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Electronic abstracts for the 2008 APA Annual Meeting in Chicago
Emily M. Allen Tibullus 2.3 79-80: A New Interpretation Penelope M. Allison Roman military bases a complex gendered spaces Mark Alonge "Standing" Greek choruses Jean Alvares The Greek Romances as Dramas of Desire: a Lacanian Experiment Matthew Amati Selling Cloudcuckooland Ronnie Ancona Making Connections:  Teaching Catullus Poem 64 (lines 50-253) in the Larger Context of the Catullan Corpus and Other Latin Poetry S.J. Bakker On the so-called attributive and predicative position in Ancient Greek Emmanuela Bakola Aischylokratinizein Cynthia J. Bannon Fish Farming and Fraud:  Rational Economic Strategies for Roman Landowners? Zana Bass The Sexuality of Dionysus & Pentheus in Euripides and Soyinka John Bauschatz Agents of Appeal: Petitions to Ptolemaic Police Mark Beck The Politics of Eroticism in Plutarch Roger Beck Ancient and modern approaches to the representation of supernatural beings: Dio Chrysostom (Oration 12) and Dan Sperber (Explaining Culture) compared Andreas Bendlin Understanding Sacrificial 'Ritual': Roman Ritual Practice and Modern Theory Daniel Berman Boiotian Topography in the Poetry of Korinna Marquis Berrey Healing Practice for Male Impotence in Classical Greece Anja Bettenworth Manipulative Inscriptions in Ovidian Elegy and the Creation of Social Memory Ronald Blankenborg Tuning in: tracing the rhythmical phrase in Homer Lukas de Blois Missing Oddities and Crucial Details: The Military Factor in Politics in Plutarch’s Life of Mark Antony Dylan Bloy Roman Cultural Diplomacy in the Import of the Magna Mater Ryan Boehler Epistolary Reckoning: Transition, Manipulation, and Allusion in Sallust’s Embedded Letters Kathryn Bosher Chicago Ixion H. Paul Brown Homeric Directives: Language Sensitivity and the Pragmatics of Interaction in Homer Christopher Bungard Pseudolus Revisited: Expanding the Role of the Servus Callidus Craig Caldwell Burying Aureolus: A Usurper's Monument in the Historia Augusta John Carlevale Empire as Organization: The Romans in Life Magazine Pramit Chaudhuri The Politics of Deification in Seneca's Hercules Furens Maria Cecília Coelho Who is afraid of Lysistrata? Sayeed Choudhury The Role of Large-Scale Digitization in Classics Paul Christesen Generals, Gods, and Games: Video Games and Classical Antiquity E. Del Chrol Strange Bedfellows: Thematic and Structural Parallels between the TinyTract on Electioneering by [Ps-]Cicero and the Arts of Love by Ovid Jessica Homan Clark The Paradox of Ransom in the Roman Middle Republic Jacquelyn Clements The Image of the Charioteer in Plato's Phaedrus and Funerary Art Amanda Coles Worshipping Diana: Religion and Colonization in Northern Italy Amy R. Cohen Masks in Production: Ancient Implications of Modern Construction Catherine Colegrove The Arena: Masturbation or Liberation? Glen M. Cooper Critical Therapies: Treatment of Periodic Fevers in Galen Gregory Crane Planning a Digital Library for Classics from Image-Books Raffaella Cribiore Menander the Poet or Menander Rhetor? An Encomium of Dioscorus again Manuela Dal Borgo Rhetoric: Philosophy or Techne Richard H. Davis Jr. An Alternative Method for Writing Critical Essays on Latin Literature Martin T. Dinter Epigraphic markers and Epitaphic gestures in Latin poetry Fanny Dolansky Femineae Kalendae? Reconsidering the Matronalia and ‘women’s rites’ Janet Downie The Therapeutic Dynamic in Aelius Aristides’ “Sacred Tales” Dorota Dutsch A ‘Pythagorizing Girl’ in the Plautine Poenulus? Jackie Elliott Ennius’ Fabius Maximus Cunctator and the history of an ablative gerund in the Roman historiographical tradition James Ermatinger Stadiasmus Maris Magni: armchair geography or sailor's manual? Stephen Esposito An Unnoticed Mirror Scene in Oedipus Tyrannus Emily Fairey Barbarians or Super-villains? Persians in Frank Miller's 300 Elaine Fantham Eduard Fraenkel: Vorplautinisches und Plautinisches Jennifer Ferriss Virgil Polyglottos: Sabellic Etymologizing in Aeneid 7 Dana Fields Freedom and Frankness in the Life of Aesop Jay Fisher Bridgemaker or Pathfinder?: the Origin of Latin Pontifex Revisited T. Fögen The Role of Translating in Seneca's Philosophical Writings Michael Fontaine Catachresis, Fictitious Words, and Bomolochia in Plautus' Stichus Andrew Ford The Genres and Occasions of Aristotle’s Skolion/paean/hymn/hybrid for Hermeias Edith Foster Thucydides in Absentia: Lucretius' Witness against the Stoics? Milette Gaifman Aniconism and the Idea of the Primitive in Graeco-Roman Thought and Practice Julia Gaisser Lucius the Priest in Filippo Beroaldo’s Commentary on the Golden Ass Tommaso Gazzarri Property and interiority: some aspects of juridical language in Seneca T. H. M. Gellar Pardalisca: Ancilla callida of Plautus' Casina Coulter George The Historical Present in Classical Greek and the Development of Greek Aspect Aristoula Georgiadou 'Reconstructing' a cult of Eros: rites of passage at the festival of the Erotidaea Craig Gibson An Exemplary Life: Demosthenes in the Progymnasmata Andrew Gillett Beyond Barbarian Identity Fay Glinister Virgins for Hire and Other Stories: Putting Women in their Place Owen Goslin The Ordering of Sound in Hesiod's Typhonomachy Ian Halim The So-Called Idiomatic Imperfect in 3.5 of the Nicomachean Ethics Johanna Hanink The Echo of Epitaph: Latin Elegy and an Inscribed Greek Epigram (SGO I 01/01/07) Melissa Haynes Sexing the Temple: Architectural Space and Erotic Viewing in the Pseudo-Lucianic Erôtes Gregory Hays Medieval Latin Editing: Problems and Prospects Timothy S. Heckenlively Aeneas’ Shield and its Hesiodic Intertext Charles Hedrick Evidence and Graduate Education John Henkel A Metapoetic Vignette Alluding to Aratus at Georgics 1.291-296 W. Gerald Heverly Trends in the Online Availability of Subscription Journals in Classics Lora L Holland O Sister Where Art Thou?: Same-Name Divine Pairs in Roman Religion Sabine R. Huebner The “In-Marrying Son-in-Law” in Roman Egypt John O. Hyland Last of the Bandak?: Persian Nobles after Alexander’s Conquest Martijn Icks Empire of the sun? – The cult of Sol Elagabal in the Roman Empire Patrick James Atticistic Pronunciation in the Second Sophistic Thomas Jenkins Farcical Philology: Alexander Shewan’s “Homeric Games at an Ancient St. Andrews” Christel Johnson Mistress and Myth: Catullus 68B Michael Johnson The Pax Deorum and the Virginity of the Vestal Virgins Charles E. Jones The Future is Now? Who Cares? Electronic Media and the Ancient World Greg Jones Recasting the Tyrannicides: the Feminization of Democracy in Aristocratic Discourse Christian Kaesser Ovid’s Poetics of Non-Illusion: Non-naturalistic Objects and Their Archaeology in the Fasti Kevin Kalish The Invention of a Poetic Tradition: Greek Christian Poetry and its Modern Reception Julia Kindt Geertz, Gould & the Problem of Defining Greek Religion Martin Korenjak Ps.-Dionysius on Epideictic Rhetoric Emily Kratzer Contesting Ideologies: The Epinician and the Soteriological in Pindar’s Olympian 2 Leah Kronenberg The Poetics of Varro’s Aviary Jeremy LaBuff Expanding the Audience of the Hymn to Delos Donald Lateiner Gendered Exclusion, Seclusion, Incarceration, and Expulsion in Greek and Roman Fictions Jeremy Leftt Socratic alazoneia? Parody and Inversion in the Introduction of Plato's Parmenides Mariska Leunissen Nature as a good housekeeper: Secondary teleology in Aristotle's Biology Pauline A. LeVen New Dithyramb and ‘Nouvelle Cuisine’: Philoxenus’ Deipnon in its Fourth-Century BC Performance Context Sarah Levin-Richardson Gendered Interactions: A Dynamic Approach                          Vayos Liapis From Tragedy to Novel: Longus as a Reader of Rhesus Mike Lippman Let him be a fartridge!: A particularly foul fowl joke in Birds 766-768 Ayelet Haimson Lushkov Constitutional Debate in Republican Rome and the Elections of 184 B.C. Christine Luz Eudoxou technê or an Astronomy in Pocket Edition Ephraim Lytle The Tuna and the Bull: Exploring an Iconatrophic Tale in Pausanias (10.9.3-4) Anne Mahoney Politics on the Menu: Pascoli's Cena in Caudiano Nervae Wilfred Major Greek Prose Composition in the 21st Century Gesine Manuwald Plautus in 21st-Century Australia: Does the Roman Playwright Still Influence People’s Identity? M. Christine Marquis The Scepter of Latinus: Intertext and Interpretation at Aeneid 12.206-11 C.W.Marshall The Furies, Wonder Woman, and Dream: tragic mythmaking in DC Comics Gunther Martin The interplay of comedy and rhetoric in fourth-century Athens Mark Masterson Queer Spaces in Third- and Fourth-Century CE Traditional Religious Practice Donald J. Mastronarde Towards a New Edition of the Scholia to Euripides Lisa Maurice Roger Corman's Female Gladiators: The Arena (1973) and The Arena (2001) Kathleen McCarthy Fraenkel as Translation Theorist James C. McKeown Ex Machina Quis Nos Servabit? Are Computers Too Much of a Good Thing? Randall McNeill Conceptual Space and the Failure of Discourse in Catullus 51 Angelo O. Mercado The Poetry and Phonology of the Paelignians Rachel Meyers The Titulature of Faustina the Younger and Lucilla Pantelis Michelakis Dancing with Prometheus: Performance and Spectacle in the 1920s Andrew Monson Fiscal Institutions in Transition: Private Land in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt Erin Moodie Senes, Servi, and Terence's Dramatic Competition Christopher Moore Between Persuasion and Coercion in Plato's Republic Timothy J. Moore Leo, Fraenkel, and the Origins of the Plautine Cantica: The State of the Question Michael Mordine "A Thousand Tempting Beauties": Representations of Women In Sword-and-Sandal Movie Posters of the 1950s and ’60s Alfonso Moreno Settlement, Surplus, and Politics in the Athenian Grain Supply Hans-Friedrich Mueller Spectral Rome from Female Perspective: an Experiment in Recouping Women's Religious Experience Jackie Murray Poetically Erect: Erinna and Nossis in Herodas and 7 Richard Neer Early Classical Sculpture and the Aesthetics of Wonder Christopher Noble How Plotinus’ Soul Animates his Body: The “Soul-Trace” at Enn. IV.4.18 Debra Nousek Echoes of Cicero in Livy’s Bacchanalian Narrative (39.8-19) Maria Noussia The Rhetorical Strategies of Tyrtaeus’ Poetry Megan Nutzman Faith or Family? Jewish Epitaphs from Rome Dirk Obbink Editing Classical Commentary Hendrik Obsieger Plutarch and the Delphic Epsilon Thomas Olshewsky Appetites and Actions in Aristotle’s Moral Psychology Corinne Pache Word and Image: Inscribing the Worshipper at the Nymphaion of Kafizin Victoria E. Pagán Conspiracy Theory in Terence's Hecyra Martha Payne Cartoons in the Classics Irene Peirano Quid loquar aut Scyllam Nisi: undoing the mistake in the Virgilian Scylla John Petruccione Inside the Anglo-Saxon Schoolroom? The Interpretation of q: and quare Glosses Verity Platt Linea summae tenuitatis: Taste, Skill and Abstraction in Roman Painting Elizabeth Ann Pollard Learning to Walk (and Talk) the "Silk Roads": World Historical Training for Graduate Students Melinda Powers (Re)casting the Classics: Politics and Performance on the Contemporary Stage John T. Ramsey At What Hour did the Murderers of Caesar gather on the Ides of March? Meghan Reedy Drink first then oblivion: A note on Propertius 2.33.23-6 Laurialan Reitzammer Stairway to Heaven: Women on Ladders at the Adonia James B. Rives Apollonius of Tyana and the Theology of Sacrifice Kristin Robbins Innovation of Character: The Speaking Role of Pylades in Euripides' Orestes Duane W. RollerHanno and Pytheas: problems with obscure geographical texts James Romm Europe and Asia in the Hippocratic Airs, Waters, Places Tim Rood Black Sea Variations: Xenophon and the Argonauts Shawn Ross The Memories of Silius Italicus: Civil War and the Punica Ornella Rossi Haec scripsi navigans: the form of Ovid's Tristia 1 Andrea Rotstein Mousikoi Agones and the Cognitive Poetics of Literary Genres Nicholas Rynearson Desire for Excellence: Socrates, Theodote and epithumia in the Memorabilia Benjamin Sammons Agamemnon and his Audiences: semi-public speech in the Iliad Susan Satterfield Alien Insiders: Etruscan Haruspices in Rome Foy Scalf Religious Significance of the Formulaic Demotic Funerary Texts from Roman Egypt Walter Scheidel How to make ancient history programs less ancient Keeley Cathleen Schell Making Sense of the Mutili: An Origin Hypothesis for Lacunae in De Oratore Mark Schiefsky New Challenges and Opportunities: Critical Editions in the Electronic Age Graham Shipley Authorial purpose and narrative devices in Pseudo-Skylax Robert Holschuh Simmons The Masses and Hetaireiai in Euripides’ Orestes C. J. Smith Plutarch, antiquarianism and the Roman grammarians R. Scott Smith Antiope’s Double-Labor at Hyginus, Fab. 7 (and the Commentum Cornuti 1.77) Steven Smith Dio’s Second Kingship Oration: Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man Melanie Grunow Sobocinski Examining the Methodology of Architectura Numismatica: The Case of Fortuna Redux and the Porta Triumphalis in Rome Michael Squire The Promise and Failure of Naturalism in Ecphrastic Epigram; Or Why Myron’s Cow Doesn’t Moo... Allaire B Stallsmith Womens' Mysteries and Thesmophoria Zoe Stamatopoulou Hesiodic Allusions in Bacchylides’ Ode 5.191-4 Kelli Stanley How Myth Validated the American Superhero John Starks Was Black Beautiful in Vandal Africa Bernd Steinbock King Codrus as Historical Paradigm in Lycurgus’ Leocratea Tim Stover Cato and the End of Lucan's Bellum Civile Anise Strong A Dream of Augustus: Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Comic Mythology Sarah Culpepper Stroup A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Dialogue: Comedy and Politics in Cicero’s Laelius Chiara Sulprizio The War at Home: Violence, Gender and Space in Aristophanes’ Wasps Richard Talbert Noble Dreams: Historia Vincit Omnia ? Angela Taraskiewicz Generic Intertextuality in Euripides' Medea Sanjaya Thakur Ovid's Hidden Emperor: Tiberiu in the Fasti Liana Theodoratou “Another Athens”: Shelley, Aeschylus and the Reinvention of Modern Greece Philip Thibodeau Ancient Readers of Vergil's Georgics Jed Thorn Gender and the Cubiculum in Cicero’s Pro Caelio Vincent Tomasso Thermopylae in Frank Miller's Sin City: "The Big Fat Kill" Robert Tordoff Thucydides and Counterfactual History Zara Torlone The Joy of Nostalgia: Reception of Ovid in Russian Poetry Catherine Tracy Who Were the Quirites? The Composition of Contio Audiences Ariana Traill Fraenkel's Mythological Material in Light of the New Menander Steven L. Tuck Lucretius at Cumae: Epicureanism in an Early Imperial Epitaph James Uden The (Vanishing) Gardens of Priapus Anna S. Uhlig Land and Sea in Theocritus' Idyll 7 Tazuko Angela van Berkel Spoken like a hunter: Dio of Prusa's Euboean Oration Kevin van Bladel The Syro-Iranian Cosmology of Cosmas Indicopleustes Chris van den Berg Some Problems in the Meanings of Malignitas Floris van den Eijnde What Are the Salaminioi Doing on the Acropolis? Evelyn van 't Wout Solon's law on stasis: promoting active neutrality Zsuzsanna Várhelyi Comparative mappings of (the study of) religion and of emotions in the ancient world Heather Vincent Comic Technique in Julian's Misopogon Katherine Wasdin Sappho's Wedding Hymns James Watson Athens, Sparta, and the punishment of Medizing cities Akihiko Watanabe An Educational and Improving Novel: The Golden Ass in Meiji Japan Gavin Weaire Plutarch on the first 'triumph' John Weisweiler Honorific Statuary and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late-Antique Rome Jarrett T. Welsh Marriage and Divorce in the Fabula Togata Stephen Wheeler Erotic Desire and the Roman Republic William Wians Is Aristotle’s Account of Sexual Differentiation Inconsistent? Sara Wijma Joining the club: metic participation in polis religion Kathryn F. Williams The Dream of Daemones in Plautus’ Rudens A. T. Zanker Narratives of Pessimism in Horace, Odes 3.6 Erika Zimmermann Damer Corpus tetigisse nocet: The Female Body in Tibullus   Home