells. Caludia Zatta (Wabash College)
  2. Social Memory and Aeschylus' Persae. C. Michael Sampson (St. Olaf College)
  3. Gendered Truths in Aeschylus' Agamemnon. Arum Park (Washington and Lee University )
  4. The Geography of Euripides' Ion. Georgia L. Irby-Massie (College of William & Mary)
  5. Cultic Aetiology in Euripides. John Gibert (University of Colorado)

1:15 pm.-2:45 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (Crimson)

Section 8.D

Greek History I

Lt. Col. James M. Tucci (Air University), presiding

  1. The Strategic Advantage of Panhellenic Games in Hellenistic Greece: Aratos, the Achaian League, and the Nemean Games of 235 B.C.. Tanya Szafranski (University of Oklahoma)
  2. Never Marry a Man Called Thunderbolt: Ptolemy Ceraunus and Arsinoë. Elizabeth D. Carney (Clemson University)
  3. Messengers and Cyrus: Herodotus, Book One. Alison Lanski (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign )
  4. The Narrative Function of the Celtic and Roman Embassies in Arrian's Anabasis. Daniel W. Leon (University of Virginia)

1:15 pm.-2:45 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (Frontier)

Section 8.E

Statius

Scott McGill (Rice University), presiding

  1. Statius' Via Domitiana: The Elements in Balance. Sarah Herbert (University of Virginia)
  2. si parva licet componere magnis: the statue-poems of Statius' Silvae. Harriet H. Livesay (University of Virginia)
  3. The Virtue of Audacity in Statius's Silvae. Stephen M. Kershner (Denison University)
  4. The Misguided Pietas of Antigone in Statius' Thebaid. Melanie Racette-Campbell (University of Toronto)

1:15 pm.-2:45 p.m. Eighth Paper Session (Heritage)

Section 8.F

Xenophon, Polybius and Pausanius

David D. Phillips (University of California, Los Angeles), presiding

  1. The Metonymic Treatment of Stasis in Xenophon's Hellenica. Richard F. Buxton (University of Washington)
  2. Kings and Kingship in Xenophon's Cyropaedi. Ralph E. Doty (University of Oklahoma)
  3. “Sufficient to bring you to great and frequent difficulty”: Polybius on Weather and the Good General. Paul Moran (University of Virginia)
  4. Pausanias' Military Construction of Hellenism. Aaron Wenzel (Beloit College)
  5. The necklace of Eriphyle in Pausanias and the practice of Homeric Citation. William S. Duffy (State University of New York, Buffalo)

3:00-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (Meacham)

Section 9.A

Presidential Panel II

Practice and Perception of Black Classicism: Representations of Race in Films and Television about the Ancient World

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

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  1. Magic, Music and Race: The Black Orpheus Effect. Monica S. Cyrino (University of New Mexico)
  2. The Defiant Ones: Black and White in the Arena. Martin M. Winkler (George Mason University)
  3. Fade to Black: Reflections of Race in Film and Television Versions of the Cleopatra Legend. Gregory N. Daugherty (Randolph-Macon College)
  4. From Black Caesar to Freedom Writers:  The Black Experience via Greco-Roman Allusions in Popular Cinema. John Solomon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  5. Response. Catherine A. John (University of Oklahoma)

3:00-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (Governors)

Section 9.B

Roman Religion

Carin M. Green (University of Iowa), presiding

  1. Plautus' Lectisterniator and Roman Dies Natales. Jeffrey A. Easton (University of Kansas)
  2. The Roman Character of Latin Literary Prayer Language. Jared Copeland (University of Arizona)
  3. The Virtus of Romulus: De re publica 2 and Divinization in Late Republican Rome. Mattias P. Gassman (University of Minnesota)
  4. A Place For (A) Thought: Metaphor and Metonymy in Roman Augural Ritual. William M. Short (University of Texas, San Antonio)
  5. Secrecy and Silence: Revealing the Character of the Roman Lares. Mariah Smith (Indiana University)
  6. The Tomb of the Haterii: The Significance of the Sacra Via Relief. Julie E. Condor (Collins Hill High School)

3:00-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (Scholars)

Section 9.C

Euripides

David H. Larmour (Texas Tech University), presiding

  1. Child of Night: Divine Madness in Euripides' Herakles. Trigg W. Settle (University of New Mexico)
  2. “Existence and Non-Existence are Considered Distinct”: Heracles, Action, and Fifth-Century Thought in Euripides' Alcestis. Kristin O. Lord (Wilfred-Laurier University)
  3. Horror in the Messenger Speech of Euripides' Heracles 924-1015. Derek Smith (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  4. Erinyes and The Eumenides in Euripides' Medea. David K. Shelley (Independent Scholar)
  5. Mother as Tyrant: the Succession Myth Pattern at Work in Euripides' Electra. Deana P. Zeigler (Boston University)

3:00-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (Crimson)

Section 9.D

Greek History II

Elizabeth Donnelly Carney (Clemson University), presiding

  1. Dikaiotatos Andron: The Persian Policy of Cleomenes I in Herodotus' Histories. Heather L. Roberts (Indiana University)
  2. Positing an Ideal Form of Monarchy in Herodotus' Histories. Sydnor Roy (Temple University)
  3. The Naxian Expedition and the emergence of the Trireme. Anthony J. Papalas (East Carolina University)
  4. Combating Piracy during the Peloponnesian War and in Somalia. Jeffrey P. Yeakel (University of Florida)
  5. The Didactic Purpose of Vivid Scenes in Thucydides' History. Valerio Caldesi-Valeri (Lawrence University)
  6. Weather, Tyche, Narrative and Intelligence in Thucydides. John E. Esposito (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

3:00-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (Frontier)

Section 9.E

Roman Poetry

James C. McKeown (University of Wisconsin, Madison), presiding

  1. A Literary Love: The Identical Identities of Catullus and Lesbia in Poems 51 and 68. Jessica Seidman (University of Chicago)
  2. Obscenae canes: Hecate's Ominous Bitches at Georgics I. 470. David J. White (Baylor University)
  3. Dominature: Overcoming Nature in the Silvae and Georgics. Dustin Heinen (University of Florida)
  4. Et versus et cetera ludicra pono: Horace's Retirement and the Reception of Odes 1-3. Steven L. Jones (Baylor University)
  5. The Struggle Against Oblivion: Buthrotum, Aeneas, and Troy's Commemoration in Vergil's Aeneid. Aaron Seider (University of Chicago)
  6. Doctus Sermones Utriusque Linguae?: how well did Roman poets expect their readers to know Greek?. James C. McKeown (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

3:00-5:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session (Heritage)

Section 9.F

Philosophy I

J. Andrew Foster (Fordham University), presiding

  1. Socratic Atopia in Xenophon's Memorabilia. Alexander Alderman (Pacific Lutheran University)
  2. Action, Error, and Responsibility in Antiphon's Second Tetralogy. David J. Riesbeck (University of Texas, Austin)
  3. War as Metaphor in the Republic. Jim Hamm (University of Minnesota)
  4. The Poet and the Charioteer. Ryan Platte (Washington University, St. Louis)
  5. Galen on Nature and the Possible, or The Centaur Cannot Hold. Marquis Berrey (University of Texas, Austin)

5:00-6:00 p.m. Reception at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

NOTE: Friday-afternoon events held on the University of Oklahoma campus will conclude with the reception. Transportation will be provided back to the conference hotel.

7:00-7:30 p.m. Cash Bar (In front of Great Hall A and B)

7:30-10:00 p.m. Presidential Address by Michele Valerie Ronnick, "Black Classicism: 'Tell Them We Are Rising!'"
Banquet (Great Hall A and B)

10:00-11:00 p.m. President's Reception (Cash Bar) (In front of Great Hall A and B)

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