Program for the 1998 Annual Meeting

December 27-30, 1998

Washington, D.C

Sunday, December 27, 1998

9:00 – 3:00 pm Meeting of the APA Nominating Committee

12:30 – 3:30 pm Luncheon Meeting of the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups

2:00 – 6:00 pm Meeting of the Executive Committee of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens

3:30 – 6:00 pm Meeting of the Board of Directors of the American Philological Association

4:30 – 6:00 pm Meeting of the Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome

5:00 – 9:00 pm Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Vergilian Society

5:00 – 6:30 pm Meeting of the Advisory Council of the American Academy in Rome

5:30 – 7:30 pm Alumni Reception of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome

6:30 – 8:00 pm Reception of the American Academy in Rome

7:00 – 9:45 pm Meeting of the Steering Committee of the Women’s Classical Caucus

10:00 – 12:00 pm Opening Night Reception
Sponsored by the Women’s Classical Caucus, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Classical Caucus, and the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups

MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1998

FIRST SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS

SECOND SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS

THIRD SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS

APA Presidential Panel

Joint APA – AIA Forum: Expedient and Expendable: Adjunct and Part-Time Faculty

7:30 – 8:30 am APA Committee on Ancient History Meeting

7:30 – 9:00 am Meeting of the Council of Alumni/-ae Association of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens

8:00 – 9:00 am Meeting of the APA Committee on Scholarships for Minority Students

8:00 – 9:00 am Opening Meeting on the APA Placement Committee and the APA/AIA Placement Service


FIRST SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS

8:30 a.m. Section 1
Pindar
Richard Hamilton, Presider

1. Thomas K. Hubbard, University of Texas, Austin
Pindar and Theoxenus: The Social Context of Erotic Encomium (15 mins.)

2. Christine Clarkson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Role of the Pindaric daimon: Restoring Divine Measure in Pythian 8 (15 mins.)

3. Stephen B. Heiny, Earlham College
Form in Pindar’s Isthmian 2 (15 mins.)

4. Olga Levaniouk, Harvard University
The Gates of Hymn: Angelia in Pindar’s Olympian 6 (15 mins.)

5. William H. Race, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Framing Hyperbata in Pindar’s Odes (15 mins.)

6. Nigel Nicholson, Reed College
A Charioteer for Hire: Nicomachus in Pindar’s Isthmian 2.19-28 (15 mins.)

Discussion


8:30 a.m. Section 2
Roman Republican History
Keith Bradley, Presider

1. Jonathan Roth, San Jose State University
Logistics and the Marian Reform: Rethinking the Muli Mariani (15 mins.)

2. Valerie M. Warrior, Boston University
A Marked Use of religio in Livy’s Account of the Hannibalic War (15 mins.)

3. T. Davina McClain, Loyola University New Orleans
Laughter in Livy (15 mins.)

4. Nathan Rosenstein, The Ohio State University
Livy 24.18.7-9 and Military Manpower in the Middle Roman Republic (15 mins.)

5. Alexa Jervis, University of Pennsylvania
The Worthy Enemy: the Portrayal of Vercingetorix in Caesar’s Bellum
Gallicum (15 mins.)

6. C. Robert Phillips III, Lehigh University
Death or Dishonor: Cato’s Punishment of Lucius Veturius (15 mins.)

Discussion

8:30 a.m. Section 3
The Greek Novel


1. Scott C. McGill, Yale University
The Literary Lives of a Scheintod: Clitophon and Leucippe 5.7 and Greek Epigram (15 mins.)

2. Lawrence Kim, Princeton University
The “Trouble” With Kalasiris: Authority, Duplicity & Self-Presentation in Heliodorus (15 mins.)

3. Jean Alvares, Monclair State University
Eros and the Reformation of Love and Society in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe (15 mins.)

4. David H. J. Larmour, Texas Tech University
Lucian’s True History: Allegories of Reading (15 mins.)

5. Stephen M. Trzaskoma, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Longus, Thucydides and their Mytilenian Debates (15 mins.)

Discussion


8:30 a.m. Section 4
Greek History
Lisa Kallet, Presider

1. Philip Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
???????’????????????????????????????: the Mercenary in Early
Greece (15 mins.)

2. Brian M. Lavelle, Loyola University Chicago
The Thracian Chersonese and Early Athenian Imperialism (15 mins.)

3. Chad M. Fauber, University of Chicago
Conceiving Hellen: Genealogical Representations of the Hellenic Descent Group in Fifth- and Sixth-Century Athens (15 mins.)

4. Mehmet Fatih Yavuz, University of Southern California
The Foundation Myth of the Argeads (15 mins.)

5. Victoria Wohl, The Ohio State University
Thucydides’ Tyrannicide Digression and the Castration of the Demos (15 mins.)

6. Leah R. Johnson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The So-Called “Athenian Coinage Decree” Reconsidered (15 mins.)

Discussion


8:30 a.m. Section 5
Women’s Voices
Amy Richlin, Presider

1. Elizabeth L. Walton, Independent Scholar
Poets in Drag: Female Voice in the Pharmaceutria of Theocritus and Vergil (15 mins.)

2. Stephen M. Wheeler, The Pennsylvania State University
Who Speaks in Ovid’s Metamorphoses? (15 mins.)

3. Caroline E. Bryant, University of Richmond & University of Texas
Heresy in High Places: Women of the Imperial Household and the Fourth-Century Christological Controversy (15 mins.)

4. Molly Pasco-Pranger, University of Pugent Sound
Performance, Prostitution, and “Playing the Roman”: The Roman Floralia and the Social
Construction of Performing Women (15 mins.)

5. Tina Saavedra, University of Chicago
Women at the Table: Banquets in Roman Spain (15 mins.)

Discussion


8:30 a.m. Section 6
Unmasked Performance
Three-Year Colloquium on Varieties of Performance in the Mediterranean
Eva Stehle and Mary-Kay Gamel, Organizer

1. Eva Stehle, University of Maryland, College Park
Introduction (10 mins.)

2. Derek Collins, University of Texas at Austin
Competition in Performance: Reading the Certamen as Evidence for a Stichomythic Model of Rhapsodic Exchange (15 mins.)

3. Joy Connolly, University of Washington
Playing Women, Making Men: Reclaiming the Theatrical in the Second Sophistic (15 mins.)

4. Marilyn Skinner, University of Arizona
Among Those Present: Catullus 10 and 44 (15 mins.)

5. Leslie Cahoon, Gettysburg College
Myrrha’s Tears: Roman Epic in Performance (15 mins.)

6. Anne Duncan, University of Pennsylvania
Poet as Witch: Magic, Performance and Seduction in Theocritus’ Second Idyll and Apollonius’ Argonautica (15 mins.)

Discussion


8:30 a.m. Section 7
Late Antique Aesthetics and Values
Sponsored by the Colloquium on Late Antiquity
John Matthews and Dennis Trout, Organizers

1. Florin Curta, Western Michigan University
Corporeality, Neoplatonism, and the Golden Bowl from Pietroasa: On Julian’s Aesthetics (15 mins.)

2. Jacqueline Long, Loyola University Chicago
Fun Reading the Historia Augusta (15 mins.)

3. Stefanie A. H. Kennell, Independent Scholar
Ennodius’ Libellus: Promoting the Pope, Subduing the Senate (15 mins.)

4. Carlos Galvao-Sobrinho, Yale University
Aesthetic Sensibility, the Suffering Poor, and Social Change in the Later Roman Empire (15 mins.)

5. Arkadi Kovelman, Queen’s University
The Style of Documentary Papyri and the Time Frame of Late Antiquity (15 mins.)

Respondent: Michele Salzman, University of California, Riverside (10 mins.)

Discussion
Business Meeting

8:30 a.m. Section 8
Techniques and Means of Treating Disease by Greco-Roman Physicians
Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Medicine
Lawrence J. Bliquez, Presider

1. Robert Arnott, University of Birmingham
Surgery and Surgical Practices of the Prehistoric Aegean (20 mins.)

2. Eric Nelson, Pacific Lutheran University
Eye of the Storm: Eyes as Mental Prognostic and Diagnostic in Ancient Medicine (20 mins.)

3. Lee Pearcy, The Episcopal Academy
Epicurus and the Cure of Souls: Observations on Philodemus, De Pietate (20 mins.)

4. Mary Knight, New York University
Nymphae sectio: Female genital mutilation and the “treatment” of venery in Greco-Roman Egypt (20 mins.)

Discussion

Business Meeting of the Society for Ancient Medicine



8:30 – 10:30 am Business Meeting and Informal Workshop on Ciceronian Prose
Sponsored by the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek & Latin Literature


9:00 – 11:00 am Meeting of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Papyrologists

Business Meeting of the American Society of Papyrologists


2:00 – 3:00 pm APA Committee on Research Meeting

2:00 – 4:00 pm Meeting of the ACL/APA Joint Committee
on Classics in American Education

3:00 – 4:00 pm Meeting of the APA Committee on the Goodwin Awards

3:00 – 4:30 pm Meeting of the APA Committee on the Classical Tradition

7:00 – 9:00 pm Reception for Alumni of the American Numismatic Society