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Abstracts for the 2007 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA

Allen, JoelThe politics of fosterage: Herodes Atticus and the trophimoi
Al-Saadi, RanaDivining Divination in Plato's Ion
Anderson, MichaelSentimentality in the Greek Novels
Anechiarico, Frank"If Men Were Angels": Constitution-Making and Ambition in the Careers of Hamilton and Cicero
Armstrong, Richard H.A Plurality of Hellenisms: Translation and Fragmented Lyricism in Elytis and Quasimodo
Baragwanath, EmilyFor Better, For Worse...: Alternative Motivations in Herodotus' Histories
Barringer, JudithAltertumswissenschaft v. Liberal Arts: A Continuing Debate in “Material Culture”
Bauschatz, JohnThe Strong Arm of the Law: Ptolemaic Policing and Security
Bayliss, AndrewThe 'artful dodging' of oaths in Herodotus
Beck, DeborahCharacter-quoted speech in the Iliad
Beck, MarkAlexander for the Romans: The Ideology of Anger Control in Plutarch and Arrian
Becker, Jeffrey A.Polygonal Masonry and Republican Villas: the Problem of the basis villae
Bednarowski, PaulSeeing is Believing? Half-Gods and (In)visible Epiphanies in the Iliad
Becker, HilaryCharismatic power and the private armies of Rome and Etruria: condottieri, bella privata, and mercenaries
Bendlin, AndreasA historian's dream, or nightmare? Explaining religious pluralism in ancient Rome
Blackwell, hristopher W.A Stack of Services for a Distributed Digital Library
Blood, H. ChristianQueer Icons, Iconoclasts and Anti-Icons: Plato and His Symposium in Athens, Hollywood and Washington, D.C
Bodel, JohnVillaculture
Boedeker, DeborahNo Way Out? Aging in the New (and Old) Sappho
Briggs, WardCodes of Manliness in Walter Hill’s The Warriors
Brodersen, KaiThe New Artemidorus Map in the Context of Ancient Mapmaking
Bryen, AriWomen and Violence in Greco-Roman Egypt
Burian, Peter"City, Farewell!": Euripides' Phoenician Women as a Response to Aischylos and Alkibiades
Burns, BryanSculpting Antinous
Burris, SimonThe Eagle's Prey at Nemean 3.80-82
Burstein, StanleyThe Challenge of World History
Butterman, Leepoeta ex machina: Latin Text-to-Speech
Byers, SarahPreliminary Joy in Augustine's De Civitate Dei XVI
Carawan, EdwinPericles the Younger and the Citizenship Law
Casanova, AngeloPlutarch and the Hellenization: The Life of Romulus
Chaudhuri, PramitCapaneus' Theomachy in Thebaid 10
Chenault, RobertThe Urban Prefect as Epigraphic Spokesman in 4th c. Rome
Chinn, Christopher M.Fire in his eyes: Statius' ekphrasis of Achilles (Ach. 1.158-168)
Chrissanthos, Stefan“Mutiny” in World History
Christensen, JoelNestor, Diomedes, and the telos muthon
Christesen, PaulA New Look at the Textual Tradition of Eusebius' Chronika and a New Edition of the Eusebian Olympic Victor List
Clay, DiskinLucian's Philosophical Island
Clayman, Dee L.The New Sappho in a Hellenistic Poetry Book
Coelho, Maria CecíliaParis Does Strange Things: Jean Renoir's Representation of Men in Combat for Helen
Cook, Brad L.Cicero's Biography in the Renaissance and the Rebirth of the Scholar-Citizen
Corbeill, AnthonyA New Painting of Calypso in Pliny the Elder
Damon, CynthiaEnabling Books
Daugherty, Gregory N.Titus Pullo of the Thirteenth
de Jong, IreneGenre and narratology: the theme of the fall of Troy as a test case
DeRousse, PeterReconsidering Citations: The Acta Senatus at Tacitus, Annals 2.88.1
Di Nino, Margherita MariaDetorsio Aesculapii and Ptolemaic propaganda in Posidippus' Iamatika'
Doherty, LillianWorld Atlas: Jeanette Winterson's Account of the Atlas Myth in Weight
Dominick, Yancy HughesResembling Nothing: Image and Being in Plato
Dugdale, EricProphetic Voices in Sophocles
duBois, PageOther Civilities, Other Civilizations
Duncan, AnneDionysius I of Syracuse: Tragic Tyrant
Dunn, FrancisWhere is Electra?
Dus, Carlotta C.The “Divi Adriani sententiae et epistulae”: Imperial constitutions in an ancient schoolbook
Dyck, AndrewCicero as an Interpreter of Poetry
Dyson, JuliaEncountering Jupiter in the Aeneid
Edmonds III, Radcliffe G.That Old Titanic Nature: Orphism and Plato Laws 701bc
Edmondson, JonathanThe Administration of Lusitania in the Third Century A.D.: New Evidence from Augusta Emerita
Edmunds, LowellTithonos in the "New Sappho" and the Narrated Mythical Exemplum in Archaic Greek Poetry
Edwards, MarkLucian between Plato and Nietzsche
Elliott, TomBeyond the Barrington Atlas: An Online Workspace for Ancient Geography
Esposito, StephenThe Date of Oedipus Tyrannus and the theme of elaunein agos
Fain, GordonGreek Endings in the Odes of Horace
Fenno, JonathanThe Wrath of Swift-Footed Aeneas and the Death of Alcathous in Iliad XIII
Fischer, ChristelleSoldiers and Egyptian temples in Ptolemaic Egypt
Floyd, Edwin D.Classical Quantities and Accents in Byzantine Poetic Scansion
Forsdyke, SaraPigs, Asses and Swine: Tyrannical Manipulation or Peer-Polity Interaction?
Francese, ChristopherThe Eroticism of Erotika Pathemata
Frier, BruceCicero the Jurist
Friend, JohnThe Reformed Ephebia: An Alternative Explanation?
Futrell, Alison'Not Some Cheap Murder': Caesar?s Assassination
Gaca, KathyThe Methods and Magnitude of Female Sexual Subjugation through Ancient Warfare
Gardner, HunterHomeric Allusion in the First Choral Ode of Euripides’ Medea
George, CoulterGreek Particles: Just a Literary Phenomenon
Goings, Kenneth W. and O'Connor, EugeneThey 'Dare[d] to Call Their Souls Their Own': African American Resistance to the Suppression of the Classics at Historically Black Colleges
Gorman, Vanessa B.Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Etruscans and the politics of cultural determinacy
Graninger, DenverArtemis Throsia and Rites of Passage: A Reconsideration
Grant, Jonathan P.Scythian Words in Lucian's Toxaris
Green, C. M. C.The Shepherd of the People: Varro On Herding For the Villa Publica in RR 2
Greene, EllenSappho 58: Philosophical Reflections on Death and Aging
Gruber-Miller, JohnWriting to Read and Writing to Culture: The Interactive Reading Journal
Gurval, RobertCast(igat)ing Cleopatra: HBO Rome and an Egyptian Queen for the 21st Centur
Haeckl, AnneMulticultural Masculinity: Paired Portraits of Young Men from Severan Coptos, Egypt
Lushkov, Ayelet HaimsonThe Arch of Scipio Africanus: A Re-interpretation
Hall, JonTeaching Ciceronian Delivery
Halper, Edward C.Humor, Dialectic, and Human Nature in Plato
Hammerstaedt, JürgenThe Cologne Sappho: Its Discovery and Textual Constitution
Hahnemann, CarolRipe and Unripe Fruits of Laughter
Hanson, AnnThe Brain and Brain Surgery in the Roman Empire: Heliodoros & Galen
Harder, RuthThe rhetor as arbiter philosophorum
Harris, JohnRevenge of the Nerds: Challenging the Public Recognition of Olympic Victors
Hausdoerffer, W. TysonThe nostos of Peleus in Euripides' Andromache
Haynes, HollyRome's Opening Titles and the Triumphal Tituli of the Late Republic
Hesk, JonFlyting and Capping in Aristophanic Comedy
Hickson Hahn, FrancesPotent Ritual: Supplications in the Augustan Ideological Program
Holmberg, Ingrid'We Had No Voice': Penelope's Maids in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad
Holmes, BrookeThe Place of Prolêpsis in the History of Imprints
Horky, PhillipOne Must Metaphorize: Linguistic and Mathematical Analogy as Political Science among the Pythagoreans
Höschele, ReginaHorto carmina digna, non libello. Priapus' Garden Poetics
Hubler, NoelPlotinus on Cosmogony: A convergence of reason, biology, and myth
Iversen, PaulThe Small and Great Daedala and Boeotian History
James, Patrickws oti and ws ina in the Papyri
Janko, RichardSappho’s Lalage and Horace, Odes 1.22 (Integer vitae)
Jenkins, ThomasX-Rated Sophocles: Sex and Text in Alice Tuan’s Ajax (Por Nobody)
Johnson, MargueritePoem 58 and L-P 31: The Poetic 'Body' and the Body of Sappho
Johnson, MichaelMommsen Lecture Notes at Rutgers University
Johnson, SusanThe God of Sappho, fr. 1
Johnson, W.R.Re-Representing the Gallic Wars
Jones, GregorySeeing the Parthenon Frieze in Euripides’ Ion
Jones, PrudenceMater Patriae: Cleopatra and Roman Ideas of Motherhood
Kaplan, PhilipMisunderstandings Between Friends: Xenia, Interstate Relations, and the Ring of Polykrates
Kemezis, AdamFronto, Lucian and the Absence of Antonine History
Kindt, JuliaBeyond the Polis: Rethinking Greek Religion
Knapp, RobertIberia in the New Artemidorus Text and Map
Knorr, OrtwinThe Running Ephebe and Other Visual Jokes in Terence
Knox, PeterCicero on the Uses of Epic
Kolb, Christina L.Accusations of Athenian Interpolation: The Case of Aithra’s Rescue”
Kondratieff, EricThe Anonymous Tribunes of the Plebs, 220 – 2 BCE: Preliminary Results and Observations
Konstantinidou, KyriakiFrom curse to oath in the Oresteia?
Kovacs, GeorgePower, Gender and Spatial Meaning in Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis
Kozak, LynnThe iron heart: Iliadic oath-scenes and the characterization of Achilles
Kritikos, AngelosOrigen on Pre-passions
Krizan, Mary KatrinaCorpses, Seeds, and Statues: The relation between potentiality and possibility in Aristotle’s Metaphysics and De Interpretation
Kutash, EmiliePlatonizing Mithra, Ontologizing the Oracles: Activating the Sublunary gods: Proclus’ Entheistic Reading of Timaeus:
Lampe, KurtWhat is Normal Sexuality? A Cyrenaic
Langford-Johnson, JulieJulia Domna and the contentiousness of universal motherhood
Lardinois, AndreThe New Sappho Poem: Where Does It End?
Lear, AndrewAristophanes' Gentle Mockery of Pederasty
Lerner, Jeffery D.Teaching World Civilizations to AD 1500
Levett, BradDeterminism and Responsibility in Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen
Lewis, McKenzieThe Iconography of Bacchylides' Nekyia
Lidov, JoelBooks as Contexts: Sappho in Two Papyri
Liveley, GenevieveMater Amoris: Mothers and Lovers in Augustan Rome
Llewellyn, Nancy E.Finishing an Unfinished Epic: the Case of Columbeis
López-Ruiz, CarolinaDining with the King of Heaven: banqueting and the struggle for royal power in texts from Greece and the Levant
Low, PollySpace and commemoration at Sparta: The monuments to Thermopylae and their context
Lupi, MarcelloOut of Context. What Is the Great Rhetra Speaking about ?
Lynn-George, MichaelAnd a sky like lead': Weil, Auerbach and Homer in the Twentieth Century
Lyons, DeborahArion and Dionysos Methymnaios: a Reading of Herodotus 1.23-4
Lyons, EvangelineThe Stoic Slave: Slavery and self-presentation in the Epistulae Morales
Lytle, EphraimThe Temple Accounts from Delos and the Purple-Tax
Lytton, Randolph H.The Classical Tradition in Washington, D.C.: An Introduction to the Greco-Roman World
Major, Wilfred E.What They Don't Know Won't Hurt Them: Paring Down Beginning Greek
Mannetter, DrewA Paradigm Shift: Teaching Methods for a One-Year Latin Course
Marchesi, IlariaTrimalchio’s Zodiac Plate and the Art of Memory
Markovich, DanielMultiplication of 'Here and Now': From Epicurus to Lucretius and Beyond
Marshall, C.W.J. T. Sheppard and the Cambridge Birds
Mascio, MichaelAristippus, Ulysses, and the Philosophus Polutropos in Horace Epistles I
Mason, Hugh J."You are a brave Hellene." Vasilis Arvanitis and cultural identity on Lesvos
Master, JonathanNobody Knows You Like Your Mother: Tacitus Histories 2.64 on Vitellius' True Identity
Masterson, Mark“It’s Queer, It’s Like Fate”: Imaging Queer in O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra.
Matteo, Chris AnnThe Classical Grand Tour: An Interdisciplinary Course Exploring Word and Image
McCarthy, Michael“Savage Juno” (Aen. 1.4) and the “Fury of the Lord” (Ps. 2:5): Pagan and Christian Embarrassment over Divine Wrath
McDonald, JohnOrpheus and the bougonia in Georgic 4: Cow Slaughter as a Source of Poetic Inspiration
McGowan, MatthewCrime and Poetry: crimina and carmina in the textual transmission of Ovid’s Tristia
Meinking, KristinaHabet igitur ira in Deo materiam: Divine Wrath in Pagan and Christian Belief
Mercado, AngeloThe Latin Accent and a Theory of Saturnian Versification
Mignone, LisaY tumba de sí proprio el Aventino: mythic deaths on the plebeian hill
Miller, Paul AllenA Man of Parts: Lucilius on the Body as the Site of Truth
Moore, TimothyRoman Comedy: Dance Drama
Myers, MicahFootrace, Dance and Desire: The Choros of Danaids in Pindar's Ninth Pythian
Newton, FrancisSinners in the Hands of an Angry God: The Poet's Epic Question (Aeneid 1.11) and Jupiter's Answer (Aeneid 12.829-831)
Nikoloutsos, Konstantinos P.Oliver Stone's Alexander and the Liminality of Same-Sex Desire
Nixon, C.E.V.The Circulation of Seleukid Bronze Coins (with special reference to Jebel Khalid)
Norena, CarlosTarraco and Narbo: Ecological or Imperial Connectivity?
Nugent, MarkAmor Malus and 'Male Armor': Elagabalus and the Politics of Sexuality (1960-75)
Obdrzalek, SuzanneThe Role of the Beautiful in Plato's Metaphysics and Epistemology
O'Brien, PeterBorrowing Ammianus' Pencil: The Res Gestae in English Translation
O'Connell, Elisabeth R.Redefining the Monastic Desert: Settling the Cemeteries in Late Antique Egypt
Osborne, RobinSpace and memorialisation in the Attic demes
O'Sullivan, TimothyPliny and Tacitus on the Politics of Escorts under the Principate
Panciera, MattPlautonic Amabo: When Men Say Please in Plautus
Pappas, AlexandraDescribing Inscription: Euripides, Agathon, and the Politics of Ekphrasis
Pazdernik, CharlesARETE KAI XUNESIS: Brasidas as Moral Exemplar
Peirano, IreneHow to praise a Roman wife: the meaning of the phrase filia supstituta in the so-called Laudatio Turiae
Pelling, ChristopherThis thing is bigger than both of us’: Plutarch’s tale of two cities?
Pepper, TimothyPlautus' Menaechmi and the Borders of Adaptation
Pessin, SarahRefining the Human Heart: Cosmology and the Transformation of Self in Ibn Gabirol
Petrovic, IvanaA Mischievous Genre Tells its Tale
Phillips, JohnTimeless Creation in Neoplatonism
Phillips III, C. RobertHas the study of Roman religion lost its way?
Pogorzelski, RandallCivilizing Italy: Virgil's Revision of Ancient Conquest
Pollard, ElizabethRome and Indomediterranea: Pliny’s Natural History, Magic, and Heresy
Pollio, David M.Aeneas the Diplomat?
Pomeroy, ArthurAlexander as Hero
Possanza, MarkHyginus' Book of the Heavens
Prince, SusanSeeing and Knowing in Lucian’s Philosophical Fantasies
Raia, Ann R.Online Companion to The Worlds of Roman Women
Ramsey, JohnCicero's Deconstruction of Mark Antony's Rhetoric in Philippics 2, 3, and 13
Reece, SteveHomer's Winged and Wingless Words
Rey, André-louisThe play of emotions in the healing process: pagan and Christian eastern roman perspectives
Reynolds, JoshuaWhy the third kind in Plato's Timaeus is not a receptacle
Richard, Carl J.Alexander Hamilton, the Classics as a Means of Social Mobility, and the Importance of Translations
Rogerson, AnneEn, ego vester Ascanius!: encountering the Trojan women in Aeneid 5
Roller, MatthewInnovation and tradition in Augustan Rome: the example of Appius Claudius Caecus
Romm, JamesHow many continents in Herodotus’ Geography?
Ronnick, Michele Valerie"Give 'Em Your Greek, but Study Cotton:" The Quest of the Silver Fleece by W.E. B. Du Bois (1911)
Roselli, DavidLumpen in the Fifth-Century Athenian Theater Audience?
Rosenbloom, DavidThe King's Great Escape: Timotheus' Persians
Ross, ShawnHomeric Panhellenism
Rossi, OrnellaEumolpus the anti-Seneca: possible interpretations of Petronius, Satyricon 99.1
Rothfus, MelissaSenatorial Sons and the Assumption of the Latus Clavus
Rubino, Carl A.The Sound of the Trumpet: Alexander Hamilton and the Challenge of the Classics
Rudolph, KelliDemocritus' Physiology of Taste
Ruepke, JoergRoman religion and the Roman empire
Rutherford, IanAfter the Song Culture: The Paean in and out of Context
Sammons, BenjaminNaming the Dead: Casualty Lists in the Homeric Battle Narrative
Scaife, RossColloquia Latina: Electronic subsidia for active Latin learning
Schiappa, Edward and Timmerman, DavidRhetorical Matters: The Emergence of Terms of Art in Rhetorical Theory
Schlapbach, KarinLucian’s Nigrinus and Plato’s Phaedrus
Schmidhauser, AndreasStoic Deixis
Scholtz, AndrewWhat's in a Curse? Epigraphic Evidence for Civic Aphrodite's Emergence at Athens
Schultz, Celia E.Out of the cul-de-sac: gender studies and Roman religion
Schuren, LiesbethThe Distribution of Narrative Activity in Euripidean Stichomythia
Scott, MichaelFrom space of victory to memorial of defeat: Delphi between 425 and 400 B.C.
Schwartz, SaundraThe Mediterranean as Viewed from the Pacific: Herodotus and the Persian Wars in World History Textbooks
Seo, J.MiraStatius Silvae 4.9 and the Poetics of Saturnalian Exchange
Setaioli, AldoPlutarch’s Assessment of Latin as a Means of Expression
Shear, Julia L.Memory, monuments, and the Athenian Agora
Shearin, WilsonBearing Witness in Cicero's De re publica
Shipley, GrahamRe-presenting the Minor Greek Geographers
Signoretti, MonicaThe Dynamics of Magical Language
Smith, ChristopherA Greek Interlude at Rome: Plutarch’s Life of Numa
Smith, Steven D.The Empire’s New Clothes: Identity and Costume in Two Greek Novels
Sommerstein, Alan H.Swearing by Hera: a deme meme?
Spaeth, BarbetteCult and Cultural Identity in Roman Corinth: The Epigraphical Evidence
Squire, MichaelThe Epigrammatic Inscriptions from the 'House of Propertius' at Assisi
Star, ChristopherAs in Comedies: Metapoetics, Speech, and Silence in Terence's Mother-in-Law
Stehle, EvaNow' and 'Once': Temporal Markers and Sappho's Self-Representation
Stevenson, WaltReligion and Imperial Strategies in the 6th Century East
Stewart, SelinaEros and Aetiology in the Argonautica
Stover, TimCyzicus and the Fall of Troy in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus
Strang, JonathanThe Attalid Grant to Teos and the Date of the Ktematonia Decree
Strong, Anise K.Daughter and Employee: Mother-Daughter Bonds among Ancient Prostitutes
Sullivan, JamesThe Trierarchy in Thucydides
Talbert, RichardThe Antonine Itinerary Seen through its Compiler's Eyes
Taraskiewicz, AngelaMotherhood as Teleia: Rituals of Incorporation at the Kourotrophic Shrine
Terrenato, NicolaThe Enigma of "Catonian" Villas: the De Agricultura in the Context of Second Century BC Rural Italian Architecture
Thakur, SanjayaNew Memories in Time: Tiberius and the Fasti Praenestini
Thomas, JenniferSeven Soldiers, Seven Snakes: A Closer Look at Lucan, Bellum Civile 619-937
Tordoff, RobPaid in their own coin: the poneroi of Aristophanes' Wealth
Torlone, ZaraEt in Arcadia Gallus: Pastoral and Elegy
Torrance, IsabelleOn your head be it sworn: oath and characterization in Euripides' Helen
Trundle, MatthewCoinage and the Transformation of Greek Warfare
Trzaskoma, StephenAn Unnoticed Citation of Xenophon's Cyropaedia in Chariton
Tsouvala, GeorgiaRome: A Greek City?
Tuck, StevenScheduling Spectacle: Factors contributing to the dates of Pompeiian munera
Tueller, MichaelVergil's Aeneid and Epigram
Uden, JamesElegiac Puella as Virgin Martyr
Valentine, JodyLesbians are from Lesbos: Sappho and identity construction in The Ladder
van der Blom, HenrietteGraecophile or Graecophobe? Cicero's choice between Roman and Greek 'exempla'
Varhelyi, ZsuzsannaFinding the proper place for religion: between the Scylla of the Roman Empire and the Charybdis of Late Antiquity?
Vine, BrentOn the Etymology of Latin tranquillus
Volpe, RitaRepublican Villas Around Rome: a Quantitative and Topographical Approach
Ward, JoelLanguage without Borders: Latinisms in the Greek of Josephus
Wareh, TarikGenres of Philosophical Contest in the Fourth Century B.C.
Watanabe, AkihikoClips, Cartoons, and Texts: Pop-Culture Meets the Ancient World
Watson, James M.A tale of two sanctuaries: Battle memorials at Olympia and Delphi, ca. 550-450 B.C.
Watts, EdwardOdoacer: Or on the Integration of Religion's Rise and Empire's Fall
Weaire, GavinDionysius of Halicarnassus' Etruscans and the politics of cultural determinacy
Wentzel, RockiAscanius, Gifts, and Desire in Vergil's Aeneid
Whitton, ChristopherTacitus' Dialogus and the politics of periodization
Wolpert, AndrewThe Use and Abuse of Classics
Wood, JamesComedy, Laughter, and Malice in Plato's Philebus
Wray, DavidA Philosophical Point of Latinity: What’s in it for Spinoza?
Zacharia, Katerina'Reel' Greek Nationalism: Perceptions of Greece in New Greek Cinema (1970-2005)
Zajko, VandaQueering Ovid's Hermaphroditus
Zarecki, Jonathan P.The Origin of the Ban on evocatio on Cyprus: A note on Cicero Ad Atticum 5.21.6
Zavota, GinaThe Circle and its Center: Metaphysical and Metaphorical Language in Plotinus’ On the Presence of Being Everywhere (VI. 4-5)