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

  1. Suzanne Adema   The whereabouts of the narrator: Deictic orientation in Latin Epic and Historiography
  2. Alexander Alderman   Traditional pedagogy with sophistic style in Xenophon's Cynegeticus
  3. Michael C. Alexander   The Commentariolum Petitionis: An Attack on Roman Election Campaigns
  4. Emily Allen   Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum VI.21-28: Reconstructing the German Barbarian
  5. Ronnie Ancona   The Certification Process
  6. Deborah Anderson   Historic Scripts in Unicode: Progress and Challenges
  7. Peter J Anderson   Dis-abusing Wit: Martial 1 praef. and the genus iocandi
  8. Richard Armstrong Spanking and Occentricity: Some Psychological Consequences of the "Greek Ideal" in the Construction of Westernness
  9. Paolo Asso   Queer Consolation: Melior’s Dead Boy in Statius’ Silvae 2.1
  10. Antony Augoustakis   Surus cor perfrigefacit: Elephants and the Second Punic War in Plautus’ Pseudolus
  11. Stephanie Bakker   The order of adjectives in Greek: a case study in Herodotus
  12. Christopher Baron   Polybius and Timaeus: A Fair and Balanced Look at a Fragmentary Historian
  13. John Bauschatz   Police Corruption in Ptolemaic Egypt
  14. Deborah Beck   An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Homeric Speech Representation
  15. Hans Beck   Constructing Hierarchy: The Aristocracy, the People, and the Beginnings of the Cursus Honorum
  16. Mark Beck   Contrasting Catos:  Time, Ideology, and Context in Plutarch’s Rhetorical Strategies
  17. Miles Beckwith   Twenty-First Century Linguists, Pedagogy and the Classical Languages
  18. Andreas Bendlin   The Rhetoric of Revelation: The Delphic Dialogues between Mantic Practice and Platonic Theology
  19. Jeffrey Beneker   More Platonic than Plato: Philosophy and History in Plutarch’s Dion
  20. Neil Bernstein   Each man's father served as his teacher: ancestral emulation and fictive kinship in Pliny's Letters
  21. Kimberly Bowes   Sociologies of Religion in Fourth- and Fifth-Century Rome
  22. Kathryn Bosher   Judging Zenobius: comic competition in 5th century Syracuse
  23. Bernard Boulet   The Rhetorical Use of Superstition in Plutarch
  24. Scott Bradbury   Social Values in Libanius’ Letters of Recommendation
  25. David M. Branscome   Demaratus, Ethnography, and Herodotean Self-Presentation
  26. Elizabeth Richey Branscome   The Phaeacians and the Doliones: The Use of Homer in Apollonius’ Argonautica
    1.939-1152
  27. Michael Brumbaugh   Chaos: A Critical Analysis of Theogonic Origins
  28. Jenny Bryan   As aletheia is to pistis, so Parmenides is to Plato: A new interpretation of Timaeus 29c3
  29. Sheramy D. Bundrick   Dionysian Themes and Imagery in Oliver Stone's Alexander
  30. Peter Burian   Spoken Like a Woman or Spoken Like a Man? Gender and Political Speech in Lysistrata
  31. Bryan Burns   Installing the Mycenaeans in the National Archaeological Museum
  32. James Butrica   Neglected evidence for the circulation of Catullus’ poetry in Antiquity
  33. Carin Calabrese   Domination and Agency in the Troades
  34. Jim Caprio   Leagues within Leagues: Elis and the Peloponnesian League
  35. Jan-Mathieu Carbon   All for Profit? Reconsidering Greek Priesthood Sales
  36. Kari Ceaicovschi   READING RHODES: Rome's Past, Present, and Future
  37. Honora Chapman   The Passion of Pentheus: Other Possible Sources Reflecting the End of Euripides' Bacchae
  38. Robert Chenault   Common Knowledge in Julian's 'Caesars'
  39. Keyne Cheshire   The Choral Significance of Signs in Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo
  40. Christopher M. Chinn   Libertas reuerentiam remisit: politics and metaphor in Statius Silv. 1.6
  41. J.H. Kim On Chong-Gossard   Consolation in Euripides' Hypsipyle
  42. Joel Christensen   The Homeric Euphrone? Speech Introduction
  43. Paul Christesen   Olympionikai: Olympic Victor Lists in Ancient Greece
  44. John Collis   From Ancient Celts to Modern Celts
  45. Martin Cropp   Euripidean Subjects in Fourth Century Vase-Paintings
  46. Monessa Cummins   The Praise of Victorious Brothers in Pindar's Nemean 6 and on the Monument of Daochos
    at Delphi
  47. Luciana Cuppo   De schematibus et tropis from Donatus to Bede
  48. Sarah Danziger   Quintilian on Domitian: the man of action in Roman literary history
  49. Theodore de Bruyn   Characteristics of Greek formularies and amulets containing Christian motifs
  50. Neil Coffee   Concord and Forms of Exchange in the Aeneid
  51. Lukas de Blois   An Important Commonplace in Plutarch’s Galba and Otho
  52. Michael de Brauw   'Facts,' definitions, lies: Staseis in Athenian trials
  53. Margaritta Diaz-Andreu   Rome and Dictatorship: A View from Spain
  54. Lillian Doherty   Teacher Training and Professional Support in a Traditional M.A. Program
  55. Sister Therese Dougherty   High Success NEH Programs in Classics for School Teachers
  56. Konstantin Doulamis   Storytelling and the voice of the author in Chariton’s Callirhoe
  57. Basil Dufallo   "Reading" the Greek Past in Petronius' Art Gallery
  58. Anne Duncan   'Inspired' Acting: Mad Scenes in Greek Tragedy
  59. Andrew Dyck   Imagining Murder: How Cicero Distracted the Jurors in Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino
  60. Arthur Eckstein   Militarism, the Roman Aristocracy, and Monarchies in the Hellenistic Mediterranean
  61. Radcliffe G. Edmonds   A Curious Concoction: Tradition and Innovation in Olympiodorus' Creation of Mankind
  62. Jonathan Edmondson   Restoring Meaning and Context to the Epitaphs of Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain)
  63. Rebecca Edwards   Telling Tales for Caesar
  64. Rory B. Egan   Nemean 7: Pindar's Neoptolemia versus Homer's Odysseia
  65. N.T. Elkins   The Flavian Colosseum Sestertii: Currency or Largess? (Results of a Die Study)
  66. Suzanne Faris   A Town Grows in Numidia: The Testimony of the Inscriptions at Guela’a Bu Atfane
  67. Andrew Fenton   The Forest and the Trees: Names and Meaning in Horace's Odes
  68. Richard Fletcher   Socrates’ Dreams of Platonism: Derrida and Apuleius’ De Platone
  69. Harriet Flower   Traitors in Context: the Epitaphs of the Licinii from the Via Salaria
  70. Richard Flower   How to Abuse a Late-Antique Emperor: Authority and Invective in Fourth-Century Christianity
  71. Edwin Floyd   Indo-European Poetic Patterns in Pindar, Olympian 10 and 11
  72. Marcus Folch   Women in Performance in Plato's Laws
  73. Sara Forsdyke   Street Theater and Popular Justice in Ancient-Greece
  74. Edith Foster   Vergil's Shadow on the Rock
  75. Maria Stadter Fox   Apostrophe and Witness: H.D.’s Modes of Tragedy
  76. Philip Freeman   Finding the Text of the Libri Sancti Patricii
  77. Michael P. Fronda   Per Gratiam Romanorum: Roman Support for Italian Elite
  78. Michael Gagarin   From Oral Law to Written Laws: Draco's Law and its Homeric Roots
  79. Ana Galjanic   Gingilipho: Reexamining a Hapax in Petronius
  80. Karl Galinsky   Outreach through NEH Seminars and Institutes
  81. Hunter H. Gardner   Imperial Image Making during Domitian's Principate: Cenae rectae and cenae publicae
  82. Coulter George   Temporal Expressions in Ancient Greek: nuktos, nukta, and nuktôr
  83. Craig A. Gibson   Alternate Histories: The Point of Divergence in Greek Historical Declamation
  84. Madeleine Goh   The Charioteer theme in Euripides' Hippolytos, Phaethon, and Chrysippos
  85. Robert Gorman   Populus and the Common Good: Cicero de Re publica 1.39
  86. Fritz Graf   The Kyrbantes of Erythrai
  87. Jonas Grethlein   The Poetics of the Bath in the Iliad
  88. Michael J. Griffin   Space as the Immortal Vehicle of the Soul: A Case Study in Neo-Platonic Exegesis
  89. Constanz Guthenke   Do as the Europeans Do? The Parameters of Classical Scholarship in Greece
  90. Shelley Haley   Radical Transformations: Pauline E. Hopkins' Afrocentric Revisioning of Sappho and Heliodorus
  91. Edith Hall   Prodigies and Protestants
  92. Shane Hawkins   Plautus Bacchides 889 and the Roman nenia
  93. Molly Herbert   Oral Reading and Homeric Reception
  94. Alexander Herda   The Cult of Apollo Delphinius in Miletus and the Molpoi-Decree (Milet I 3, no. 133)
  95. Patrick Paul Hogan   A Natural Sophist: The Depiction of Sostratus in Philostratus' Lives of the-Sophists 552-554
  96. Brooke Holmes   Early Medical Analogies
  97. Brian S. Hook   Self-Consuming Vice: Philosophy in Juvenal's Fifteenth Satire
  98. Regina Höschele   The Accidental Reader: Poetics and Self-Reflexivity of Inscribed Epigrams
  99. Thomas K. Hubbard   History's First Child Molester: Euripides' Chrysippus and the Marginalization of Pederasty in Athenian Democratic Discourse
  100. Richard Janko   The Derveni Papyrus and the Homeric Scholia
  101. Alison Jeppesen   Were Concubinae Wifely? An Examination of the Inscriptional and Literary Evidence
  102. Gregory Jones   Aegisthus as Hipparchus in art and tragedy: musical imagery and class conflict in 5th century Athens
  103. Willem M. Jongman   Roman Prosperity
  104. James Jope   Contemporary Botanical Latin
  105. Christine Kalke   Past, Present, and Future of NEH Support for Classical Studies
  106. Deborah Kamen   Naturalized Desires and the Metamorphosis of Iphis
  107. Cathy Keane   Reading Extremes: Horace on the Homeric Poems (Epistle 1.2)
  108. Adam Kemezis   Taking a Severan View: Cassius Dio’s Portrayal of Augustus’ Marriage Laws
  109. Lawrence Kim   Problems with History in Plutarch’s Banquet of the Seven Sages
  110. Richard J. King   Transvestism, Marsyas and Manhood in Ovid’s Quinquatrus Minores (F. 6.649-710)
  111. Bruce King   King Paneides' Vote: At the Political Limits of the Iliad
  112. Jacqueline Klooster   Sailing between the lines
  113. Lawrence Kowerski   A Competition in Praise: An Allusion to Simonides Fr. 11W2 in Theocritus Idyll 22.214-23
  114. Katherine Kretler   The Wife of Protesilaos In and Out of the Iliad
  115. Geoffrey Kron   Anti-trade prejudice of Roman society - The evidence of recent prosopographical research and a comparison with the European Ancien Régime
  116. André Lardinois   A New Sappho Papyrus (P. Koln 21351): Key to the Old Fragments
  117. Sellers C. Lawrence   The Kynegoi at Haliartos: Guards or Hunters?
  118. Jeremy Leftt   When Animals Attack: Fables and Unsuspecting Victims in Aristophanes
  119. Tommaso Leoni   Gentem Iudaeorum domuit. The Inscription from the Lost Arch of Titus
  120. Mariska Leunissen   Why stars have no feet: Teleological explanations in Aristotle's De Caelo
  121. Joshua Levithan   ‘Picked Men:’ Heroic Volunteerism in the Roman Army
  122. Joel Lidov   What did the sapphic stanza mean?
  123. Florence Limburg   Seneca on vices, virtues and their transformation
  124. Jinyu Liu   The Era of Patavium Reconsidered
  125. Bruce Louden   Achilles' Hateful Man (Iliad 9.312), Odysseus or Agamemnon?
  126. Benjamin Low   Lucretius on Wild Beasts in War, and the Perversion of Progress (DRN 5.1308-49)
  127. Ephraim Lytle   I.Parion 5: Illuminating a Large-scale Fishing Operation in the Hellespont
  128. Kelly MacFarlane   Choerilus of Samos' Lament and the Refashioning of Epic (SH 317)
  129. Chris Mackay   Granting Extraordinary Imperium by Election under the Later Republic
  130. Rosalind MacLachlan   Epitomes and the Epitome of Jason of Cyrene
  131. Jake MacPhail   Porphyry's Homeric Questions and the bT Scholia
  132. Eleni Manolaraki   The Good Life Aquatic: Trajan’s Seamanship in Pliny’s Panegyricus
  133. Ilaria Marchesi   The Ovidian Connection: Intertextual Pairings in Pliny's letters
  134. Marije Martijn   Proclus' Nature is (not) Platonic
  135. Annalisa Marzano   Roman Coins and their ‘Audience’:a Case Study in Imperial Propaganda
  136. Hugh Mason   The Divinity of Lazpa (Lesbos)
  137. Donald Mastronarde   Before and After Unicode: Working with Polytonic Greek
  138. Chris Ann Matteo   Everyday Ancients: The 'Parallel Lives' of Women in George Eliot's Middlemarch
  139. Geoff Maturen   Can Greeks and Romans be friends?: Plutarch and Lucian on cross-cultural philia
  140. Elizabeth Mazurek   Abdicating Judgment: Generic Identity and the Proem to Fasti 6
  141. Mairead McAuley   Epic Masculinity in Transition in the Achilleid
  142. Robin McGill   Why Three Eide? Rethinking Aristotle's Types of Rhetoric in Terms of Action
  143. Grainne Mclaughlin   Classical Latin Epic and Didactic as Invective in the Counter Reformation
  144. Aislinn Melchior   The Crisis of Rhetoric in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae
  145. Patrick Lee Miller   Symptoms of Love in Greek Poetry
  146. Timothy J. Moore   Meter, Plot, and Character in Terence's Adelphoe
  147. Anne-France Morand and André-Louis Rey   Elements, Humours and Qualities in Galen’s Thought: One System or Many?
  148. Lars Boje Mortensen   The Latin Beginnings of Danish, Icelandic and Norwegian Literature
  149. Jennifer Sheridan Moss   The Hidden Cost of Taxation in 4th Century Egypt
  150. Melissa Mueller   From "Letter" to Curse: Reading for Revenge in Euripides' Hippolytus
  151. Bret Mulligan   Literary Criticism in Claudian’s Carmina Minora
  152. Dana L. Munteanu   Emotions in Real Life and Art: Some Ancient Perspectives
  153. Sheila Murnaghan and Deborah Roberts   Thinking of Girlhood: Childhood and Hellenism in H.D.
  154. Gregory Nagy   Reflexes of Aristarchean Methodology in the Homeric Scholia
  155. Christopher Nappa   Holding on to Hylas: Propertius 1.20 on Elite Roman Homosocial and Homoerotic Relationships
  156. Grant Nelsestuen   Italy and Agriculture: Varro’s Creation of an Italian Terra in de Re Rustica I
  157. Max Nelson   Lysias and the Phantom Stelai of Fifth Century Athens
  158. Elod NEMERKENYI   The Formation of Latin Literacy in Medieval Hungary
  159. Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos   Beyond Sex: Nympholepsy and Literary Materiality in Propertius 1.20
  160. Carlos F. Norena   Caracalla's Indulgentia
  161. Dirk Obbink   The Derveni Papyrus in the Homeric Scholia
  162. Peter O'Brien   Vergilian Allusion and the Gallus of Ammianus
  163. Stephen O'Connor   Armies and Markets in the Greek World in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.
  164. Katerina Oikonomopoulou   Analogies between Body, Society, and Cosmos in the Political Discourse of Plutarch's Quaestiones Convivales
  165. Corinne Ondine Pache   'The Rest is Memory': Louise Glück's Odyssey from Nostos to Nostalgia
  166. Victoria Pagán   Latin Secondary Education: Costs and Benefits
  167. Vasiliki Panoussi   Pacem aeternam pactosque hymenaeos: Juno, Venus, and concordia in Aeneid 4
  168. Maria Pantelia   Unicode and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
  169. Costas Panayotakis   Editing plays from indirect tradition
  170. Charles Pazdernik   Another Procopian allusion: Wars 4.6.17-22 and Xen., Hell. 4.1.35-36
  171. Mieke Penninck   Ambiguous liminality: the depiction of the frontier zone in Digenes Akrtites, Grottaferrata V
  172. Alan Pichanick   Self-Knowledge, Tyranny, and the Delphic Oracle in Plato's Charmides
  173. Annemieke van der Plaat   Do you think what I read?Thinking aloud while reading Greek, a survey of an experiment
  174. Anthony Podlecki,   Echoes of the Prometheia in Euripides's Andromeda?
  175. David M. Pollio   Reconcilable Differences: Greeks and Trojans in the Aeneid
  176. Tiberiu Popa   Self-Reflection in the Structure of Pindar’s Nemean X
  177. James I. Porter   Making and Unmaking: The Achaean Wall and the Limits of Fictionality in the Homeric Scholia
  178. Frances Pownall   The Noble Lie? The Historical Exemplum in Isocrates
  179. Vernon Provencal   Heraclitean Influence on Herodotean Nomos
  180. James Quillin   Ancient WMD:?Roman Legati and Domestic War?Propaganda in the Second Century b.c.e.
  181. John T. Ramsey   Haley's Comet and the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.
  182. Donald Reid   Imperialism, Nationalism and the Greco-Roman Past in Modern Egypt
  183. Daniella Reinhard   Enclitics, Proclitics and Elision in Poetic Questions on Man
  184. Gil Renberg   Messages from Beyond the Grave...
  185. Lee Ann Riccardi   Roman Portraits from the Athenian Agora: Recent Finds
  186. T. Wade Richardson   Protocols of Roman Aristocratic Sexual Invective: the case of Scipio Aemilianus
  187. Chiara Robbiano   Parmenides and the Expectations of Epic Truth
  188. Brett Robbins   Framing the Invisible: Vignette in the Iliad
  189. Marice E. Rose   Late Antique Images of Slaves in Domestic and Funerary Contexts
  190. David Rosenbloom   The Kommos of Aeschylus' Persians
  191. Nathan Rosenstein   The Economic Strategies of the mid-Republican Aristrocracy
  192. Susan I. Rotroff   Commercial Buildings at the Classical Agora
  193. Andrea Rotstein   Aristotle on the History of Poetry (Poetics 4)
  194. Gregory Rowe   How the Publicans' Companies Were Organized: The Lex from the Vipaca Mines
  195. Scott M. Rubarth   Masculinity and Convention in the lives of the Roman Cynics
  196. Catherine Rubincam   Qualification of Numbers in the Greek Historians
  197. Giovanni Ruffini   Risk and Administrative Pressure in the Archive of Dorotheos and Papnouthis
  198. Antonia Ruppel   A Case of Syntactic Reanalysis: The Greek Accusative Absolute
  199. Nicholas Rynearson   Internal and External Audiences in Plato's Lysis
  200. Sonia Sabnis   Lucian's Lychnopolis and the Anxiety of Surveillance
  201. Benjamin Sammons   Gift, List and Story in Iliad 9 (120-57)
  202. Barbara Saylor-Rodgers   Redundancy and Interpolation in the Orations of Symmachus
  203. John Scarborough   Mandrake in Ancient Surgery
  204. Francesca Schironi   Aristotelian Reflexes in Aristarchean Methodology
  205. Liesbeth Schuren   Three Narrative Devices in Euripidean Stichomythia
  206. Carl Shaw   Epicharmus' Sexual Feast
  207. David Sick   The Daimones of C. S. Lewis
  208. Monica Signoretti   P.Tebt. 694: A reader's mark and pre-Aristoxenian music theory
  209. Marilyn B. Skinner   Women, Gender, and Critical Thinking
  210. Karen Skovgaard-Petersen   Crusading historiography in the Scandinavian periphery
  211. Gail Smith   Rhetorical Techniques in Plutarch's Table-Talk
  212. Stephanie Smith   Pagans, Christians, and the Domus Aeterna
  213. Mark Southern   Mapping Roman communities, servants and households, and Italic social praxis
  214. Thomas Späth   Looking for Heroes, not at Rome: Plutarch's Recipe for a Banquet of Morality
  215. Gregory Staley   Novus Ordo Seclorum: A Faculty Humanities Workshop
  216. Stefan Stanke   The Reception of the Plataean Debate in Xenophon's Hellenica
  217. John H. Starks, Jr.   [vo]cales vultus: Pantomime Actresses in Latin Imperial Inscriptions
  218. Bernd Steinbock   Athenian Memory of Thebes’ Help for the Democratic Exiles
  219. Benjamin Stevens   lingua olet: The Scent of Language and Social Synaesthesia at Rome
  220. Jon Strang   Reading Teos: The Socio-Cultural Topography of Teos in the Age of Polythroos
  221. Polyxeni Strolonga   Reciprocity in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
  222. Sarah Culpepper Stroup   'Textual Tuscula': The Sociopolitics of Villa and Book in Cicero's Technical Treatises
  223. Geoffrey S. Sumi   Ceremony and Social Memory: The Temple of Divus Julius and Imperial Funerals under Augustus
  224. Ann Suter   The Myth of the House of Atreus as Political Ideology: 5th c. BCE and 20th c. CE
  225. Harold Tarrant   Proclus and Predecessors on the 'Myth' of Atlantis
  226. Sanjaya Thakur   The consequences of being a docta puella: Ovid, Callimachus and Heroides XX and XXI
  227. Christopher Trinacty   Seneca's Heroides: Elegy in Senecan Tragedy
  228. Stephen Trzaskoma   Chloe's Kiss in Longus and the Natural History of Honey
  229. Adrian Tronson   The Relevance of Herodotus 8.144 to the Debate on Greek Ethnicity
  230. Dennis Trout   Starry Heroes in Late Ancient Rome
  231. Steve Tuck   Emperors, Freedmen and Refugees: Towards a Prosopography of Imperial Cumae
  232. Michael Tueller   Purposeful Allusion in Hermesianax
  233. Andrew Turner   The emperor?s new wife: the council in Tacitus Annals 12.1-2
  234. Robert Ulery   Pietro Bembo’s Italian Translation of his Latin Historia Veneta (1551)
  235. Christopher van den Berg   Poetry into Rhetoric: Horace in Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus
  236. Athanassios Vergados   Hermes’ Two Songs (Homeric Hymn 4. 52-63 & 423-33)
  237. Brent Vine   South Piceneímih
  238. Bell Vivante   Divine Beauty: Helen, the Bride of Sparta
  239. Jarrett Welsh   Gendered Costume, Costumed Gender: Titinius' Setina and Didactic Comedy
  240. Emily West   Married Hero/Single Princess: Homer’s Nausicaa and Indic Citrangada
  241. David Wharton   Missing and Misleading Information in the Latin Dictionary: The Case of Horror
  242. Kathryn Williams   Cicero, Caesar and rex Galliae
  243. Michael Williams   Hymns as Acclamations: The Case of Ambrose of Milan
  244. David Wolfsdorf   Courage and Knowledge at Protagoras 349E1-351B2
  245. Evelyn van 't Wout   What the Thunder Said: Medea's Prophecy in Pindar, Pythian 4
  246. Ann Marie Yasin   The Invention of Early Christian Sacred Space?
  247. Velvet Yates   The Feminized Craftsman in Greek Thought

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