Abstracts for the 2009 Annual Meeting

Aftosmis, Jason K.Rhetoric and Truth: Ps.-Longinus on Sappho, Socrates on Agathon
Ager, BrittaContracts and Rituals in Cato's De Agricultura
Aho, Lara K.Writing about encomion in Horace Carm. 4.9 and Theocritus Idyll 16
Aldrete, Gregory S.The Linothorax Project: Investigating the Construction and Protective Properties of Ancient Greek Linen Body Armor
Almagor, EranCharacterization through Animals: The Case of Artaxerxes
Anagnostou-Laoutides, EvaWomen and Dogs in Herodas' Mimiamb 7: A New Interpretation
Ancona, RonnieResearch for Teaching and for Scholarship
Andrade, NathanaelLocal Authority and Civic Hellenism: Tarcondimotus, Hierapolis-Castabala, and the Cult of Perasia
Apostol, RicardoPrelia regum: Petrarch's Vergilian Counter-recusation in the Carmen Bucolicum
Augoustakis, AntonyWe Want a Solution: Cyprus and Iphigenia's Body Politic in M. Cacoyannis' Iphigenia (1976)
Bachvarova, Mary R.The Transmission of Liver Divination from the Near East to Greece and Italy
Annette M., BaertschiLiterary Theory and Poetics in Petrarch's necyia
Bagnall , RogerISAW, the New Kid on the Block: Visions and Plans
Bakewell, GeoffThe kuprios charactēr of Aeschylus' Danaids
Bauschatz, JohnPtolemaic phylakitai: Variety and Versatility
Becker, HilaryPublic, Private, and Clan Property in Etruria
Bender, HenryTo Pod or Not to Pod: Podcasting AP Vergil and Latin Literature
Benelli, EnricoInscriptions on Tiles from Chiusi: Archaeological and Epigraphical Notes
Berman, DanielEarly Mythography after Cameron
Biss, MavisAristotle on Friendship and Self-Knowledge: The Friend beyond the Mirror
Blankenborg, R.J.J.Breathtaking: Metathesis Between Shortening and Elision
Boatwright, Mary T.New Approaches to Roman Institutional & Political History
Bodard, GabrielOpportunities for Epigraphy in the Context of 3-D Digitization
Bozia, EleniAn Efficient Method for Digitizing Squeezes and Performing Automated Epigraphic Analysis
Branscome, DavidHerodotus and the Epitaphic Version of Marathon
Brisson, LucPlotinus on Soul's Memory in Enn. IV.4
Broder, MichaelRethinking Homosexual Behavior in Juvenal's Ninth Satire
Brownworth, Lars12 Byzantine Rulers
Bruun, ChristerThe Lost Clause on Changing the Course of Rivers in the Lex de Imperio Vespasiani
Bryen, AriThe Rhetoric of Rights in Roman Egypt
Burris, Simon PeterLearning by Example: The Role of Pytheas at Isthmian 5.59-61
Buxton, Richard FernandoThe Purpose of Herodotus' Irony in the Socles Scene (Histories 5.91-3)
Carawan, EdwinThe Accuser of Nikomachos (Lysias 30)
Carney, ElizabethRoyal Women as Succession Advocates
Chew, KathrynPulcheria's Paradigm: A Woman's Power in the Eastern Roman Empire
Christesen, PaulKings Playing Politics: The Heroization of Chionis of Sparta
Ciccolella, Federica"Call Me a Sophist": Procopius of Gaza, his Letters, and his World
Cilliers, LouiseVindicianus' Gynaecia: In Search of the Most Reliable Text
Coccagna, Helene A.Manipulating mastoi: The Female Breast in the Sympotic Setting
Cohen, Amy R.Success in Ancient Original Practices: Constructing and Using Linen Dramatic Masks
Cole, SpencerScipio, Laelius, and the Parallel World of Cicero's Dialogues
Compton-Engle, GwendolynMen, Women, and Comic Artificiality: The Visual Record and Comic Texts
Corbeill, AnthonyArida…pumice: Catullus 1.2 Again
Coulson, FrankNewly Discovered German Reformation Commentaries on Ovid
Cox, Sarah E.Coins and Meaning: Flavian Case Studies
Cropp, Martin P.Mich. Inv. 3498+3250b (verso) and 3250c (verso): Mythical and Mythographic Context
Cummins, Monessa F.The Sicilian Tyrants and Their Victorious Brothers
Curtis, ToddThe Science of the Seed and the Art of Medicine in the Galenic Corpus
Daugherty, Gregory NeilBarbara Chase-Riboud's Multimedia Receptions of Cleopatra
de Jonge, Casper C.Not Without a Linguistic Commentary: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Scholia on Thucydides' Obscure Syntax
Domingo-Forasté, DouglasNew Perspectives on Fourth-Century BCE Akarnanian Coinage
Donovan, Lauren M.Medea Bound: The Role of Prometheus in Apollonius' Argonautica
Dressler, AlexPerformativity: Metaphor and Exemplum in Seneca's Prose
Dutsch, DorotaThe Case of the Split Chorus: Helen 2004
Easton, Sean M.Becoming a scelerum vindex or Why Lucan's Pompey is Better Off Dead
Edmondson, JonathanTraining Doctors in Roman Spain: A New Inscription from Augusta Emerita (Mérida)
Faber, RiemerThe Rhetorical Construction of Space in the Ekphrases of Nonnus' Dionysiaca
Falkner, ThomasThe Evaluation of Teaching-Related Research: An Administrative Perspective
Farney, GaryLucumo to Lucius: Etruscans with Both Etruscan and Latin Names on Bilingual Inscriptions from Etruria
Ferriss-Hill, JenniferSolid Words: The Concretization of the Abstract in Aristophanes and Plato
Fielding, IanMaximian: An Elegiac Successor of Ovid
Figueira, Thomas J.Recent Studies on the Structure and Institutions of the Greek polis
Fletcher, JudithLooking at Law in Euripides ' Hecuba
Fletcher, KristopherHow Roman Are Hyginus' fabulae?
Floyd, Edwin D.Sappho in Byzantium: Niketas Eugenianos, Drosilla and Charikles, 6.662-7.5
Fontaine, MikePhryne on the Roman Stage (Plautus' Truculentus)
Gaertner, Jan FelixThe Style of the Bellum Hispaniense and the Evolution of Roman Historiography
Gamel, Mary-KayRevising "Authenticity" in Staging Ancient Mediterranean Drama
Gardner, HunterA Kiss Is Just a Kiss: Fortunata and Scintilla at Dinner
Gawlinski, LauraTake My Wife, Please: Dangerous Comedy in Lysias I
Geary, JasonBridging Past and Present: Music, Greek Tragedy, and the Example of Nineteenth-Century Germany
Gellar, T.H.M.Breaking in and Breaking out: Elegiac Bodies in Propertius 4.9
Gentile, Kristen M.Renewable Virginity and the Post-Menopausal Priestess
George, Coulter H.The Genitive of Time in Ancient Greek
Gertz, SebastianDreams and the Shadows of Dreams in Synesius of Cyrene's De Insomniis
Gibson, CraigTrue or False? Greek Mythography in the Progymnasmata
Gillespie, Caitlin C.Agrippina's Fecundity: Reinterpreting Augustan Marital Law in Annals III
Gorman, Robert J."Soft Peoples" in Herodotus
Gorman, Vanessa B.The Meaning of tryphē in Classical Greek Literature
Greco, AnnaPersuasion and Deception in Gorgias' Encomium of Helen
Greene, RobinMinting History: The Fabricated Triumph of Drusus
Grey, CamRisk and Reciprocity in the Rural Communities of the Late Roman World
Haase, TimothyCallimachus Pseudopatôr: The Relationship of Lies and Poetry in the Corpus of Callimachus
Habinek, ThomasPhantasia, Mimesis, and the Materiality of Aesthetic Experience
Hallett, JudithGreek (and Roman) Ways and Thoroughfares: The Routing of Edith Hamilton's Classical Antiquity
Hawkins, CamRisky Businesses: Roman Artisans, Risk, and Risk Management
Heckenlively, TimothyNefas Aegyptia drakaina: Cleopatra in Aeneid 8
Henkel, JohnFoot Puns and the Elegiac Meter in Tibullus and Other Augustan Poets
Herrman, JudsonGetting Over Defeat: Hyperides' Against Diondas and the Battle of Chaeronea
Hersch, Karen K.An Unknown Epithalamic Link? Apollonius, Vergil, and Statius
Hicks, BenjaminEvocatio Imagery in Tacitus' Histories 4.83-84
Higgins, JohnDevelopment of Pedagogical Support Materials for Greek Instructors in High Schools
Holm, SethNotes on Aeschylus' Agamemnon, ll. 611-612
Hong, YurieCyrus, Tomyris, and the Nature of Maternal Revenge in Herodotus' Histories
Hopman, MarianneChoral Mediation and Athenian Emotions in Aeschylus' Persians
Horne, LaurenAntony's Cistophori: A Portrayal as the New Dionysus?
Hunt, JeffreyLove and Isolation in Propertius' Monobiblos
Hunt, PatrickTracking Hannibal with Imagination Instead of Images: Podcasting Satellite Maps to a True Audience
Hunt, PeterContinuity, Ideology, & Culture in Recent Studies of Greek Land Warfare
Hutchinson, E.J.Subtle and Subversive: Sedulius' Intertextual Argument with Vergil in the Paschale Carmen
Huys, MarcTowards a New Commented Edition of Apollodorus
Hyde, TimReasonably Free: The Question of Slavery in Plato's kallipolis Revisited
Irby-Massie, GeorgiaMashing the Monsters in Elementary Greek: Vocabulary, Grammar, and Syntax through Popular Music
Jacobsen, Garrett A.Ovid the Storyteller: Ciaran Carson's Fishing for Amber
Jazdzewska, KatarzynaNot an Innocent Spectacle: Hunting and venationes in Plutarch's De sollertia animalium
Jensen, SeanThe Milesian Sub-Hegemony
Johnson, DianeJohannes Posselius the Elder and the Study of Sophocles at Rostock
Johnson, Patricia J.Arachne at the Villa Medici
Jones, GregoryBeyond Pederasty: In Search of Queer Voices from the Ancient World
Jones Lewis, Molly AynThe Theory and Practice of Soranus' Prenatal Regimen
Kaegi, WalterReassessing Late Antique Warfare
Kanellou, MariaNew Light on Erotic Epigram
Karachalios, FoivosEpideixis versus elenkhos: A Reading of the Epirrhematic agôn in Aristophanes' Frogs
Kehoe, DennisLegal Institutions and Risk in the Roman Economy
Keim, BenjaminDemosthenes and the Economy of Honors in Fourth-Century Athens
Keith, AlisonImperial Geographies in Tibullan Elegy
Kelly, BenAurelius Isidorus as "Repeat Player": The Sociology of Litigiousness in Early-Byzantine Egypt
Kemezis, AdamCassius Dio on Cicero, Sallust and the Tradition of Senatorial History
Kennedy, RebeccaUnjust Athena: An Argument for a Later Date for Sophocles' Ajax
Keyser, Paul T.How to Grow a Person: Consciousness out of Embryology
Kidd, StephenPlato Comicus Fr. 16 and Greek Interjections of Laughter
Kiernan, PhilipLearning from Mistakes: Iconographic and Artistic Errors by Late Antique Die Engravers
Kitchell, Kenneth F.College Level Latin Teaching: Current State and Conditions
Kosak, JenniferObservations on P. Mich. Inv. 3498+3250b (verso) and 3250c (verso)
Kulikowski, MichaelNew Approaches to Late Roman Political History
Kutash, Emilie"Mortal, All Too Mortal": Proclus and the Problem of Neoplatonist Soul which Cannot Ascend
La Bua, GiuseppeThe Restoration of the Schools of Autun: Rhetoric and Education in Third-Century Gaul
Ladianou, KaterinaPerforming the Other: (Fe)male Chorus and Feminine Voice in Alcman's Partheneion
Lamé, MarionTopic Maps and the Semantics of Inscriptions
Lampe, KurtVirtue: Just (Empty) Words?
Lapatin, KennethRepatriation in Classical Antiquity
Larash, PatriciaMartial's Playful Disclaimers: The Biographical Fallacy and the Interpretative Habits of Roman Readers
Lateiner, DonaldThe Oaths in the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides
Le Ven, PaulineThe "Striking" Eleven Strings of Timotheus' Lyre
Lear, AndrewBefore Problematization? Paiderastia in Archaic Athenian Vase-Painting
Lee, John W.I.Soldiers' Humor in Xenophon's Anabasis
Lefkowitz, Jeremy B.Callimachus the Fabulist: Adaptation and Ascription in Iamb 2
Leon, Daniel W.Herodotean Kings and Arrian's Two Alexanders
Li Causi, PietroStrange Animals: Extremely Interspecific Hybridization (and Anthropopoiesis) in Plutarch
Libby, Brigitte B.Catullus 64 and Statius' Achilleid
Liebert, Rana SaadiThe Bee in Plato's Bonnet: Apian Imagery and the Critique of Sweetness in Republic
Littman, Robert J.The Dating of Sophocles' Antigone Once Again
Long, JacquelineKnowing Laughter in the Historia Augusta
Luke, Trevor S.After Agrippina: From Crisis to Consensus
Lunt, DavidSanctioned Murder: Death and Athletics in Ancient Greece
Lye, SuzanneThe Empress Theodora: The Power in Front of the Throne
Lytle, EphraimPerioecic Fishermen and Poseidon: Re-Interpreting Two Laconian Inscriptions (SEG 11.692 and IG V.1 1228)
Major, Wilfred E.The Collegiate Greek Exam
Manning, JoeWas Tax Farming a Risk Reduction Strategy under the Ptolemies?
Martin, JanetLaughter and Mimicry in Hrotsvitha's Passion of St. Gangolf
Marzillo, PatriziaPlutarch's Views on Donkeys
Mason, HughOnly the City is Real: Longus' Mytilene
McClain T., DavinaAlphabet Algebra: Why the Beginning Greek Student Needs to Know how to Add and Subtract
McCreight, Thomas D.Education, Gender, and Poverty in Three Early Jesuit Latin Texts
McGowan, MatthewMetamorphoses in Belfast: The Ovidian Transformations of Michael Longley
McNeill, Randall L.B.Talking Furniture and Outside Scrutiny in Catullus 6
Mirhady, DavidDemocratic Rituals: Jury Selection in Athens
Moodie, ErinSocio-Political Subversion in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazousae
Morgan, John D.Dangerous Liaisons: C. Cassius, his Wife, her Mother, and their Lovers
Morgan, DubravkaUjes First Century B.C. Drachmas of Apollonia and Dyrrhachium in the Territory of the Scordisci: A Prologue to the Roman Conquest of the Balkans
Morgan, Kathryn A.Plato's Sympotic Elegists in Laws, Books 1 and 2
Moss, JenniferSheridan Classical Podcasts: Present Imperfect. Perhaps Future Perfect
Mulligan, BretUsing the Ear to Train the Eye: Classroom Experiments in Podcasting Latin
Murnaghan, SheilaAncient History for Girls (co-author with Roberts)
Newton, FrancisAlcuin's Canino-Lupine Friend: The Letter to Dogwulfus (Dagulf the Scribe)
Nikolaev, AlexanderHomeric aaatos: Etymology and Poetics
Noble, ChristopherImpassibility and Immateriality: Non-physical Change at Enn. III.6.2
Noreña, CarlosInterdisciplinarities
O'Connor, StephenThe Agoranomoi at Cotyora (Xen., Anab. 5.7.21-29): Cerasuntians or Cyreans?
O'Neill, SeanNot the Egyptian Type: Denominational Distinctions and the Selection of Images at the Roman Mint of Alexandria
Osborne, RobinThe Art of Signing
Owens, Patrick M.Teaching Greek According to the Direct Method
Pache, CorinneTinder Glance: Generic Shifts and the Reception of Homer's Odyssey in the 21st Century
Pappas, AlexandraLanguage Arts: The Hellenistic technopaegnia as Art Historical Theory and Practice
Park, ArumFemale Deception in the Ixion Myth of Pindar, Pythian 2
Parks, EricDolus Liviae: Livia's Grammatical Distance in the Annales of Tacitus
Paulas, JohnHow to Read Athenaeus' Deipnosophists
Peirano, IrenePrefiguring Vergil: The Ciris as a Vergilian Impersonation
Penrose, Walter D.Courage as a Marker of Gender Variance: The Hippocratic Ideology of Conception in On Regimen
Pike, MossHomeric androtēta ‘Manliness' and PIE *-tāt-
Pillinger, EmilyCassandra and the Poetry of Berlioz's Les Troyens
Pollard, Elizabeth AnnRethinking Graeco-Roman Magic with World Historical Methods
Pomeroy, ArthurHone Tuwhare and the Reception of Classics in New Zealand
Porter, James I.Is Art Modern?
Possanza, D. MarkNumbering the Pleiades: Aratus, Hipparchus, and Zeus
Raaflaub, Kurt A.Comparative and Crossdisciplinary Histories of the Ancient World: Promises and Challenges
Roberts, DeborahAncient History for Girls (co-author with Murnaghan)
Romano, Allen J.Cup-Heads and the Comic Fabrication of Etiological Myths
Ronnick, Michele ValerieThe quinquennium mirabile of Cicero's Paradoxa Stoicorum, 1541-1546
Rop, JeffreyThe Wise Man and the Tyrant: Greek Mercenary Commanders and their Near Eastern Employers in the Fourth Century BCE
Rosenbloom, D.S.Oikos, Economy, and Ideology in Aristophanes' Ploutos
Rosenstein, NathanRecent Trends in Roman Military History
Rowan, ClareAvenging Roman Religion: Severus Alexander and the Temple of Jupiter Ultor
Ruaro, EnricaA Platonic deuteronekuia: Proclus' Homeric Account of Phaedo's Evil Souls
Rubincam, CatherineThe "Rationality" of Herodotus and Thucydides as Evidenced by Their Respective Use of Numbers
Sampson, C. MichaelNew Euripidean Lyric in the Michigan Collection: P. Mich. 3498+3250b
Scharffenberger, ElizabethSappho, Feminism, and the Lessons of Classical Literature in Tom Stoppard's Rock'n' Roll
Scheidel, WalterWhy and How to Compare Ancient Empires
Schroeder, Chad MatthewThe Argonauts on Samothrace: Initiation in Apollonius' Argonautica (1.915-21)
Scullin, Sarah E.The Roles of Eileithyia and Delos in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo
Sears, RebeccaOld Latin Stress in the Scipio Epitaphs: An Alternate Accentual Scansion
Shapiro, Susan O.The Well-Tempered Textbook
Shapiro, JuliaWomen's Religious Leadership and Men's Political Legitimacy in Apollodoros' Against Neaira (Dem. 59) and Demosthenes' On the Crown (Dem. 18)
Shear, Julia L.Oaths and Covenants: Reconciling the Athenians after the Thirty Tyrants
Sluiter, InekeAntigone, Socrates, and Hipponax: Classical Issues of Free Speech in the Netherlands
Stahl, Hans-PeterBlind Choices in Herodotus and Thucydides
Staley, Gregory A.Nathaniel Hawthorne's Ovid: Transformation as Americanization
Stark, CarolineDante's Narcissus
Starks, Jr., John H.Acting Her Age: Beauty Image, Aging, and Ageism in the Reception of Actresses in the Roman World
Steiner, GaryPlutarch on the Question of Justice for Animals
Stem, RexPublic and Private Duty in the Biographies of Cornelius Nepos
Storey, IanFrom the Pit to the Bear Cave
Sweet, AndrewDemocratic Ideology and Foreign Rule in Menander's Dyskolos
Sypniewski, HollyLiterary Impersonation and Vergilian Reception in the Ps.–Vergilian Culex
Tanner, JeremyAesthetics and Art History Writing in Comparative Historical Perspective
Taoka, YasukoFronto = Marcus: Love and Simile in Fronto's Letters
Taylor, RabunTheir Neighbor's Keeper: A Neapolitan Coin for Capua
Thakur, SanjayaUlixes stolatus? Ovid's Livia Reconsidered
Tompkins, Daniel P.Honor, Fear, and Profit: Non-Universal Terms in Thucydides
Torlone, ZaraVergil Goes North: Aeneas' Journey in Russian Poetry
Turkeltaub, DanielSons of the Seven: The Iliad on Understanding the Epic Past
Várhelyi, ZsuzsannaSexual Selves in Play: Homoerotic Poetry in Imperial Rome
Vasunia, PhirozeAlexander the Great and Colonial India
Verhoogt, ArthurDictating Letters in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Comparative Perspective
Victor, BenjaminThe Scholar and the Book-Collector: Pietro Bembo's Dialogue De Virgilii Culice et Terentii Fabulis
Waddell Gruber, HeatherEnduring Stereotypes: Declamation and the Problem of Marriage
Wallace, RexAlphabet, Orthography, and Paleography at Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
Walsh, LislOvidian Orpheus in Seneca's Medea
Watkins, Sara E.Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica and Herculean labor
Wenzel, AaronLibanios, Gregory of Nazianzen, and the Ideal of Athens in Late Antiquity
Westbrook, RaymondEx oriente lex
Whittington, LeahPetrarch's Africa and the Truth Claims of Poetry
Woodhull, MargaretWomen Building Rome: Reconsidering the Porticus Liviae and Gender in Rome's Cityscape
Zimmerman Damer, ErikaAllusion and Gender Reversals in Tibullus