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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
- Greek and Roman Coins of Tel Dor: A Study of Material Culture and Cultural Identity. Rosa
M. Motta (University of Virginia)
- Roman Ashkelon and Herod's “Building Program”. Robyn L. Le Blanc (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- The Archaeology of Ethiopia, the Far-Off Land. Elizabeth A. Fisher (Randolph-Macon College)
- 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
- Homeric Criticism in the Hippias Minor. Kelli C. Rudolph (Grand Valley State University)
- Conflicting Epic Pasts in the Iliad. Daniel Turkeltaub (Millsaps College)
- Walls, Menis, and Time in Iliad Book 12. Elizabeth Jones (Stanford University)
- 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
- Abandoning the meta-language: Teaching Latin and Greek with less terminology. Stephen Smith (University
of Minnesota)
- Endings (and Middles!): a new reference tool for struggling Latin students. Kay Suleiman (University
of Illinois)
- Strategy for Today's Strategoi: Teaching Thucydides to Modern Commanders. Jim Tucci (Air University)
- 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
- Divine Agency and Human Agency: Rereading the Chorus in Sophocles’ Antigone. Umit
S. Dhuga (Calvin College)
- Ajax, Hector, and the Unity of Sophocles Homeric Drama. Jonathan
Strain (University
of Texas, Austin)
- The Soldier and the Sophists: Deceitful Language in Sophocles' Ajax (vv. 646-692). Scott A. Barnard (University of New Mexico)
- The First Speech of Creon in Sophocles' Antigone. Ruth
Scodel (University of Michigan)
- 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
- Return to Sender: Failed Reciprocities in Ancient Greek Religion. Charles H. Stocking (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Barren Women and Helpless Babies: Deceptive Bodies of the Gods. Bridget S. Buchholz (Ohio State University)
- Sacrificing and Slaughtering Women: Rethinking Women's Roles in Greek Sacrificial Ritual. Kristen M. Gentile (Union College)
- 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
- Water, Women & Bodies in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Laura
A. Behymer (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Ovid's Song of Philomela: “germanaeque suae carmen miserabile” (Meta. VI.582). Garrett
A. Jacobsen (Denison University)
- Conscia Littera: Ovid's Helen as Reader, Writer, and Agent. Kerry Lefebvre (University
of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Playing Board Games with Ovid. Stacie Raucci (Union
College)
- 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
- The Dangers of Theater in Miles Gloriosus. Christopher
W. Bungard (Butler University)
- Pervert, Prostitute, Politician, Prankster: Plautine Allusion in Catullus 21, 24, and 49. Christopher Polt (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Quid “ego sum”?: Alienation, Interpellation, and “Epic”-ness in the Amphitruo. Angela E. Holzmeister (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Beings are like Buildings are like Beings: Plautus and Vitruvius on Identity and Architecture. Gillian
E. McIntosh (San Francisco
State University)
- Typecastaways: Stock-type shifting in Plautus' Persa. T. H. M.
Gellar-Goad (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- 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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- Xenophanes, the Cercopes, and Pindar's Beautiful Monkey. David
G. Smith (San Francisco State University)
- Iambic Parody of the Sacred: Genre and Religion in Herodas. Allen J.
Romano (Florida State University)
- The Iambic Voice of Catullus 8. Donald
E. Lavigne (Texas Tech University)
- Discipline and Punish: Iambic Violence and Invective in Horace and Lucilius. Paul
Allen Miller (University
of South Carolina)
- 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
- Envisioning Rhea Silvia's Dream in Art and Text. Emma
Scioli (University of Kansas)
- Clodia and Cleopatra. Marilyn B. Skinner (University of Arizona)
- The Death of Cleopatra: There Was No Asp. Duane W. Roller (Ohio State University)
- Livia's Putrid Corpse (Suet. Tib. 51.2). Molly M. Pryzwansky (Duke University)
- Galba and Pasiphae: nobility in the first century CE. Karen Acton (University of Michigan)
- 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
- Anachronism and Characterization in Arrian's Anabasis. Christopher L. Caterine (University of Virginia)
- From West to East: The Progression of Wise Advice in Arrian's Anabasis. Sarah J. Miller (University of Virginia)
- Exiling Achilles? Banishment and Retribution in Plutarch's Lives. Michael
Nerdahl (University of Richmond)
- Dionysiac Spectacle and Role-Playing in Plutarch's Crassus. Asya
Sigelman (Brown University)
- 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
- 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)
- Geography and the Construction of Character in Sallust's Jugurtha. John
J. Ryan (University of Cincinnati )
- Being Atticus: The Politics of Friendship at the End of the Republic. Taylor
S. Coughlan (University of Cincinnati )
- Overseeing the Republic: Farmers and Overseers in Roman Political Ideology. Grant
A. Nelsestuen (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Prefaces in the Fragmentary Historians of the Roman Republic. Trudy
Harrington Becker (Virginia Tech University)
- 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
- Herodotus and the Politics of ethnos. Rebecca F.
Kennedy (Denison University)
- Fishing for Power: Reading Herodotean Polykrates through Diktynna. Maria
Sarinaki (University of Texas, Austin)
- Eastern Leaders and Greek Oracles: a Narrative Pattern in Herodotus. Blanche M. Conger (University of Virginia)
- Herodotus' Prologue and the Greek Poetic Tradition. Charles C.
Chiasson (University of Texas, Arlington)
- What is a Woman's Oikos Herodotus and Kinship. Meryl
Altman (DePauw University)
- 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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- John Chavis, African American Latin Teacher in the Antebellum South. John H. Starks, Jr. (Binghamton University, State University of New York )
- The Pindar of Harlem: the Life and Work of Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966). James
H. Tatum (Dartmouth College)
- An African-US Collaboration on a New Elementary Text for Ancient Greek. Glenn
Storey (University of Iowa)
- 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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- Beyond Silence: Soteriology, Samothrace, and the concept of secrecy. Sandra Blakely (Emory University)
- A Demeter Temple in Latium. Kathryn Lucchese (Texas A & M University)
- 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
- The Pathos of Thebes in Aeschylus' Seven: A New Context for Homeric Spells.
Caludia Zatta (Wabash College)
- Social Memory and Aeschylus' Persae. C. Michael Sampson (St. Olaf
College)
- Gendered Truths in Aeschylus' Agamemnon. Arum
Park (Washington and Lee University )
- The Geography of Euripides' Ion. Georgia
L. Irby-Massie (College of William & Mary)
- 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
- 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)
- Never Marry a Man Called Thunderbolt: Ptolemy Ceraunus and Arsinoë. Elizabeth D. Carney (Clemson University)
- Messengers and Cyrus: Herodotus, Book One. Alison Lanski (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign )
- 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
- Statius' Via Domitiana: The Elements in Balance. Sarah
Herbert (University of Virginia)
- si parva licet componere magnis: the statue-poems of Statius' Silvae. Harriet H. Livesay (University of Virginia)
- The Virtue of Audacity in Statius's Silvae. Stephen M.
Kershner (Denison University)
- 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
- The Metonymic Treatment of Stasis in Xenophon's Hellenica. Richard F.
Buxton (University of Washington)
- Kings and Kingship in Xenophon's Cyropaedi. Ralph
E. Doty (University of Oklahoma)
- “Sufficient to bring you to great and frequent difficulty”: Polybius on Weather and the Good General. Paul Moran (University of Virginia)
- Pausanias' Military Construction of Hellenism. Aaron
Wenzel (Beloit College)
- 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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- Magic, Music and Race: The Black Orpheus Effect.
Monica S. Cyrino (University of New Mexico)
- The Defiant Ones: Black and White in the Arena. Martin
M. Winkler (George Mason
University)
- Fade to Black: Reflections of Race in Film and Television Versions of the Cleopatra Legend. Gregory N. Daugherty (Randolph-Macon College)
- From Black Caesar to Freedom Writers: The Black Experience via Greco-Roman Allusions in Popular Cinema. John Solomon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- 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
- Plautus' Lectisterniator and Roman Dies Natales. Jeffrey A.
Easton (University of Kansas)
- The Roman Character of Latin Literary Prayer Language. Jared Copeland (University of Arizona)
- The Virtus of Romulus: De re publica 2 and Divinization in Late Republican Rome. Mattias P.
Gassman (University of Minnesota)
- A Place For (A) Thought: Metaphor and Metonymy in Roman Augural Ritual. William M. Short (University of Texas, San Antonio)
- Secrecy and Silence: Revealing the Character of the Roman Lares. Mariah
Smith (Indiana University)
- 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
- Child of Night: Divine Madness in Euripides' Herakles. Trigg W. Settle (University of New Mexico)
- “Existence and Non-Existence are Considered Distinct”: Heracles, Action, and Fifth-Century Thought in Euripides' Alcestis. Kristin O. Lord (Wilfred-Laurier University)
- Horror in the Messenger Speech of Euripides' Heracles 924-1015. Derek
Smith (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Erinyes and The Eumenides in Euripides' Medea. David K. Shelley (Independent Scholar)
- 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
- Dikaiotatos Andron: The Persian Policy of Cleomenes I in Herodotus' Histories. Heather L.
Roberts (Indiana University)
- Positing an Ideal Form of Monarchy in Herodotus' Histories. Sydnor Roy (Temple
University)
- The Naxian Expedition and the emergence of the Trireme. Anthony
J. Papalas (East Carolina University)
- Combating Piracy during the Peloponnesian War and in Somalia. Jeffrey P. Yeakel (University of Florida)
- The Didactic Purpose of Vivid Scenes in Thucydides' History. Valerio
Caldesi-Valeri (Lawrence University)
- 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
- A Literary Love: The Identical Identities of Catullus and Lesbia in Poems 51 and 68. Jessica
Seidman (University of Chicago)
- Obscenae canes: Hecate's Ominous Bitches at Georgics I. 470. David J. White (Baylor
University)
- Dominature: Overcoming Nature in the Silvae and Georgics. Dustin
Heinen (University of Florida)
- Et versus et cetera ludicra pono: Horace's Retirement and the Reception of Odes 1-3. Steven L. Jones (Baylor
University)
- The Struggle Against Oblivion: Buthrotum, Aeneas, and Troy's Commemoration in Vergil's Aeneid. Aaron
Seider (University of Chicago)
- 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
- Socratic Atopia in Xenophon's Memorabilia.
Alexander Alderman (Pacific Lutheran University)
- Action, Error, and Responsibility in Antiphon's Second Tetralogy. David J. Riesbeck (University
of Texas, Austin)
- War as Metaphor in the Republic. Jim Hamm (University of Minnesota)
- The Poet and the Charioteer. Ryan
Platte (Washington University, St. Louis)
- 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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