2010 Annual Meeting Abstracts

Acton, Karen LSpes and Imperial Succession: Claudian and Vespasianic Narratives
Agocs, PeterEpinician As Sacred Song
Ahbel-Rappe, SaraTraditions of Self-Knowledge from Socrates to Suhrawardi
Almagor, EranBetween Parthia and Rome: Images of Ancient Persia in Plutarch and the Second Sophistic
Anderson, Diane WarneCicero at HMML: An Undergraduate Latin Class Utilizes the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
Armstrong, RichardThe First Modern Aeneid: Enrique de Villena’s Eneida
Athanassoqlou-Kallmyer, NinaPossessing Homer: Alma Tadema’s A Reading from Homer
Augoustakis, AntonyRaping Achilles and the Poetics of Manhood: Re(de)finding Europe and Asia in Statius’ Achilleid
Baker, AshliThe Spell of Achilles Tatius: Gorgias’ Magic and Persuasion Refigured
Banducci, LauraDiscarded Books and Archives in Roman Egypt
Baragwanath, EmilyPanthea’s Sisters: Negotiating East -West Polarities Through Gender in Xenophon
Bartels, MyrthePlato and the Leniency of the Laws
Bertoni, DanielFas and nefas: Speech and Silence in Ovid’s Philomela
Bitto, GregorPindar's Epideictic Muse: The Pindar Scholia on Occasional and Inspired Poetry
Adam D., BlisteinThe Practicality of Philology in the Information Age: Or Why Being a Classicist Means Never Having to Say You Can’t
Blood, H. ChristianBy Means of Books and a Balance: Great Books at St. John’s and Santa Cruz
Boatwright, Mary T.Rome and Immigrants, c. 200 BCE – 100
Bond, SarahFrom Crypt to Clergy: Associations of Roman Funeral Workers
Cairns, FrancisPropertius 3.16
Calabrese, Carin L.Alektros to Alastor: Cassandra’s Reinvention and Resistance
Carlisle, David P. C.Confession, Reevaluation, and the Subjectivity of Religious Experience in C.S. Lewis’s Use of Apuleius
Castelli, CarlaAlexander’s Continence: Ethos and Appearance, a Second Sophistic Theme in Plutarch
Chance, JaneColuccio Salutati’s De Laboribus Herculis and the Medieval Boethius Commentary Tradition
Chenault, RobertPatronage Inscriptions in the Houses of Late Roman Senators
Cheshire, KeyneAcrostics and Great Rivers in Callimachus’ Hymns
Clark, Jessica H.Polybius on Polybius? Rewriting the Defeated Self
Cook, Brad L.Cicero to Petrarch: “Falsum!” Implicating Petrarch, Fam. XXIV.3
Coulson, FrankCodices Latini Ohienses: Regional Collections as Research and Teaching Tools
Cullhed, EricMovement and Sound on the Shield of Achilles
Daitz, StephenRushing Dactyls in Homeric Hexameters
Davis, BrentLinear A: Hints of Minoan Inflectional Morphology
Demetriou, ChrysanthiNonverbal Behavior in Donatus’ Commentum Terenti
Devecka, MartinThe Traffic in Glands: Luxury, Science and the Case of the Roman Beaver
Dillon, MatthewIntentional Soundplay in Homer and Vergil
DiLuzio, JosephPopulus as auctor in Cicero’s pro Cornelio
Dominik, William J.Africanizing Sophocles’ Antigone
Downie, JanetThe God and the Emperor: Aelius Aristides’ Case for Civic Immunity in the Hieroi Logoi
Dufallo, BasilTrying on Plautus’ “Greek” Culture: Crossdressing, Ekphrasis and Performance in Menaechmi 1.2
Dutschke, ConsueloManuscripts on the Web
Esposito, StephenOedipus Tyrannus 164-6, the Great Plague, and Bernard Knox on the Date of the Play
Faris, Suzanne B.Crossing Borders, Crossing Categories: When Westerners Go East
Feltovich, AnneEthical Decision-Making among Women in Menander
Fischer-Bovet, ChristelleEgyptian Warriors: The machimoi of Herodotus and the Ptolemaic Army
Gaca, Kathy L.Teaching about Mass Rape in Ancient and Modern Warfare
Gaisser, Julia HaigIlluminating Apuleius’ Golden Ass
Gardner, HunterConfiguring Domesticity in Propertius 2.6 and 2.7
Gelderblom, W. J. C. M.One Kiss Can Make a Difference: The Genesis of Johannes Secundus’ Basia
Gellar-Goad, T. H. M.Why Does Terence Suppress Sacrifice?
Gibson, RoyLives in Letters
Gilhuly, KateThe Discursive History of Lesbian Erotics
Gillespie, Caitlin C.Female Conquest and Dynastic Disaster in the Octavia
Gitner, AdamImperfect Bilingualism in Horace Satire 1.7
Gloyn, LizReading Rape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A Test-Case Lesson
Goldman, RachaelThe Eye of the Beholder: Suetonius’ Physical Descriptions in the Lives of the Caesars
Gonzalez, Jose M.The paian as a Competitive Genre
Goslin, OwenPaternity and Ideology in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus
Green, CaseySocial Understanding of the Deaf and the Blind in Ancient Greece
Greene, Robin J.Callimachus’ Syllabus: Didactic Authority and the Role of Prose Models in the Aetia
Gregory, TimothyField Archaeology, Live in the Classroom
Grillo, LucaCaesar Writing Himself in the Bellum Civile: Strategies and Criticisms
Güthenke, ConstanzeLives as Parameter: The Privileging of Ancient Lives as a Category of Research Around 1900
Hadjimichael, TheodoraThe World of Bacchylides: Geography, Politics and Poetry
Haimson Lushkov, AyeletKinship and Command: Aspects of Paternity in the Imperia Manliana
Halliburton, LaurenShakespeare’s Moral Code: A Reinvention of Ovid and Golding?
Hawkins, TomIambic Platonism
Heiny, Stephen B.Gide’s Philoctète: An Untested Happiness
Hicks, Benjamin W.Datisque iudicibus and the Trial of M. Plautius Silvanus at Ann. 4.22
Hong, YurieDiscussing Controversial Topics in the Classroom: What to Do and Why
Horky, Phillip SidneyGavius Pontius: A Samnite Philosopher?
Hubbard, Thomas K.Multiple Audiences in Pindar’s Syracusan Odes
Iversen, PaulWas Menander a Democrat?
Jacobs, IneRecognizing Late Antique Patrons in Material Remains
Jazdzewska, KatarzynaPlutarch’s On Listening: Facing Plato’s Challenge in the Age of Rhetoric
Jenkins, ThomasBetween Worlds Old and New: N. C. Wyeth’s Odyssey Illustrations
Jones, PrudenceRewriting Power: Zenobia, Aurelian, and the Historia Augusta
Kamen, Deborah and Levin-Richardson, SarahLusty Ladies: Fututrices in the Roman Imaginary
Kaplan, PhilipNe plus ultra: The Greco-Punic Struggle for Exploration and Control of the Western Mediterranean and Atlantic
Keenan, JamesByzantine Egypt: State of the Questions
Kehoe, DennisInterviewing for Academic Positions and Beginning Your Career
Kenyon, Erik(Skeptical) Academics and the Surprise Ending of Augustine’s Contra Academicos
Kidd, StephenA Greco-Demotic Dream Text and Oneirocritic Bilingualism
Kim, Hyun JinHerodotus’ Scythian logos Reviewed from a Central Asian Perspective
Knöbl, RanjaSatyrus’ Paramimetic Mock-Biography: Reassessing the Bios Euripidou
Koenig, CharlouFishbones and Emperors: A Second Sophistic in Plutarch?
Kratzer, Emily A.Images of Triumph and Defeat: The nostos of Herakles in the Trachiniai
Lake, KeelyThe Road Less Taken: A Ph.D. Who Teaches High School
Lape, SusanSudraka’s Little Clay Cart: What India Can Teach Us about New Comedy
Lauriola, RosannaThe Rape of Lucretia: A Revitalized Episode from Classical Antiquity
Lewis, Anne-MarieThe Personification of America in Stephen Parmenius’ De Navigatione
Lippman, MikeFalse Fortuna: Religious Imagery and the Painting-Gallery Episode in the Satyrica
Loney, AlexanderAutobiomythos: Narratives of Self in Homeric Poetry
Lunt, DavidRunning with the Dead: Alexander at the Tomb of Achilles
Lye, SuzanneGender and Ethnicity in Heliodorus’ Aithiopica
MacLachlan, RosalindArrian on Hunting, Hounds, and Himself
Makins, MarianClassical Studies and the Aspen Seminar
Makowski, JohnPetronius’ Giton: Gender and Genre
Malamud, MargaretConsuming Passions: Helen of Troy in the Jazz Age
Mardikes, CatherineStraight from Ph.D. to Classics Librarian
Marshall, C. W.Odysseus and The Infinite Horizon
Master, JonathanSeneca’s Critique of Historiography in the Natural Questions
Mazza, RobertaA Rosy Lotus for Antinoos
McBride, Jennifer“To Share and Share Alike”: The Discourse of Dual Hegemony in Isocrates’ Panegyricus
McCoy, MarshaPetronius’ Other Rome: The Cities of the Satyrica in the Roman Imaginary
McGill, ScottPlagiarism and Praise in the Reception of Vergil
McMenomy, MaryFrom Athens to Taenarus on Foot: The Function of Xanthias in Frogs
Michelakis, PantelisThe Comic - Sentimental and Grotesque: Louis Feuillade’s Lysistrata
Miller, Paul AllenWhat is a Propertian Poem?
Moore, Timothy J.False Starts: Isolated Trochaic Septenarii in Roman Comedy
Morgan, Dubravka UjesThe Foreign Policies of Philip V and Perseus and the Large Mixed Silver Coin Hoards in the Northern Balkans
Morgan, John D.Athens and the Aleuads
Morris, SarahBeyond the Tyranny of the Text: Complicating the Historical Record with Material Culture
Mullen, William“Stanza” Endings in the Iliad
Muntz, Charles E.Diodorus Siculus and Caesar’s Calendar
Nugent, MarkSi vir fueris: Sexuality and Masculine Self-Fashioning in Petronius’ Satyrica
Oosterhuis, DaveLove Sometime Is a Victory March: The Triumph Theme in Catalepton
Pansard-Besson, JeanneLooking at Roman Nonverbal Behavior in the Visual Context of a Late Imperial Mosaic Floor: The Game of Interpretation
Panoussi, VassilikiSpinning Hercules: Gender, Religion, and Geography in Propertius 4.9
Papakonstantinou, ZinonCursing for Justice: Magic and the Lawcourts in Classical Athens
Parker, HoltVaseworld
Pollard, Elizabeth Ann“What’s Love Got to Do with It?”: Stalking, Obsessive Relational Intrusion, and “Erotic” Spells
Pomeroy, ArthurUlysses’ Gaze
Rauh, Stanly H.Reinterpreting Sallust’s Numidian
Reinhard, AndrewClassics 2.0: Be Wired, Be Hired
Renberg, GilIsis and Healing: A Re-Evaluation
Riess, WernerWhere to Kill in Classical Athens - Political Assassination and the Athenian Public Space
Riley, MarkJohn Barclay as a Writer of Characters
Rives, JamesAnimal Sacrifice and Roman Imperial Identity
Roller, MatthewFabius Cunctator’s Paradoxical Glory
Michele , RonnickValerie William Lewis Bulkley (1861-1933): The First African American to Earn a Doctorate in Latin
David , RosenbloomEuripides’ Hecuba: Nothing to Do with Democracy?
Rowan, ClareMythical Memory: The “Commemorative” Medallions of Antoninus Pius and the Temple of Venus and Rome
Rust, Eleanor M.A Disordered Life: Autobiography and Miscellany in the Noctes Atticae
Scharffenberger, Elizabeth“Loose Canons”: Comic Texts in Great Books Courses
Scodel, RuthNarrative and Illustration in Silent Versions of Quo Vadis
Scott, DarbyHistory and Archaeology: The Dilemma of Republican Rome
Scully, StephenDyden’s Aeneis in Light of His First Book of Homer’s Ilias
Searby, DenisStephen of Alexandria, Last of the Neoplatonists, First of the Medieval Sages
Sears, Matthew A.Iphicrates, exousia, aselgeia, and the Thracian Court
Sells, DonaldCivilization and the Savage in the Pseudo-Hesiodic Aspis
Sfyroeras, PavlosOlive Trees and Epichoric Mythmaking in Pindar, Olympian 3
Shapiro, JuliaPaederasty and the Popular Audience
Skinner, MarilynFortunata and the Virtues of Freedwomen
Sloan, MichaelThe Original Locus for moria peristaseos
Stearn, RodLiterary Tropes and Patronage in the Hagiographies of the Late Antique Judean Wilderness
Stocking, CharlesHesiod, Sacrifice, and the Tactics of Consumption
Sweet, AndrewEthnicity, Gender, and andreia in Thucydides
Szylejko, Elizabeth A.Javols Anderitum: An Examination of Romanization and Regional Identity Through Visual Culture
Talbert, RichardCalibrating Cartographic Horizons for Today’s Ancient History Classes
Tarrant, RichardGetting Closer to Propertius?
Thatcher, MarkGreek Identity in Hannibalic Italy
Thomas, Richard F.An Epigrammatic Elegist?
Trelawny-Cassity, LewisEmpirical and Dialogical Proof of God’s Existence in Laws 10
Trinacty, ChristopherEthical Poetics?: Horace’s First Book of Epistles
Tuck, Steven L.Fistulae and Freedmen: Lead Water Pipes and Shifting Imperial Realities on the Bay of Naples
Tuttle, AnneThe Plan of the Pro Ligario: Cicero’s Admonition for Caesar, Dictator
Uhlig, Anna S.The Poet Sets Sail: Geographical Biography as Literary Criticism in the vitae of Pindar and Aeschylus
van Emde Boas, EvertThe Tutor’s Beard: Gender-specific Communication and Speaker-Line Attribution in Greek Tragedy
Van Nuffelen, PeterEpiscopal Succession in Constantinople (379-457 A.D.): Elites, Patronage, and Power
Vandiver, ElizabethGreat Books in the Liberal Arts Curriculum: The Necessity of Context
Varhelyi, ZsuzsannaThe Development of the Worship of the genius Augusti in Italy in the Early Roman Empire
Victor, BenjaminTerence’s Greek
Watson, TimThe Bounds of Ambition: Q. Aurelius Symmachus and the Aristocracy of Service
Weaire, GavinPedagogy and Politeness in Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ De compositione verborum
Wecowski, MarekThe Prisoner’s Dilemma, or Purposes of Ostracism
Westall, RichardRethinking the Foundation of Massalia
Williamson, ChristinaTransferring Identity: The Sanctuaries at Lagina and Panamara and Their Role in the Development of Stratonikeia
Wiltshire, David C. AndersonThe Evidence of chrē against the Authenticity of the Prometheus Vinctus
Worman, NancyWhat is “Greek Sex” For?
Wrigley, AmandaGreek Tragedy as Cultural Project
Wutrich, TimothyPerforming Virgil’s Aeneid
Wyke, MariaVisual Education: Silent Cinema, Roman History, and the American High School Curriculum
Yount, DaveNibbana, the Good, and the One: The Similarity among Buddha, Plato, and Plotinus’ Ultimate Experience
Ziogas, IoannisOvid in Rushdie, Rushdie in Ovid: A Nexus of Artistic Webs
Ziolkowski, JanThe Manuscript Kit