American Philological Association
1997 Annual Meeting

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1997

8:00 am-5:00 pm	Registration	Lobby Level
7:30 am-8:30 am	Meeting of the Committee on Scholarships for Minorities	Executive Director's Suite
7:30 am-8:45 am	Meeting of the Council of the Alumni Association of the American School for Classical Studies at Athens	Parlor B
7:30am-10:00am	Meeting of the Advisory-Editorial Board of the Etruscan Foundation	Parlor G
8:00am-9:00am	Open Meeting on Placement and the APA/AIA Placement Service Sponsored by the APA Placement Committee	Mayfair

First Session for the Reading of Papers

Note: The Program Committee strongly urges all members to participate in discussion at the sessions they attend. A special effort has been made to provide ample time for discussion at paper sessions,panels, and all program units.

8:30am Section 1 Missouri

 
1. John Van Sickle, Brooklyn College and The Graduate School, City University of New York, The Design of Derek Walcott's Omeros (15 min)
   
2. Norman Austin, University of Arizona, Derek Walcott's Post-Colonial Homer (15 min)
3. Gregson Davis, Duke University, Alternatives to Epic: Omeros as a Version of Pastoral (15 min)
4. Timothy Hofmeister, Denison University, "This is We Calypso": An Ithacan and Antillean Topos in Omeros (15 min)
5. Peter Burian, Duke University, "You can build a heavy-beamed poem out of this": Derek Walcott's Odyssey (15 min)

Discussion

1. Mark Munn, Penn State University, Hearing History: Thucydides and Herodotus on Alcibiades and Tyranny (15 min)
2. James Romm, Fordham University, Nomos basileia: The Scythian-Amazon Marriage in Herodotus (4.110-117) (15 min)
3. Haruo Konishi, University of New Brunswick, Thucydides' Year-Ending Formulae (15 min)
4. Karen Bassi, University of California at Santa Cruz, Maternity and Ethnicity in Herodotus' Scythian Logos (15 min)
   
5. Charles F. Pazdernik, Princeton University, Procopius and Thucydides on the Labors of War: Belisarius and Brasidas in the Field (15 min)

Discussion

1. Douglas Blyth, University of Auckland, Reason, Law and Nature in Plato's Laws (15 min)
2. Kathy L. Gaca, Vanderbilt University, A Question of Ethical Affinity: Middle Platonism, Plato's Laws, and his Tenth Commandment (15 min)
3. Ryan K. Balot, Princeton University, Pleonexia, Greed, and Political 'Shares' (15 min)
4. Svetoslava E. Slaveva, University of Iowa, Plotinus' Understanding of Multiplicity in the Treatise On Numbers and Porphyry's Arrangement of the Enneads (15 min)
5. Albert Watanabe, University of Memphis, Cleanthes Philoponus (15 min)
6. Vassilis Vagios, National Taiwan University, Reconstructing the Stoic Tense System (15 min)

Discussion

8:30am Section 4 Mississippi

 
1. Andrew J. Wiesner, University of Pennsylvania, The Body in Pain and the Making of Culture in Petronius' Satyricon (15 min)
2. Dylan Sailor, University of California, Berkeley, Transformation of Ingenium in the Cena Trimalchionis (15 min)
3. Jennifer Ebbeler, University of Pennsylvania, "Nam tam bonae memoriae, ut frequenter nomen meum obliviscar": The Phenomenology of Memory in Petronius' Satyricon (15 min)
4. James A. Whelton, Loyola University Chicago, Fortunata's Hand: The Brothel, Prostitutes and the Cena Trimalchionis (15 min)
5. Daniel B. McGlathery, Ball State University, Sexual Spectacle and Linguistic Deception in the Philomela's Daughter Episode of Petronius'Satyricon (15 min)

Discussion

 
1. Pamela R. Bleisch, University of Georgia, Total Recall: Memory, Literary History, and National Identity in Aeneid 7 (15 min)
2. Philip J. Thibodeau, Brown University, The Death of the Old Man of Tarentum, Vergil Georgics 4.116-148 Reread. (15 min)
3. Kristina Chew, Saint Louis University, The Art of Grafting in Vergil's Georgics (15 min)
4. Joseph Banyasz Romero, Duke University, Faith and Praxix, or: Moeris and Lycidas on Poetry (Vergil Eclogue IX) (15 min)
5. Herman R. Pontes, University of Alberta, Fascinating Rhythm: Vergil's Composition and his Manuscripts (15 min)

Discussion

1. Christina Clark, Florida State University, Nonverbal Communication in Sappho 31 (20 min)
2. Gregory Hays, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Sappho at the Soda Fountain (20 min)
3. Monica Cyrino, University of New Mexico, The Erotics of Absence and Loss in Sappho, Sexton, and Gluck (20 min)
4. Yopie Prins, University of Michigan, P.S. Sappho: Sapphic Authorship in Victorian England (20 min)
5. Alice Browne, Independent Scholar, Sappho, the Double Standard, and Early Modern Women Writers (20 min)

Discussion

Introduction: Cynthia Damon and Sarolta Tak.cs (20 min)
1. John Bodel, Rutgers University, Punishing Piso (20 min)
2. David Potter, University of Michigan, Virtue and Political Theory in the Senatusconsultum de Cn. Pisone Patre (20 min)
3. Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Tacitus and the SC de Pisone Patre (20 min)

Respondent: Harriet Flower, Franklin and Marshall College (30 min)

Discussion

1. Eva Keuls, University of Minnesota, From Nazi-Occupied Holland to American Academe: Classics as a Choice (15 min)
2. William Race, University of North Carolina, Achilles and the Vietnam Experience (15 min)
3. Margaret Phillips, University of Missouri, St. Louis, What's a "Civil Rights Activist" in Latin? How a Classicist Landed in a Criminology Department (15 min)

Respondents: Barbara Gold, Hamilton College (15 min)
Charles Henderson, Jr., Smith College (15 min)

Discussion

8:30am Section 9 Colorado

1. Hanna Roisman, Colby College, The Mourning Admetus (20 min)
2. Avi Sharon, The Music of Heroies: Euripides' Medea (20 min)
3. Elizabeth Scharffenberger, New York University (Gallatin School), Encouraged by Comedy?: Musical and Rhythmic Experimentation in Euripides' Late Tragedies (20 min)

Discussion

Workshop Session:
Stephen Daitz, City University of New York, Reading Euripidean Anapests Aloud (45 min)

8:30am Section 10 Chicago 2

1. Barbara Weiden Boyd, Bowdoin College, Falling in Love with Love-Poetry: Catullus and Ovid the AP Latin Literature Syllabus (25 min)
2. Eileen M. Strange, Miss Porter's School, Portrait of the Artist as Unrequited Lover: Exploring the Personae of Catullus and Ovid (25 min)
3. Frederick Naiden, Harvard University, Janitrix and Janitor (25 min)

Respondent: Judith Lynn Sebesta, University of South Dakota (15 min)

Discussion

9:00am-11:00am	Annual Meeting of the International Plutarch Society	Parlor C
9:00am-10:00am	Meeting of the APA Committee on Ancient History	Lincoln Board Room
9:30am-11:00am	Meeting of the APA Placement Committee Executive	Director's Suite

Second Session for the Reading of Papers

11:00am Section 11 Huron

1. Alex K. Schiller, The Notion of "Foreign" Citizens and the Hapax Legomenon to egktetikon (15 min)
2. Vanessa B. Gorman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The Change in Eponym at Miletos in the 6th Century BCE (15 min)
3. Greg Anderson, Yale University, Alcmeonid "Homelands," Political Exile and the Reach of the Athenian State in Sixth-Century Attica (15 min)
4. Sara Owen, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, Rethinking Greek Colonization: Thasos and Thrace (15 min)

Discussion

11:00am Section 12 Ohio

1. Mary H. T. Davisson, Loyola College, Maryland, Sister Act: Ovid's Silencing of Anna and Juturna (15 min)
2. Margaret DeMaria Smith, University of California, Irvine, Dea, Soror, et Virago: Juturna and Representations of Gender in Vergil's Aeneid (15 min)
3. Nancy Shumate, Smith College, Gender and Nationalism in HoraceÌs Roman Odes (15 min)
4. Elizabeth H. Sutherland, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, The Female Voice and Poetic Control in Horace's Carm. 3.7 (15 min)

Discussion

 
1. Patricia Marshall, Duke University, Dressing Odysseus: From Folk Tale to Epic (15 min)
2. Matthew Clark, York University, Was Telemachus Rude to his Mother? Od. 1.356-359 (15 min)
3. Chad Turner, Loyola University, Chicago, Death from Above in Odyssey 13 (15 min)
4. John F. Garcia, Princeton University, The Humanization of the Divine in Early Greek Hymn: Rite, Narrative, Genre (15 min)

Discussion

11:00am Section 14 Chicago 2

1. Heinrich von Staden, Yale University, Discovery and Authority: Commentary and the Culture of Science (20 min)
2. Susan Stephens, Stanford University, Commenting on Fragments (20 min)
3. Christina S. Kraus, Oriel College, Oxford, Reading Commentaries/Commentaries as Reading (20 min)
4. Roy Gibson, University of Manchester, c.f. e.g. and the Commentator (20 min)

Respondent: Elaine Fantham, Princeton (15 min)

Discussion

11:00am Section 15 Chicago 3

 
1. Charles Platter, University of Georgia, Bacchylides, Blanchot, and the Rhetoric of Ineffability (20 min)
2. Nigel Nicholson, Reed College, The Engue: A Case Study in the Contestation of Aristocratic Ideology in Pindar's Epinicians (20 min)
3. Thomas K. Hubbard, University of Texas-Austin, Pindar and the Problematized Elite in Greek Society (20 min)
4. Jeffrey S. Carnes, Syracuse University, Ideology vs. Poetic Form? Historicizing Pindar and the Bundian Heritage (20 min)

Respondent: David Konstan, Brown University (20 min)

Discussion

 
1. John M. Dillon, Trinity College, Dublin, Iamblichus on the Personal Daemon (20 min)
2. Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, University of Chicago, Did the Mithraists Inhale (20 min),
3. Peter Struck, University of Chicago, Christian and Pagan Theurgies (20 min),

Respondent: John F. Finamore, University of Iowa (15 min)

Discussion

11:00am Section 17 Missouri

 
1. Kenneth Mayer, University of Iowa, Significationum Industria: The Poetics of Figuration (15 min)
2. James W. Halporn, Harvard University and Indiana University, After the Schools: Grammar and Rhetoric in Cassiodorus (20 min)
3. Michael I. Allen, University of Chicago, Ancient Grammar and Rhetoric in the Historiae of Frechulf of Lisieux (15 min)
4. Mary Carruthers, New York University Some Influences of Monastic Meditational Practice upon the Revival of School Rhetoric in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries (15 min)

Commentator: Paul F. Gehl, Newberry Library (15 min)

Discussion

11:00am Section 18 Arkansas

1. Albert R. Baca, California State University, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) and His Critics (20 min)
2. Gilbert Gigliotti, Central Connecticut State University, From Tearful Nineveh to a ÏGrateful AmericaÓ: Ancient Eloquence and Freedom of the Press in De Morte Luctuosa...Andreae Hamiltonis (20 min)
3. Nancy Llewellyn, University of California at Los Angeles, Leibniz' Latin Preface to Novissima Sinica (20 min)
4. Carl Springer, Illinois State University, Musa Witebergensis: The Latin Verse of Martin Luther (20 min)
5. Michele V. Ronnick, Wayne State University Ring Composition and the Theme of Nourishment in Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio Secunda (20 min)

Discussion

11:00am Section 19 Colorado

 
1. Bruce W. Frier, University of Michigan, Ethos and the Rhetorical Stance of Trial Advocates (15 min)
2. Jerise Fogel, University of Illinois, Formalised Speech in Madagascar and the Later Republic (15 min)
3. Jean Goodwin, Northwestern University, A Contemporary Account of the Ancient Practice of Vivid Description (15 min)

Moderator: Christopher P. Craig, University of Tennessee Respondent: Ann Vasaly, University of Massachusetts (30 min)

Discussion

12:00pm-5:00pm	Annual Meeting and Interviews of the TLL Fellowship Committee	Parlor G
12:00pm-1:30pm	Meeting of the Excavation Survey Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens	Parlor B
12:00pm-1:00pm	Annual Meeting of the Society of Ancient Military Historians	Parlor C

Third Session for the Reading of Papers

1:30pm Section 20 Huron

1. David J. Murphy, The Nightingale-Bamford School, New York, Two Neo-Greek Poems by Damiano Guidotto of Venice (15 min)
2. Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M University, Historicizing the "Harvard School": Pessimistic Readings of the Aeneid in Italian Renaissance Scholarship (15 min)
3. Byron Stayskal, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Nineteenth-Century Homeric Analysis and Thomas Kuhn's Theory of Paradigmatic Research (15 min)
4. Jonathan Scott Perry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Collegia Funeraticia in the Inscriptional Record: A Reconsideration of Mommsen's Dissertation (15 min)
5. Richard Armstrong, University of Houston, Freud's Dangerous Hobby: or the Damage Done to Psychoanalysis by Classical Studies (15 min)
6. Margaret Malamud, New Mexico State University, The Classical Tradition in American Popular Culture: Rome in Depression Culture Film (15 min)

Discussion

1:30pm Section 21 Ohio

1. Beth Severy, University of California, Berkeley, Family and State in the SC de Pisone (15 min)
2. Mark Toher, Union College, The Greek Youth of Octavian (15 min)
3. J. Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma,Livy and the Tribunicia Potestas of Augustus (15 min)
4. Ronald George Andrew Cluett, Pomona College,Triumviral Coinage Reconsidered (15 min)
5. Jane D. Chaplin, Middlebury College,The Ornamenta Triumphalia and the Elogia of Augustus' Forum (15 min)
6. Hugh J. Mason, University of Toronto,Tiberius and the Family of Theophanes of Mytilene (15 min)

Discussion

1:30pm Section 22 Chicago 1

 
1. Mary C. Stieber, The Cooper Union Poseidon, Architect; Euripides, Poet: Architectural Language in Trojan Women (15 min)
2. Kim On Chong-Gossard, University of Michigan Iphis and Evadne: The Tragicomic Moment in Euripides' Suppliants (15 min)
3. Grace Ledbetter, Swarthmore College, The Murder of Aigisthus and the Failure of Representation in Euripides' Electra (15 min)
4. Laura McClure, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Hippolytus on Trial: Written Proof and Judicial Process in E. Hipp. 902-1107 (15 min)
5. E. Christian Kopff, University of Colorado, Boulder, Dale and Diggle on Resolution in Syncopated Iambic Lyrics in Tragedy (15 min)
6. Luigi Battezzato, University College, London, Rules for Synizesis in Euripides--The Case of theos (15 min)

Discussion

1:30pm Section 23 Mississippi

1. Gottskalk T. Jensson, University of Toronto, Plain Talk and Kunstsprache: The Logic of Menippean Prosimetry (15 min)
2. Kenneth J. Reckford, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Only a Wet Dream? Hope and Scepticism in Horace, Satires 1.5 (15 min)
3. Rebecca Resinski, University of Californa, Los Angeles, The Bodies of Poets in Horace Satires 1.5 and Propertius 3.8 (15 min)
4. Joshua D. Sosin, Duke University, Lucretius, Seneca and Persius 1.1-2 (15 min)
5. Catherin Keane, University of Pennsylvania, Model Behavior: Roman Satirists on Human Evolution (15 min)

Discussion

1. Eleanor Winsor Leach, Indiana University Gendering Clodius or Loving Your Enemy as Your Other (15 min)
2. Andrew M. Riggsby, University of Texas, Austin Tabular Organization in Roman Culture (15 min)
3. Thomas D. Frazel, University of California, Los Angeles, Have we a Rhodian Declamation (Verr. 2.2.159)? (15 min)
4. Patrick J. McFadden, University of Michigan, A Discourse Function of Discontinuity in Latin Historical Narrative (15 min)
5. John Dugan, Bryn Mawr College, Julius Caesar Strabo and Oratorical Theatricality in Cicero's De Oratore (15 min)
6. Daniel Mortensen, University of Wisconsin, Madison, The Unequal Master: The Rhetoric of Location in the Second Philippic of Cicero (15 min)

Discussion

11:00 am Section 25 Colorado

1. John Lenz, Drew University, Religious Ideology of Kings in Homer and the Early Greek Polis (20 min)
2. Barbara McCauley, Concordia College Aristomenes, Hero of Messenia (15 min)
3. Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College, Allusions to Vesta in Roman Republican Coin Types:Caesar and his Assassins (15 min)
4. Mario Erasmo, Wellesley College, Death and the Roman Imperial Court (15 min)
5. Eric M. Orlin, Bard College, Venus Erycina in Rome: Two Temples, Two Political Objectives (15 min)

Discussion

1:30pm Section 26 Ontario

Introduction: Carol Dougherty, Wellesley College (10 min)

 
1. James Ker, University of California, Berkeley, TheÙria: Foreign Travel and the Archaic Construction of Wisdom (25 min)
2. Leslie Kurke, University of California, Berkeley,Herodotus in Babylon: Imagining the Urban (25 min)
3. Robert Gurval, University of California, Los Angeles, Captive Images: Representations of Subjugation and Empire in the Coinage of Augustus (25 min)
4. William Fitzgerald, University of California, San Diego, Barbarology in Tacitus' Agricola (25 min)

Discussion

1:30pm Section 27 Chicago 2

1. Daniel Curley, University of Washington, Homeric Hospitality in Callimachus' Hecale (15 min)
2. Anatole Mori, University of Chicago, Jason's Cloak and the Image of the Hellenistic Leader (15 min)
3. Maria Henderson Wenglinsky, Columbia University, Allusive Interpretation of a Vexed Homeric Passage: Iliad K 494-497 and Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica, 13. 124 f. (15 min)
4. Steve Reece, Saint Olaf College, Nonnus' Use of the Epithet eridromos (15 min)
5. Robert Edward Clemence Shorrock, Christ's College, University of Cambridge, Nonnus, Oedipus and the Death of Homer (15 min)

Discussion

1:30pm Section 28 Chicago 3

1. Jennifer Clarke Kosak, Emory University Healers and the heroics of medical "techne" (20 min)
2. Erik Ostenfeld, Aarhus Universitet (Denmark) The Psychotherapeutic Approach to Healing in Plato's Republic (20 min)
3. Hanne Sigismund Nielsen, Aarhus Universitet (Denmark) Dystocia: The Physician, the Midwife, and the Parturient in the Gynecology of Soranos of Ephesos (20 min)
4. Rebecca Flemming, University College, London, Galenic Encounters with Female Patients (20 min)
5. Ann Ellis Hanson, University of Michigan, Soranus as Gynecologist in the Pseudo-Soranian Letters to Antony and Cleopatra (20 min)

Discussion

1:30pm Section 29 Missouri

1. John H. Starks, Jr., University of North Carolina, Greensboro Dux femina gregis: Leading Ladies of the Roman Stage (15 min)
2. Holt N. Parker, University of Cincinnati, An Excerpt from the Lost Work of Damastes, On the Care of Pregnant Women and Infants (15 min)
3. William E. Hutton, College of William and Mary, Topography and Culture in Pausanias and Egeria (15 min)
4. Barbara Clayton, Stanford University, Penelope's Web: A Poetics of Unweaving (15 min)
5. Amy C. Smith, Yale University, Through the Looking Glass: Pandora, Demeter, and the Origins of Culture (15 min)

Discussion

2:00pm-4:00pm	Meeting of the Joint Committee on the Classics in American Education	Executive Director's Suite
2:00pm-4:30pm	AIA/APA Joint Display Maps for the Atlas of the Greek and Roman World	Chicago Ballroom 6
3:00pm-4:00pm	Meeting of the Board of Advisors of the DCB	Lincoln Board Room
3:30pm-5:30pm	Business Meeting of the Women's Classical Caucus	Superior A
4:00pm-5:30pm	Meeting of the APA Committee on Publications	Executive Director's Suite
4:00pm-6:00pm	Reception sponsored by: Friends of Ancient History and the APA Committee on Ancient History	Parlor C
4:30pm-6:00pm	Meeting of the APA Committee on the Classical Tradition	Lincoln Board Room
4:30pm-5:30pm	Annual Meeting of theAssociated Colleges of the Midwest and the Great Lakes Colleges Association of Classicists	Mississippi
4:30pm-6:00pm	Meeting of the Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome	Ballroom 1
5:00pm-6:30pm	Advisory Council of the American Academy in Rome	Ballroom1

5:00pm - 7:00pm Presidential Forum Chicago 5

1. Helen Morales, University of Reading, Omnibus Magazine: Driving Classics Forward (30 min)
2. Thomas R. Martin, College of the Holy Cross, The New Rhetoric: Classics on the Web (30 min)
3. A. Trevor Hodge, Carleton University, Producing Pericles (30 min)

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