Abstracts for the 2005 Annual Meeting Boston, MA

  1. Vishwa ADLURI Heraclitus on Thanatos: A Philosophical Interpretation
  2. James A. Andrews  Structure and process and the causes of the Peloponnesian War
  3. Antony AUGOUSTAKIS An Insomniac's Lament: The End of Poetic Power in Statius' Silvae 5.4
  4. Mary BACHVAROVA Actions and attitudes: Understanding Greek and Latin verbal paradigms
  5. Egbert J. BAKKER Time and tense in Thucydides
  6. Yelena BARAZ The Allusive Triangle of Dido's Suicide
  7. John BAUSCHATZ Diversity in Detention: Ptolemaic Prisons
  8. Neil BERNSTEIN Rome's Sword and Shield: Fabius, Marcellus, and the Poetics of Paternity in Silius' Punica
  9. Natasha BERSHADSKY Death of Kebriones: Diving Birds, Mockery and Local Tradition
  10. Monica BERTI Istros the Callimachean
  11. Alastair BLANSHARD The Queer Pornography of the Classical Imagination: An invitation to view some etchings
  12. Sarah BOLMARCICH Thucydides and the Constraints of Hegemony
  13. Anna BONIFAZI The communicative usages of au, aute, autis and autar in Homer
  14. Dorian BORBONUS Social Differentiation and Servile Identity: The tabula Inscriptions from Roman Columbarium Tombs
  15. David BRANSCOME What Persians Wear: Herodotus 5.49.3 and Aristophanes, Birds 486-87
  16. Lee L. BRICE Rehabilitating Germanicus: Tacitus and the Rhetoric of Military Crisis
  17. Robert BROPHY Classics, A Clever Wench & Columbia for the USA: Phillis Wheatley
  18. Will Bruce Greek Music
  19. William S. BUBELIS The Hero Klaïkophoros: Responses to Democratic Accountability in the Hellenistic Peloponnese
  20. Mark Buchan Homer Redivivus
  21. Bryan BURNS  Picturing Greek Love: the Photographic Tradition of the Classical Male Body
  22. Randall BUTH A Phonemic Greek Pronunciation for Roman Period Koine
  23. Edward BUTLER The Ethical Relationship to the Gods in the Encheiridion Commentary of Simplicius
  24. Shannon BYRNE   Validating Epigram: Martial's Wish for a Maecenas
  25. David J. CALIFF Francis Cleyn's Vergil Drawings
  26. Kari CEAICOVSCHI (MIS)READING CATO: Tiro, Gellius, and Changing Conceptions of Empire
  27. Kristina CHEW The Physical Deformity of the Fetus and the Intelligence of the Soul in the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle
  28. Brian CHERER Narrated Perception and Virgil's "Subjective Style"
  29. Charles CHIASSON   Myth, Ritual, and Authorial Control in Herodotus' Story of Cleobis and Biton
  30. Angeline CHIU A Sense of Comic Timing: Temporal Distortion, Plot, and Characterization in Plautus' Amphitruo
  31. Paul CHRISTESEN Whence 776? The Origin of the Date for the First Olympiad
  32. Doug CLAPP The Life of a Rumor: Livy Book 22.12-39
  33. Rangar CLINE Onomazein Angelous: Christian Authority and Angel Invocation in Late Antiquity
  34. Neil COFFEE    Vice Versa: Domitian's Corruption in Suetonius and Statius
  35. Spencer COLE The Manipulation of Tradition in Euripides' Ion
  36. Derek Collins Mapping the Entrails: The Art of Greek Hepatomancy
  37. Joy CONNOLLY and James Porter Can Public Intellectuals Think? Classics and the Public Sphere
  38. Serena CONNOLLY Writing a History from Below: The Evidence of the Codex Hermogenianus
  39. Phil CORKUM Aristotle on Consciousness
  40. Martijn CUYPERS Homeric pepnumenos
  41. Gabriel Danzig Xenophon and the Symposium of Plato
  42. A. P. DAVID The Form of the Hexameter: On the Origin of Caesura and Diaeresis
  43. Josiah DAVIS Pliny's Revisions: Emending the Republic in the Preface to the Naturalis Historia
  44. Denise DEMETRIOU Law and Order: A Legal Document from a Greek emporion in Thrace
  45. Martin T. DINTER Martial's Epi(c)grammatic Force
  46. T. Keith DIX Julius Caesar's Plans on the Capitoline
  47. Fanny DOLANSKY Religious Life on the Villa Rustica:Cultivating and Controlling the Rural Familia
  48. Aude DOODY Virgil the Farmer? Critiques of the Georgics in Columella and Pliny
  49. Janet DOWNIE  Gendering Power: Hekate Mounogenes in Hesiod's Theogony
  50. Boris Dreyer City elites and the administration of the Attalid kingdom since Apameia
  51. Basil DUFALLO Euripides' Hecuba and Vergil's Polydorus: "Staging" an Alternative to the Corrupt Murder Trial in Augustan Rome
  52. Thomas FALKNER "Oedipus in the Berkshires: Greek Tragedy and Philip Roth's The Human Stain
  53. Gary D. FARNEY (Re)inventing the Sabine: Cato the Elder and Sabine Identity in Republican Rome
  54. Margalit FINKELBERG PLATO APOLOGY 28d6-29a1 AND THE EPHEBIC OATH
  55. Richard FLETCHER nihil amplius spectari debet quam…Derrida at the Theatre
  56. Monica FLORENCE In Search of the Melting Pot: Athenian Ethnic Identity in Old Comedy
  57. Edwin D. FLOYD The Importance of Pitch in the Odyssey
  58. Christopher FUHRMANN Arrest me, for I have run away! Fugitive Slave Hunting and the Priorities of Roman Law Enforcement
  59. GAGNÉ, RENAUD "The Pride of Halicarnassus": A Ritual Map
  60. Peter GAINSFORD Achilles' views on death: succession and time in the Odyssey
  61. Andrew GALLIA Greek Tyrants and Roman Anxieties in Dionysius of Halicarnassus
  62. J. C. Geissmann The Occasion of Perikles' Epitaphios in 431/0 BCE (Thuc. 2.14-21)
  63. Coulter GEORGE   The Spatial Use of kata and ana with the Accusative in Homer
  64. Roy GIBSON Is there a Text in this OCT?
  65. Matthew GONZALES The Binding of Ares in Myth and Cult: A Re-assessment
  66. Owen GOSLIN Supplication and Proskunesis in Euripides' Orestes
  67. Alex GOTTESMAN   Odysseus' Sardonic Smile and the Gift that Bites Back
  68. C. Denver GRANINGER The Cult of Arkhêgetai and Ktistai in Magnesia (Thessaly)
  69. Sean GURD Punctuating Plato, Embodied Philosophy
  70. Thomas HABINEK Political Intellectuals and the Limits of Expertise
  71. Katarzyna HAGEMAJER ALLEN  Ethnicity, courage and class in Greek warfare
  72. Malcolm HEATH What's wrong with formalism, and why is it so useful?
  73. Timothy HECKENLIVELY The Forgotten Cloak: Agonistic Subtext in the Shield of Herakles
  74. Charles W. HEDRICK, Jr . Ancient History and Western Civilization
  75. Martin HELZLE From praeceptor amoris to praeceptor Amoris: Ovid, Cupid and Fabius Maximus in ex Ponto 3.3
  76. Kieran HENDRICK   What does it mean when a statue spits blood? Athens and Augustus reconsidered
  77. Lora Louise HOLLAND Nothing to do with Aristodemus"?:Cumaean Coinage and the Late Archaic Diana from Lake Nemi
  78. Ingrid HOLMBERG   The Logos of Helen
  79. Daniel HOLMES  Practicing Death &endash; Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis and Plato's Phaedo
  80. Philip HOLT What is a Hero Cult? Definitions and Borderlines
  81. John HYLAND Xenophon's "Noble Barbarian": Pharnabazos in the Hellenika
  82. Carina A. IEZZI  The Mycenaean Women of Central Greece
  83. Brad INWOOD  Who do we think 'we' are?
  84. Micaela Janan Narcissus on the Text: Psychoanalysis, Exegesis, Ethics
  85. Richard JANKO A new reconstruction of the Strasbourg Empedocles
  86. Anthony K. JENSEN Ratiocination and the Daimonion: A Practical Solution
  87. Gregory JONES Non-Elite Origins of the Attic Skolia and the Birth of Democracy
  88. Sandra R, JOSHEL  Troy and the Summer of 2004
  89. Kelly JOSS Why Basanos? The Reasoning Behind the Challenge of Slave Torture in the Athenian Forensic Speeches
  90. Christian KAESSER "Tempora Digesta": Changing Ideologies and Ordered Time in the Fasti
  91. Ahuvia KAHANE Reading in the Twilight Zone: Homer and the Jews in Antiquity
  92. Joshua T. KATZ  What Linguists are Good For
  93. Phyllis B. KATZ Ovid's Tiresias Transformed
  94. Christopher KELLY  Eusebius' Chronological Tables and the Invention of Christian History in late Antiquity
  95. Gavin KELLY Burying Varus' Legions
  96. Adam Kemezis Models of Hellenism in the Bithynian Orations of Dio of Prusa
  97. Paul Keyser Grasping the Limits: As easy as pi
  98. Lawrence KIM Homeric Poetry as Oral Performance…of a Lie Dio Chrysostom, Trojan Oration 24-36
  99. Eric KONDRATIEFF Tribunes and Topography: Popular Power in Public Spaces 
  100. David KOVACS "Gaul, in the widest sense, is divided into three parts": the fib at the beginning of Caesar's De Bello Gallico
  101. Amanda KRAUSS Adultery in the Amphitruo: An Affair to Remember
  102. John H. Kroll    A New Look at the Earliest Monetary Account in Greek: IK Ephesos Ia.1
  103. Andrew LEAR The Idealization of Pederasty in Archaic Greek Poetry and Vase-Painting
  104. Robert LITTMAN Linguistics and the teaching of Classical history and culture
  105. Alex LONG Phaedo's Mistake: Socratic Dialogues and Philosophical Authority
  106. Nick LOWE Writing Troy
  107. John LUNDON Aristotelian Catharsis Theory in the Homeric Scholia?
  108. Ephraim LYTLE Customs Duties in Anthedon? Re-examining a List of Maximum Prices
  109. T. Francis LYTLE  Hekataios the Rationalist?
  110. Roger T. MACFARLANE Toward a new edition of PHerc. 817, the Carmen de Bello Actiaco
  111. Rosalind MACLACHLAN Oribasius and his Epitomes
  112. Wilfred MAJOR   The Proboulos and the Politics of Inclusion in Aristophanes' Lysistrata
  113. Eleni MANOLARAKI Tacitus' Carmen Solutum: The Histories and Lucan's Bellum Civile
  114. Christopher MARCHETTI Using Music Software to Explore Ancient Rhythm
  115. C. W. MARSHALL Walter Leigh's Music for The Frogs of Aristophanes
  116. Hallie Rebecca MARSHALL Reconstructing Plutarch's Eis Empedoklea
  117. Gunther MARTIN   Demosthenes in the Byzantine Empire: Thomas Magister's Leptinean Orations
  118. Annalisa MARZANO   The Roman Triumph, Hercules and the Banquet to the People
  119. Mark MASTERSON The Emperor Julian, Salutius and the Pederastic Intertext
  120. Marc MASTRANGELO   Virtue Language in the Poetry of Prudentius
  121. Susan MATTERN-PARKES Who was the Audience for Galen's Written Works?
  122. Peter S. MAZUR Apatê and Hermes, Children of Night
  123. Barbara MCCAULEY Heroes, Territory, and Identity
  124. T. Davina MCCLAIN  Id cuique spectatissimum sit: Outer Appearance and Inner Character in Livy’s Narrative of Sextus, Brutus, and Lucretia
  125. Marsha B. McCOY Sex and Violence in Petronius' Satyrica
  126. Matthew McGOWAN Pythagoras and Numa: Exile at the beginning of Roman religion and law
  127. Bradley MCLEAN  Do classical texts have an enunciative function?
  128. Daniel Mendelsohn WRITING CLASSICS IN THE "OUTSIDE" WORLD: A Working Journalist Weighs In
  129. Gretchen MEYERS  The Tiber River as a Source of National Identity in Aeneid VIII
  130. Ann Michelini Alcibiades in the Socratic Tradition and in Plato
  131. Ellen MILLENDER The "Manly" Women of Hellenistic Sparta: Wealth, Kingship, and Diadochic Influence on Female Political Power
  132. Paul Allen Miller Lacan's Antigone: The Sublime Object and the Ethics of Interpretation
  133. David C. MIRHAD Y  Aitia and Cause in Early Greek Law
  134. Anatole MORI Fetishes, Slaves, and Frustrated Women: The Representation of Kydilla in Herodas' Mime 5
  135. William MORISON History as a Weapon: Kritias' Politeiai Emmetroi
  136. Ian MORRIS The Position of Ancient History in Universities
  137. James MORRISON Power Play and No Surrender? Thucydides and the U.S.-Iraq Conflict (2002-2003 C.E.)
  138. Hans-Friedrich MUELLER Plutarch on Nocturnal Aspects of Roman Religion
  139. Melissa MUELLER   Night and the creation of Pandora in Works and Days
  140. Mary MULHERN Aristotle's Formal Language
  141. Bret MULLIGAN Epistolarity in Claudian's Carmina Minora
  142. Thomas MURGATROYD Geo-politics in Silius' Libyan ekphrasis (Punica 1.193ff)
  143. Sheila MURNAGHAN   Myths of the Greeks: the Origins of Mythology in the Works of Edith Hamilton and Robert Graves
  144. David J. MURPHY Scholarship and the High School Student of Horace: a Ph.D.'s Perspective
  145. Jackie MURRAY Black Medea: Colchians as ‘Aithiopes’ in Apollonius’ Argonautica
  146. Sarah MURRAY Man Overboard: A Re-Evaluation of the Underrepresentation of the Navy in Classical Athenian Art
  147. Kevin MUSE The Topos of the Prodigal's House
  148. Gregory NAGY The Iguvine Tables and ritual language: Teaching culture through formula and variation
  149. Dimitri NAKASSIS   Prosopography and the State in Mycenaean Greece
  150. Max NELSON Aristotle and the First Olympic Games
  151. Sebastiana NERVEGNA The Reception of Menander during his Lifetime
  152. Nigel NICHOLSON Menander, Lampon and the Price of Victory (Pi. Ne. 5 & Ba. 13)
  153. Konstantinos P. NIKOLOUTSOS Tibullus 1.9: Same-Sex Violence in Augustan Elegy
  154. Dirk OBBINK New Fragments of Empedocles on Papyrus
  155. Suzanne OBDRZALEK Rational Madness: Philosophic Mania in Plato's Phaedrus
  156. Hans Peter OBERMAYER Introite! Nam et hoc templum naturae est! Classical Literature as a Reference System for Karl Heinrich Ulrichs' Theory of Homosexuality
  157. Olga PALAGIA Keeping up with the Seleucids and the Ptolemies
  158. Costas PANAYOTAKIS Vergil on the stage of the mime and the pantomime
  159. Zinon PAPAKONSTANTINOU A mysterious affair at Athens: night, deviance and subversion in the Athenian imaginary
  160. Alexandra PAPPAS  To See a Wolf: Material Evidence for a Literary Idiom?
  161. Joanna PAUL   'BETRAYING HOMER'?: FILMING THE ODYSSEY IN THE EUROPEAN NOVEL
  162. Lee T. PEARCY   "So Why Should We Hire You, Dr. Wilamowitz?" An Administrator's Perspective on Scholars and Scholarship in Schools
  163. Jonathan S. PERRY "The Only Woman in All of Greece": Kyniska, Money, and Arete in Greek Athletics
  164. Matthew J. PERRY   The Patron-Freedwoman Relationship in Roman Law
  165. David D. PHILLIPS "Carry a Spear at the Funeral": Survivals of the Blood Feud in Athenian Law and Custom
  166. Airton POLLINI Mute Grasshoppers: ancient Greek perceptions of frontier in Magna Graecia
  167. Cashman Kerr Prince Pierre Louÿs, Les Chansons de Bilitis, and the Queered Lyric Voice
  168. Joseph Pucci CATULLAN EXTREMISM IN FORTUNATUS' POEMS TO AGNES
  169. Kurt RAAFLAUB Ancient History in a Global Age: Connecting and Transcending Cultures and Disciplines
  170. Patrice D. RANKINE Classica Africana: Directions in the Nascent Study of Black Classicism
  171. Stacie RAUCCI Return of the Living Dead: Elegiac and Epic Female Spectral Images
  172. Jonathan READY Strategies of Naming in Book 1 of Herodotus' Histories: A Case Study
  173. Laurialan REITZAMMER   Aristophanes' Adôniazousai
  174. Rebecca RESINSKI QUEERING AND UNQUEERING MYRRHA I FRANK BIDART'S DESIRE
  175. Joshua REYNOLDS Evaluative Signs in Thucydides' Historiography
  176. Patsy RICKS "Arise and Speak": Resurrecting Cicero in Today's Latin Classroom"
  177. Brett ROBBINS Iris in the Iliad
  178. Deborah ROBERTS   From Fairy Tale to Cartoon: Collections of Greek Myth for Children
  179. Matthew ROLLER Demolished houses and memory in Roman culture
  180. Randall ROSE Conversational Implicature and the Claim to Knowledge in Plato
  181. David ROSELLI Between the grave and the stage: misrecognizing women in Athens
  182. Kenneth S. ROTHWELL, Jr .  A Vase-Painting of a Comic Parody of the Amymone Myth?
  183. Ingrid D. Rowland The Public, Intellectuals, and the Classics: Whither the APA?
  184. Catherine RUBINCAM Ancient History in Canadian Universities
  185. David SANSONE  Milton's Two-Handed Engine
  186. Christian Schaefer On the Pythagorean Youths in the Phaedo
  187. David M. SCHAPS   The Blacksmiths of Delos
  188. Seth SCHEIN Greek Mythology in the Works of Thomas Bulfinch and Gustave Schwab
  189. Karin SCHLAPBACH Lucian's dialogue Peri orcheseos: The visual rhetoric of pantomime
  190. Enrica SCIARRINO Father, Master, and Commander: Cato the Censor and the Making of the Roman Elite Male
  191. Emma SCIOLI   Inchoat Ismene: Dreaming of Destruction in Statius' Thebaid
  192. Pavlos SFYROERAS  Aristophanes' 'Oresteia': An Unnoticed Silence in the Frogs
  193. Carl SHAW SATYRS AND SATIRE
  194. Julias L. SHEAR Stasis, ‘good victory’, and the Athenian demos
  195. Graham SHIPLEY Kleomenes III and Laconian Landscapes
  196. Janice SIEGEL Euripides' Bacchae as Inverted Model for Ovid's Procne
  197. Robert SIMMS Erechtheus and the Arrephoria
  198. Joseph A. SMITH   It's Not Meant to Sound Good: The Authentic Mispronunciation of Sophocles OT 332-33
  199. Jon SOLOMON The Rosetta Stone, Ptolemaic Aetos, and Aida
  200. Joshua SOSIN Public Law, Private Religion: The Case of Laodicea on the Sea
  201. Mark R. V. SOUTHERN   Greek and Anatolian Lot-Casting as Sacral-Social Practice
  202. Mark R.V. SOUTHERN   (Panel Organizer) Using Linguistic Evidence to Enrich Classical Teaching
  203. Bernd K. STEINBOCK City-Destruction in Athenian and Theban Social Memory
  204. Anise K. STRONG Knowing and Seeing: Roman Pornography and Violence Against Women
  205. Richard J. A. TALBERT A Future for Ancient History in the Undergraduate Curriculum? The Case of the University of North Carolina
  206. Mark THORNE  The Aristeia and the Poetics of Epic Failure in Book Nine of Vergil's Aeneid
  207. Robert TORDOFF   Power and Shame in Thucydides' Melian Dialogue
  208. Zara TORLONE   Elegiac Discourse in the Eclogues: The Meaning of Libertas in the First Eclogue
  209. Caroline TRIESCHNIGG  Iphigenia's Dream in Euripides' Iphigenia Taurica: Shifting Expectations
  210. Georgia TSOUVALA Ismenodora at the Gymnasium: IG VII 1777 and Plutarch's Erotikos
  211. Michael A. TUELLER Statues and their models in epigram: An exploration of Nossis and Posidippus
  212. Kenneth TUITE False Refuge: Fortifications and the Transfer of Power from Persia to Athens in Herodotus' Histories
  213. Amy VAIL The Emeralds of Nemesis: Luxury and Poetics In Tibullus
  214. Kevin VAN BLADEL Prognostications at the Rising of Sirius in Late Antiquity
  215. George VAN KOOTEN 'Transformational ethics' in Plotinus and Paul
  216. Zsuzsanna VÁRHELYI Social Mobility and the Renewal of the Senate in the Roman Empire
  217. Phiroze VASUNIA and Nicola Terrenato Ancient and Modern Imperialisms
  218. Katharina VOLK  Where Are the Planets in Manilius' Astronomica
  219. Christine WALDE Feasting after Pharsalus: Reflections on Lucan's Caesar (BC 7,787ss.)
  220. Rex WALLACE Using morphophonology in elementary ancient Greek
  221. Akihiko WATANABE The Sound of Waves: A Modern Japanese Adaptation of Daphnis and Chloe
  222. Andreas WEIGELT   Zeus's Promise: The Hymn to Styx in Hesiod's Theogony
  223. Emily WEST The Goddess Takes the Reins: Diomedes' Aristeia and Ganga and Bhisma in the Mahabharata
  224. Stephen WHEELER More Roman than the Romans of Rome: Claudian's Virgilian Debut
  225. Stephen WHITE If One is One: The Hypotheses in Plato’s Parmenides
  226. Amanda WILCOX Form, Friendship, and the Self in Seneca's Moral Epistles
  227. Martin M. WINKLER "Swinging the Muses": Terpsichore in Hollywood
  228. David WRAY Zukofsky's Plautus: "A"-21 on Page and Stage
  229. Brad ZURWELLER The Shape of Athenian LawsRevisited

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