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
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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