Abstracts for the 1999 Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas

These are the abstracts that have been received as of 12/10/99. Abstracts that have formats different than most are part of panels and colloquia that have their own web pages on other servers. Please see the program (when available) for further information.

ASIRVATHAM, Sulochana R.The Macedonians in the Historical Imagination of the Second Sophistic
ATANASSOVA , Rossitza Art and Idolatry in Prudentius.
BECK, DeborahDiomedes Takes Charge: Character and Speech in Iliad 4, 7, and 9
BLEISCH, Pamela R.Vergil's Good Causes? Aetiology in Vergil's Aeneid
BLOCH, René S.Jews and Barbarians &endash; Defining Ethnic Identities in Ancient Ethnography
BREED, BrianMimetic Speech and Literary Tradition in Propertius 1.20
CARAWAN, Edwin"Apply the Laws from Euclides": Andocides 1.82-99
CAYLESS, Hugh A.Vergil's and Pythagoras' Helenus in Ovid's Metamorphoses
CESERANI, GiovannaModern nationalisms and ancient ethnicities in Magna Graecia: issues in the interpretation of the past
CHAMBERLAIN, DavidHorribly Similar: Reading the Name of Smerdis in Herodotus
CHESHIRE, KeyneThe Narrative Function of Names in Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus, lines 46-59
CHEW, KathrynViolence in the Greek Novels and Hagiographic Literature
CHONG-GOSSARD, Kim OnThe Partial Muteness of Euripidean Men: Adrastus, Orestes, and Menoeceus
CHURCHILL, J. BradfordSponsio quae in verba facta est? Two lost speeches and the formula of the Roman legal wager
CLAUSS, James J.Aetiology and Evolution in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius
COFFEE, NeilTheognis' Riddle: A Reexamination of Theognis 667-68
CORBEILL, AnthonyRitual Practice and Ecology in Pliny the Elder
CRAMER, DavidThe Impossibility of Maecenas
DEBROHUN, Jeri BlairAitiology and Death, Closure and Immortality in Propertius Book 4
DEPEW, MaryCallimachean Aitiology
DIK, HelmaOn Unemphatic "Emphatic" Pronouns in Greek
DIX, T. Keith and ANDERSON, Carl A.Was the Athenian Empire a Tyranny? The Case of the Eteocarpathians
DOMINIK, William J.The Classical Tradition in African Drama
DUFALLO, BasilAudiences with the Dead: Public Speech and Private Magic at Rome
EBBELER, JenniferSumbolast in epistula: Making Identity in Plautus
ENGEN, Darel TaiMakers of Athenian Trade Policy
ENGLISH, MaryThe Diminishing Role of Stage Properties in Aristophanic Comedy
EWANS, MichaelDominance and submission, rhetoric and sincerity; insights from a replica production of Sophokles, Elektra.
FENTON, AndrewCratinus' Metapoetic Fountains
FINEBERG, BrendaIn Search of the Neighbors' Gardens: Tracking Narratives of Displacement and Desire in Horace's Epistles
FOGEL, JeriseThe Gender of Lies: Lucian's True Story
FULKERSON, LaurelEpic Ways of Killing a Woman: Gender and Transgression in the Odyssey
GAGARIN, MichaelProcedural Rights in Athenian Law
GALLAGHER, Robert L.Metaphor in Cicero's de re publica
HANSON, Ann EllisHippocrates Aphorisms V
HARDING, Karalee Strieby"Like Artemis or golden Aphrodite": a closer look at a brief Homeric simile
HOLLMANN, AlexanderDionysos and Kadmilos on a Curse Tablet from Antioch
HOOLEY, Daniel M.Jonson, Translation, and Horatian Lyric
IVERSEN, Paul A.A Flawed Diamond: Syriskos' Character in Menander's Epitrepontes
JOHNSON, Walter RalphUnexpurgating Queer Catullus
JONES, Prudence J.The Cleopatra Cocktail
HUSKEY, Samuel J.The Deeply Clinging Boundary Stone: An Element of Liminality in the De Rerum Natura
KIM, LawrenceHecataeus of Miletus and Palaephatus on the Past: Complicating the Ancient 'Rationalization' of Myth
KITCHELL, KennethCanine Cinaedi and Crabs with Lips: The Role of Changing Greek Pronunciation in Medieval Textual problems in Albertus Magnus
LASKARIS, JulieSophist vs. Scientist? Defining theTechnai and the Scientific Tradition
LEONARDIS, AnthonySurviving Colonization in Ancient Italy and ColonialNorth America: A Modern Perspective for the Studyof Ethnicity in the Ancient World.
LEWIS, JessamynEat and Be Eaten: Envy and Hunger in the Metamorphoses
LOCKETT, BryanAristophanes' Clouds: Self-Containment and Vulnerability
McCOSKEY, Denise EileenGeography as Imperial Science: Strabo and Augustan Rome
MCGLEW, JamesUnity and Division in the Farmer Chorus of Aristophanes' Peace
MILLER, Jr., Fred D.Legal and Political Rights in Demosthenes
MILLER, Paul AllenTechnologies of the Self in Exile: Writing and Intertextuality in Tristia 2
MORI, AnatoleTHE JUDGMENT OF ALCINOUS, HOMONOIA, AND INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION IN APOLLONIUS' ARGONAUTICA 4
MUELLER, MelissaReciprocity and Revenge in Euripides' Medea
NAPPA, ChristopherFire and Human Error in Vergil's Second Georgic
NOREÑA, Carlos F.The Representation of the Emperor's Civic Virtues: Continuity, Change, Structure
OLSEN, Barbara A.Recovering Gender through Archaeology, Recovering Ethnicity through Gender: Women in the Linear B Tablets
OSGOOD, JosiahFemale Painters in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
PANCIERA, MatthewCunnilingus in an Ostian Bath
PARSONS, JedInformation Technology: The Living Language Textbook
PASCO-PRANGER, MollyCausa recens melior est: Multiple Aetiologies and 'Historical' Layers in Ovid's Fasti
PAZDERNIK, CharlesLibertas and "Mixed Marriages" in Late Antiquity: Law, Labor, and Politics in Justinianic Reform Legislation
PLANEAUX, ChristopherSocrates an Unreliable Narrator? The Dramatic Setting of the Lysis
RAMSEY, John T.Mark Antony's Political Maneuvers in July 44 BC
RICHTER, DanielLucian's Learned Barbaros:Parodying Diatribe in the Adversus Indoctum
ROBERTS, MichaelCreation in Ovid and the Latin Poets of Late Antiquity
ROLLER, MatthewTable talk: words, exchange, and power in the Roman convivium
ROSELLI, David"Thank Heaven for Little Girls:" The Economics of Virgin Sacrifice in Euripidean Tragedy
ROSIVACH, Vincent J.Cicero, Cael. 18 and the Educated Elite
ROSSI, AndreolaThe camp of Pompey: strategy of representation in Caesar's BC
SCHILLER, AlexRegionalism or an Urban-Rural Dichotomy of Kleisthenic Attica?
SCHWARTZ, SaundraPassion and Polis: Civic Trials in the Greek Novels
SHANSKE, DarienHeidegger on Thucydides: Beginning to Reveal a Connection
SHAPIRO, AlanLeagros and Euphronios: the Vase-Painter as Erastes
SIEGEL, JaniceThe Grand Allusion: Virgil's Aeneid IV and Ovid's Procne
Simms, RobertWhat the Literati Knew About Sacrifice
SLAVEVA, SvetlaLiterary Form and Philosophical Exegesis:Plotinus' Utilization of Plato's Cosmology
STARKS, JohnPlautus' Balanced Structure for Ethnic Humor in the Poenulus
SUTTON, Dana F.The Queen's Latin
SVARLIEN, Diane ArnsonA Translator's Notebook: The Third Stasimon of Euripides' Hippolytos
TISSOL, GarthOvid and the Exilic Journey of Rutilius Namatianus
TSAI, S-C KevinWriting Authority: Thucydides, Isocrates, and Textuality
VANDIVER, ElizabethThe Way Their Catullus Walked: Changing Strategies of Translation
WHEELER, StephenThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Lucan's Reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses
WANG, KarenTWO MYSTICAL SIMILES OF APULEIUS AND ACHILLES TATIUS
WILLET, Steven J.Foreignizing and Domesticating Translations: the Case of Pindar
WILLIAMS, Mark F.The De Spiritali Amicitia of Aelred of Rievaulx as Commentary on Ciceros De Amicitia
WILTSHIRE, Susan FordHospitality in the Classroom: Speaking of Homosexuality