SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1995


SEVENTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS.

8:00 am - 12:00 n                Registration               Second Floor Foyer
                                                                 Hyatt Regency
 
8:00 am - 9:00 am               Meeting of the               Secretary's Suite
                            Committee on Research                     Marriott
 
8:30 am                           Section 52             Manchester Ballroom D
                                Paper Session:                   Hyatt Regency
                                     Plato
                           Marilyn Skinner, Presider

1. Dirk t.D. Held, Connecticut College

Dialectic and Character in Plato's Meno (15 min.)

2. William C. Stull, University of Chicago

Logos and Mythos in Plato's Gorgias (15 min.)

3. David M. Johnson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

God as Mirror for the Soul: Plato, Alcibiades 133c (15 min.)

4. Eunshil Bae, University of California, Los Angeles

Plato's Conception of Soul (Psyche) in the Phaedo and the Timaeus (15 min.)

5. Richard Hamilton Armstrong, University of Houston

Mistaken Pleasures: Plato and Freud on Pleasure and Tragedy (15 min.)

Discussion

8:30 am                          Section 53              Manchester Ballroom A
                               Paper Session:                    Hyatt Regency
                          Geography and Ethnicity
                         Richard Talbert, Presider

1. Craige Champion, Allegheny College

Ethnic Stereotypes in Polybius and the Speech of Agelaus at Naupactus, 217 BCE (Hist. 5.104.1-1) (15 min.)

2. Trevor Murphy, University of California, Berkeley

The Rhetorical Geography of Pliny the Elder (15 min.)

3. Susan P. Mattern, Yale University

The Roman Geography of Northern Europe and Trajan's Conquest of Dacia (15 min.)

4. Judith Perkins, Saint Joseph College, Hartford, Ct.

Heliodorus' Aithiopika: An Ancient Passing Novel (15 min.)

5. Gavin Sundwall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Ammianus Geographicus (15 min.)

Discussion

 

8:30 am                         Section 54               Manchester Ballroom B
                              Paper Session:                     Hyatt Regency
                            Ancient Documents
                       Charles Hamilton, Presider

1. Robert M. Simms, SUNY, Albany

Herakles (15 min.)

2. Nigel M. Kennell, Memorial University of Newfoundland

The Tyranny of Herodes Attticus (15 min.)

3. Ariel Loftus, University of Michigan

Theramenes in Egypt: A New Fragment of the Theramenes Papyrus (15 min.)

4. Kent J. Rigsby, Duke University

A Suppliant at Gerasa (15 min.)

5. William T. Loomis, Union College

Entella Tables VI (254-241 BC) and VII (20th century AD?) (15 min.)

Discussion

8:30 am                        Section 55                Manchester Ballroom E
                             Paper Session:                      Hyatt Regency
                                  Ovid
                       Richard Tarrant, Presider

1. Dennis R. McClure, University of Iowa

Ovid's Use of Anti-Exempla in Amores 1.9 (15 min.)

2. Jeffrey Wills, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ovid's Incaedua Silva: Home to Tragedy or Elegy? (15 min.)

3. Sara H. Lindheim, Brown University

Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Ovid's Penelope (15 min.)

4. Hugh C. Parker, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

The Metamorphosis of the Magna Mater: Cybele in Ovid's Fasti (15 min.)

5. Thomas D. Frazel, University of California, Los Angeles

Is Fasti 6.319ff. a "Comic" Rape? (15 min.)

Discussion

 

8:30 am                         Section 56               Manchester Ballroom I
                 Organizer Refereed Panel Session:               Hyatt Regency
                 Comedy Today: Adapting Plautus for
                         Contemporary Audiences
        Jane M. Cody and Judith P. Hallett, Co-Organizers

1. Leslie Cahoon, Gettysburg College

Performing Plautus in the Provinces (20 min.)

2. John H. Starks, Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Make 'em Laugh: The Staging of Plautus' Poenulus (18 min.)

3. Kenneth Hamma, J. Paul Getty Museum

A Production of Plautus' Casina and Menander's Samia (20 min.)

4. Timothy J. Moore, University of Texas, Austin

Toward a Plautine Acting Style: Theory and Practice (20 min.)

5. Anne H. Groton, Saint Olaf College

Rhyme, Women and Song: Getting in Tune with Plautus (20 min.)

Commentators:

George Bistransin, Theater Ludicrum, Boston (5 min)

Mary Kay Gamel, University of California, Santa Cruz (5 min)

James Tatum, Dartmouth College (5 min.)

8:30 am                         Section 57               Manchester Ballroom F
              Three-Year Colloquium on Ancient Rhetoric:         Hyatt Regency
              Finding the Audience in Classical Rhetoric
                     William Batstone, Organizer

Chair: Cynthia Bannon, Indiana University

1. Paula Arnold Debnar, Mount Holyoke College

Diodotus' Paradox (Thuc. 3.42-48) (15 min.)

2. Ann N. Michelini, University of Cincinnati

Isocrates and His Audience: On the Peace (15 min.)

3. Ruth Webb, King's College, London

Imagination and the Arousal of the Emotions (15 min.)

4. M. A. Fusco, Vassar College

The Many Audiences of Ciceronian Oratory (15 min.)

5. Andrew M. Riggsby, University of Texas, Austin

Taking the Roman Courts Seriously (15 min.)

Respondent: Elaine Fantham, Princeton University (20 min.)

 

8:30 am                        Section 58                Manchester Ballroom C
                             Panel Session:                      Hyatt Regency
              The Sounds and Performance of Sappho's Poetry
                    Stephen G. Daitz, Organizer
          (Sponsored by the Society for the Oral Reading of
                      Greek and Latin Literature)
                       Matthew Dillon Presiding

1. André Lardinois, University of Minnesota

Introduction: Sappho and the Performance of Greek Lyric Poetry (15 min.)

2. Ellen Greene, University of Oklahoma

Love's Thelxis: Sound and Seduction in Sappho 94 (15 min.)

3. Stephen G. Daitz, City University of New York

The Sounds of Sappho 1 (15 min.)

4. Paula Reiner, Butler University

Learning by Performance: Sappho 31 (15 min.)

Workshop: Reading the Sapphic Strophe Aloud (45 min.)

8:30 am                            Section 59                      Windsor A/B
                                    Workshop:                    Hyatt Regency
                   Aristotle's Criticisms of Plato's Socrates
                           Anthony Preus, Organizer
           (Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy)

Chair: Thomas M. Robinson, University of Toronto

1. Christos Evangeliou, Towson State University

Even Friends Cannot Have All Things in Common: Aristotle's Critique of Plato's Republic (50 min.)

2. Erik Ostenfeld, Aarhus University, Denmark

Socratic Argument-Strategies and Aristotle's Topics and Sophistical Refutations (50 min.)

Discussion

9:00 am                       Section 60                 Manchester Ballroom H
                         Joint Panel Session:                    Hyatt Regency
                  Roman Baths and Bathing Culture
                    Garrett G. Fagan, Organizer

Introduction: Fikret Yegül, University of California, Santa Barbara (15 min.)

1. Janet DeLaine, University of Reading, UK

A Blue-Print for the Imperial Thermae? (20 min.)

2. A. Trevor Hodge, Carleton University

Water, Water Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Drink: The Hydraulics of Roman Baths (20 min.)

3. Chris Simpson, Wilfrid Laurier University

Innovation and the Baths of Agrippa: An Exaggerated Claim? (15 min.)

4. Christer Bruun, University of Toronto

Roman Lead Pipe Stamps and Owners and Donors of Public Baths in Campania (15 min.)

5. Garrett G. Fagan, University of British Columbia

The Roman Elite at the Public Baths (15 min.)

Discussion

9:00 am - 11:30 am      Meeting of the National Committee            Connaught
                               for Latin and Greek               Hyatt Regency
 
9:00 am - 1:00 pm        Meeting and Interviews for the   Chairman's Boardroom
                            Lionel Pearson Fellowship            Hyatt Regency
 
 
11:00 am - 12:00 n                Meeting of the          San Diego Ballroom B
                        American Philological Association             Marriott
                  Being the One Hundred Twenty-Seventh Meeting
                                of the Association
 
12:00 n - 1:30 pm           Open Organizational Meeting                 Oxford
                      of the Friends of Hellenistic Studies      Hyatt Regency
 
12:00 n - 3:00 pm            Meeting of the Manchester                     1,2
                             Board of Directors of the                Marriott
                        American Philological Association
 
 

EIGHTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS.

 
1:30 pm                          Section 61              Manchester Ballroom D
                               Paper Session:                    Hyatt Regency
                           Religion and Politics
                      Eleanor Winsor Leach, Presider
 
1. Kenneth I. Mayer, University of  Texas, Austin
 
Dreams, Drinking and Sacrifice:  Religious Aspects of Alexander's
Orientalism (15 min.)
 
2. Gary Forsythe, University of Chicago
 
Latin Linguistics in the Ancient Lore of the Argei
 (15 min.)
3. Richard D. Weigel, Western Kentucky University 
 
Roman Generals and the Vowing of Temples, 500-100 BC:  A Prosopographical
Study  (15 min.)
 
4. Valerie M. Warrior, Boston University
 
Religiosity at the Beginning of the Second Macedonian War
 (15 min.)
 
5. J. Bert Lott, University of  Pennsylvania
 
Augustan Ops Augusta and the Magna Mater Deum
Idea  (15 min.)
 
Discussion
 
 
1:30 pm                      Section 62                  Manchester Ballroom E
                           Paper Session:                        Hyatt Regency
                           Late Antiquity
                       Andrew Dyck, Presider
 
1. Keith Dickson, Purdue University
 
Oneself as Others:  Aurelius and Autobiography (15 min.)
 
2. Stephen M. Wheeler, Pennsylvania State University
 
The Economy of Violence in Claudian's De Raptu Prosperpinae
(15 min.)
 
3. C.E.V. Nixon, Macquarie University, Australia
 
Socrates the Historian (15 min.)
 
4. Pierre D. Habel, Brown University
 
The Poet in Exile:  Theodulf of Orleans and Ovid (15 min.)
 
5. Raymond J. Clark, Memorial University of  Newfoundland
 
Giles of Viterbo and the Vergilian Connection (15 min.)
 
Discussion
 
 
1:30 pm                      Section 63                  Manchester Ballroom A
                           Paper Session:                        Hyatt Regency
                        Materiality of Texts
                     Sander Goldberg, Presider
 
1. Martin Harriman, University of  Texas, Austin
 
Not Writing Greek:  A New Dating Criterion for Fifth-Century
Athenian Inscriptions (15 min.)
 
2. Sara R. Johnson, University of  California, Berkeley
 
The Parian Marble in its Historical Context (15 min.)
 
3. Herman Rego Pontes, Scarborough College, University of Toronto
 
Und wider mal Kolon und Satz:  Rhythmical and Rhetorical Cola
in Two Virgilian Manuscripts (15 min.)
 
4. David J. Murphy, The Nightingale-Bamford School
 
The Hyphen in Greek Manuscripts (15 min.)
 
5. Kathleen McNamee, Wayne State University
 
Scholia and the Law School at Beirut (15 min.)
 
Discussion
 
 
 
1:30 pm                       Section 64                 Manchester Ballroom B
                            Paper Session:                       Hyatt Regency
                     Roman Rhetoric and Politics
                     Robert Kallet-Marx, Presider
 
1. Summer H. Stevens, Denison University
 
Mortui Viveremus:  Pathos as Consolatio in the
Pro Milone  (15 min.)
 
2. Anthony Corbeill, University of Kansas
 
Political Topography in the Roman Forum  (15 min.)
 
3. Matthew B. Roller, Johhns Hopkins University
 
Color-Blindness:  Cicero, His Killer, and Declamatory History
in the Early Empire  (15 min.)
 
4. Michael C. Alexander, University of  Illinois, Chicago
 
Legal Technicalities in Roman Oratory  (15 min.)
 
5. Daniel J. Schoos, University of  Pittsburgh
 
"High Speculation" for the Political Man in Cicero's
De Re Publica  (15 min.)
 
Discussion
 
 
1:30 pm                            Section 65            Manchester Ballroom I
                                 Panel Session:                  Hyatt Regency
                            The Empire Strikes Back:
                      Representations of the Roman Empire
                          in American Popular Culture
        Donald T. McGuire, Jr. and Margaret Malamud, Co-Organizers
 
1. Maria Wyke, University of Reading
 
Hollywood Historiography: The Rise and Fall of Cinema's Roman
Empire (20 min.)
 
2. Margaret Malamud and Donald T. McGuire, Jr., 
 
 New Mexico State University and SUNY at Buffalo
 
The Roman Empire as Spectacle:  Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas
(20 min.)
 
3. Amy Richlin, University of Southern California
 
Gladiator Girls in Combat: Women, Race, and Rome in 1970's
Films (20 min.)
 
4. Martha A. Malamud, SUNY at Buffalo
 
Serial Romans:  Rome in Popular Fiction  (20 min.)
 
Commentator:  Patricia Johnson, College of the Holy Cross (20
min.)
 
 
 
 
1:30 pm                            Section 66            Manchester Ballroom F
              Three-Year Colloquium on Aristotle's Poetics       Hyatt Regency
                 Aristotle on Plot and Current Work on Narratology
                            Dale Grote, Organizer
 
1. Deborah Roberts, Haverford College
 
Narrative Theory and the Poetics:  The Background
(15 min.)
 
2. Elizabeth Belfiore, University of Minnesota
 
Aristotle's Muthos and Narratological Plots (15 min.)
 
3. Leon Golden, Florida State University
 
Muthos and Species:  Wayne Booth on Aristotle (15 min.)
 
4. Philip Rollinson, University of South Carolina
 
Muthos and Mimesis in Humanist Critical Theory (15 min.)
 
Discussion
 
 
1:30 pm                           Section 67                       Windsor A,B
                                Panel Session:                   Hyatt Regency
                     Literary Theory and Criticism in the
                              Latin Middle Ages
                         Jan M. Ziolkowski, Organizer
               (Sponsored by the Medieval Latin Studies Group)
 
Chair:  Francis Newton, Duke University
 
1. Harald Anderson, The Ohio State University
 
Scholarly Auctoritas and the Medieval Biography of Statius
(15 min.)
 
2. B. Gregory Hays, Cornell University
 
Fulgentius and Scholarly Parody (15 min.)
 
3. Maura K. Lafferty, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
 
Reader's (and Writer's) Guides:  The Epic Argumenta
in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Manuscripts (15 min.)
 
4. Michael Meckler, Yale University
 
Vetera enim Cessavere Novis Supervenientibus:  Ancient
Readings and Modern Writings in Matthew of Vendôme's Ars
Versificatoria (15 min.)
 
5. Daniel Sheerin, University of  Notre Dame
 
The Unity of the Officium Missae in Rupert of Deutz's
Liber de Diuinis Officiis (15 min.)
 
Respondent:  Jan M. Ziolkowski, Harvard University (20 min.)
 
Discussion
 
 
 
1:30 pm                           Section 68             Manchester Ballroom C
                                Panel Session:                   Hyatt Regency
                  Opulence and Penury in the Hellenistic World
                Alexander Sens and Constanze Witt, Co-Organizers
 
1. Michael Ierardi, Independent Scholar
 
Were the Rich Getting Richer and the Poor Poorer in Hellenistic
Greece? (20 min.)
 
2. Barbara Tsakirgis, Vanderbilt University
 
To Live as a Greek:  Display of Wealth in the Hellenistic House
(20 min.)
 
3. Constanze Witt, University of Virginia
 
Playthings of the Rich? Images of the Poor in Hellenistic Art
(20 min.)
 
4. Kathryn Gutzwiller, University of Cincinnati
 
The Theme of Poverty in Leonidas' Epigrams (20 min.)
 
5. Elizabeth Asmis, University of Chicago
 
The Epicurean Middle Class  (20 min.)
 
Respondent: Peter Green, University of Texas
 
 PAPER TO BE READ BY TITLE ONLY:
 
1. Lee Francis Sherry, Dumbarton Oaks
 
The de S. Cypriano of Athenais-Eudokia:  Justina the Hero
 

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