American Philological Association
1997 Annual Meeting

TUESDAY, December 30, 1997

Seventh Session for the Reading of Papers

 
1. Sarah Culpepper Stroup, University of California, Berkeley, Amphitruonis Sosia: The Transaction of Identity in Plautus' Amphitruo (15 min)
2. Lisa Rengo George, Skidmore College, Meretrix Gloriosa: The Triumphant Imagery of the Plautine Prostitute (15 min)
3. Timothy J. Moore, University of Texas, Austin, Breaking the Rules: Audience Expectations and Musical Accompaniment in Plautus (15 min)
4. Ariana Traill, Harvard University, A Distinctly Roman Note in Terence's Eunuchus (15 min)
5. David Simpson, Holy Cross Academy, Miami, Florida, Luscius Lanuvinus: A Partial Rehabilitation (15 min)

Discussion

 
1. J. Bradford Churchill, University of Colorado, Boulder, Sed Sine Nominibus Res Notavit: The Stylistics of Military Campaign Narrative in Latin Historiography (15 min)
2. Robert John Sklenar, Swarthmore College, Caesar, Cato, and the Language of Sallustian Morality (15 min)
3. Rex Stem, University of Michigan, Esse quam videri bonus: Characterizations of Cato and Caesar in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae (15 min)
4. Paul T. Keyser, Center for Hellenic Studies, Sallust's Catilina as a Roman Alcibiades (15 min)
5. Carlos F. NoreŇa, University of Pennsylvania, Inaction in Sallust's Historiae (15 min)
6. Miriam R. Pelikan Pittenger, University of California, Berkeley, Triumph Debates: Livy's "Language of Heroes" (15 min)

Discussion

9:00am Section 63 Mississippi

Paper Session:Gender Roles in Greek Tragedy
, Presider

 
1. Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple University, The Marriage of Cassandra (15 min)
2. Kirk Ormand, Oedipus the Queen (15 min)
3. Elizabeth Belfiore, University of Minnesota, The Suppliant Bride: Io and the Danaids in Aiskhylos' Suppliants (15 min)
4. Thomas M. Falkner, College of Wooster, Theorizing the Tragic Theats: Spectacle, Sympathy and Gender in Trachiniae (15 min)
5. David B. Dodd, University of Chicago, The Wrath of Hippolytus (15 min)

Discussion

9:00am Section 64 Chicago 2

 
1. Sara H. Lindheim, University of California, Santa Barbara, Mirror, Mirror on Jason's Wall: The "Double Epistles" of Medea & Hypsipyle in Ovid's Heroides (15 min)
2. Gareth Williams, Columbia University, Writing in the Mother Tongue: Hermione and Helen in Heroides 8 (15 min)
3. Vanda Zajko, University of Bristol, The Erotics of Communication (15 min)
4. Alessandro Barchiesi, University of Verona, Elegy Ex Ponto: The Self-Positioning of Heroides 16-21 Within the Elegiac Tradition (15 min)

Respondents: Duncan F. Kennedy, University of Bristol (15 min), S. Georgia Nugent, Princeton University (15 min)

Discussion

9:00am Section 65 Arkansas

 
1. Gary E. Forsythe The Social History of the Taurobolium (15 min)
2. Ortwin Knorr, University of Göttingen, Caesar's Flamonium Diale (15 min)
3. C. Robert Phillips, III, Lehigh University, New Gods for Rome: How Frequent was Evocatio? (15 min)
4. J. Bert Lott, Vassar College, Who were the Magistri Larum Augustorum? (15 min)
5. Celia E. Schultz, Bryn Mawr College, Modern Prejudice and Ancient Praxis: The Case for Female Worship of Roman Hercules (15 min)
6. Carin M. C. Green, University of Iowa, Diana as a Hunting Goddess in Grattius' Cynegetica (15 min)

Discussion

9:00am Section 66 Colorado

 
1. Adele Scafuro, Brown University, Local Justice (15 min)
2. Steven Johnstone, Stanford University, Truth or Dare? Litigating and Disputing in Classical Athens (15 min)
3. Matthew Christ, Indiana University, Friends don't sue Friends: Litigation and Community Ideals (15 min)
4. Lene Rubinstein, Royal Holloway, University of London, Citizen-Education and the Athenian Courts (15 min)
5. Andrew Wolpert, Harvard University, Law without Theory (15 min)

Respondent: Michael Gagarin, University of Texas, Austin (15 min)

Discussion

9:00am Section 67 Ontario

Introduction: Mary-Kay Gamel, University of California, Santa Cruz (10 min)

1. Carlin A. Barton, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Performance of Everyday Life (20 min)
2. Christopher Faraone, University of Chicago, Hymns and Incantations: Performance in Daily Life (20 min)
3. Niall Slater, Emory University, Staging Conflicts: Aristophanes (20 min)
4. Peter Meineck, University of Texas, Performing Ancient Drama Today (20 min)

Discussion

9:00am Section 68 Chicago 9

Introduction: Steven L. Tuck, University of Evansville (10 min)

 
1. David Castriota, Sarah Lawrence College, Late Republican Ideology and the "New Imagery" of the Principate: Artistic Continuity and the Rhetoric of Innovation (25 min)
2. Eve D' Ambra, Vassar College, The Virtue of Adornment in Female Portrait Sculpture (20 min)
3. Melissa Dowling, Southern Methodist University, Imperial Ideology and Popular Response: Clemency as a Case Study (20 min)
4. J. Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma, Hercules and Abundantia Augusti: Towards a Theology of Ruler Cult at Rome (20 min)
5. Steven L. Tuck, University of Evansville, The Severan Building Program at Leptis Magna and its Trajanic Antecedents: Creating an Ideology of Imperial Rule (20 min)
6. Clifford Ando, York University, Habermas and Rome (20 min)

Discussion

9:00am Section 69 Missouri

 
1. Bruce Louden, University of Texas, El Paso, Plazo, Poseidon, and the Odyssey Proem (15 min)
2. Egbert J. Bakker, University of Montreal, The Near and the Far: Narratology and Historical Linguistics in Homer (15 min)
3. Andre Lardinois, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Characterization through Gnomai in Homer's Iliad (15 min)
4. Bruce Colegrove, Cornell University, kleos aphthiton and kluta teuchea (15 min)
5. John D. Morgan, University of Delaware, autous de heloria teuche kunessin[Sigma] oionoisi te pasi/daita: Homeric Variants and their Backgrounds (15 min)

Discussion

9:00am Section 70 Huron

 
1. Phyllis B. Katz, Dartmouth College,The Importance of the Okeanids in the Prometheus Bound (15 min)
2. Amy R. Cohen, Stanford University, Aeschylus and the Fourth Actor: Staging the Choephori (15 min)
3. Judith Fletcher, Wilfrid Laurier University, Exchanging Glances: Vision and Representation in Aeschylus' Agamemnon (15 min)
4. Peter M. Smith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Tyche is not "Chance" in Oedipus the King (15 min)
5. Edwin Carawan, Southwest Missouri State University, Deianeira's Innocence: Bacchylides and Trachiniae (15 min)

Discussion

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