American Philological Association
1997 Annual Meeting


MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1997

8:00am-5:00pm

Registration

Lobby Level

7:30am-8:30am

Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies Representatives Breakfast

Parlor C

7:30am-8:30am

Meeting of the Editorial Board for Monographs

Parlor B

8:00am-9:00am

Meeting of the Classical Atlas Committee

Executive Director's Suite

8:00am-9:00am

Annual Meeting of M.A.-Granting Institutions

8:00am-9:30am

Meeting of INSTAP Study Center for East Crete

Parlor D


Fourth Session for the Reading of Papers

8:30am Section 30 Missouri

Paper Session: Latin Meter and Stylistics, Presider

  1. Basil Dufallo, University of California, Los Angeles, Latinitas and Sermo Purus in Roman Criticism and Culture (15 min)
  2. Benjamin Victor, UniversitÈ de MontrÈal, The Prosody and Pragmatics of Ille (15 min)
  3. George A. Sheets, University of Minnesota, Saturnian Rhythms (15 min)
  4. Jedediah Parsons, University of California, Berkeley, A New Approach to the Saturnian Verse (15 min)
  5. Philip Mitchell Freeman, Boston University
  6. Saturnian Verse and Early Latin Poetics (15 min)

Discussion


8:30am Section 31 Ontario

Paper Session: Problems in Greek Religion
Jon Mikalson, Presider

  1. Sandra Westover, University of Southern California, Sacra Metallurgica: Greek Daimones and Eastern Cult (15 min)
  2. Benjamin H. Weaver, The Ohio State University, Mimesis in Maenadic Cult (15 min)
  3. John R. Hale, University of Louisville, Chasm and Vapor at Delphi (15 min)
  4. Scott Scullion, Union College, Heroic and Chthonian Sacrifice: New Evidence from Selinous (15 min)
  5. Greta Ham, University of Texas, Austin, Maturation Rites at the Choes and Athenian Citizenship (15 min)

Discussion


8:30am Section 32 Chicago 1

Paper Session: Homer and the Iliad Presider

  1. Bruce Heiden, Ohio State University, The Marking of "Books" in the Iliad (15 min)
  2. Bruce M. King, University of Chicago, Dios Boule, Heldend%mmerung, Akhilleus (15 min)
  3. Thomas R. Walsh, Occidental College, Il. 1.282-283: Whose Wrath is it Anyway? (10 min)
  4. Johannes Haubold, Cambridge University, Homer as laos-Epic (15 min)
  5. Barbara Graziosi, Cambridge University, The Death of the Author and the Birth of Homer (15 min)

Discussion


8:30am Section 33 Ohio Paper Session: Greek Rhetors and Rhetoric, Presider

  1. Harvey Yunis, Rice University, Demosthenes' Response to the Charge of Incompetence and Failure (15 min)
  2. Kathryn A. Morgan, University of California, Los Angeles, Reading out of Context: The Speech of Lysias in Plato's Phaedrus (15 min)
  3. Judson S. Herrman, Harvard University, The Good, The Bad, the Logographer (15 min)
  4. Wilfred E. Major, St. Anselm College, and Edward Schiappa, University of Minnesota, Gorgias' "Undeclared" Theory of Arrangement (15 min)
  5. Sulo Asirvatham, Columbia University, Macedonian Ethnicity and the Concept of the hegemon in Greek Rhetoric (15 min)
  6. David Mirhady, University of Lethbridge, The Athenian Rationale for Torture (15 min)

Discussion


8:30am Section 34 Chicago 2 Paper Session: Ovid
Peter Knox, Presider

  1. Janice Siegel, Temple University, An Apologia for Procne (15 min)
  2. Bruce J. Gibson, University of Newcastle, Ovid on Reception: Tristia 2 (15 min)
  3. Keith Jones, University of Chicago, Corinna's Hair: Analogues of Love in Ovid Amores 1.14 (15 min)
  4. Alexa Jarvis, University of Pennsylvania, Pregnancy and the Transformation of the Female Body in Ovid's Metamorphoses (15 min)
  5. Kristina Milnor, University of Michigan, A Consuming Passion: Ovid on Love and Imports in Ars Amatoria I (15 min)

Discussion


8:30am Section 35 Mississippi Paper Session: Hellenistic Poetry
Alan Cameron, Presider

  1. Rebecca L. Frost, University of Pennsylvania, Reading the Sepulcrum Simonidis: Callimachus and the Epitaphic Tradition (15 min)
  2. Benjamin Hughes, University of Virginia, The Educated Erastes: Callimachus and the Language and Imagery of Homoerotic Paideia (15 min)
  3. David Kutzko, University of Michigan, Reinterpreting Motivation in Herodas: Mimes Six and Seven, and Metro's Secret (15 min)
  4. S. Douglas Olson, University of Minnesota, The Poetics of Fish: SH 146 and Ancient Readers of Archestratos of Gela (15 min)
  5. Maria Broggiato, University College, London, Crates of Mallos and the Polymatheia of the Poet (15 min)
  6. Elizabeth Tylawsky, Yale University, Althenaeus and the Four Philoxeni: A Gustatory Intersection of Real Life, Comedy, and Anecdote (15 min)

Discussion


8:30am Section 36 Arkansas

Paper Session: Hellenistic Philosophy
Presider

  1. Robert J. Gorman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, The Recusatio Scholarium and Cicero's Romanization of Philosophizing (15 min)
  2. James Warren, Clare College, Cambridge, Pyrrho's Psychic Striptease: ekdunai ton anthropon (15 min)
  3. Margaret Graver, Dartmouth College, Rome's Other Anti-Erotic Diatribe (15 min)
  4. Daniel Solomon, Yale University, ho nouthetetikos tropos: Epicurus on Emotional Education in P.F., 25 (15 min)
  5. Michael Wigodsky, Stanford University, A Platonic Work in Epicurus On Nature XIV (15 min)

Discussion


8:30am Section 37 Huron Three-Year Colloquium on Urbanization and the Hellenistic World
Alexander Sens and Nita Krevans, Organizers

  1. Amos Kloner, Israel Antiquities Authority, Maresha (20 min)
  2. Constanze Witt, University of Virginia, The City Shown and Seen (20 min)
  3. Gretchen Umholtz, McMaster University
  4. Cities on Parade: Polis and Oikoumene in the Hellenistic World (20 min)

Respondents: Julie Nishimura-Jensen, Arizona State University (20 min), Joan Burton, Trinity University (20 min)

Discussion


8:30am Section 38 Chicago 3 Panel Session: Bias and Greek Poetic Fragments
Adele C. Scafuro and Carolin Hahnemann, Organizers

  1. Jeffrey Henderson, Boston University, Genre Pieces: The Ascription of Comic Fragments and Periods (20 min)
  2. Nita Krevans, University of Minnesota, Discretion, Discrimination, and Hellenistic Fragments (20 min)
  3. Carolin Hahnemann, Bard College, Collecting and Selecting: Approaches to the Tragic Fragments (15 min)
  4. Jan Maarten Bremer, University of Amsterdam, Editing and Interpreting Fragments of Cultic Poetry (20 min)
  5. Eva Stehle, University of Maryland, Erinna's Nonperformance of Lament (20 min)

Commentator: Mark Griffith, University of California at Berkeley (15 min)

 

Discussion


8:30am Section 39 Colorado

Paper Session: Greek History

, Presider

  1. Scott Michael Rusch, Why 16,000 Oldest, Youngest, and Metic Hoplites in Thuc. 2.13.6-7? (15 min)
  2. Martha C. Taylor, Loyola College, Maryland, When the Peiraieus and the City are One (15 min)
  3. Thomas Nelson Winter, University of Nebraska, Corinthian Tolls and Taxes and the Byzantine Toll of 220 (15 min)
  4. Bruce M. LaForse, University of Texas, Austin, Xenophon, Callicratidas and Panhellenism (15 min)

Discussion


9:00am-11:00am

Meeting of APA Committee on Computer Activities

Executive Director's Suite

9:00am-11:00am

Business Meeting of the Virgilian Society

Ballroom 4

9:00am-1:00pm

Meeting and Interviews of the Lionel Pearson Fellowship Committee

Lincoln Board Room


9:00am Section 40 Ballroom 10 Joint Panel Session: Athenian History and Epigraphy: Colloquium by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
B. Hudson McLean and Stephen Tracy, Organizers

     
  1. Lisa Kallet-Marx, University of Texas at Austin, The Decrees Relating to the Sicilian Expedition (IG I3 93) (20 min)
  2. Stephen V. Tracy, Ohio State University, Politicians and Inscriptions of the Years 307 to 302 (20 min)
  3. Kevin Clinton, Cornell University, The Macedonians at Eleusis in the 280's (20 min)
  4. Christin Habicht, The Institute for Advanced Study, Recent Activities at Rhamnous (20 min)
  5. John Morgan, University of Delaware, Polyeuktos, the Soteria and the Chronology of Athens and Delphi (20 min)
  6. Michael Osborne, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Inscriptions and Chronology of Athens in the Third Century B.C. (20 min)

Discussion: Kent Rigsby, Duke University


9:30am-11:30am

Board of Directors Meeting of the American Society of Papyrologists

Parlor C

9:30am-10:30am

Business Meeting of the Society for Late Antiquity

Parlor G

Fifth Session for the Reading of Papers

11:00am Section 41 Ohio Panel Session: Ancient Archives: Records or Representations?
W. Jeffrey Tatum, Organizer
(Sponsored by the Committee on Ancient History)

  1. James P. Sickinger, The Florida State University, IG II2 2318 and Athenian Archives of the Early Fifth Century (25 min)
  2. Phyllis Culham, US Naval Academy, Architectural Archives at Aphrodisias (25 min)
  3. Callie Williamson, Indiana University, Legitimization: Prescripts and Archival Practices in Rome (25 min)

Respondent: W. V. Harris, Columbia University (20 min)

Discussion


11:00am Section 42 Chicago 1

Three-Year Colloquium on Ethnicities, Ancient and Modern
Bella Zweig and Daniel P. Tompkins, Organizers

     
  1. Rhiannon Evans, University of Southern California, Cannibal Cravings: Constructing the Anthropophagous Egyptian in Juvenal Satire (20 min)
  2. Denise Kimber Buell, Williams College, Why This New Genos? The Implications of Equating Religious Affiliation with Ethnicity in Early Christian Self-Definition (20 min)
  3. Mary Knight, New York University, Rethinking the Nasamones and Libyo-Greek Relations (20 min)

Discussion


11:00am Section 43 Mississippi

Three-Year Colloquium on Celebration and Contestation:Reading Ancient Ritual
Victoria Wohl and Lisa Maurizio, Organizers

  1. 1. Gregory S. Aldrete, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, Acclamations: Rituals of Negotiation and Contestation (15 min)
  2. David Leitao, San Francisco State University, The Exclusion of Agamoi from the Gymnopaidiai and the Politics of Viewing in Sparta (15 min)
  3. ThËrÈse de Vet, University of Heidelberg, Festivals as Ideological Texts (15 min)
  4. Barbara Goff, University of Texas, Austin, Apollodoros' Imaginary Citizens (15 min)
  5. Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox, University of Chicago, Ritual Practice and the Ideal of Isegoria in the Athenian Assembly (15 min)

Discussion


11:00am Section 44 Chicago 2

Panel Session:Augustan Writers and the Western Greek Influence
Patricia A. Johnston and Alexander G. McKay, Organizers
(Sponsored by The Vergilian Society)

Introduction: Patricia A. Johnston, Brandeis University (10 min)

     
  1. Barbette Stanley Spaeth, Tulane University, Ceres Graeca: Greek Influence on the Roman Cult of Ceres (20 min)
  2. Raymond J. Clark, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  3. The Greek and Roman Sources for Hector's Ghost in Aeneas' Dream (20 min)
  4. J. J. Smolenaars, University of Amsterdam, Homeric Hades at Lake Avernus: the Migration of Greek Myth to the West and its Political Assimilation in Augustan Poetry (20 min)

Respondent: Alexander G. McKay, McMaster University (20 min)

Discussion


11:00am Section 45 Arkansas

Three-Year Colloquium on Ancient Greek Law
Michael Gagarin, Organizer

     
  1. Zinon Papakonstantinou, Oxford University, Written Law and Literacy in Archaic and Classical Crete (20 min)
  2. Edward Harris, Brooklyn College, Did Solon Abolish Debt-Bondage? (20 min)
  3. M. B. Richardson, University of California, Berkeley, The New Law on Minting in the Athenian Agora (20 min)
  4. Adriaan Lanni, Yale University, Arguments from Precedent: Modern Perspectives on Athenian Practice (20 min)

Respondent: Robert Wallace, Northwestern University (20 min)

Discussion


11:00am Section 46 Missouri

Panel Session: Gender and Sexuality in the Classical World
John G. Younger, Organizer (Sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Classical Caucus)

  1. Paul Rehak and Roman Snihurowych, Duke University, Myth, Medicine, and Matriarchy: Reconstructing a Female Homosocial Environment in the Thera Frescoes (15 min)
  2. Bella Zweig, University of Arizona, Danaids, Okeanids, Choephoroi, and Young Women of Thebes: Does Aiskhylos Portray a Women's World in his Drama? (15 min)
  3. Michael Ridgway Jones, University of Georgia, On the Subject(s) of Spectacle: Roman Women on Stage (15 min)
  4. Donka Markus, University of Michigan, Performing Epic or Negotiating Gender Boundaries?: The Epic Recital in the First Century CE (15 min)
  5. Terry G. Wilfong, University of Michigan, Teaching Others about Friendship and Physical Desire: Lesbian Discourse in a Convent in Fifth Century CE Egypt (15 min)

Discussion


11:00am Section 47 Ontario

Three-Year Colloquium on Patronage in Late Antiquity
Claudia Rapp and David Olster, Organizers

  1. Geoffrey Nathan, University of California, Los Angeles, Anicijauliana, the Vienna Dioscurides Portrait and the Idealized Patron (15 min)
  2. Scott Bradbury, Smith College, Patrons and Friends in the Letters of Libanius (15 min)
  3. Alice Christ, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Sermons, Senators, and Sarcophagi in Fourth Century Rome (15 min)
  4. Gillian Clark, University of Liverpool, Identity in Fragments: The Earthly and Heavenly Patrons of Victricius of Rouen (15 min)
  5. Ann Marie Yasin, University of Chicago, One Foot at a Time: A Collective Side of Late Antique Church Patronage (15 min)

Respondent: John Matthews, Yale University (10 min)

Discussion


11:00am Section 48 Huron

Panel Session: Roman Infant Cemeteries: Bones, Disease, Magic
Frank E. Romer and David Soren, Organizers

  1. William Aylward, University of Cincinnati, The Archaeological Site Near Lugnano in Teverina, Italy (20 min)
  2. David Soren, University of Arizona, Late Roman Infant Cemeteries: Some Implications (20 min) Michael MacKinnon, University of Alberta, Exploring the Potential of Animal Bone Studies (20 min)
  3. Frank Romer, University of Arizona, Malaria and the Fall of Rome? (20 min)
  4. Lorenza Merzogora, University of Rome, La Sapienza, A Critical Review Concerning Malaria Epidemics in Ancient Italy (20 min)
  5. Laura D. Lane, Bryn Mawr College, Malaria, Medicine and Magic in the Roman World (20 min)

Respondents: Keith Bradley, University of Victoria; Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg; Amy Richlin, University of Southern California (30 min)

Discussion


12:00pm-1:00pm

Meeting of the Editorial Board for Non-Print Publications

Parlor C

12:00pm-1:30pm

Meeting of the Editors of Classical Journals

Executive Director's Suite

12:00pm-2:00pm

APA Minority Scholarship Fundraiser and Luncheon
Joyce Moran, Speaker

Mayfair

12:00pm-1:30pm

Luncheon Meeting of the Regional Classical Associations

Parlor F

1:15pm-4:00pm

Meeting of the APA Finance Committee

Lincoln Board Room


Sixth Session for the Reading of Papers

1:30pm Section 49 Ohio

Paper Session:Socrates and his Contemporaries
, Presider

  1. David Wolfsdord, University of Chicago, Confusing Socrates' What-is-F? Question (15 min)
  2. Daniel J. Schoos, University of Pittsburgh, Timaeus Banquet (15 min)
  3. Andrew Reece, Indiana University
  4. The Wisdom of Cydias: Hearing Socrates' Narrative in the Charmides (15 min)
  5. Daniel S. Richter, University of Chicago, Socrates' Homeric Allusion at Apology 34d: "I was not born from the oak or the rock" (15 min)
  6. Brian C. Fuchs, Yale University, Down on the Farm: Civic Ideology and Intellectual Reform in the Late Fifth Century (15 min)
  7. Enid Bloch, State University of New York at Buffalo, Hemlock Poisoning and the Death of Socrates: Did Plato Tell the Truth? (15 min)

Discussion

1:30pm Section 50 Huron Paper Session:Latin Imperial Epic
Judith deLuce, Presider

  1. Daniel Sheerin, University of Notre Dame, Spectacle and Response in Manilius' Andromeda Episode (15 min)
  2. John W. Erler, University of Texas, Austin, Vergil's Drances and Lucan's Cicero: Intertextual Reminiscences of the Orator in the Aeneid and the Pharsalia (15 min)
  3. Katherine O. Eldred, Northwestern University, Lucan's Medusa: Resisting Civil War (15 min)
  4. Anne-Marie Lewis, York University, A New Explanation for the Astrological Prophecy of Nigidius Figulus in Lucan's Pharsalia I.658-63 (15 min)
  5. Randall T. Ganiban, Middlebury College, "Me Pietas," " Me Duxit Amor": the Duel of Devotion in Statius' Thebaid (15 min)
  6. Randi Diane Ruden, Independent Scholar, Romancing the Aeneid: Marianus Capella's Copula Sacra of Lovers and Arts (15 min)

Discussion


1:30pm Section 51 Mississippi

Paper Session:Roman Historiography in the Empire
, Presider

  1. Steven H. Rutledge, University of Maryland, Textual Colonization in Tacitus' Agricola (15 min)
  2. Victoria Pagan, University of Florida, Narrating Conspiracy: "Pillow Talk" in Roman Historiography (15 min)
  3. Francesca Santoro L'hoir, American Academy in Rome, Tragic Settings in Tacitus' Annales and the Violation of Boundaries (15 min)
  4. Emil A. Kramer, University of Cincinnati, The Quinquennium Neronis: What was it Trajan Said? (15 min)
  5. David Rohrbacher, University of Washington, Written Documents and Power in Ammianus Marcellinus (15 min)
  6. Peter Hart O' Brien, Boston University, Ambitiosius Solito: Formal Speeches and Characterisation in Ammianus' Res Gestae 20 and 21 (15 min)

Discussion


1:30pm Section 52 Arkansas

Paper Session: Propertius
Joy King, Presider

  1. Jeri B. DeBrohun, Brown University, Changing Places: Propertius and Tullus, Rome and Greece in Poems 1.6, 3.21 & 3.22 (15 min)
  2. David Cramer, University of Texas, Austin, Modifications of Masculinity: Mollis and Durus in Propertius and Ovid (15 min)
  3. Michael Hendry, Inadvisable Mutilations: The Unity of Propertius 2.22 (15 min)
  4. Denise Eileen McCoskey, Miami University, Reading Cynthia as Cleopatra in the Poems of Propertius (15 min)
  5. Micaela Janan, Duke University, Refashioning Hercules: Propertius 4.9 (15 min)

Discussion


1:30pm Section 53 Colorado

Paper Session: Neoteric Poetics
Helena Dettmer, Presider

  1. Christopher Francese, Dickinson College, Parthenius Grammaticus (15 min)
  2. Jonathan S. Rose, Bryn Athyn College of the New Church, The Two Promotions of Parthenius of Nicaea (15 min)
  3. John Rauk, Michigan State University, The Decorum of Catullus 16 (15 min)
  4. Norbert F. Lain, University of Oxford, Catullus 6.12 (15 min)
  5. Scott C. McGill, Yale University, Elegy, Epic, and Aemulatio: Tristia 1.1-1.4 and Catullus 68 (15 min)
  6. Timothy S. Johnson, Baylor University, The Poet's Praise: Recusatio and Encomium in Horace's Odes IV and Ovid's Fasti (15 min)

Discussion


1:30pm Section 54 Chicago 1

Paper Session: Roman History
, Presider

  1. Jacqueline Long, Loyola University, Chicago, Zosimus' Source for the Palmyrene Revolt (15 min)
  2. David Ligon, University of Cincinnati
  3. The Legal Status of the Fourth-Century Caesariani (15 min)
  4. Charles Weiss, Yale University, Piety and Preferment: On the Date, Audience, and Purpose of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi (15 min)
  5. Rabun Taylor, University of Minnesota, Could the Romans Expropriate Property? (15 min)
  6. Judy E. Gaughan, University of California, Berkeley, The Lex Cornelia de Sicariis et Veneficiis: A Different Angle (15 min)
  7. Stefan G. Chrissanthos, University of Southern California, Sacramentum and Seditio (15 min)

Discussion


1:30pm Section 55 Ontario

Three-Year Colloquium on Early Greek Culture and Society: Approaching the Early Greek Economy
David Tandy and Walter Donlan, Organizers

  1. David B. Small, Lehigh University, Bifurcated Economies and Ancient Greece (20 min)
  2. Richard W. Johnston, Cardinal Stritch College, Economics in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (20 min)
  3. Astrid M¸ller, Universität Freiburg, The Emporion Naukratis and Greek Exchange with Egypt (20 min)
  4. Michael N. Smith, Brown University, Imitation and Adaptation: the Development of Coinage in the Thraco-Macedonian Regions at the End of the Archaic Period (20 min)

Respondent: Walter Donlan, University of California, Irvine (20 min)

Discussion


1:30pm Section 56 Chicago 2

Paper Session: Apuleius and His World
James O'Donnell, Presider

  1. Joseph L. Rife, University of Michigan, Death in Apuleius: Some Social-Historical and Literary Considerations (15 min)
  2. Ellen Finkelpearl, Scripps College, The Multiformity of Isis and the Unity of Apuleius' Metamorphoses (15 min)
  3. Thomas D. McCreight, Loyola College, Maryland, The "Fish-trampling" Episode at Apuleius, Metamorphoses, I. 24-25: A New Perspective (15 min)
  4. William M. Owens, Ohio University, Apuleius' Tale of Cupid and Psyche: An Expropriated Slave Tale? (15 min)
  5. Gerald Sandy, University of British Columbia, Philosophical Education in Athens in the Second Century A.D. (15 min)

Discussion


1:30pm Section 57 Chicago 3 Panel Session: Early Greek, Early Latin
Roger D. Woodard, Organizer
(Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics)

  1. Jason Railsback, University of Texas, The Social and Historical Significance of Mycenaean Theophoric (30 min)
  2. Joshua Katz, Harvard University, The Origin of the Greek Pluperfect (30 min)
  3. Philip Freeman, Washington University, Saturnian Verse and Early Latin Poets (30 min)
  4. Eugene Adam, University of Chicago, The "Meaning" of the Historical Present in Plautus (30 min)

Discussion


1:30pm Section 58 Parlor C Panel Session: Papyrology
Jennifer A. Sheridan, Organizer (Sponsored by the American Society of Papyrologists)

Presider: Roger S. Bagnall, Columbia University

     
  1. Ian Rutherford, University of Reading, Aiginetais eis Aiakon: A Second Title at Pindar, Paean 6, 123 and its Significance (15 min)
  2. Alexandra O' Brien, University of Chicago, Egyptian Women in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt: The Legal and Economic Activities of Women in Demotic Texts (15 min)
  3. Peter Artz, Salzburg University, Pauline Letters and Documentary Papyri (15 min)
  4. Bruce G. Robertson, University of Toronto, An Introduction to the Prosopography of Soknopaiou Nesos (15 min)

Discussion


1:30pm Section 59 Missouri

Paper Session:Greek Fiction
Robert Lamberton, Presider

  1. Jean Alvares, Montclair State University, Heliodorus' Aithiopika and the Solution to History (15 min)
  2. Saundra Schwartz, Columbia University, Legal Versus Biological Paternity in Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe (15 min)
  3. Judith Perkins, Saint Joseph College, Who's Who? Iamblichus' Babyloniaka (15 min)
  4. Jon Berry, University of Chicago, Moral Agency and Cultural Identity in Heliodoros' Aithiopika (15 min)
  5. Alberto Nodar, Christ Church, Oxford University, Ethopoeia on Papyrus and the Novel: A Suicidal Lover (15 min)

Discussion


1:30pm Section 60 Chicago 4

Paper Session: Athletics and Politics in Ancient Greece
Ian Morris, Presider

  1. James P. Holoka, Eastern Michigan University, Marathon and the Myth of the Same-Day March (15 min)
  2. Alexander Inglis, Harvard University, The Struggle for Olympia: Pisa and the Iamidai (15 min)
  3. Nigel M. Kennell, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Its Use the Greeks Turned to Indulgence: Recycling Olive Oil from the Gymnasium (15 min)
  4. Stephen Brunet, Austin College, Fighting to a Draw: The Competitive Spirit in Greek Athletics (15 min)

Discussion


3:00pm-5:00pm

Meeting of the Executive and Steering Committees of the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups, Lesbian /Gay/ Bisexual Caucus, and Women in Archaeology

Superior B


4:00pm-5:00pm

Business Meeting of the Society for Ancient Medicine

Ballroom 2


4:00pm-5:00pm

Annual Meeting of the Committee on the Performance of Classical Texts

Lincoln Board Room


4:00pm-5:00pm

Meeting of the Committee on Awards for Excellence in Teaching

Parlor D



5:00pm-6:30pm Plenary Session Chicago 7
President-Elect Helene Foley, Presiding

Presentation of the Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics
Presentation of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit
Presidential Address, Susan Treggiari


5:00pm-6:00pm

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Papyrologists

Ohio


6:00pm-8:00pm

Reception for Members and Friends of the Etruscan Society

Arkansas


6:30-7:30pm

APA Presidential Reception
All APA Members are invited.(Tickets distributed with Registration materials)

Ballroom 4/5


7:00pm-9:00pm

Meeting of the Alumni Association of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Chicago 8


7:00pm-10:00pm

Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy

Colorado


8:00pm-9:00pm

Annual Meeting of the Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum

Parlor C


9:00pm-10:00pm

Meeting of the Publications Committee of the Antiquities Collection of the American Academy in Rome

Ohio


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