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Abstracts for the 2006 Annual Meeting in Montreal, QC, Canada

Adema, SuzanneThe whereabouts of the narrator: Deictic orientation in Latin Epic and Historiography
Alderman, AlexanderTraditional pedagogy with sophistic style in Xenophon's Cynegeticus
Alexander, Michael C.The Commentariolum Petitionis: An Attack on Roman Election Campaigns
Allen, EmilyCaesar’s Bellum Gallicum VI.21-28: Reconstructing the German Barbarian
Ancona, RonnieThe Certification Process
Anderson, DeborahHistoric Scripts in Unicode: Progress and Challenges
Anderson, Peter JDis-abusing Wit: Martial 1 praef. and the genus iocandi
Armstrong, RichardSpanking and Occentricity: Some Psychological Consequences of the "Greek Ideal" in the Construction of Westernness
Asso, PaoloQueer Consolation: Melior’s Dead Boy in Statius’ Silvae 2.1
Augoustakis, AntonySurus cor perfrigefacit: Elephants and the Second Punic War in Plautus’ Pseudolus
Bakker, StephanieThe order of adjectives in Greek: a case study in Herodotus
Baron, ChristopherPolybius and Timaeus: A Fair and Balanced Look at a Fragmentary Historian
Bauschatz, JohnPolice Corruption in Ptolemaic Egypt
Beck, DeborahAn Interdisciplinary Perspective on Homeric Speech Representation
Beck, HansConstructing Hierarchy: The Aristocracy, the People, and the Beginnings of the Cursus Honorum
Beck, MarkContrasting Catos: Time, Ideology, and Context in Plutarch’s Rhetorical Strategies
Beckwith, MilesTwenty-First Century Linguists, Pedagogy and the Classical Languages
Bendlin, AndreasThe Rhetoric of Revelation: The Delphic Dialogues between Mantic Practice and Platonic Theology
Beneker, JeffreyMore Platonic than Plato: Philosophy and History in Plutarch’s Dion
Bernstein, NeilEach man's father served as his teacher: ancestral emulation and fictive kinship in Pliny's Letters
Bowes, KimberlySociologies of Religion in Fourth- and Fifth-Century Rome
Bosher, KathrynJudging Zenobius: comic competition in 5th century Syracuse
Boulet, BernardThe Rhetorical Use of Superstition in Plutarch
Bradbury, ScottSocial Values in Libanius’ Letters of Recommendation
Branscome, David M.Demaratus, Ethnography, and Herodotean Self-Presentation
Branscome, Elizabeth RicheyThe Phaeacians and the Doliones: The Use of Homer in Apollonius’ Argonautica 1.939-1152
Brumbaugh, MichaelChaos: A Critical Analysis of Theogonic Origins
Bryan, JennyAs aletheia is to pistis, so Parmenides is to Plato: A new interpretation of Timaeus 29c3
Bundrick, Sheramy D.Dionysian Themes and Imagery in Oliver Stone's Alexander
Burian, PeterSpoken Like a Woman or Spoken Like a Man? Gender and Political Speech in Lysistrata
Burns, BryanInstalling the Mycenaeans in the National Archaeological Museum
Butrica, JamesNeglected evidence for the circulation of Catullus’ poetry in Antiquity
Calabrese, CarinDomination and Agency in the Troades
Caprio, JimLeagues within Leagues: Elis and the Peloponnesian League
Carbon, Jan-MathieuAll for Profit? Reconsidering Greek Priesthood Sales
Ceaicovschi, KariREADING RHODES: Rome's Past, Present, and Future
Chapman, HonoraThe Passion of Pentheus: Other Possible Sources Reflecting the End of Euripides' Bacchae
Chenault, RobertCommon Knowledge in Julian's 'Caesars'
Cheshire, KeyneThe Choral Significance of Signs in Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo
Chinn, Christopher M.Libertas reuerentiam remisit: politics and metaphor in Statius Silv. 1.6
Chong-Gossard, J.H. Kim OnConsolation in Euripides' Hypsipyle
Christensen, JoelThe Homeric Euphrone? Speech Introduction
Christesen, PaulOlympionikai: Olympic Victor Lists in Ancient Greece
Collis, JohnFrom Ancient Celts to Modern Celts
Cropp, MartinEuripidean Subjects in Fourth Century Vase-Paintings
Cummins, MonessaThe Praise of Victorious Brothers in Pindar's Nemean 6 and on the Monument of Daochos at Delphi
Cuppo, LucianaDe schematibus et tropis from Donatus to Bede
Danziger, SarahQuintilian on Domitian: the man of action in Roman literary history
de Bruyn, TheodoreCharacteristics of Greek formularies and amulets containing Christian motifs
Coffee, NeilConcord and Forms of Exchange in the Aeneid
de Blois, LukasAn Important Commonplace in Plutarch’s Galba and Otho
de Brauw , Michael'Facts,' definitions, lies: Staseis in Athenian trials
Diaz-Andreu, MargarittaRome and Dictatorship: A View from Spain
Doherty, LillianTeacher Training and Professional Support in a Traditional M.A. Program
Dougherty, Sister ThereseHigh Success NEH Programs in Classics for School Teachers
Doulamis, KonstantinStorytelling and the voice of the author in Chariton’s Callirhoe
Dufallo, Basil"Reading" the Greek Past in Petronius' Art Gallery
Duncan, Anne'Inspired' Acting: Mad Scenes in Greek Tragedy
Dyck, AndrewImagining Murder: How Cicero Distracted the Jurors in Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino
Eckstein, ArthurMilitarism, the Roman Aristocracy, and Monarchies in the Hellenistic Mediterranean
Edmonds, Radcliffe G.A Curious Concoction: Tradition and Innovation in Olympiodorus' Creation of Mankind
Edmondson, JonathanRestoring Meaning and Context to the Epitaphs of Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain)
Edwards, RebeccaTelling Tales for Caesar
Egan, Rory B.Nemean 7: Pindar's Neoptolemia versus Homer's Odysseia
Elkins, N.T.The Flavian Colosseum Sestertii: Currency or Largess? (Results of a Die Study)
Faris, SuzanneA Town Grows in Numidia: The Testimony of the Inscriptions at Guela’a Bu Atfane
Fenton, AndrewThe Forest and the Trees: Names and Meaning in Horace's Odes
Fletcher, RichardSocrates’ Dreams of Platonism: Derrida and Apuleius’ De Platone
Flower, HarrietTraitors in Context: the Epitaphs of the Licinii from the Via Salaria
Flower, RichardHow to Abuse a Late-Antique Emperor: Authority and Invective in Fourth-Century Christianity
Floyd, EdwinIndo-European Poetic Patterns in Pindar, Olympian 10 and 11
Folch, MarcusWomen in Performance in Plato's Laws
Forsdyke, SaraStreet Theater and Popular Justice in Ancient-Greece
Foster, EdithVergil's Shadow on the Rock
Fox, Maria StadterApostrophe and Witness: H.D.’s Modes of Tragedy
Freeman, PhilipFinding the Text of the Libri Sancti Patricii
Fronda, Michael P.Per Gratiam Romanorum: Roman Support for Italian Elite
Gagarin, MichaelFrom Oral Law to Written Laws: Draco's Law and its Homeric Roots
Galjanic, AnaGingilipho: Reexamining a Hapax in Petronius
Galinsky, KarlOutreach through NEH Seminars and Institutes
Gardner, Hunter H.Imperial Image Making during Domitian's Principate: Cenae rectae and cenae publicae
George, CoulterTemporal Expressions in Ancient Greek: nuktos, nukta, and nuktôr
Gibson, Craig A.Alternate Histories: The Point of Divergence in Greek Historical Declamation
Goh, MadeleineThe Charioteer theme in Euripides' Hippolytos, Phaethon, and Chrysippos
Gorman, RobertPopulus and the Common Good: Cicero de Re publica 1.39
Graf, FritzThe Kyrbantes of Erythrai
Grethlein, JonasThe Poetics of the Bath in the Iliad
Griffin, Michael J.Space as the Immortal Vehicle of the Soul: A Case Study in Neo-Platonic Exegesis
Guthenke, ConstanzDo as the Europeans Do? The Parameters of Classical Scholarship in Greece
Haley, ShelleyRadical Transformations: Pauline E. Hopkins' Afrocentric Revisioning of Sappho and Heliodorus
Hall, EdithProdigies and Protestants
Hawkins, ShanePlautus Bacchides 889 and the Roman nenia
Herbert, MollyOral Reading and Homeric Reception
Herda, AlexanderThe Cult of Apollo Delphinius in Miletus and the Molpoi-Decree (Milet I 3, no. 133)
Hogan, Patrick PaulA Natural Sophist: The Depiction of Sostratus in Philostratus' Lives of the-Sophists 552-554
Holmes, BrookeEarly Medical Analogies
Hook, Brian S.Self-Consuming Vice: Philosophy in Juvenal's Fifteenth Satire
Höschele, ReginaThe Accidental Reader: Poetics and Self-Reflexivity of Inscribed Epigrams
Hubbard, Thomas K.History's First Child Molester: Euripides' Chrysippus and the Marginalization of Pederasty in Athenian Democratic Discourse
Janko, RichardThe Derveni Papyrus and the Homeric Scholia
Jeppesen, AlisonWere Concubinae Wifely? An Examination of the Inscriptional and Literary Evidence
Jones, GregoryAegisthus as Hipparchus in art and tragedy: musical imagery and class conflict in 5th century Athens
Jongman, Willem M.Roman Prosperity
Jope, JamesContemporary Botanical Latin
Kalke, ChristinePast, Present, and Future of NEH Support for Classical Studies
Kamen, DeborahNaturalized Desires and the Metamorphosis of Iphis
Keane, CathyReading Extremes: Horace on the Homeric Poems (Epistle 1.2)
Kemezis, AdamTaking a Severan View: Cassius Dio’s Portrayal of Augustus’ Marriage Laws
Kim, LawrenceProblems with History in Plutarch’s Banquet of the Seven Sages
King, Richard J.Transvestism, Marsyas and Manhood in Ovid’s Quinquatrus Minores (F. 6.649-710)
King, BruceKing Paneides' Vote: At the Political Limits of the Iliad
Klooster, JacquelineSailing between the lines
Kowerski, LawrenceA Competition in Praise: An Allusion to Simonides Fr. 11W2 in Theocritus Idyll 22.214-23
Kretler, KatherineThe Wife of Protesilaos In and Out of the Iliad
Kron, GeoffreyAnti-trade prejudice of Roman society - The evidence of recent prosopographical research and a comparison with the European Ancien Régime
Lardinois, AndréA New Sappho Papyrus (P. Koln 21351): Key to the Old Fragments
Lawrence, Sellers C.The Kynegoi at Haliartos: Guards or Hunters?
Leftt, JeremyWhen Animals Attack: Fables and Unsuspecting Victims in Aristophanes
Leoni, TommasoGentem Iudaeorum domuit. The Inscription from the Lost Arch of Titus
Leunissen, MariskaWhy stars have no feet: Teleological explanations in Aristotle's De Caelo
Levithan, Joshua‘Picked Men:’ Heroic Volunteerism in the Roman Army
Lidov, JoelWhat did the sapphic stanza mean?
Limburg, FlorenceSeneca on vices, virtues and their transformation
Liu, JinyuThe Era of Patavium Reconsidered
Louden, BruceAchilles' Hateful Man (Iliad 9.312), Odysseus or Agamemnon?
Low, BenjaminLucretius on Wild Beasts in War, and the Perversion of Progress (DRN 5.1308-49)
Lytle, EphraimI.Parion 5: Illuminating a Large-scale Fishing Operation in the Hellespont
MacFarlane, KellyChoerilus of Samos' Lament and the Refashioning of Epic (SH 317)
Mackay, ChrisGranting Extraordinary Imperium by Election under the Later Republic
MacLachlan, RosalindEpitomes and the Epitome of Jason of Cyrene
MacPhail, JakePorphyry's Homeric Questions and the bT Scholia
Manolaraki, EleniThe Good Life Aquatic: Trajan’s Seamanship in Pliny’s Panegyricus
Marchesi, IlariaThe Ovidian Connection: Intertextual Pairings in Pliny's letters
Martijn, MarijeProclus' Nature is (not) Platonic
Marzano, AnnalisaRoman Coins and their ‘Audience’:a Case Study in Imperial Propaganda
Mason, HughThe Divinity of Lazpa (Lesbos)
Mastronarde, DonaldBefore and After Unicode: Working with Polytonic Greek
Matteo, Chris AnnEveryday Ancients: The 'Parallel Lives' of Women in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Maturen, GeoffCan Greeks and Romans be friends?: Plutarch and Lucian on cross-cultural philia
Mazurek, ElizabethAbdicating Judgment: Generic Identity and the Proem to Fasti 6
McAuley, MaireadEpic Masculinity in Transition in the Achilleid
McGill, RobinWhy Three Eide? Rethinking Aristotle's Types of Rhetoric in Terms of Action
Mclaughlin, GrainneClassical Latin Epic and Didactic as Invective in the Counter Reformation
Melchior, AislinnThe Crisis of Rhetoric in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae
Miller, Patrick LeeSymptoms of Love in Greek Poetry
Moore, Timothy J.Meter, Plot, and Character in Terence's Adelphoe
Morand, Anne-France and Rey, André-LouisElements, Humours and Qualities in Galen’s Thought: One System or Many?
Mortensen, Lars BojeThe Latin Beginnings of Danish, Icelandic and Norwegian Literature
Moss, Jennifer SheridanThe Hidden Cost of Taxation in 4th Century Egypt
Mueller, MelissaFrom "Letter" to Curse: Reading for Revenge in Euripides' Hippolytus
Mulligan, BretLiterary Criticism in Claudian’s Carmina Minora
Munteanu, Dana L.Emotions in Real Life and Art: Some Ancient Perspectives
Murnaghan, Sheila and Roberts, DeborahThinking of Girlhood: Childhood and Hellenism in H.D.
Nagy, GregoryReflexes of Aristarchean Methodology in the Homeric Scholia
Nappa, ChristopherHolding on to Hylas: Propertius 1.20 on Elite Roman Homosocial and Homoerotic Relationships
Nelsestuen, GrantItaly and Agriculture: Varro’s Creation of an Italian Terra in de Re Rustica I
Nelson, MaxLysias and the Phantom Stelai of Fifth Century Athens
NEMERKENYI, ElodThe Formation of Latin Literacy in Medieval Hungary
Nikoloutsos, Konstantinos P.Beyond Sex: Nympholepsy and Literary Materiality in Propertius 1.20
Norena, Carlos F.Caracalla's Indulgentia
Obbink, DirkThe Derveni Papyrus in the Homeric Scholia
O'Brien, PeterVergilian Allusion and the Gallus of Ammianus
O'Connor, StephenArmies and Markets in the Greek World in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.
Oikonomopoulou, KaterinaAnalogies between Body, Society, and Cosmos in the Political Discourse of Plutarch's Quaestiones Convivales
Pache, Corinne Ondine'The Rest is Memory': Louise Glück's Odyssey from Nostos to Nostalgia
Pagán, VictoriaLatin Secondary Education: Costs and Benefits
Panoussi, VasilikiPacem aeternam pactosque hymenaeos: Juno, Venus, and concordia in Aeneid 4
Pantelia, MariaUnicode and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Panayotakis, CostasEditing plays from indirect tradition
Pazdernik, CharlesAnother Procopian allusion: Wars 4.6.17-22 and Xen., Hell. 4.1.35-36
Penninck, MiekeAmbiguous liminality: the depiction of the frontier zone in Digenes Akrtites, Grottaferrata V
Pichanick, AlanSelf-Knowledge, Tyranny, and the Delphic Oracle in Plato's Charmides
van der Plaat, AnnemiekeDo you think what I read?Thinking aloud while reading Greek, a survey of an experiment
Podlecki, AnthonyEchoes of the Prometheia in Euripides's Andromeda?
Pollio, David M.Reconcilable Differences: Greeks and Trojans in the Aeneid
Popa, TiberiuSelf-Reflection in the Structure of Pindar’s Nemean X
Porter, James I.Making and Unmaking: The Achaean Wall and the Limits of Fictionality in the Homeric Scholia
Pownall, FrancesThe Noble Lie? The Historical Exemplum in Isocrates
Provencal, VernonHeraclitean Influence on Herodotean Nomos
Quillin, JamesAncient WMD:?Roman Legati and Domestic War?Propaganda in the Second Century b.c.e.
Ramsey, John T.Haley's Comet and the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.
Reid, DonaldImperialism, Nationalism and the Greco-Roman Past in Modern Egypt
Reinhard, DaniellaEnclitics, Proclitics and Elision in Poetic Questions on Man
Renberg, GilMessages from Beyond the Grave...
Riccardi, Lee AnnRoman Portraits from the Athenian Agora: Recent Finds
Richardson, T. WadeProtocols of Roman Aristocratic Sexual Invective: the case of Scipio Aemilianus
Robbiano, ChiaraParmenides and the Expectations of Epic Truth
Robbins, BrettFraming the Invisible: Vignette in the Iliad
Rose, Marice E.Late Antique Images of Slaves in Domestic and Funerary Contexts
Rosenbloom, DavidThe Kommos of Aeschylus' Persians
Rosenstein, NathanThe Economic Strategies of the mid-Republican Aristrocracy
Rotroff, Susan I.Commercial Buildings at the Classical Agora
Rotstein, AndreaAristotle on the History of Poetry (Poetics 4)
Rowe, GregoryHow the Publicans' Companies Were Organized: The Lex from the Vipaca Mines
Rubarth, Scott M.Masculinity and Convention in the lives of the Roman Cynics
Rubincam, CatherineQualification of Numbers in the Greek Historians
Ruffini, GiovanniRisk and Administrative Pressure in the Archive of Dorotheos and Papnouthis
Ruppel, AntoniaA Case of Syntactic Reanalysis: The Greek Accusative Absolute
Rynearson, NicholasInternal and External Audiences in Plato's Lysis
Sabnis, SoniaLucian's Lychnopolis and the Anxiety of Surveillance
Sammons, BenjaminGift, List and Story in Iliad 9 (120-57)
Saylor-Rodgers, BarbaraRedundancy and Interpolation in the Orations of Symmachus
Scarborough, JohnMandrake in Ancient Surgery
Schironi, FrancescaAristotelian Reflexes in Aristarchean Methodology
Schuren, LiesbethThree Narrative Devices in Euripidean Stichomythia
Shaw, CarlEpicharmus' Sexual Feast
Sick, DavidThe Daimones of C. S. Lewis
Signoretti, MonicaP.Tebt. 694: A reader's mark and pre-Aristoxenian music theory
Skinner, Marilyn B.Women, Gender, and Critical Thinking
Skovgaard-Petersen, KarenCrusading historiography in the Scandinavian periphery
Smith, GailRhetorical Techniques in Plutarch's Table-Talk
Smith, StephaniePagans, Christians, and the Domus Aeterna
Southern, MarkMapping Roman communities, servants and households, and Italic social praxis
Späth, ThomasLooking for Heroes, not at Rome: Plutarch's Recipe for a Banquet of Morality
Staley, GregoryNovus Ordo Seclorum: A Faculty Humanities Workshop
Stanke, StefanThe Reception of the Plataean Debate in Xenophon's Hellenica
Starks, Jr., John H.[vo]cales vultus: Pantomime Actresses in Latin Imperial Inscriptions
Steinbock, BerndAthenian Memory of Thebes’ Help for the Democratic Exiles
Stevens, Benjaminlingua olet: The Scent of Language and Social Synaesthesia at Rome
Strang, JonReading Teos: The Socio-Cultural Topography of Teos in the Age of Polythroos
Strolonga, PolyxeniReciprocity in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Stroup, Sarah Culpepper'Textual Tuscula': The Sociopolitics of Villa and Book in Cicero's Technical Treatises
Sumi, Geoffrey S.Ceremony and Social Memory: The Temple of Divus Julius and Imperial Funerals under Augustus
Suter, AnnThe Myth of the House of Atreus as Political Ideology: 5th c. BCE and 20th c. CE
Tarrant, HaroldProclus and Predecessors on the 'Myth' of Atlantis
Thakur, SanjayaThe consequences of being a docta puella: Ovid, Callimachus and Heroides XX and XXI
Trinacty, ChristopherSeneca's Heroides: Elegy in Senecan Tragedy
Trzaskoma, StephenChloe's Kiss in Longus and the Natural History of Honey
Tronson, AdrianThe Relevance of Herodotus 8.144 to the Debate on Greek Ethnicity
Trout, DennisStarry Heroes in Late Ancient Rome
Tuck, SteveEmperors, Freedmen and Refugees: Towards a Prosopography of Imperial Cumae
Tueller, MichaelPurposeful Allusion in Hermesianax
Turner, AndrewThe emperor?s new wife: the council in Tacitus Annals 12.1-2
Ulery, RobertPietro Bembo’s Italian Translation of his Latin Historia Veneta (1551)
van den Berg, ChristopherPoetry into Rhetoric: Horace in Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus
Vergados, AthanassiosHermes’ Two Songs (Homeric Hymn 4. 52-63 & 423-33)
Vine, BrentSouth Piceneímih
Vivante, BellDivine Beauty: Helen, the Bride of Sparta
Welsh, JarrettGendered Costume, Costumed Gender: Titinius' Setina and Didactic Comedy
West, EmilyMarried Hero/Single Princess: Homer’s Nausicaa and Indic Citrangada
Wharton, DavidMissing and Misleading Information in the Latin Dictionary: The Case of Horror
Williams, KathrynCicero, Caesar and rex Galliae
Williams, MichaelHymns as Acclamations: The Case of Ambrose of Milan
Wolfsdorf, DavidCourage and Knowledge at Protagoras 349E1-351B2
van't Wout, EvelynWhat the Thunder Said: Medea's Prophecy in Pindar, Pythian 4
Yasin, Ann MarieThe Invention of Early Christian Sacred Space?
Yates, VelvetThe Feminized Craftsman in Greek Thought