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Abstracts for the 2008 Annual Meeting in Chicago

Allen, Emily M.Tibullus 2.3 79-80: A New Interpretation
Allison, Penelope M.Roman military bases a complex gendered spaces
Alonge, Mark"Standing" Greek choruses
Alvares, JeanThe Greek Romances as Dramas of Desire: a Lacanian Experiment
Amati, MatthewSelling Cloudcuckooland
Ancona, RonnieMaking Connections: Teaching Catullus Poem 64 (lines 50-253) in the Larger Context of the Catullan Corpus and Other Latin Poetry
Bakker, S.J.On the so-called attributive and predicative position in Ancient Greek
Bakola, EmmanuelaAischylokratinizein
Bannon, Cynthia J.Fish Farming and Fraud: Rational Economic Strategies for Roman Landowners
Bass, ZanaThe Sexuality of Dionysus & Pentheus in Euripides and Soyinka
Bauschatz, JohnAgents of Appeal: Petitions to Ptolemaic Police
Beck, MarkThe Politics of Eroticism in Plutarch
Beck, RogerAncient and modern approaches to the representation of supernatural beings: Dio Chrysostom (Oration 12) and Dan Sperber (Explaining Culture) compared
Bendlin, AndreasUnderstanding Sacrificial 'Ritual': Roman Ritual Practice and Modern Theory
Berman, DanielBoiotian Topography in the Poetry of Korinna
Berrey, MarquisHealing Practice for Male Impotence in Classical Greece
Bettenworth, AnjaManipulative Inscriptions in Ovidian Elegy and the Creation of Social Memory
Blankenborg, RonaldTuning in: tracing the rhythmical phrase in Homer
de Blois, LukasMissing Oddities and Crucial Details: The Military Factor in Politics in Plutarch’s Life of Mark Antony
Bloy, DylanRoman Cultural Diplomacy in the Import of the Magna Mater
Boehler, RyanEpistolary Reckoning: Transition, Manipulation, and Allusion in Sallust’s Embedded Letters
Bosher, KathrynChicago Ixion
Brown, H. PaulHomeric Directives: Language Sensitivity and the Pragmatics of Interaction in Homer
Bungard, ChristopherPseudolus Revisited: Expanding the Role of the Servus Callidus
Caldwell, CraigBurying Aureolus: A Usurper's Monument in the Historia Augusta
Carlevale, JohnEmpire as Organization: The Romans in Life Magazine
Chaudhuri, PramitThe Politics of Deification in Seneca's Hercules Furens
Coelho, Maria CecíliaWho is afraid of Lysistrata?
Choudhury, SayeedThe Role of Large-Scale Digitization in Classics
Christesen, PaulGenerals, Gods, and Games: Video Games and Classical Antiquity
Del Chrol, E.Strange Bedfellows: Thematic and Structural Parallels between the TinyTract on Electioneering by [Ps-]Cicero and the Arts of Love by Ovid
Clark, Jessica HomanThe Paradox of Ransom in the Roman Middle Republic
Clements, JacquelynThe Image of the Charioteer in Plato's Phaedrus and Funerary Art
Coles, AmandaWorshipping Diana: Religion and Colonization in Northern Italy
Cohen, Amy R.Masks in Production: Ancient Implications of Modern Construction
Colegrove, CatherineThe Arena: Masturbation or Liberation?
Cooper, Glen M.Critical Therapies: Treatment of Periodic Fevers in Galen
Crane, GregoryPlanning a Digital Library for Classics from Image-Books
Cribiore, RaffaellaMenander the Poet or Menander Rhetor? An Encomium of Dioscorus again
Dal Borgo, ManuelaRhetoric: Philosophy or Techne
Davis Jr., Richard H.An Alternative Method for Writing Critical Essays on Latin Literature
Dinter, Martin T.Epigraphic markers and Epitaphic gestures in Latin poetry
Dolansky, FannyFemineae Kalendae? Reconsidering the Matronalia and ‘women’s rites
Downie, JanetThe Therapeutic Dynamic in Aelius Aristides’ “Sacred Tales”
Dutsch, DorotaA ‘Pythagorizing Girl’ in the Plautine Poenulus?
Elliott, JackieEnnius’ Fabius Maximus Cunctator and the history of an ablative gerund in the Roman historiographical tradition
Ermatinger, JamesStadiasmus Maris Magni: armchair geography or sailor's manual?
Esposito, StephenAn Unnoticed Mirror Scene in Oedipus Tyrannus
Fairey, EmilyBarbarians or Super-villains? Persians in Frank Miller's 300
Fantham, ElaineEduard Fraenkel: Vorplautinisches und Plautinisches
Ferriss, JenniferVirgil Polyglottos: Sabellic Etymologizing in Aeneid 7
Fields, DanaFreedom and Frankness in the Life of Aesop
Fisher, JayBridgemaker or Pathfinder?: the Origin of Latin Pontifex Revisited
Fögen, T.The Role of Translating in Seneca's Philosophical Writings
Fontaine, MichaelCatachresis, Fictitious Words, and Bomolochia in Plautus' Stichus
Ford, AndrewThe Genres and Occasions of Aristotle’s Skolion/paean/hymn/hybrid for Hermeias
Foster, EdithThucydides in Absentia: Lucretius' Witness against the Stoics?
Gaifman, MiletteAniconism and the Idea of the Primitive in Graeco-Roman Thought and Practice
Gaisser, JuliaLucius the Priest in Filippo Beroaldo’s Commentary on the Golden Ass
Gazzarri, TommasoProperty and interiority: some aspects of juridical language in Seneca
Gellar, T. H. M.Pardalisca: Ancilla callida of Plautus' Casina
George, CoulterThe Historical Present in Classical Greek and the Development of Greek Aspect
Georgiadou, Aristoula'Reconstructing' a cult of Eros: rites of passage at the festival of the Erotidaea
Gibson, CraigAn Exemplary Life: Demosthenes in the Progymnasmata
Gillett, AndrewBeyond Barbarian Identity
Glinister, FayVirgins for Hire and Other Stories: Putting Women in their Place
Goslin, OwenThe Ordering of Sound in Hesiod's Typhonomachy
Halim, IanThe So-Called Idiomatic Imperfect in 3.5 of the Nicomachean Ethics
Hanink, JohannaThe Echo of Epitaph: Latin Elegy and an Inscribed Greek Epigram (SGO I 01/01/07)
Haynes, MelissaSexing the Temple: Architectural Space and Erotic Viewing in the Pseudo-Lucianic Erôtes
Hays, GregoryMedieval Latin Editing: Problems and Prospects
Heckenlively, Timothy S.Aeneas’ Shield and its Hesiodic Intertext
Hedrick, CharlesEvidence and Graduate Education
Henkel, JohnA Metapoetic Vignette Alluding to Aratus at Georgics 1.291-296
Heverly, W. GeraldTrends in the Online Availability of Subscription Journals in Classics
Holland, Lora LO Sister Where Art Thou?: Same-Name Divine Pairs in Roman Religion
Huebner, Sabine R.The “In-Marrying Son-in-Law” in Roman Egypt
Hyland, John O.Last of the Bandak?: Persian Nobles after Alexander’s Conquest
Icks, MartijnEmpire of the sun? – The cult of Sol Elagabal in the Roman Empire
James, PatrickAtticistic Pronunciation in the Second Sophistic
Jenkins, ThomasFarcical Philology: Alexander Shewan’s “Homeric Games at an Ancient St. Andrews”
Johnson, ChristelMistress and Myth: Catullus 68B
Johnson, MichaelThe Pax Deorum and the Virginity of the Vestal Virgins
Jones, Charles E.The Future is Now? Who Cares? Electronic Media and the Ancient World
Jones, GregRecasting the Tyrannicides: the Feminization of Democracy in Aristocratic Discourse
Kaesser, ChristianOvid’s Poetics of Non-Illusion: Non-naturalistic Objects and Their Archaeology in the Fasti
Kalish, KevinThe Invention of a Poetic Tradition: Greek Christian Poetry and its Modern Reception
Kindt, JuliaGeertz, Gould & the Problem of Defining Greek Religion
Korenjak, MartinPs.-Dionysius on Epideictic Rhetoric
Kratzer, EmilyContesting Ideologies: The Epinician and the Soteriological in Pindar’s Olympian 2
Kronenberg, LeahThe Poetics of Varro’s Aviary
LaBuff, JeremyExpanding the Audience of the Hymn to Delos
Lateiner, DonaldGendered Exclusion, Seclusion, Incarceration, and Expulsion in Greek and Roman Fictions
Leftt, JeremySocratic alazoneia? Parody and Inversion in the Introduction of Plato's Parmenides
Leunissen, MariskaNature as a good housekeeper: Secondary teleology in Aristotle's Biology
LeVen, Pauline A.New Dithyramb and ‘Nouvelle Cuisine’: Philoxenus’ Deipnon in its Fourth-Century BC Performance Context
Levin-Richardson, SarahGendered Interactions: A Dynamic Approach
Liapis, VayosFrom Tragedy to Novel: Longus as a Reader of Rhesus
Lippman, MikeLet him be a fartridge!: A particularly foul fowl joke in Birds 766-768
Lushkov, Ayelet HaimsonConstitutional Debate in Republican Rome and the Elections of 184 B.C.
Luz, ChristineEudoxou technê or an Astronomy in Pocket Edition
Lytle, EphraimThe Tuna and the Bull: Exploring an Iconatrophic Tale in Pausanias (10.9.3-4)
Mahoney, AnnePolitics on the Menu: Pascoli's Cena in Caudiano Nervae
Major, WilfredGreek Prose Composition in the 21st Century
Manuwald, GesinePlautus in 21st-Century Australia: Does the Roman Playwright Still Influence People’s Identity?
Marquis, M. ChristineThe Scepter of Latinus: Intertext and Interpretation at Aeneid 12.206-11
Marshall, C.W.The Furies, Wonder Woman, and Dream: tragic mythmaking in DC Comics
Martin, GuntherThe interplay of comedy and rhetoric in fourth-century Athens
Masterson, MarkQueer Spaces in Third- and Fourth-Century CE Traditional Religious Practice
Mastronarde, Donald J.Towards a New Edition of the Scholia to Euripides
Maurice, LisaRoger Corman's Female Gladiators: The Arena (1973) and The Arena (2001)
McCarthy, KathleenFraenkel as Translation Theorist
McKeown, James C.Ex Machina Quis Nos Servabit? Are Computers Too Much of a Good Thing?
McNeill, RandallConceptual Space and the Failure of Discourse in Catullus 51
Mercado, Angelo O.The Poetry and Phonology of the Paelignians
Meyers, RachelThe Titulature of Faustina the Younger and Lucilla
Michelakis, PantelisDancing with Prometheus: Performance and Spectacle in the 1920s
Monson, AndrewFiscal Institutions in Transition: Private Land in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Moodie, ErinSenes, Servi, and Terence's Dramatic Competition
Moore, ChristopherBetween Persuasion and Coercion in Plato's Republic
Moore, Timothy J.Leo, Fraenkel, and the Origins of the Plautine Cantica: The State of the Question
Mordine, Michael"A Thousand Tempting Beauties": Representations of Women In Sword-and-Sandal Movie Posters of the 1950s and ’60s
Moreno, AlfonsoSettlement, Surplus, and Politics in the Athenian Grain Supply
Mueller, Hans-FriedrichSpectral Rome from Female Perspective: an Experiment in Recouping Women's Religious Experience
Murray, JackiePoetically Erect: Erinna and Nossis in Herodas and 7
Neer, RichardEarly Classical Sculpture and the Aesthetics of Wonder
Noble, ChristopherHow Plotinus’ Soul Animates his Body: The “Soul-Trace” at Enn. IV.4.18
Nousek, DebraEchoes of Cicero in Livy’s Bacchanalian Narrative (39.8-19)
Noussia, MariaThe Rhetorical Strategies of Tyrtaeus’ Poetry
Nutzman, MeganFaith or Family? Jewish Epitaphs from Rome
Obbink, DirkEditing Classical Commentary
Obsieger, HendrikPlutarch and the Delphic Epsilon
Olshewsky, ThomasAppetites and Actions in Aristotle’s Moral Psychology
Pache, CorinneWord and Image: Inscribing the Worshipper at the Nymphaion of Kafizin
Pagán, Victoria E.Conspiracy Theory in Terence's Hecyra
Payne, MarthaCartoons in the Classics
Peirano, IreneQuid loquar aut Scyllam Nisi: undoing the mistake in the Virgilian Scylla
Petruccione, JohnInside the Anglo-Saxon Schoolroom? The Interpretation of q: and quare Glosses
Platt, VerityLinea summae tenuitatis: Taste, Skill and Abstraction in Roman Painting
Pollard, Elizabeth AnnLearning to Walk (and Talk) the "Silk Roads": World Historical Training for Graduate Students
Powers, Melinda(Re)casting the Classics: Politics and Performance on the Contemporary Stage
Ramsey, John T.At What Hour did the Murderers of Caesar gather on the Ides of March?
Reedy, MeghanDrink first then oblivion: A note on Propertius 2.33.23-6
Reitzammer, LaurialanStairway to Heaven: Women on Ladders at the Adonia
Rives, James B.Apollonius of Tyana and the Theology of Sacrifice
Robbins, KristinInnovation of Character: The Speaking Role of Pylades in Euripides' Orestes
Roller, Duane W.Hanno and Pytheas: problems with obscure geographical texts
Romm, JamesEurope and Asia in the Hippocratic Airs, Waters, Places
Rood, TimBlack Sea Variations: Xenophon and the Argonauts
Ross, ShawnThe Memories of Silius Italicus: Civil War and the Punica
Rossi, OrnellaHaec scripsi navigans: the form of Ovid's Tristia 1
Rotstein, AndreaMousikoi Agones and the Cognitive Poetics of Literary Genres
Rynearson, NicholasDesire for Excellence: Socrates, Theodote and epithumia in the Memorabilia
Sammons, BenjaminAgamemnon and his Audiences: semi-public speech in the Iliad
Satterfield, SusanAlien Insiders: Etruscan Haruspices in Rome
Scalf, FoyReligious Significance of the Formulaic Demotic Funerary Texts from Roman Egypt
Scheidel, WalterHow to make ancient history programs less ancient
Schell, Keeley CathleenMaking Sense of the Mutili: An Origin Hypothesis for Lacunae in De Oratore
Schiefsky, MarkNew Challenges and Opportunities: Critical Editions in the Electronic Age
Shipley, GrahamAuthorial purpose and narrative devices in Pseudo-Skylax
Simmons, Robert HolschuhThe Masses and Hetaireiai in Euripides’ Orestes
Smith, C. J.Plutarch, antiquarianism and the Roman grammarians
Smith, R. ScottAntiope’s Double-Labor at Hyginus, Fab. 7 (and the Commentum Cornuti 1.77)
Smith, StevenDio’s Second Kingship Oration: Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man
Sobocinski, Melanie GrunowExamining the Methodology of Architectura Numismatica: The Case of Fortuna Redux and the Porta Triumphalis in Rome
Squire, MichaelThe Promise and Failure of Naturalism in Ecphrastic Epigram; Or Why Myron’s Cow Doesn’t Moo...
Stallsmith, Allaire BWomens' Mysteries and Thesmophoria
Stamatopoulou, ZoeHesiodic Allusions in Bacchylides’ Ode 5.191-4
Stanley, KelliHow Myth Validated the American Superhero
Starks, JohnWas Black Beautiful in Vandal Africa
Steinbock, BerndKing Codrus as Historical Paradigm in Lycurgus’ Leocratea
Stover, TimCato and the End of Lucan's Bellum Civile
Strong, AniseA Dream of Augustus: Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Comic Mythology
Stroup, Sarah CulpepperA Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Dialogue: Comedy and Politics in Cicero’s Laelius
Sulprizio, ChiaraThe War at Home: Violence, Gender and Space in Aristophanes’ Wasps
Talbert, RichardNoble Dreams: Historia Vincit Omnia ?
Taraskiewicz, AngelaGeneric Intertextuality in Euripides' Medea
Thakur, SanjayaOvid's Hidden Emperor: Tiberiu in the Fasti
Theodoratou, Liana“Another Athens”: Shelley, Aeschylus and the Reinvention of Modern Greece
Thibodeau, PhilipAncient Readers of Vergil's Georgics
Thorn, JedGender and the Cubiculum in Cicero’s Pro Caelio
Tomasso, VincentThermopylae in Frank Miller's Sin City: "The Big Fat Kill"
Tordoff, RobertThucydides and Counterfactual History
Torlone, ZaraThe Joy of Nostalgia: Reception of Ovid in Russian Poetry
Tracy, CatherineWho Were the Quirites? The Composition of Contio Audiences
Traill, ArianaFraenkel's Mythological Material in Light of the New Menander
Tuck, Steven L.Lucretius at Cumae: Epicureanism in an Early Imperial Epitaph
Uden, JamesThe (Vanishing) Gardens of Priapus
Uhlig, Anna S.Land and Sea in Theocritus' Idyll 7
van Berkel, Tazuko AngelaSpoken like a hunter: Dio of Prusa's Euboean Oration
van Bladel, KevinThe Syro-Iranian Cosmology of Cosmas Indicopleustes
van den Berg, ChrisSome Problems in the Meanings of Malignitas
van den Eijnde, FlorisWhat Are the Salaminioi Doing on the Acropolis?
van 't Wout, EvelynSolon's law on stasis: promoting active neutrality
Várhelyi, ZsuzsannaComparative mappings of (the study of) religion and of emotions in the ancient world
Vincent, HeatherComic Technique in Julian's Misopogon
Wasdin, KatherineSappho's Wedding Hymns
Watson, JamesAthens, Sparta, and the punishment of Medizing cities
Watanabe, AkihikoAn Educational and Improving Novel: The Golden Ass in Meiji Japan
Weaire, GavinPlutarch on the first 'triumph'
Weisweiler, JohnHonorific Statuary and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late-Antique Rome
Welsh, Jarrett T.Marriage and Divorce in the Fabula Togata
Wheeler, StephenErotic Desire and the Roman Republic
Wians, WilliamIs Aristotle’s Account of Sexual Differentiation Inconsistent?
Wijma, SaraJoining the club: metic participation in polis religion
Williams, Kathryn F.The Dream of Daemones in Plautus’ Rudens
Zanker, A. T.Narratives of Pessimism in Horace, Odes 3.6
Zimmermann Damer, ErikaCorpus tetigisse nocet: The Female Body in Tibullus