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Index of Abstracts for Papers Delivered at the 2007 APA Annual Meeting A-H | I-P | Q-Z Joel Allen The politics of fosterage: Herodes Atticus and the trophimoi Rana Al-Saadi Divining Divination in Plato's Ion Michael Anderson Sentimentality in the Greek Novels Frank Anechiarico "If Men Were Angels": Constitution-Making and Ambition in the Careers of Hamilton and Cicero Richard H. Armstrong A Plurality of Hellenisms: Translation and Fragmented Lyricism in Elytis and Quasimodo Emily Baragwanath For Better, For Worse...: Alternative Motivations in Herodotus' Histories Judith Barringer   Altertumswissenschaft v. Liberal Arts: A Continuing Debate in “Material Culture” John Bauschatz The Strong Arm of the Law: Ptolemaic Policing and Security Andrew Bayliss The 'artful dodging' of oaths in Herodotus Deborah Beck Character-quoted speech in the Iliad Mark Beck Alexander for the Romans: The Ideology of Anger Control in Plutarch and Arrian Jeffrey A. Becker Polygonal Masonry and Republican Villas: the Problem of the basis villae Paul Bednarowski Seeing is Believing? Half-Gods and (In)visible Epiphanies in the Iliad Hilary Becker Charismatic power and the private armies of Rome and Etruria: condottieri, bella privata, and mercenaries Andreas Bendlin A historian's dream, or nightmare? Explaining religious pluralism in ancient Rome Christopher W. Blackwell A Stack of Services for a Distributed Digital Library H. Christian Blood Queer Icons, Iconoclasts and Anti-Icons: Plato and His Symposium in Athens, Hollywood and Washington, D.C John Bodel Villaculture Deborah Boedeker No Way Out? Aging in the New (and Old) Sappho Ward Briggs Codes of Manliness in Walter Hill’s The Warriors Kai Brodersen The New Artemidorus Map in the Context of Ancient Mapmaking Ari Bryen Women and Violence in Greco-Roman Egypt Peter Burian "City, Farewell!": Euripides' Phoenician Women as a Response to Aischylos and Alkibiades Bryan Burns Sculpting Antinous Simon Burris The Eagle's Prey at Nemean 3.80-82 Stanley Burstein The Challenge of World History Lee Butterman poeta ex machina: Latin Text-to-Speech Sarah Byers Preliminary Joy in Augustine's De Civitate Dei XVI Edwin Carawan Pericles the Younger and the Citizenship Law Angelo CasanovaPlutarch and the Hellenization: The Life of Romulus Pramit Chaudhuri Capaneus' Theomachy in Thebaid 10 Robert Chenault The Urban Prefect as Epigraphic Spokesman in 4th c. Rome Christopher M. Chinn Fire in his eyes: Statius' ekphrasis of Achilles (Ach. 1.158-168) Stefan Chrissanthos “Mutiny” in World History Joel Christensen Nestor, Diomedes, and the telos muthon Paul Christesen A New Look at the Textual Tradition of Eusebius' Chronika and a New Edition of the Eusebian Olympic Victor List Diskin Clay Lucian's Philosophical Island Dee L. Clayman The New Sappho in a Hellenistic Poetry Book Maria Cecília Coelho Paris Does Strange Things: Jean Renoir's Representation of Men in Combat for Helen Brad L. Cook Cicero's Biography in the Renaissance and the Rebirth of the Scholar-Citizen Anthony Corbeill A New Painting of Calypso in Pliny the Elder Cynthia Damon Enabling Books Gregory N. Daugherty Titus Pullo of the Thirteenth Irene de Jong Genre and narratology: the theme of the fall of Troy as a test case Peter DeRousse Reconsidering Citations: The Acta Senatus at Tacitus, Annals 2.88.1 Margherita Maria Di Nino Detorsio Aesculapii and Ptolemaic propaganda in Posidippus' Iamatika' Lillian Doherty World Atlas: Jeanette Winterson's Account of the Atlas Myth in Weight Yancy Hughes Dominick Resembling Nothing: Image and Being in Plato Eric Dugdale Prophetic Voices in Sophocles Page duBois Other Civilities, Other Civilizations Anne Duncan  Dionysius I of Syracuse: Tragic Tyrant Francis Dunn Where is Electra? Carlotta C. Dus The “Divi Adriani sententiae et epistulae”: Imperial constitutions in an ancient schoolbook          Andrew Dyck Cicero as an Interpreter of Poetry Julia Dyson Encountering Jupiter in the Aeneid Radcliffe G. Edmonds III That Old Titanic Nature: Orphism and Plato Laws 701bc Jonathan Edmondson The Administration of Lusitania in the Third Century A.D.: New Evidence from Augusta Emerita Lowell Edmunds Tithonos in the "New Sappho" and the Narrated Mythical Exemplum in Archaic Greek Poetry Mark Edwards Lucian between Plato and Nietzsche Tom Elliott Beyond the Barrington Atlas: An Online Workspace for Ancient Geography Stephen Esposito The Date of Oedipus Tyrannus and the theme of elaunein agos Gordon Fain Greek Endings in the Odes of Horace Jonathan Fenno The Wrath of Swift-Footed Aeneas and the Death of Alcathous in Iliad XIII Christelle Fischer Soldiers and Egyptian temples in Ptolemaic Egypt Edwin D. Floyd Classical Quantities and Accents in Byzantine Poetic Scansion Sara Forsdyke    Pigs, Asses and Swine: Tyrannical Manipulation or Peer-Polity Interaction? Christopher Francese The Eroticism of Erotika Pathemata Bruce Frier Cicero the Jurist John Friend The Reformed Ephebia: An Alternative Explanation? Alison Futrell 'Not Some Cheap Murder': Caesar?s Assassination Kathy Gaca The Methods and Magnitude of Female Sexual Subjugation through Ancient Warfare Hunter Gardner Homeric Allusion in the First Choral Ode of Euripides’ Medea Coulter George Greek Particles: Just a Literary Phenomenon Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O'Connor They 'Dare[d] to Call Their Souls Their Own': African American Resistance to the Suppression of the Classics at Historically Black Colleges Vanessa B. Gorman Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Etruscans and the politics of cultural determinacy Denver Graninger Artemis Throsia and Rites of Passage: A Reconsideration Jonathan P. Grant Scythian Words in Lucian's Toxaris C. M. C. Green The Shepherd of the People: Varro On Herding For the Villa Publica in RR 2 Ellen Greene Sappho 58: Philosophical Reflections on Death and Aging John Gruber-Miller Writing to Read and Writing to Culture: The Interactive Reading Journal Robert Gurval Cast(igat)ing Cleopatra: HBO Rome and an Egyptian Queen for the 21st Century Anne Haeckl Multicultural Masculinity: Paired Portraits of Young Men from Severan Coptos, Egypt Ayelet Haimson Lushkov The Arch of Scipio Africanus: A Re-interpretation Jon Hall Teaching Ciceronian Delivery Edward C. Halper Humor, Dialectic, and Human Nature in Plato Jürgen Hammerstaedt The Cologne Sappho: Its Discovery and Textual Constitution Carol Hahnemann Ripe and Unripe Fruits of Laughter Ann Hanson The Brain and Brain Surgery in the Roman Empire: Heliodoros & Galen Ruth Harder The rhetor as arbiter philosophorum John Harris Revenge of the Nerds: Challenging the Public Recognition of Olympic Victors W. Tyson Hausdoerffer The nostos of Peleus in Euripides' Andromache Holly Haynes Rome's Opening Titles and the Triumphal Tituli of the Late Republic Jon Hesk Flyting and Capping in Aristophanic Comedy Frances Hickson Hahn Potent Ritual: Supplications in the Augustan Ideological Program Ingrid Holmberg 'We Had No Voice': Penelope's Maids in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad Brooke Holmes The Place of Prolêpsis in the History of Imprints Phillip Horky One Must Metaphorize: Linguistic and Mathematical Analogy as Political Science among the Pythagoreans Regina Höschele Horto carmina digna, non libello. Priapus' Garden Poetics Noel Hubler Plotinus on Cosmogony: A convergence of reason, biology, and myth Paul Iversen The Small and Great Daedala and Boeotian History Patrick James ws oti and ws ina in the Papyri Richard Janko Sappho’s Lalage and Horace, Odes 1.22 (Integer vitae) Thomas Jenkins X-Rated Sophocles: Sex and Text in Alice Tuan’s Ajax (Por Nobody) Marguerite Johnson Poem 58 and L-P 31: The Poetic 'Body' and the Body of Sappho Michael Johnson Mommsen Lecture Notes at Rutgers University Susan Johnson The God of Sappho, fr. 1 W.R. Johnson Re-Representing the Gallic Wars Gregory Jones Seeing the Parthenon Frieze in Euripides’ Ion Prudence Jones Mater Patriae: Cleopatra and Roman Ideas of Motherhood Philip Kaplan Misunderstandings Between Friends: Xenia, Interstate Relations, and the Ring of Polykrates Adam Kemezis Fronto, Lucian and the Absence of Antonine History Julia Kindt Beyond the Polis: Rethinking Greek Religion Robert Knapp Iberia in the New Artemidorus Text and Map Ortwin Knorr The Running Ephebe and Other Visual Jokes in Terence Peter Knox Cicero on the Uses of Epic Christina L. Kolb Accusations of Athenian Interpolation: The Case of Aithra’s Rescue” Eric Kondratieff The Anonymous Tribunes of the Plebs, 220 – 2 BCE: Preliminary Results and Observations Kyriaki Konstantinidou From curse to oath in the Oresteia? George Kovacs Power, Gender and Spatial Meaning in Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis Lynn Kozak The iron heart: Iliadic oath-scenes and the characterization of Achilles Angelos Kritikos Origen on Pre-passions Mary Katrina Krizan Corpses, Seeds, and Statues: The relation between potentiality and possibility in Aristotle’s Metaphysics and De Interpretation Emilie Kutash Platonizing Mithra, Ontologizing the Oracles: Activating the Sublunary gods: Proclus’ Entheistic Reading of Timaeus: Kurt Lampe What is Normal Sexuality? A Cyrenaic Julie Langford-Johnson Julia Domna and the contentiousness of universal motherhood Andre Lardinois The New Sappho Poem: Where Does It End? Andrew Lear Aristophanes' Gentle Mockery of Pederasty Jeffery D. Lerner Teaching World Civilizations to AD 1500 Brad Levett Determinism and Responsibility in Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen McKenzie Lewis The Iconography of Bacchylides' Nekyia Joel Lidov Books as Contexts: Sappho in Two Papyri Genevieve Liveley Mater Amoris: Mothers and Lovers in Augustan Rome Nancy E. Llewellyn Finishing an Unfinished Epic: the Case of Columbeis Carolina López-Ruiz Dining with the King of Heaven: banqueting and the struggle for royal power in texts from Greece and the Levant Polly Low Space and commemoration at Sparta: The monuments to Thermopylae and their context Marcello Lupi Out of Context. What Is the Great Rhetra Speaking about ? Michael Lynn-George And a sky like lead': Weil, Auerbach and Homer in the Twentieth Century Deborah Lyons Arion and Dionysos Methymnaios: a Reading of Herodotus 1.23-4 Evangeline Lyons The Stoic Slave: Slavery and self-presentation in the Epistulae Morales Ephraim Lytle The Temple Accounts from Delos and the Purple-Tax Randolph H. Lytton The Classical Tradition in Washington, D.C.: An Introduction to the Greco-Roman World Wilfred E. Major What They Don't Know Won't Hurt Them: Paring Down Beginning Greek Drew Mannetter A Paradigm Shift: Teaching Methods for a One-Year Latin Course Ilaria Marchesi Trimalchio’s Zodiac Plate and the Art of Memory Daniel Markovich Multiplication of 'Here and Now': From Epicurus to Lucretius and Beyond C.W. Marshall J. T. Sheppard and the Cambridge Birds Michael Mascio Aristippus, Ulysses, and the Philosophus Polutropos in Horace Epistles I Hugh J. Mason "You are a brave Hellene." Vasilis Arvanitis and cultural identity on Lesvos Jonathan Master Nobody Knows You Like Your Mother: Tacitus Histories 2.64 on Vitellius' True Identity Mark Masterson “It’s Queer, It’s Like Fate”: Imaging Queer in O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra. Chris Ann Matteo The Classical Grand Tour: An Interdisciplinary Course Exploring Word and Image Michael McCarthy  “Savage Juno” (Aen. 1.4) and the “Fury of the Lord” (Ps. 2:5):  Pagan and Christian Embarrassment over Divine Wrath John McDonald Orpheus and the bougonia in Georgic 4: Cow Slaughter as a Source of Poetic Inspiration Matthew McGowan Crime and Poetry: crimina and carmina in the textual transmission of Ovid’s Tristia Kristina Meinking Habet igitur ira in Deo materiam: Divine Wrath in Pagan and Christian Belief Angelo Mercado The Latin Accent and a Theory of Saturnian Versification Lisa Mignone Y tumba de sí proprio el Aventino: mythic deaths on the plebeian hill Paul Allen Miller    A Man of Parts: Lucilius on the Body as the Site of Truth Timothy Moore Roman Comedy: Dance Drama Micah Myers Footrace, Dance and Desire: The Choros of Danaids in Pindar's Ninth Pythian Francis Newton Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: The Poet's Epic Question (Aeneid 1.11) and Jupiter's Answer (Aeneid 12.829-831) Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos Oliver Stone's Alexander and the Liminality of Same-Sex Desire C.E.V.Nixon The Circulation of Seleukid Bronze Coins (with special reference to Jebel Khalid) Carlos Norena Tarraco and Narbo: Ecological or Imperial Connectivity? Mark Nugent Amor Malus and 'Male Armor': Elagabalus and the Politics of Sexuality (1960-75) Suzanne Obdrzalek The Role of the Beautiful in Plato's Metaphysics and Epistemology Peter O'Brien Borrowing Ammianus' Pencil: The Res Gestae in English Translation Elisabeth R. O'Connell Redefining the Monastic Desert: Settling the Cemeteries in Late Antique Egypt Robin Osborne Space and memorialisation in the Attic demes Timothy O'Sullivan Pliny and Tacitus on the Politics of Escorts under the Principate Matt Panciera Plautonic Amabo: When Men Say Please in Plautus Alexandra Pappas Describing Inscription: Euripides, Agathon, and the Politics of Ekphrasis Charles Pazdernik ARETE KAI XUNESIS: Brasidas as Moral Exemplar Irene Peirano How to praise a Roman wife: the meaning of the phrase filia supstituta in the so-called Laudatio Turiae Christopher Pelling This thing is bigger than both of us’: Plutarch’s tale of two cities?  Timothy Pepper Plautus' Menaechmi and the Borders of Adaptation Sarah Pessin Refining the Human Heart: Cosmology and the Transformation of Self in Ibn Gabirol Ivana Petrovic A Mischievous Genre Tells its Tale John Phillips Timeless Creation in Neoplatonism C. Robert Phillips III Has the study of Roman religion lost its way? Randall Pogorzelski Civilizing Italy: Virgil's Revision of Ancient Conquest Elizabeth Pollard Rome and Indomediterranea: Pliny’s Natural History, Magic, and Heresy David M. Pollio Aeneas the Diplomat? Arthur Pomeroy Alexander as Hero Mark Possanza Hyginus' Book of the Heavens Susan Prince Seeing and Knowing in Lucian’s Philosophical Fantasies Ann R. Raia Online Companion to The Worlds of Roman Women John Ramsey Cicero's Deconstruction of Mark Antony's Rhetoric in Philippics 2, 3, and 13 Steve Reece Homer's Winged and Wingless Words André-louis Rey The play of emotions in the healing process: pagan and Christian eastern roman perspectives Joshua Reynolds Why the third kind in Plato's Timaeus is not a receptacle Carl J. Richard Alexander Hamilton, the Classics as a Means of Social Mobility, and the Importance of Translations Anne Rogerson En, ego vester Ascanius!: encountering the Trojan women in Aeneid 5 Matthew Roller Innovation and tradition in Augustan Rome: the example of Appius Claudius Caecus James Romm    How many continents in Herodotus’ Geography? Michele Valerie Ronnick "Give 'Em Your Greek, but Study Cotton:" The Quest of the Silver Fleece by W.E. B. Du Bois (1911) David Roselli Lumpen in the Fifth-Century Athenian Theater Audience? David Rosenbloom The King's Great Escape: Timotheus' Persians Shawn Ross Homeric Panhellenism Ornella Rossi Eumolpus the anti-Seneca: possible interpretations of Petronius, Satyricon 99.1 Melissa Rothfus Senatorial Sons and the Assumption of the Latus Clavus Carl A. Rubino The Sound of the Trumpet: Alexander Hamilton and the Challenge of the Classics Kelli Rudolph Democritus' Physiology of Taste Joerg Ruepke Roman religion and the Roman empire Ian Rutherford After the Song Culture: The Paean in and out of Context Benjamin Sammons Naming the Dead: Casualty Lists in the Homeric Battle Narrative Ross Scaife Colloquia Latina: Electronic subsidia for active Latin learning Edward Schiappa and David Timmerman Rhetorical Matters: The Emergence of Terms of Art in Rhetorical Theory Karin Schlapbach Lucian’s Nigrinus and Plato’s Phaedrus Andreas Schmidhauser Stoic Deixis Andrew Scholtz What's in a Curse? Epigraphic Evidence for Civic Aphrodite's Emergence at Athens Celia E. Schultz Out of the cul-de-sac: gender studies and Roman religion Liesbeth Schuren The Distribution of Narrative Activity in Euripidean Stichomythia Michael Scott From space of victory to memorial of defeat: Delphi between 425 and 400 B.C. Saundra Schwartz The Mediterranean as Viewed from the Pacific: Herodotus and the Persian Wars in World History Textbooks J.Mira Seo Statius Silvae 4.9 and the Poetics of Saturnalian Exchange Aldo Setaioli   Plutarch’s Assessment of Latin as a Means of Expression Julia L. Shear Memory, monuments, and the Athenian Agora Wilson Shearin Bearing Witness in Cicero's De re publica Graham Shipley Re-presenting the Minor Greek Geographers Monica Signoretti The Dynamics of Magical Language Christopher Smith A Greek Interlude at Rome: Plutarch’s Life of Numa Steven D. Smith The Empire’s New Clothes: Identity and Costume in Two Greek Novels Alan H. Sommerstein Swearing by Hera: a deme meme? Barbette Spaeth Cult and Cultural Identity in Roman Corinth: The Epigraphical Evidence Michael Squire The Epigrammatic Inscriptions from the 'House of Propertius' at Assisi Christopher Star As in Comedies: Metapoetics, Speech, and Silence in Terence's Mother-in-Law Eva Stehle Now' and 'Once': Temporal Markers and Sappho's Self-Representation Walt Stevenson Religion and Imperial Strategies in the 6th Century East Selina Stewart Eros and Aetiology in the Argonautica Tim Stover Cyzicus and the Fall of Troy in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus Jonathan Strang The Attalid Grant to Teos and the Date of the Ktematonia Decree Anise K. Strong Daughter and Employee: Mother-Daughter Bonds among Ancient Prostitutes James Sullivan The Trierarchy in Thucydides Richard Talbert The Antonine Itinerary Seen through its Compiler's Eyes Angela Taraskiewicz Motherhood as Teleia: Rituals of Incorporation at the Kourotrophic Shrine Nicola Terrenato The Enigma of "Catonian" Villas: the De Agricultura in the Context of Second Century BC Rural Italian Architecture Sanjaya Thakur New Memories in Time: Tiberius and the Fasti Praenestini Jennifer Thomas Seven Soldiers, Seven Snakes: A Closer Look at Lucan, Bellum Civile 619-937 Rob Tordoff Paid in their own coin: the poneroi of Aristophanes' Wealth Zara Torlone Et in Arcadia Gallus: Pastoral and Elegy Isabelle Torrance On your head be it sworn: oath and characterization in Euripides' Helen Matthew Trundle Coinage and the Transformation of Greek Warfare Stephen Trzaskoma An Unnoticed Citation of Xenophon's Cyropaedia in Chariton Georgia Tsouvala Rome: A Greek City? Steven Tuck   Scheduling Spectacle: Factors contributing to the dates of Pompeiian munera Michael Tueller Vergil's Aeneid and Epigram James Uden Elegiac Puella as Virgin Martyr Jody Valentine Lesbians are from Lesbos: Sappho and identity construction in The Ladder Henriette van der Blom Graecophile or Graecophobe? Cicero's choice between Roman and Greek 'exempla' Zsuzsanna Varhelyi Finding the proper place for religion: between the Scylla of the Roman Empire and the Charybdis of Late Antiquity? Brent Vine On the Etymology of Latin tranquillus Rita Volpe Republican Villas Around Rome: a Quantitative and Topographical Approach Joel Ward Language without Borders: Latinisms in the Greek of Josephus Tarik Wareh Genres of Philosophical Contest in the Fourth Century B.C. Akihiko Watanabe Clips, Cartoons, and Texts: Pop-Culture Meets the Ancient World James M. Watson A tale of two sanctuaries: Battle memorials at Olympia and Delphi, ca. 550-450 B.C. Edward Watts    Odoacer: Or on the Integration of Religion's Rise and Empire's Fall Gavin Weaire Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Etruscans and the politics of cultural determinacy Rocki Wentzel Ascanius, Gifts, and Desire in Vergil's Aeneid Christopher Whitton Tacitus' Dialogus and the politics of periodization Andrew Wolpert    The Use and Abuse of Classics James Wood Comedy, Laughter, and Malice in Plato's Philebus David Wray   A Philosophical Point of Latinity: What’s in it for Spinoza? Katerina Zacharia 'Reel' Greek Nationalism: Perceptions of Greece in New Greek Cinema (1970-2005) Vanda Zajko Queering Ovid's Hermaphroditus Jonathan P. Zarecki The Origin of the Ban on evocatio on Cyprus: A note on Cicero Ad Atticum 5.21.6 Gina Zavota The Circle and its Center: Metaphysical and Metaphorical Language in Plotinus’ On the Presence of Being Everywhere (VI. 4-5)

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