All functions will take place in the Williamsburg Lodge unless otherwise indicated.
Note: Sessions marked with (*) have A/V with sound. Sessions marked with (#) have A/V projection only.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
5:00-8:00 p.m. Registration Virginia Foyer
5:00-8:00 p.m. Book Display Virginia F
5:00-8:30 p.m. Executive Committee Meeting Allegheny A
8:00-9:00 p.m. Consulares Reception Virginia Foyer
9:00-10:30 p.m. Antony and Cleopatra (Cines, 1913) Virginia BC
with piano accompaniment by James Doering
(Randolph Macon College)
Gregory Daugherty (Randolph Macon College), presider
Sponsored by Randolph-Macon College
Thursday, March 17, 2016
7:00-8:00 a.m. Women’s Classical Caucus Breakfast Allegheny A
7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration Virginia Foyer
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Display Virginia F
8:15-10:00 a.m. First Paper Session Virginia A
Section A: Aristophanes (#)
Gwen Compton-Engle (John Carroll University), presider
1. Men, Women, and Cranes: Gender and the Epiphanic Gaze. Niall W. Slater (Emory University)
2. Aristophanes and the Definition of Dithyramb: Moving Beyond the Circle. Matthew Wellenbach (Wellesley College)
3. γόνιμος ποιητής: Class and Aristophanes’ Victory in Frogs. Christian Axelgard. (University of Michigan)
4. The Curious Case of the Intertextual Debt in the Frogs. Donna Zuckerberg (The Paideia Institute)
5. Two-a-day: American Vaudeville and Greek Old Comedy. Karen Rosenbecker (Loyola University New Orleans)
8:15-10:00 a.m. First Paper Session Virginia B
Section B: Cicero’s Speeches (63-56 BCE)
Luca Grillo (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), presider
1. Conspiracy at the Door: Paraclausithyron in Cicero’s First Catilinarian. Sarah C. Keith (University of New Mexico)
2. The “First Triumvirate” at Home and Abroad in Cicero’s Pro Flacco 13-18. Joseph A. DiLuzio (Baylor University)
3. The Power of Prayer Compels You: Cicero’s Rhetorical Use of Prayer in the Post Reditum ad Populum Speech. Aine McVey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
4. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Baths: Cicero’s Use of the Senian Baths in the Pro Caelio. Andrew J. Buchheim (University of Missouri, Columbia)
5. Ex ipsis visceribus causae: The Exordium of Cicero’s De Provinciis Consularibus. Christopher Craig (University of Tennessee)
8:15-10:00 a.m. First Paper Session Virginia C
Section C: Homer’s Iliad
Ruth Scodel (University of Michigan), presider
1. Leonine Behavior and Prolepsis in Iliad 3.23-28. Brent M. Froberg (Baylor University)
2. Stentor’s Hyperbolic Voice (Il. 5.784–91). Matthew Horrell (University of Iowa)
3. Helen’s Death Wish and the Power of the Epic Sea. Jill K. Simmons (University of Michigan)
4. Lycaon, Priam, and the Death of Patroclus. Timothy S. Heckenlively (Baylor University)
5. Hector, the Marginal Hero: Performance Theory and the Homeric Monologue. Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr. (University of New Mexico)
8:15-10:00 a.m. First Paper Session Virginia D
Section D: Classical Receptions: 20th Century Literature
Roger T. Macfarlane (Brigham Young University), presider
1. Thomas Mann’s Lotte in Weimar and the Classics. Herbert W. Benario (Emory University)
2. “La Sirena”: Lampedusa on Greek Literature and Immortality. Susan O. Shapiro (Utah State University)
3. Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra. Gregory N. Daugherty (Randolph-Macon College)
4. A Reception of Britain in Tacitus’ Agricola and W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn. Brett Evans (University of Virginia)
5. Lost in Transmission: Literary Fragmenta in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. Tess Cavagnero (University of Kansas)
8:15-10:00 a.m. First Paper Session Piedmont A
Section E: Roman Art and Archaeology (#)
Connie Rodriguez (Loyola University New Orleans), presider
1. Epicurious about the memento mori?: The Skeleton in Roman Feasting Contexts. Lauren Alberti (University of Arizona)
2. Erotic Imagery on Roman Lamps at Gangivecchio: “Come on baby, light my fire.” Christie M. Vogler (University of Iowa) and Elijah C. Fleming (University of Texas at Austin)
3. Stamping Around in Italy: A New Arretine Stamp from the Villa del Vergigno. William H. Ramundt (University of Arizona)
4. The Introduction of the Carved Iris and Pupil to the Portraits of Hadrian. Joanna Mundy (Emory University)
5. Horace’s (Other) Sabine Villa: Antiquarianism and Forgery at the Roman Villa of Vacone. Matthew Notarian (Hiram College)
8:15-10:00 a.m. First Paper Session Piedmont B
Section F: Virgil’s Aeneid and its Reception
Christine G. Perkell (Emory University), presider
1. The Role of ars in Vergil’s Aeneid. Melissa Browne (Villanova University)
2. Rhetoric, Resistance, and the Invention of Italian Identity in Aeneid 7-12. Tedd A. Wimperis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
3. Pseudo-Hera, Pseudo-Aeneas: A Pindaric Intertext in Vergil’s Aeneid. Arum Park (University of Arizona)
4. Lucretian Coloring in the Death of Turnus. Matthew M. Gorey (University of Washington)
5. Manto into Mantua: Vergil, Statius, and Dante. Anna E. Beek (University of Minnesota)
8:15-10:00 a.m. First Paper Session Piedmont C
Section G: Seneca
Lisl Walsh (Beloit College), presider
1. Fortuna as Adversary in Seneca’s Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales. Laura A. Zientek (Brigham Young University)
2. Both True and False: Senecan Paradox. Sam D. McVane (Columbia University)
3. Digesting Impressions: The Speeches of Attalus and Sotion in Seneca’s 108th Epistle. Scott A. Lepisto (University of Southern California)
4. Tiresias’ Role as a Poet Within Seneca’s Oedipus. Maria S. Sarais (University of Missouri, Columbia)
5. Ecumenical Kingship: A Reading of the Second Ode of Seneca’s Thyestes. Alexander E. Skufca (Florida State University)
8:15-10:00 a.m. First Paper Session Colony C
Section H: Pindar’s Pythian and Nemean Odes
Geoff Bakewell (Rhodes College), presider
1. Is Pythian 4 an Epinician? Dennis Alley (Cornell University)
2. Continuation and Consistency in Pindar’s Eighth Pythian Ode. Keith Penich (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
3. Reciprocity, Poetry, and Truth in Pindar’s Nemean 5. Peter Moench (University of Virginia)
4. Commemorative Competition: Pindar’s Nemean 5. Jonathan Reeder (Florida State University)
5. Genre as Social Power: Pindar’s Nemean 11 and the Skolion Tradition. Gregory S. Jones (Independent Scholar)
8:15-10:00 a.m. First Paper Session Virginia E
Section I: Panel (*)
National Committee for Greek Panel
Tools for Teaching Beginning Greek in a New Era
Wilfred E. Major (Louisiana State University), organizer and presider
1. Teaching Greek Accents with One Guiding Principle. Emily Varto (Dalhousie University)
2. Teaching Ancient Greek with a Digital Textbook: Some Preliminary Observations. Michael Laughy (Washington and Lee University)
3. Testing Tools for Ancient Greek on Digital Platforms. Wilfred E. Major (Louisiana State University)
4. The National Greek Exam and Greek in the Junior Classical League. Generosa A. Sangco Jackson (Oak Hall School)
5. The 2016 College Greek Exam. Albert T. Watanabe (Louisiana State University)
10:00-10:15 a.m. Break Virginia F
Sponsored by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Richard LaFleur (University of Georgia) will be signing copies of Ubi Fera Sunt.
10:15 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Virginia A
Section A: Panel (#)
The Afterlife in Etruria: New Approaches to Funerary Evidence
Molly R. Swetnam-Burland (College of William and Mary), co-organizer and presider
Gretchen E. Meyers (Franklin and Marshall College), co-organizer
1. Ceremonial Cloth: The Representation of Textiles in Etruscan Funerary Imagery. Gretchen E. Meyers (Franklin and Marshall College)
2. From the Battlefield to the Tomb: An Analysis of Etruscan Warfare as Evidenced by Funerary Contexts. Alexander Mazurek (University at Buffalo)
3. Trade, Value, and Ritual: The Life and Times of a Krater by the Niobid Painter from Perugia. Molly R. Swetnam-Burland (College of William and Mary) and Keely E. Heuer (State University of New York at New Paltz)
4. Demonic or Divine: Exploring the Role of Vanth in Etruscan Art. Kara K. Burns (University of South Alabama)
5. Crossing Boundaries: A Gendered Reinterpretation of Etruscan Demons. Jacqueline K. Ortoleva (Seattle Central College)
10:15 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Virginia B
Section B: Plato
Zina Giannopoulou (University of California, Irvine), presider
1. Divination in Plato’s Charmides. Christopher Raymond (Vassar College)
2. Naming the Art, or the Art of Naming: Techne in Plato’s Cratylus. Marco Romani Mistretta (Harvard University)
3. The Father of History in Plato’s Timaeus: Herodotus’ Histories and Critias’ Atlantis Λόγος. Ashley A. Simone (Columbia University)
4. Kallipolis, Competition, and the “Noble Lie” in Plato’s Republic. Geoff Bakewell (Rhodes College)
5. Real Pain in a Fictive World: The Metaphysics of Punishment in Plato’s Myth of Er. Isaia Crosson (Columbia University)
10:15 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Virginia C
Section C: Livy and Tacitus
Joseph O’Neill (Arizona State University), presider
1. Memory, Credibility, and Narrative Value in Ab urbe condita 2. Jordan R. Rogers (University of Pennsylvania)
2. Transalpine transgressiones: The Topography of a Livian Digression (5.33.2-35.3). Kyle Khellaf (Yale University)
3. Pestilentia and Cultural Innovation in Livy’s Account of Early Roman Theater. Hunter H. Gardner (University of South Carolina)
4. “Cure the disease and kill the patient”: The Role of Doctors in Tacitus’ Annals. Konstantinos Arampapaslis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
5. Thrasea Paetus as a Model of Resistance in the Annales. Michael L. Konieczny (Harvard University)
10:15 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Virginia D
Section D: Early Greek Poetry
Zoe Stamatopoulou (Pennsylvania State University), presider
1. The Songs of Gods and Men. Christopher Watson (University of Kansas)
2. Begging Perses. Ruth S. Scodel (University of Michigan)
3. A House Divided: Reading the Homeric Hymn to Demeter through Household Roles. Jason J. Hansen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
4. Gendered Relations: The Hymn to Aphrodite as a Prelude to Odyssey 5-7. Kathryn M. Smith (University of Kansas)
5. Between Truth and Lies: A Metaliterary Reading of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. Alessandra Migliara (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
10:15 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Piedmont A
Section E: Pedagogy: Teaching the Classics (#)
Nicoletta Villa-Sella (The Linsly School), presider
1. Role-Playing, Twitter, and the Roman Republic: Reliving the Post-Punic War Senate in the Classroom. Michael Nerdahl (Bowdoin College)
2. The Latin Teacher Shortage. Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)
3. Persona versus Personality. Cathy P. Daugherty (Randolph-Macon College)
4. Pedagogy in Performance: The Life and Works of Lillian B. Lawler. Tyler Jo Smith (University of Virginia)
10:15 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Piedmont B
Section F: Virgil’s Georgics and Columella’s De re rustica
Christopher Nappa (The University of Minnesota), presider
1. Why not Do Science? On Virgil’s Relation to Epicureanism in the Georgics. Konrad C. Weeda (University of Chicago)
2. Nicander’s Ioniad Nymphs and the Corycian senex in Vergil’s Georgics. Ella Wallace (Rutgers University)
3. Vergil’s Baby Bees. Elizabeth A. Manwell (Kalamazoo College)
4. Mercibus ut vernis dives Vertumnus abundet: Vertumnus in Columella’s Garden. David J. White (Baylor University)
5. Columella’s Poetic Garden Catalogues. K. Sara Myers (University of Virginia)
10:15 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Piedmont C
Section G: Roman Satire: Horace and Persius
Cathy Keane (Washington University in St. Louis), presider
1. The Synesthetic Onion in the Satires of Horace and Lucilius. Amy Norgard (Truman State University)
2. Canidia’s Debut: Horace, Satires 1.8. Marilyn B. Skinner (University of Arizona)
3. Horace, Satires 2.2: Epicurean Advice on How to Use Wealth and How to Lose it. Sergio Yona (Baylor University)
4. Complete in Himself, Smooth and Rounded: Self-Sufficiency in Horace’s Sermones 2.7. Peter Osorio (Cornell University)
5. Distance between Philosopher and Satirist: The Ins and Outs of Persius’ Third Satire. Marcie Persyn (University of Pennsylvania)
10:15 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Colony C
Section H: Greek Religion and Mythology
Barbette Spaeth (College of William and Mary), presider
1. The Prehistory of Bomolochia. John S. Rundin (University of California, Davis)
2. Seers and Cultural Exchange in Archaic Greece. David L. Toye (Northeast State Community College)
3. “My beauty, my virtue, my wealth”: Personal Assertion in Public Religious Contexts. Diana Burton (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
4. The φιλοτιμία of Greek Religion. Jon D. Mikalson (University of Virginia)
5. The Case of the Second Sickle: Corcyra, Sicily, and the Evolution of the Castration Myth in Ancient Greece and Rome.William S. Duffy (University of Texas at San Antonio)
10:15 a.m.-noon Second Paper Session Virginia E
Section I: Imperial Roman History
Walter Stevenson (University of Richmond), presider
1. The Emperor and his Animals: The Acquisition of Exotic Beasts for Imperial venationes. Nicholas W. Lindberg (University of Virginia)
2. How to Get Away With Murder: Domitian’s Executions of Vestal Virgins. Catherine Schenck (University of Arizona)
3. Aurelius and Verus: An Imperial Friendship. William L. Scott (University of Florida)
4. The Roman Army Riot of 408 and the Execution of Flavius Stilicho. Taylor Gruman (University of Missouri, Columbia)
5. The Armenian Causes of Justin II’s Sasanian War. Lee E. Patterson (Eastern Illinois University)
12:15-1:30 p.m. Committee Lunch Virginia Foyer
12:15-12:45 p.m. Round Table Discussions
Classics in the First Year Virginia A
Organzier: Rocki Wentzel (Augustana University)
Leader: Robert H. Simmons (Monmouth College)
2016 National Latin Exam et Alia Virginia B
Leader: Linda S. Montross and Mark Keith (National Latin Exam)
Surviving and Thriving as a Small Classics Program Virginia C
Leaders: Gwen Compton-Engle and Kristen Ehrhardt (John Carroll University)
The One-Room Schoolhouse: Inclusive Learning in the Intermediate Latin Classroom Virginia D
Leaders: Jennifer Gerrish (College of Charleston) and Caitlin Gillespie (Temple University)
Teaching the Aeneid in Translation Piedmont A
Leader: Philip Walsh (Washington College)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Virginia A
Section A: Tragic Women (#)
Mark Padilla (Christopher Newport University), presider
1. A Tale of Two Seers? Cassandra in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Euripides’ Troades. Jennifer C. Ranck (Independent Scholar)
2. κεῖμαι δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀκταῖς, ἄλλοτ᾽ ἐν πόντου σάλῳ: Exploring Hecuba’s Symbolic Landscape. Daniel W. Turkeltaub (Santa Clara University)
3. Euripides’ Hecuba as Imperial Drama. Angeliki Tzanetou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
4. The Authority of Aethra in Euripides’ Suppliant Women. Laura K. McClure (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
5. Ritual Re-enactment or Dramatic Metaphor? Creusa in Euripides’ Ion. John Gibert (University of Colorado Boulder)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Virginia B
Section B: Lucretius
Hunter Gardner (University of South Carolina), presider
1. Ecology and Conservation: Oikonomia and Isonomia in the Development of Ecology. Matthew Semanoff (University of Montana)
2. Lucretius on Reason, Hierarchy, and the Natural Order. Adrienne Hagen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
3. Lucretian Laughter and Pastoral Pathos in De Rerum Natura, Book 5. Caleb M. X. Dance (Washington and Lee University)
4. Lucretius’ Mens Animi and Rational/Irrational Fear. Pierce J. Wade (University of Missouri, Columbia)
5. A Perfect End to the Suffering: Lucretius’ Plague as the DRN’s Moral Conclusion. John J. Moore (Tufts University)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Virginia C
Section C: Cicero and his Reception
Christopher Craig (University of Tennesse), presider
1. Cicero Gubernator: The Ship of State in Cicero’s Letters. Robert K. Morley (University of Iowa)
2. Age Ain’t Nuthin’ But A Number Except When It Isn’t: Cicero and the Problem of Youth in the Philippics. Jonathan Zarecki (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
3. Cicero as Schoolmaster: Declamation and the Criticism of Oratory in the Second Philippic. Nathan M. Kish (University of California, Los Angeles)
4. The Bobbio Scholiast’s Sources for his Commentary on Cicero’s Speeches. Jane Crawford (University of Virginia)
5. A Captive Temptress: Classical Rhetoric in the Early Christian Tradition. Ursula M. Poole (Columbia University)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Virginia D
Section D: Panel
Quisque suos patimur manis: Intertextuality in Virgil’s Underworld
Julia D. Hejduk (Baylor University), organizer and presider
John F. Miller (University of Virginia), respondent
1. You will not be Ptolemy: Performing a Callimachean Hymn in Vergil’s Underworld. Brittney Szempruch (Stanford University)
2. Failed Address: Catullus 101 in the Aeneid. John K. Schafer (Northwestern University)
3. Mapping the Afterlife: The Reception of Cicero in Aeneid 6. Spencer Cole (University of Minnesota)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Piedmont A
Section E: Classica Americana (#)
Vincent Tomasso (University of South Florida), presider
1. Alcibiades in America: The Colonial Williamsburg Origins of Virginia’s Latin legend. Robert Hill (University of Cambridge, UK)
2. The Latin Mottoes of the Battle Flags of South Carolina. Michele Valerie Ronnick (Wayne State University)
3. The Rebel and the Old Gray Head: Lucan’s Caesar and Whittier’s Barbara Frietchie. Christopher M. McDonough(Sewanee: The University of the South)
4. The Longest Nostos: Apollo 13, NASA, and the Classics. Clayton A. Schroer (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
5. Nero Impersonators and Elvis Impersonators. Anne Duncan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Piedmont B
Section F: Greek Oratory
Andrew Alwine (College of Charleston), presider
1. The Space of Ritual: Marriage and Social Control in Lysias 1 and [Demosthenes] 59. Teresa C. Yates (University of California, Irvine)
2. Demosthenes the Accountant. Peter O’ Connell (University of Georgia)
3. Challenges in Athenian Forensic Oratory. Michael Gagarin (University of Texas at Austin)
4. Silent No More: The Sound of the Voice in 4th Century Attic Oratory. Christopher Younger (University of Missouri, Columbia)
5. Lycurgus’ Against Leocrates: An Attempt at Capital Controls? Andrew Foster (Fordham University)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Piedmont C
Section G: Petronius and Apuleius
Max Goldman (Vanderbilt University), presider
1. Introducing Characters in Petronius’ Satyrica. Martha W. Habash (Creighton University)
2. Tarquinium invenisti: The Characterization of Ascyltos in Petronius’ Satyrica. Stephen E. Froedge (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
3. The Show Must Go On: Role-Play and Disguise in Petronius’ Satyrica. Emily Berardi (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
4. Simplicissima Psyche: Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche as Hellenistic Epyllion. Michelle M. Martinez (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
5. Diotima and Isis. Elizabeth Deacon (University of Colorado Boulder)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Colony C
Section H: Hellenistic Poetry
Anatole Mori (University of Missouri), presider
1. Ἱὴ παιῆον: The Perception of Divine Time in Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo. Anke Walter (University of Virginia/University of Rostock)
2. Demeter and her Youth at the Crossroads of Ptolemaic Politics and Religion. Elizabeth Torresson (University of Minnesota)
3. The Power of the Gaze and Ritualized Song in Theocritus’ Idylls: a Commentary on Female Mobility. Naomi Kaloudis (Valparaiso University)
4. Gorgo and Praxinoa as Natural Philosophers?: An Experimental Reading of Idyll 15. Matthew Chaldekas (University of Southern California)
5. Tradition and Innovation in the Epigrams of Anyte. Ellen Greene (University of Oklahoma)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Third Paper Session Virginia E
Section I: Archaeology: Bronze Age to Hellenistic (#)
Aileen Ajootian (University of Mississippi), presider
1. The Economy of Wine Production on Ancient Crete: Consideration of Space, Storage, and Distribution. Billie C. Rolla (BASIS)
2. Mystery Men: A New Approach to the Gold Masks of Grave Circle A. Melanie G. Zelikovsky (University of Arizona)
3. The “Science” of Archaic Pottery Production at Corinth. Bice Peruzzi (Grand Valley State University) and Amanda S. Reiterman (University of Pennsylvania)
4. Middle Grounds at Sybaris: Tracing the Indigenous Role in Colonial Settlement. Alex Moskowitz (University of Georgia)
5. A Tomb with a View: Topography and Visual Politics in the Funerary Monuments of Hellenistic Kings. Katherine Rice (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
3:15-3:30 Break Virginia F
3:30-5:15 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Virginia A
Section A: Greek Prose (#)
Benjamin McCloskey (Kansas State University), presider
1. Strabo’s Wandering Sense Organs. Hamish Cameron (University of Cincinnati)
2. “An ailment with which I will contend”: Diodorus Siculus and the Physicians of Egypt. Katherine D. van Schaik (Harvard University)
3. Galen in the Library: Texts, Canons, and Literary Criticism at Peri Alupias 13-17. Scott J. DiGiulio (Brown University)
4. idion kai peritton: the Sybaritic Culinary Patent and Ancient Intellectual Property. Chris Edmonston (University of California, Irvine)
5. The Strange World of Kosmas Indikopleustes. Duane W. Roller (Ohio State University)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Virginia B
Section B: Presidential Panel I
New Directions in Flavian Epic
Eleni H. Manolaraki (University of South Florida), organizer
Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), presider
1. Sonic Images in Flavian Epic. Eleni H. Manolaraki (University of South Florida)
2. Reversal of Fortune: Statius’ Thebaid and Valerius’ Argonautica. Tim Stover (Florida State University)
3. Empowering Sadness: Grief, Gender and Action in Statius’ Thebaid and Virgil’s Aeneid. Helen V. Lovatt (University of Nottingham, UK)
4. Temple Monuments and Literary Memory in Silius’ Punica. Alison M. Keith (University of Toronto)
5. Searching for Ovid at Silius’ Cannae. Raymond D. Marks (University of Missouri, Columbia)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Virginia C
Section C: Sophocles
Rebecca Kennedy (Denison University), presider
1. The Presence of Absence: The Persistence of the polis in Sophocles’ Trachiniae. Kristin O. Lord (Wilfrid Laurier University)
2. Antigone and Ismene: Sisters as Political Agents in Sophocles’ Antigone. Molly C. Mata (University of New Mexico)
3. The Death of the oikos in the Antigone. Jocelyn R. Moore (University of Virginia)
4. Manipulative Listening in Sophocles’ Electra. Abigail Akavia (University of Chicago)
5. The Poetics of Waiting in Sophocles’ Electra. David J. Hetrick (University of Florida)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Virginia D
Section D: From the Presocratics to Aristotle
Christopher Raymond (Vassar College), presider
1. Pythagoras and the Origin of the Name philosophos. Christopher Moore (Penn State University)
2. Archytas on Seeking and Learning: A Textual Issue. Jean C. De Groot (Catholic University of America)
3. Empedoclean Effluences or Democritean Films?: A Reference to Democritus in Plato’s Phaedrus. Robert E. Hedrick (Valdosta State University)
4. The Unity of the Lovers. David Crane (Grand Valley State University)
5. Wicked Misery According to Aristotle. Audrey L. Anton (Western Kentucky University)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Piedmont A
Section E: Undergraduate Panel I (#)
Anne Groton (St. Olaf College), presider
1. Restraining Rage: A Comparison of David and Achilles in 1 Samuel 25 and Iliad 24. Samuel T. Hahn (Samford University)
2. First in Flight: A Comprehensive Study of Etruscan Winged “Demons”. Marvin Morris (University of California, Berkeley)
3. Twins and Metatheatre in Plautus’ Amphitryon: A Rejection of New Comedy. Cynthia C. Liu (Baylor University)
4. The Death of Achilles: A Paradox of Value in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 12.612-628. Nina Raby (University of New Mexico)
5. Bookends to Wandering: Claude Lorrain’s Coast View with Aeneas Hunting & Coast View with Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl as the Frame of Aeneid 1-6. Gabriel C. Pederson (Baylor University)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Piedmont B
Section F: Propertius
Helena Dettmer (University of Iowa), presider
1. Love’s Madness and its Remedies in Propertius. Andrew Ficklin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2. The Elegiac Mysteries: Initiation and katabasis Imagery in Propertius 1.3. Dannu Hutwohl (University of New Mexico)
3. Broken Distichs: Propertius’ Internal Epitaphs and Inscriptions. Carina Moss (University of Cincinnati)
4. Revolting and Refined: The Aesthetic Function of Acanthis. Mariapia Pietropaolo (University of Missouri, Columbia)
5. Propertius 4.7, Aeschylus, and the Ghosts of the Past. Ethan Osten (University of Minnesota)
6. Reuse Me. Recycle Me. Reduce Me?: How Propertius Manages his own Reception. Robert Matera (University of Southern California)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Piedmont C
Section G: Latin Prose
Michele Ronnick (Wayne State University), presider
1. The Competence of Cornelius Nepos. John A. Lobur (University of Mississippi)
2. “A Pointless Enthusiasm for Learning Useless Things:” The De Brevitate Vitae on the Value of the Past. Jonathan Master (Emory University)
3. The Far-Reaching Skepticism of Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria, Book II. Charles J. McNamara (Columbia University)
4. Self-Presentation and Agriculture in Plin. Ep. 5.6. James L. Zainaldin (Harvard University)
5. Fired or Retired? Reevaluating the End of Suetonius’ Career. Mark D. Buzbee (Florida State University)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Colony C
Section H: Roman Comedy
George Franko (Hollins University), presider
1. Soldiers of Misfortune in Plautus. Aaron L. Beek (University of Minnesota)
2. Speaking Out: The Speech of Matronae in Plautus and Terence. Jessica Wise (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
3. A Soldier and his Parasite: Roman Reliance on socii milites in Terence’s Eunuchus. Samantha C. Davis (University of New Mexico)
4. Pudor, Liberalitas and Amicitia: Family and Community Relations in Terence’s Adelphoe. Clara S. Hardy (Carleton College)
5. Minds Without Maps: Terence’s Adelphoe and Wayfinding in Mid-Republican Rome. Sheira Cohen (University of Michigan)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Fourth Paper Session Virginia E
Section I: Roman Archaeology: Empire (#)
Victor Martinez (Arkansas State University), presider
1. From Wood to Stone: A Study in Forum Petrification at Sarmizegetusa, Dacia. Shannon M. Ells (University of Arizona)
2. Gold for Pepper: The Multiple Roles of the Roman Coins in the Ancient Rome-India Commerce. Suresh Sethuraman (University of Mary Washington)
3. A New Perspective on the Imperial Cult: A Survey of Native Interaction with the Cult in the Province of Britain. Zoe Jenkins (University of Michigan)
4. A Tale of Two Frontiers?: Hadrian’s Wall and the Saxon Shore Forts in the 3rd to 5th centuries A.D. Nathaniel F. Durant (University at Buffalo)
5. Ivory Examples of Political Manipulation Under the Theodosians. Sarah Dawson (Independent Scholar)
5:30-6:15 p.m. CPL Happy Hour Tidewater A
5:30-6:15 p.m. William and Mary Alumni Happy Hour Tidewater A
5:30-6:15 p.m. Paideia Institute Lingua Latina Hapy Hour Tidewater B
6:15-7:45 p.m. Vice-Presidents Dinner Tidewater C
6:15-7:45 p.m. GSIC Panel Allegheny AB
Assembling a Teaching Portfolio for the Job Market
Laura C. Takakjy (University of Texas at Austin), organizer and presider
1. The Basics of Building an Effective Teaching Portfolio. Bartolo A. Natoli (Randolph-Macon College)
2. Writing a Reflective Teaching Statement: Six Words to Guide You. Sophie Mills (University of North Carolina at Asheville)
3. Teaching Portfolios for Secondary School Positions. Sherwin D. Little (American Classical League)
4. Things to Know before You Go: Some Unexpected Challenges. Jennifer S. Starkey (San Diego State University)
6:15-7:45 p.m. Workshop Virginia E
Vox populo: The Risks and Rewards of Public Scholarship
Donna Zuckerberg (Paideia Institute), organizer and presider
Johanna Hanink (Brown University), presenter
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Columbia University), presenter
Helen Morales (University of California at Santa Barbara), presenter
Zachary Herz (Columbia University), presenter
8:00-9:15 p.m. Plenary Virginia ABCD
In Comis Veritas: The Visual Language of Ancient Roman Hairstyles
Janet Stephens (Baltimore, Md.), presenter
Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
CAMWS President, presider
9:15-11:00 p.m. Reception Virginia Foyer
9:45-11:00 p.m. GSIC Happy Hour Green Leafe Cafe, 765 Scotland St.
(Meet in Williamsburg Lodge Lobby to walk as a group.)
Friday, March 18, 2016
7:00-8:00 a.m. Vergilian Society Breakfast Allegheny B
7:30 a.m.-noon Registration Virginia Foyer
8:00 a.m.-noon Book Display Virginia F
8:00-9:45 a.m. Fifth Paper Session Virginia A
Section A: Homer’s Odyssey (#)
Andromache Karanika (University of California, Irvine), presider
1. The Odyssey’s Economy of Pleasure and the Open-Ended Tale. Joel P. Christensen (University of Texas at San Antonio)
2. Deliberate Polyinterpretability and the Odyssey (2.146-156). Evan Brubaker (Tulane University)
3. Middles and Prophecy in the Odyssey. Zina Giannopoulou (University of California, Irvine)
4. Theoklymenos and the Long Arc of the Odyssey. Justin Arft (University of Tennessee)
5. Odysseus Laertiades: Wood, Gardening, and the Namings of Odysseus. Robin Mitchell-Boyask (Temple University)
8:00-9:45 a.m. Fifth Paper Session Virginia B
Section B: Euripides
Peter Burian (Duke University), presider
1. τῶν δ᾽ ἀδοκήτων πόρον: Surprise and the Function of Euripides’ Prologues. James Geach (University of Arizona)
2. Changing the Script: Misdirection and the Family in Euripides’ Heracles. Erika L. Weiberg (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
3. Euboulia on Stage: Deliberative Pivots and the Model Deliberator in Euripides’ Ion. Brian Hill (Rutgers University)
4. The Dual Nature of Night in the Iliad and the Rhesus. Julia Scarborough (Wake Forest University)
5. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: Polyphemus’ Dionysian Exclusion in Euripides’ Cyclops. Christopher L. Gipson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
8:00-9:45 a.m. Fifth Paper Session Virginia C
Section C: Horace
Erika Zimmermann Damer (University of Richmond), presider
1. Horace’s Iambic Prometheus: Odes 1.16, 2.13, and Epodes 17. Blanche C. McCune (Baylor University)
2. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. That is the Question. John A. Stevens (East Carolina University)
3. Sounds, Patterns, and Meaning in Horace, Odes 4.7. Aaron Palmore (Ohio State University)
4. Delendane est Karthago? Metrical Wordplay and the Text of Horace, Odes 4.8. Gregory R. Mellen (Harvard University)
5. An Augustan Carmen: The Carmen Saeculare as Sound. Claire McGraw (University of Missouri, Columbia)
8:00-9:45 a.m. Fifth Paper Session Virginia D
Section D: Tacitus’ Histories
Osman Umurhan (University of New Mexico), presider
1. Rome at the Crossroads: Liminal Spaces in Tacitus’ Histories. Amy M. Yarnell (Indiana University)
2. The sacramentum and the Inauguration of the Flavian Challenge (Tacitus’ Histories 2.73-81). Nicholas M. Dee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
3. More than Migration: The Persistent Nomadism of the Jews in Tacitus’ Histories 5.2-13. Gena N. Goodman (University of Kansas)
4. Moses the False Prophet in Tacitus’ Histories 5. Sean Daly (Florida State University)
5. Vergilian Resonances in Tacitus’ Jewish Excursus. Benjamin E. Nikota (Université Laval in Quebec City)
8:00-9:45 a.m. Fifth Paper Session Piedmont A
Section E: GSIC Workshop (*)
Grad to Grad: Support for Current and Future Teaching Assistants
Wesley J. Wood (University of Colorado Boulder), organizer and presider
Stephanie Krause (University of Colorado Boulder), presenter
8:00-9:45 a.m. Fifth Paper Session Piedmont B
Section F: Greek History
Michael Gagarin (University of Texas, Austin), presider
1. The Egyptian Revolt of Inaros: Redeeming Ctesias. Eyal Meyer (University of Pennsylvania)
2. The Cultural Origins and Significance of the γραφὴ παρανόμων and the γραφὴ νόμον μὴ ἐπιτήδειον θεῖναι. Matthew B. Pincus (University of Virginia)
3. Drafting Decrees in Late Classical Athens: A Proposal and Some Amendments. John P. Aldrup-MacDonald (Duke University)
4. The Scribe on the Stone: A Network Analysis of Paros’ Entry on the Aristoteles Decree and into the Second Athenian League. Tom Pappas (Indiana University)
5. Representative Democracy in Late Classical Greece. Andrew T. Alwine (College of Charleston)
8:00-9:45 a.m. Fifth Paper Session Piedmont C
Section G: Panel
Into the Ancient Woods: Metaliterary References in Republican Literature
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University), co-organizer and co-presider
Christopher B. Polt (Boston College), co-organizer and co-presider
1. The Well-Worn Road: Metapoetics from Ennius to Ovid. John H. Henkel (Georgetown College)
2. Metatheater, Meretrices, and Life Behind the Scenes in Plautus and Terence. T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University)
3. Lucilius and the Satisfaction of satura. Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill (University of Miami)
4. ποιητὴς ὀλιγοποιός: Animal Song and Metapoetry in Cicero’s Prognostica. Christopher B. Polt (Boston College)
5. The Light of Lucretius: A Metapoetic Acrostic (L-U-C-E) in De Rerum Natura 5.712-15. Leah J. Kronenberg (Rutgers University)
8:00-9:45 a.m. Fifth Paper Session Allegheny C
Section H: Pedagogy: Latin (#)
Chris Ann Matteo (Washington Latin Public Charter School), presider
1. Building Skills through Teaching Latin. Keely Lake (Wayland Academy)
2. Ab ovo usque ad mala: Creating a Latin Hybrid Course. Alison Lanski and Tadeusz Mazurek (University of Notre Dame)
3. Loci et imagines: A Rhetorical Approach to Teaching Latin Syntax. Elza C. Tiner (Lynchburg College)
4. What Are We Testing? A Case for Sight-Reading Assessments in the Intermediate Latin Classroom. Jennifer LaFleur (University of Virginia)
5. Educating Global Citizens through the Latin Translation of the Life of Barlaam and Iosaphat. Donka Markus (University of Michigan)
8:00-9:45 a.m. Fifth Paper Session Virginia E
Section I: Ovid’s Fasti and Metamorphoses
David Wray (The University of Chicago), presider
1. The Many Faces of Hercules in Ovid’s Fasti. Timothy Brannelly (University of Virginia)
2. Anatomizing the Archetype: Character Conflation in Book Four of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Elizabeth G. Harvey (University of Arizona)
3. Philomela’s Ungentlemanly Caller. Janice Siegel (Hampden-Sydney College)
4. The Nightingale's Lament and Itys’ Identity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Michal H. Sagal (Tufts University)
5. Dirae Parcae: The Furies and the Fates in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Statius’ Thebaid. Rachael Cullick (University of Minnesota)
8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Ascanius Workshop Allegheny A
Kevin Jefferson (University of Colorado, Boulder)
9:45-10:00 a.m. Break Virginia F
10:00-11:25 a.m. Sixth Paper Session Virginia A
Section A: Thucydides (#)
Donald Lateiner (Ohio Wesleyan University), presider
1. Defining the Athenian Arche. Gary R. Waters (University of Georgia)
2. Political Shorthand: Thucydides’ Metaphorical Use of “Tyranny”. Nicholas Wagner (University of Minnesota)
3. Competing Masculinities in Thucydides’ History. Jessica A. Evans (Middlebury College)
4. The Homeric Thucydides. Rian Sirkus (University of Maryland, College Park)
10:00-11:25 a.m. Sixth Paper Session Virginia B
Section B: Valerius Flaccus
Raymond D. Marks (University of Missouri, Columbia), presider
1. Why is Valerius Flaccus a Quindecimvir. Jeff Tatum (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
2. Masking Epic: Bacchic Imagery in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. Jessica R. Blum (University of California, Irvine)
3. Quaenam ista lues?: The Theme of Sickness in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. Darcy A. Krasne (University of Missouri, Columbia)
4. The Fault was in their Stars: Evil, Forewarning, and the Ekpyrosis in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. Justin T. Spalding (University of Kentucky)
10:00-11:25 a.m. Sixth Paper Session Virginia C
Section C: Christianity (#)
Luke Gorton (University of New Mexico), presider
1. The Negative Use of the Concept of agape (Love) in the New Testament. Marny S. Lemmel (The Pontifical College Josephinum)
2. Triumphal Imagery in the Acts of Paul and Thecla. Gavin P. Blasdel (University of Pennsylvania)
3. Borrowings and Code-Switches in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis. Daniel Libatique (Boston University)
4. Dissent in Descent from Mt. Ventoux: Examining Petrarch as Christian Author. Erik Z. D. Ellis (University of Notre Dame)
10:00-11:25 a.m. Sixth Paper Session Virginia D
Section D: Greek and Latin Language
Trudy Harrington Becker (Virginia Tech University), presider
1. A Systemic-Functional Analysis of ἐπεί and ἐπειδή in Attic. Doug Fraleigh (University of California, Los Angeles)
2. Lexical Blends in Greek and Latin Comedic Idiom. Ryan Seaberg (University of Minnesota)
3. Echoes of Cicero: A Digital Approach to Augustine’s Presentation of Pauline Diction. Caitlin Diddams (University at Buffalo)
4. Neo-Latin Lexicography in the Digital Humanities. Patrick M. Owens (Wyoming Catholic College)
10:00-11:25 a.m. Sixth Paper Session Piedmont A
Section E: Archaeology: Greece and the Mediterranean (#)
Tyler Jo Smith (University of Virginia), presider
1. Numismatics, Semiotics, and Political Ambitions in Ancient Syracuse. Rosa Maria Motta (Christopher Newport University)
2. The Past Among the Present: Roman Architecture at Athens, Delphi, and Olympia. Elise M. Poppen (University at Buffalo)
3. Relocating Andromeda: Greek myths in Roman Palestine. Robyn Le Blanc (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
4. On the Road to Reappraisal: The Economic Importance of Land Transport as Evidenced by the Late Roman Ceramics from the Panayia Field, Corinth. Mark D. Hammond (Independent Scholar)
10:00-11:25 a.m. Sixth Paper Session Piedmont C
Section F: NCLG Workshop
Supporting and Mentoring New Teachers: A Tirones Project
Mary L. Pendergraft (Wake Forest University), organizer
Keely K. Lake (Wayland Academy), presider
Mary L. Pendergraft (Wake Forest University), presenter
Damian JM. Tremblay (Freedom High School), presenter
Kevin M. Perry (National Cathedral School), presenter
Brent Cavedo (University of Georgia), presenter
Howie Berman (American Council on The Teaching of Foreign Languages), presenter
10:00-11:25 a.m. Sixth Paper Session Allegheny C
Section G: Panel (*)
Teaching Vergil's Aeneid at the College Level: Studies and Strategies
Christine L. Albright (University of Georgia), organizer and presider
James J. O’Hara (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), respondent
1. Quod accidit in spēluncā, in spēluncā manet: Adapting Aeneid 4 for College-Level Introductory Latin. Virginia Closs (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
2. Learning Vergil with Little Data. Douglas C. Clapp (Samford University)
3. Approaching the Aeneid through Art. Christine L. Albright (University of Georgia)
4. Aeneids in English. Antonia Syson (Purdue University)
Please note that all the Friday afternoon
sessions are at the College of William and Mary.
All William and Mary rooms are A/V wired.
11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Lunch Miller Hall
Compliments of the College of William and Mary
(By advance reservation)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Seventh Paper Session Small 110
Section A: Presidential Panel II
Urbs et Orbis: Ancient Rome on the Global Scene (*)
Monica S. Cyrino (University of New Mexico), organizer
Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), presider
1. “Those Crazy Greeks!”: Federico Fellini’s Reception of Greek Culture in Fellini Satyricon (1969). Vince Tomasso (University of South Florida)
2. Sympathy for the Roman-Americans? Causae and Controversy in the Aeneid and Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009). Meredith E. Safran (Trinity College)
3. A Roman in Kyoto: Empire Nostalgia in Takeushi Hideki’s Thermae Romae (2012). Monica S. Cyrino (University of New Mexico)
4. Upstairs/Downstairs: The Comedy of Social Class in Plebs (2013-) and Peplum (2016). Stacie Raucci (Union College)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Seventh Paper Session Morton 342
Section B: Greek Cults (#)
John Oakley (College of William and Mary), presider
1. The Tonaia and Samian Autochthony. Aaron J. Beck-Schachter (Rutgers University)
2. The Nomophylakes and the Plynteria Procession. Erin Warford (Hilbert College)
3. “They Make Themselves Immortal”: Worship of the Great God at the Greek Colony of Odessos. Travis Hill (University of Arizona)
4. The Origins of the Temple Architecture and Cult of Apollo at Didyma. Kelly Moss (University of Arizona)
5. How to Restart an Oracle: Politics, Propaganda, and the Oracle of Apollo at Didyma c.305-300 BCE. Joshua P. Nudell (University of Missouri, Columbia)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Seventh Paper Session Small 111
Section C: Greek Tragedy (#)
Laura McClure (University of Wisconsin-Madison), presider
1. Aeschylus’ Reception of Homer through the huphasma. Michael C. Sloan (Wake Forest University)
2. Peitho in the Oresteia: Personified, Manipulated, Transformed. Allannah K. Karas (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
3. Defining Deception: Applying Information Manipulation Theory to Sophocles. Emily Jusino (University of Rochester)
4. Geographic Identity and the Topography of the Citizen in Athenian Tragedy. Rebecca F. Kennedy (Denison University)
5. Euripides, Orpheus, and the New Music: Mousikē in the Fragments of Hypsipyle and Antiope. Caleb P. Simone (Columbia University)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Seventh Paper Session Morton 38
Section D: Imperial Latin Literature (*)
Alison M. Keith (University of Toronto), presider
1. The Shadow of Victory in Neronian Literature. Mark Thorne (Brigham Young University)
2. Killing Fields: The Poetics of Ploughing and Civil War in Imperial Latin Literature. Patrick W. Winterrowd (University of Virginia)
3. Exemplarity and Productive otium in Statius’ Epistula ad Vitorium Marcellum (Silvae 4.4). Stephen M. Kershner (Austin Peay State University)
4. Color and Cognition in Imperial Rome. David Wharton (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
5. Trajan as Satire in Late Antiquity. Eric Thienes (Pacific Lutheran University)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Seventh Paper Session Morton 39
Section E: Roman History (#)
John Donahue (College of William and Mary), presider
1. Reassessing Polybius on Naval Power in the First Punic War. Bret C. Devereaux (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2. Locating the Battle of the River Aous: A New Analysis. Jacob Morton (University of Pennsylvania)
3. Coins as Tools of Conquest in Roman Iberia, 211-55 BCE. Alyson M. Roy (University of Washington)
4. A Galling Problem: The Cultural Identity of Galatians in Scholarship. Ian C. Dahl (The University of Arizona)
5. Watering the Roman Army: Logistics and Imperial Power in the Classical World. Gabriel Moss (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Seventh Paper Session Morton 20
Section F: CPL Workshop
Strangers in a Strange Land: Successful Latin in Urban Schools (*)
Barbara P. Weinlich (University of Montana), organizer
Marcie Handler (Covington Latin School), presider
Rev. B.A. Gregg (Cleveland School of Science and Medicine) presenter
1:30-3:15 p.m. Seventh Paper Morton 220
Section G: Roman Art and Architecture (#)
Rosa Maria Motta (Christopher Newport University), presider
1. A New Consideration of Fiesole’s Theater. McKenzie Lewis (Concordia College)
2. Viewing the Temple of Jupiter in Ancient Rome. Elizabeth Colantoni, Daniel Weiner, and Blair Tinker (University of Rochester)
3. It’s Rough Being Claudius: Rustication in the Templum Divi Claudii. Stephen Czujko (University of Arizona)
4. A (Re)assessment of the Statuary in the Forum of Pompeii. Rebecca Frank (University of Virginia)
5. Identity Theft: Romano-Celtic Temples. Clare K. Rasmussen (University of Arizona)
1:30-3:15 p.m. Seventh Paper Session Morton 40
Section H: Plutarch and Lucian
Ippokratis Kantzios (University of South Florida), presider
1. Antony as an Ordinary Soldier in Plutarch’s Life. Lucas A. Monson (Florida State University)
2. Books as Plunder? A Reconsideration of Plutarch’s Lucullus 42. Thomas Hendrickson (Dartmouth College)
3. From History to Myth: Plutarch’s Recasting of Herodotus. Sean Minion (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
4. Historical (In)consistencies: Lucian’s Literary Persona in How to Write History. Evan T. Waters (University of Virginia)
5. Nearing Forty: The Platonic Significance of Age in Lucian’s Hermotimus and Double Indictment. Anna Peterson (Pennsylvania State University)
1:30-3:15 Open Forum for Undergraduates Moroton 340
What to Expect When You are Applying:Q&A Discussion for Undergraduates Interested in Graduate School
Presider: Gregory J. Callaghan, University of Pennsylvania
3:15-3:30 p.m. Break Miller Hall (Brinkley Commons) and Small Hall foyer
3:30-4:30 p.m. Guided Tour of the campus Office of Undergraduate Admission
of the College of William and Mary
3:30-5:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Morton 38
Section A: Greek Comedy and its Reception (*)
Ariana Traill (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), presider
1. Don’t Lay a Finger on my Morsimus: Tragic Fandom in Greek Comedy. Matthew C. Farmer (University of Missouri, Columbia)
2. The Child of Leda and the Conclusion of Lysistrata. Theodore A. Tarkow (University of Missouri, Columbia)
3. Relating to Others, Relating to Oneself: Virtue and Intersubjectivity in Menander’s Dyskolos. John E. Esposito (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
4. To Love or To Marry, That is the Question. Phillip A. Caprara (Lake Lure Classical Academy)
5. Gendered Recognitions in Menander’s Sikyonioi. Serena S. Witzke (Wake Forest University)
6. Comparing Greek and Roman Manumission in New Comedy: Gender and Citizenship. Tristan K. Husby (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Small 110
Section B: Classical Receptions on Screen (*)
Monica Cyrino (University of New Mexico), presider
1. Baldi’s Oresteia Rides Again: Il Pistolero dell’Ave Maria (1969) as Euripidean Electra. Roger T. Macfarlane (Brigham Young University)
2. A Dream of Passion: Creating a Modern Medea. Florencia Foxley (University of Colorado Boulder)
3. Et in Arcadia CGI: Centaurs in Contemporary Cinema. Jon Solomon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
4. Release the Perseus! On Divine and Mythic Violence in Clash of the Titans. Ricardo Apostol (Case Western Reserve University)
5. Judging Medea: Reimagining Magic and Murder in Syfy’s Olympus. Meredith D. Prince (Auburn University)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Small 111
Section C: Panel (*)
Prophecy and Ethnography: New Light on Herodotus’ Histories
Dustin S. Cranford (University of Maryland, College Park), organizer and presider
Donald Lateiner (Ohio Wesleyan University), respondent
1. Artemisia and an Anti-Carian Bias in Herodotus. Dustin S. Cranford (University of Maryland, College Park)
2. Homer in Herodotus & Aeschylus: Assimilating the ‘Other’. Noah B. Cogan (St. Catherine’s School)
3. Herodotus’ Characterization of a Divine Xerxes. Jordan F. Slavik (University of Maryland, College Park)
4. Accept What Is Given: A Reading of Herodotus 8.114. Robert S. Santucci (University of Maryland, College Park)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Morton 20
Section D: Workshop
Achievement Unlocked: The Twice Exceptional Student
in the Latin Classroom (*)
Ariel S. Baska (W.T. Woodson High School), organizer and presenter
William E. Hutton (College of William and Mary), presider
3:30-5:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Morton 342
Section E: Epigraphy and Papyrology (*)
Sandra Blakely (Emory University), presider
1. Reintegrating a Stained Community: A Reevaluation and Historical Contextualization of the Demotionidai Decrees. Gregory J. Callaghan (University of Pennsylvania)
2. S(ervus): The Epigraphic Development of Slavery in Republican Rome. Wesley J. Wood (University of Colorado Boulder)
3. Χηνοβοϲκοί, Foie Gras, and the Price of a Good Goose. Richard Phillips (Virginia Tech University)
4. Being Roman, Writing Latin? Consumers of Latin Inscriptions in Greece. Rachel McCleery (Florida State University)
5. Roman Cultural Knowledge in Egypt? The Case of the Greek-Latin Bilingual Papyri. Matthijs H. Wibier (Università di Pavia, Italy)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Morton 39
Section F: Roman Social History and Religion (*)
Marsha McCoy (Southern Methodist University), presider
1. What Was in the Water? An Intensive Look at Components Present in or Added to Roman Bathwater. Anne E. Cave (Independent Scholar)
2. The Emergence of Shopping Streets in Early Imperial Rome. Rhodora G. Vennarucci (University of Arkansas)
3. The Hands of the Double God: The Statue of Janus Geminus and the Gates of War. Joshua Langseth (Coe College)
4. Quid vetat Arcadio dictos a monte Lupercos? Imperial Patronage of the Arcadian Lykaia. Kyle W. Mahoney (University of Pennsylvania)
5. Maria Supplicanda: The Mediatrix and Rome’s Female Social Network. Krishni Burns (University of Akron)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Morton 40
Section G: Pedagogy: Introductory Courses (#)
Liane Houghtalin (University of Mary Washington), presider
1. Learning from Gaia: Bringing Environmental History into the Classics Classroom. Christina A. Salowey (Hollins University)
2. JSON and the Argonauts: Using Linked Data to Promote the Study of Classics in Introductory-Level Students. Emily E. Gering (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
3. Distant Team-Teaching a First-year Seminar on War and Remembrance. Carolin Hahnemann (Kenyon College) and Judson Herrman (Allegheny College)
4. Rape Glossed as Robbery: Avoiding or Addressing Difficult Topics in Introductory Latin. Daylin Oakes (University of Arizona)
5. Flipping Latin at Utah State University. Frances B. Titchener and Christopher Wilson (Utah State University)
3:30-5:15 p.m. Eighth Paper Session Morton 220
Section H: Greek Art (#)
Keely E. Heuer (State University of New York at New Paltz), presider
1. There’s More to Me Than My Bum: Interpreting Both Sides of the Boston Skyphos. Elizabeth A. Keyser (University of Arizona)
2. When a (Canine) Gesture Was Expected. Kenneth Kitchell (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
3. Going to the Dogs with the Amasis Painter. Judith M. Thorn (Knox College)
4. Re-examining Attic Death-in-Childbirth Funerary Monuments. Susan J. Wise (Earlham College)
5. Hekate at Ancient Corinth. Aileen Ajootian (University of Mississippi)
6:00-7:00 p.m. Cash Bar Virginia Foyer
7:00-9:30 p.m . Banquet Virginia ABCD
Presiding: Monica Cyrino (University of New Mexico)
Welcome: Michael R. Halleran (College of William and Mary), Provost
Response: Alden Smith (Baylor University) CAMWS President Elect
Ovationes: James M. May (Saint Olaf Colle,ge), CAMWS Orator
Address: Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign) CAMWS President
Title: “Visualizing Epic”
9:30-11:00 p.m. President's Reception Virginia Foyer
Music: Middle Eastern Music Ensemble (MEME),
Directed by Anne Rasmussen (College of William and Mary)
Saturday, March 19, 2016
7:30 a.m.-noon Registration Virginia Foyer
8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Book Display Virginia F
8:00-9:15 a.m. Business Meeting Virginia AB
9:30-10:55 a.m. Ninth Paper Session Virginia A
Section A: CPL Panel (*)
New Trends, New Challenges: Teaching Latin in Secondary School upon Earning an M.A. or Ph.D.
Barbara P. Weinlich (University of Montana), organizer
Sherwin Little (American Classical League), presider
James J. Clauss, (University of Washington), respondent
1. Doceo, ergo sum: Translating the Skills of the Graduate Student into a Successful Teacher. Brooke Owens (Lake Forest High School)
2. The Babysitter, the ABD, and the Absent Minded Professor. Thomas E. Strunk (Xavier University)
3. High School Teaching, A Vocation for Classics Ph.Ds. Peter J. DeRousse (Hinsdale South High School)
9:30-10:55 a.m. Ninth Paper Session Virginia B
Section B: Panel
Of Travels, Fish Jokes, and the Roman Forum: Plautus’ Curculio Revisited
Mathias Hanses (Penn State University), co-organizer and co-presider
Emilia A. Barbiero (New York University), co-organizer and co-presider
1. A Cute Illness in Epidaurus: Morbus hepatiarius and other sick jokes in Plautus’ Curculio. Michael S. Fontaine (Cornell University)
2. Here and There in Plautus’ Curculio. Emilia A. Barbiero (New York University)
3. Men Among Monuments: Plautus’s Choragus and Roman Topography. Mathias Hanses (Pennsylvania State University)
9:30-10:55 a.m. Ninth Paper Session Virginia C
Section C: Greek Novel
Stacie Raucci (Union College), presider
1. Losing Hope as a Cure for Love: The Role of Self Enslavement in the Ancient Novel. Holly Maggiore (University of Georgia)
2. Irresistibly Alluring: Heliodorus’ Nilotic Digression and Herodotus. Megan Bowen (University of Virginia)
3. Religion on the Ground: Lived Religion in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica. Carson M. Bay (Florida State University)
4. Pan and the Pastoral: Redefining Erotic and Generic Paradigms in Daphnis and Chloe. Elizabeth Heintges (Columbia University)
9:30-10:55 a.m. Ninth Paper Session Virginia D
Section D: Virgil’s Aeneid
Alden Smith (Baylor University), presider
1. Imperium sine moenibus: The Rhetoric of Walls in Vergil’s Aeneid. Sophie C. Waters (University of Pennsylvania)
2. The Helen Episode and the Myth of Scylla: Two Arguments for Vergilian Authorship. Natasha M. Binek (Cornell University)
3. Blaming Helen: Inconsistency in Aeneid 6 and Odyssey 24. Katherine De Boer Simons (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
4. Enthymeme in Aeneid 6.119-123 and Milton’s Emulation of Virgil. David J. Bradshaw (Warren Wilson College)
9:30-10:55 a.m. Ninth Paper Session Piedmont A
Section E: The Etruscans (#)
Kara K. Burns (University of South Alabama), presider
1. Redeeming Etruscan Women and Theopompus: Finding Virtue in the Source and Subject. Steven L. Tuck (Miami University)
2. Games of Chance and Skill: Seeking Meaning in Etruscan Play. Stephanie A. Layton-Kim (Catholic University of America)
3. Walls Around Walls: Domestic Architecture from Late Etruscan Fortified Settlements. Cassidy Phelps (University at Buffalo)
9:30-10:55 a.m. Ninth Paper Session Piedmont B
Section F: Panel
Now Trending: Intertextual and Intercultural Approaches
Georgia L. Irby (College of William and Mary), organizer and presider
1. The Expressive Grammar of Ezekiel 1-2. Rachel Greenfield (College of William and Mary)
2. Cynthia, sola parentes: the Intertextual Makeup of Propertius 1.11. Harry Samuel Crusemire (College of William and Mary)
3. Apollo in Love: Pursuing Elegy in his Wake. Dereck Basinger (College of William and Mary)
4. The Role of Melothesia in Ancient Medicine and Its Relation with the Yavana Jataka. Tejas S. Aralere (College of William and Mary)
9:30-10:55 a.m. Ninth Paper Session Piedmont C
Section G: Panel
Rediviva: Reception of the Classical Languages in a Post-Classical Context
Patrick M. Owens (Wyoming Catholic College), organizer and presider
1. Pagans and Theologians: An Examination of the Use of Christian Sources in Niels Hemmingsen’s De lege naturae.Eric J. Hutchinson (Hillsdale College)
2. Bartolomeo Merula: Renaissance Editor of Classical Texts. Angela Fritsen (Episcopal School of Dallas)
3. λαοὶ δὲ δὴ ἄλλοι: Theognis in Reformation Germany. Joseph A. Tipton (Winthrop University)
4. Carthago Indiarum obsesa (sic) sed non expugnata: New Punic Wars in the New World. Dennis Toscano (University of Kentucky)
10:55-11:10 a.m. Break Virginia F
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11:10-12:40 p.m. Tenth Paper Session Virginia A
Section A: Workshop (#)
Living Languages: Second Language Acquisition Research, Ancient Texts and the Latin Classroom
Jason C. Pedicone (Paideia Institute), organizer and presider
Elizabeth Butterworth (Paideia Institute), presenter
11:10-12:40 p.m. Tenth Paper Session Virginia B
Section B: Greco-Roman Science
Ryan McConnell (Bowdoin College), presider
1. Grist for the Mill: Bread-making as a Source of Analogy. Daniel Bertoni (University of Miami)
2. Lithika: Ancient Medical and Technical Texts on Stones. Sara Agnelli (University of Florida)
3. Polybius and the Medical Tradition: An Intertextual Reading of Hippocrates’ On the Sacred Disease and the Histories. Ross Shaler (University of Maine at Augusta)
4. The Misbehaving Doctor in Roman Law. Molly A. Jones-Lewis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
11:10-12:40 p.m. Tenth Paper Session Virginia C
Section C: Classical Receptions: Early Modern Period
Stacie Raucci (Union College), presider
1. The Ovidian Subject in Lope de Vega’s El Caballero de Olmedo. David Wray (University of Chicago)
2. Roma capta, Anglia capta: Conquest as a Metaphor for Reception in the Front Matter of Thomas Hawkins’ Odes of Horace, the best of lyrick poets. Kenneth M. Draper (Indiana University)
3. Laus, Lues, and Louis: Jacobus Plutacrius’ Morbi Gallici … laus. Miller S. Krause (Western Washington University)
4. Vergil’s Corycian Gardener and Voltaire’s Candide. Annie Pecastaings (Case Western Reserve University)
11:10-12:40 p.m. Tenth Paper Session Virginia D
Section D: Martial and Juvenal
Craig Williams (The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), presider
1. Actors in the Audience: False Equites in Martial’s Epigrams. Adam Kozak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
2. The usucapio of High Literature in Martial’s Epigrams. Mitchell R. Pentzer (University of Colorado Boulder)
3. Intertextuality between Friends: Martial and Juvenal in Epigram 12.18. Catherine Keane (Washington University in St. Louis)
4. Globalization in Juvenal’s Satires. Osman Umurhan (University of New Mexico)
11:10-12:40 p.m. Tenth Paper Session Piedmont A
Section E: Collaborative Pedagogy in the Digital Age Panel (#)
Flipped Classrooms and Lab Environments in Classics
J. Matthew Harrington (Tufts University), co-organizer and presider
Marie-Claire Beaulieu (Tufts University), co-organizer
1. Collaborative Student Research in Classical Mythology: Beyond the Lecture. Marie-Claire Beaulieu (Tufts University)
2. Data from Student Treebanking as a Pedagogical Resource. Robert Gorman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
3. Texts to the People: Treebanking within the Perseids Platform as a Means to Unify the Consumption and Production of Scholarship across the Discipline. J. Matthew Harrington (Tufts University)
4. A Lab-style Greek Course: Treebanking and the Flipped Classroom. Drew Latimer (Tufts University)
11:10-12:40 p.m. Tenth Paper Session Piedmont B
Section F: Undergraduate Panel II
David Polio (Christopher Newport University), presider
1. Benevolentia vs. Patronage: Cicero’s Redefinition of Friendship in the De Amicitia. Kara Kopchinski (Baylor University)
2. The Pious Rusticus: Reconsidering Rural Lifestyle in Tibullus 1.1. Mary K. McCulla (College of William and Mary)
3. Speculum civilis sarcina belli: Otho the Pathicus in Juvenal’s Satire 2. Madeline E. Monk (Randolph-Macon College)
4. Three Eras, Two Men, One Value: Fides in Modern Performances of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Katherine L. Bradshaw (George Washington University)
11:10-12:40 p.m. Tenth Paper Session Piedmont C
Section G: Cicero
Bartolo Natoli (Randolph-Macon College), presider
1. Cicero, Lucretius, and the Divinity of Invention. Dan Hanchey (Baylor University)
2. The Legacy of Defeat: The Historical Reception of C. Flaminius, Cn. Cornelius Scipio, and P. Cornelius Scipio in the Works of Cicero. Timothy A. Knoepke (Florida State University)
3. Stoicism in the Stars: Cicero’s Aratea in the De Natura Deorum. Hannah Culik-Baird (University of Southern California)
4. Astrologers avant la lettre: Cicero’s Use of astrologus. Kyle G. Grothoff (Indiana University)
11:10-12:40 p.m. Tenth Paper Session Allegheny C
Section H: Xenophon and the 4th Century
Brent Froberg (Baylor University), presider
1. Socrates δημοτικός: Xenophon’s Socrates and the Athenian Elites. Colin W. Yarbrough (University of Texas at Austin)
2. The Alcibiadic Xenophon: Where Did It All Go Right? Benjamin O. McCloskey (Kansas State University)
3. The Cultural Triumph of Martial Dance in Xenophon’s Anabasis 6.1.1-14. Jonathan Vickers (University of Western Ontario)
4. Athenian Interstate Alliances after the Peloponnesian War: The Empire Strikes Back or a New Hope? Nicholas Cross (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
11:10-12:40 p.m. Tenth Paper Session Virginia E
Section I: Opening Meeting for Contingent Faculty
Patrick Owens (Wyoming Catholic College), presider
12:40-1:45 p.m. Consulares Lunch Allegheny A
12:40-1:45 p.m. Classical Association of Virginia Luncheon Allegheny B
12:45-1:30 p.m. Round Table Discussions
Graduate Student Issues Committee Virginia A
Leader: Sarah C. Teets (University of Virginia)
Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Teaching Homer’s Iliad as a War Poem Virginia B
Leaders: Dianna K. Rhyan and Ron Hustwit (College of Wooster)
Eta Sigma Phi: Its Benefits for Students and for Departments Virginia C
Leaders: Mary Pendergraft (Wake Forest University) and Emma Vanderpool (Monmouth College)
Lingua Latina Viva Virginia D
Leader: Jason Pedicone (Paideia Institute)
CAMWS Latin Translation Contest Piedmont A
Leader: Ryan Sellers (Memphis University School)
1:45-3:30 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session Virginia A
Section A: Panel (#)
Digital Classics in the Classroom
John C. Gruber-Miller (Cornell College), organizer and presider
1. Introduction: Digital Pedagogy in the 21st Century Educational Landscape. John C. Gruber-Miller (Cornell College)
2. "Modern, Ancient, Awesome”: Academic Classics in the Early 21st Century. Amy R. Cohen (Randolph College)
3. Using Virtual Globes in the Classics Classroom. Rebecca K. Schindler (DePauw University)
4. Making a Collaborative Digital Commentary on Ovid, Metamorphoses 3. Bret Mulligan (Haverford College)
5. The Value of Embedding Digital Humanities in the Undergraduate Curriculum. Eric K. Dugdale (Gustavus Adolphus College)
1:45-3:30 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session Virginia B
Section B: Homeric Epic
Lorenzo F. Garcia (University of New Mexico), presider
1. Balanced and Climactic Progression in Homeric Poetry. Jonathan Fenno (University of Mississippi)
2. Counting to One: A Step toward Understanding the Homeric hapax ezeugmena. James H. Dee (Austin, Texas)
3. Rethinking Homer from a Theory of Alterity: αἰδώς as a Function of the Other. Barbara Alvarez Rodriguez (Stanford University)
4. “I will send him to Crete, and sandy Pylos”: Fragments of the Cypria in the Homeric scholia? Benjamin Sammons (Queens College, CUNY)
1:45-3:30 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session Virginia C
Section C: Classical Receptions: 21st Century Literature and Thought
Benjamin Haller (Virginia Wesleyan College), presider
1. Herodotean Influence on Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. Debbie Felton (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
2. Virgil’s Corycian, Wendell Berry, and the Ecological Imagination. Alden Smith and Jane E. Millar (Baylor University)
3. Penelope’s Autobiography: Homophrosune, Female Heroism, and Atwoodian Invention in the Penelopiad. Lorina N. Quartarone (University of Saint Thomas)
4. Merope’s Son. Talia A. Chicherio (University of Maryland, College Park)
5. War Without End: Ecphrasis, History, and Anti-Militarism in Le Guin’s Lavinia. Silvio Curtis (University of California, Los Angeles)
1:45-3:30 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session Virginia D
Section D: Greek Historiography
Sophie Mills (University of North Carolina at Asheville), presider
1. The Influence of the epitaphios logos on Atthidography. Adam D. Gross (University of Virginia)
2. Two Late Sources in the Lycurgan Delphic Oracular Tradition: A Herodotian Scholion and a Cyriacan Inscription. Jordan C. Johansen (University of Chicago)
3. Striking Sages: Portraying the Alterity of Philosophers with an Ethnographic Lens. Joseph B. Zehner (University of Virginia)
4. The Marriage of Gygaea and Bubares and Macedonian Relations with Persia. Carol J. King (Grenfell Campus Memorial University)
5. Hannibal the Historian. Daniel W. Moore (University of Tennessee)
1:45-3:30 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session Piedmont A
Section E: Hellenistic Literature and History (#)
Ellen Greene (University of Oklahoma), presider
1. Plato’s Dithyramboi and Hellenistic Classification. Theodora Hadjimichael (LMU Munich/University of California Berkeley)
2. Poetic Resonance in Herodas’ Mimiamb 3. Jeffrey Hunt (Baylor University)
3. Constructing Realism: Hellenistic Sculpture and Ekphrasis in Herodas 4. Alice Chapman (University at Buffalo)
4. Religion, Culture, and History: A New Assessment of Alexander the Great in Egypt. Marsha B. McCoy (Southern Methodist University)
5. Despised and Reviled: The Infamy of Cleopatra Tryphaina. Sheila Ager (University of Waterloo)
1:45-3:30 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session Piedmont B
Section F: Imperial Latin Epic
Tim Stover (Florida State University), presider
1. The Causas Rerum in Lucretius and Lucan. Irene R. Morrison-Moncure (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
2. Caesar’s Ascension to Divinity: A Literary Investigation of Caesar’s Crossing of the Rubicon in Lucan’s Pharsalia. Jordan Noller (Washburn University)
3. Parentum dedecus: Hannibal’s Hatred and Memories of Defeat in Silius Italicus’ Punica. Thomas Biggs (University of Georgia)
4. Achilles’ Fathers in Statius’ Achilleid. Nicholas Rupert (University of Michigan)
5. Rome Represented: Personifications of the Eternal City in Later Latin Epic. E. V. Mulhern (Temple University)
1:45-3:30 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session Piedmont C
Section G: Latin Elegy
Kris Fletcher (Louisiana State University), presider
1. Goddess in the House? The Identification of the domina in Catullus 68. Andrew Rawson (University of New Mexico)
2. Haec nobis fingebamus: Tibullus, Ovid, and the Power of Imagination. Alexandra Kennedy (University of Arizona)
3. The apologia of Propertius: Reading the Battle of Actium in Elegy 3.11. Benjamin D. Leach (University of New Mexico)
4. Playing with Agency in Ovid’s Ibis. Joy Reeber (University of Arkansas)
1:45-3:30 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session Allegheny C
Section H: Late Antiquity
Don Hanchey (Baylor University), presider
1. Natural and Elemental Imagery in the De rebus bellicis. Jonathan H. Warner (Cornell University)
2. Scripture for Dummies: Augustine on Ignorant Readers of the Bible. Theodore Harwood (Cornell University)
3. Cyclicism and Early Christian Historiography: Mapping the Past in Orosius’ Historiae adversus paganos. Joshua C. Benjamins (University of Notre Dame)
4. Representations of Barbarians in Late Antiquity. Davide Salvo (University at Buffalo)
5. The Past or Present? Gildas and the Forgetting of Hadrian’s Wall. Sean A. R. Miranda (Indiana University)
1:45-3:30 p.m. Eleventh Paper Session Virginia E
Section I: Greek Lyric Poetry
Andrew Becker (Virginia Tech University), presider
1. Kristeva’s Ménage(rie): Bestial Women in Semonides 7. Margaret Day (Ohio State University)
2. Ludic Sappho: A View into Sapphic Poetics. Andromache Karanika (University of California, Irvine)
3. Chiron in Alcaeus fr. 42 V. Ippokratis Kantzios (University of South Florida)
4. Myrsilus is Dead: Alcaeus and Lydian Hegemony. William Tortorelli (Haverford College)
5. Pindar’s Sympotic Songs for the Emmenidai and their Akragantine Audience.Timothy Smith (Johns Hopkins University)
3:30-3:45 Break Virginia Foyer
3:45-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session Virginia A
Section A: Classical Receptions: Art and Media (*)
Timothy Wutrich (Case Western Reserve University), presider
1. Virtuous Woman to Femme Fatale In J. A. D. Ingres’ Antiochus and Stratonice. Byron Stayskal (Western Washington University)
2. Homage/Image: John Flaxman, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and the Modern Weight of Classical Figures. Julia A. Sienkewicz (Duquesne University)
3. “Like Venus in disguise or something”: The Tragic Infrastructure of Ives’ Venus in Fur. Thomas M. Falkner (McDaniel College)
4. Classical Allusions in Longmire. Kirsten Day (Augustana College)
5. Acropolis Now: Greek Myth and Editorial Cartoons of the Modern Greek Debt Crisis. Angeline C. Chiu (University of Vermont)
3:45-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session Virginia B
Section B: Pindar’s Olympian and Isthmian Odes
Jonathan Fenno (University of Mississippi), presider
1. True in Hindsight: Truth and Selective Memory in Pindar’s Olympian Odes. Hilary Bouxsein (University of Virginia)
2. “I Cannot Call The Blessed Ones Gluttonous.” Myth Criticism in Pindar’s Olympian 1. Claas Lattmann (Emory University)
3. Helios’ Rhodes in Pindar’s Olympian 7. Chris Eckerman (University of Oregon)
4. Sophia adolos and Trickster Concepts: Pindar Ol. 7.53. Eddie R. Lowry (Ripon College)
5. The Praise of Brothers in Pindar’s Isthmian 6. Monessa F. Cummins (Grinnell College)
3:45-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session Virginia C
Section C: Ovid
Joy Reeber (University of Arkansas), presider
1. Servitium amoris in Ovid’s Paraclausithyron (Amores 1.6). Kris Fletcher (Louisiana State University)
2. The Heroides and the Fight for Authorial Control. Courtney Evans (University of Virginia)
3. Legitimus amor: Illegitimate Protesilai in Heroides 13. Eunice Kim (University of Washington)
4. Ovid’s Make-Up World: The kosmos of Ars Amatoria. Del A. Maticic (New York University)
5. On the Autonomy of Ovid’s Tristia 5.2b. Helena Dettmer (University of Iowa)
3:45-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session Virginia D
Section D: Caesar and Sallust
Robert Sklenář (University of Tennesse), presider
1. Ethnography Encountered: The Troubled Ethnographic Framework of Caesar’s Gallic War. Tyler A. Creer (University of Virginia)
2. Titurius Sabinus, Quintus Cicero, and Caesar’s Self-presentation in Book Five of the Bellum Gallicum. Wesley J. Hanson (University of Pennsylvania)
3. The Pursuit as Closure in Set-Piece Battles in Caesar and Tacitus. Justin R. James (University of Missouri, Columbia)
4. Doubt, Paranoia, Perfidia: Ethnicity and Leadership in Sallust. Brian M. Mumper (Rutgers University)
5. Synkrasis in Sallust’ Bellum Jugurthinum. Michael T. Woo (University of Kansas)
3:45-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session Piedmont A
Section E: Bringing Rome Home: Collaborative Technologies for Roman Material Culture and History in the Latin Classroom Workshop (#)
Genevieve Gessert (American Academy in Rome), organizer and presider
John McCluskey (Fenwick High School), presenter
Crystal Rosenthal (Episcopal School of Dallas), presenter
Jenny Dean (Kingswood Oxford), presenter
3:45-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session Piedmont B
Section F: Herodotus’ Histories and its Reception
Susan Shapiro (Utah State University), presider
1. Phoenicians and Cultural Exchanges in Herodotus. Christopher M. Erlinger (Ohio State University)
2. First Meetings with Persians in Herodotus’ Histories. Sydnor Roy (Haverford College)
3. Social Proxemics and the Persian Court in Herodotus’ Histories. Jessie Wells (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
4. Programmatic Unity in Herodotus and the Metaphor of the Marketplace (7.152). Mackenzie S. Zalin (Duke University)
5. “What Truth Did He Utter?” The Early Christian Reception of Herodotus. Luke Gorton (University of New Mexico)
3:45-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session Piedmont C
Section G: Statius’ Thebaid
Randall Ganniban (Middlebury College), presider
1. The Complex Oedipus: Who Is(n’t) Oedipus in the Thebaid? Michelle Currie (Florida State University)
2. Taking Matters and Eyeballs into Your Own Hands: Greek Tragic Intertext in the Opening of Statius’ Thebaid. Dianne E. Boetsch (Bryn Mawr College)
3. Fated Fury: How the Furies Establish Supremacy over the Fates in Statius’ Thebaid. Ann Glennie (Florida State University)
4. Martial Matters: Statius’ Thebaid 7 and the Temple of Mars Ultor. Allison E. Smith (Florida State University)
5. The Anxious Mother: Atalanta’s Dream in Thebaid 9. Kevin S. Jefferson (University of Colorado Boulder)
3:45-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session Allegheny C
Section H: Roman Politics: Republic and Empire
Alison Futrell (University of Arizona), presider
1. The Patrician Allies of Two Troublesome Tribunes: The Nature of Republican Alliances. Parrish E. Wright (University of Michigan)
2. Intimate Gossip and Political Power in Rome. Brendan McCarthy (Ohio State University)
3. New Men and Old Politics: Scipio Aemilianus as a Model for Gaius Marius. Kathryn Steed (Carleton College)
4. Princess, Prisoner, Queen: Searching for Identity and Agency in the Life of Kleopatra Selene. Sara C. Stack (Purdue University)
5. Splitting the Minotaur: New Directions in the Prosopography of the Statilii. Mik Larsen (University of California, Los Angeles)
3:45-5:30 p.m. Twelfth Paper Session Virginia E
Section I: Imperial Greek Literature
Daniel Leon (The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), presider
1. The Pedagogical Practices of Polyaenus. Kenneth Elliott (University of Iowa)
2. Intellectual Caricature in Libanius’ Declamations. Jeremy Swist (University of Iowa)
3. Libanius the Mythographer: Cultural Competition in the Antiochikos. Alex G. Lee (Florida State University)
4. The God and the King: Images of Alexander in Nonnos’ Dionysiaca. Christopher D. Parkinson (Tufts University)
5. Nonnus and the Didactic Tradition. Andrew T. Faulkner (University of Waterloo)
6:00-7:00 p.m. Cocktail Hour for Campaign for CAMWS Virginia Foyer
7:00-9:30 p.m. Campaign for CAMWS: Gala Dinner Virginia F
Peter Knox (Case Western Reserve University), presider
Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, President of CAMWS), welcome
Jodi Magness (Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), address
Title: "The Huqoq Synagogue Mosaics: Archaeology and Ancient Texts"
Music: Tejas Aralere on the Sitar