Program for the 1998 Annual Meeting

December 27-30, 1998

Washington, D.C

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1998

FOURTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS

FIFTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS

SIXTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS

SEVENTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS

APA Plenary Session

Special Presentation: Staging The Oresteia: Mask and Modern Performance. A Practical Workshop



7:00 – 9:00 am INSTAP – Study Center for East Crete Managing Committee Meeting

7:30 – 8:30 am APA Editorial Board for Monographs Meeting

7:30 – 8:30 am APA Editorial Board for Textbooks Meeting

7:30 – 8:30 am APA Editorial Board for Non-print Publications Meeting

7:30 – 8:30 sm Meeting of the Classical Atlas Committee

7:30 – 9:00 am Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome Institutional Representatives Breakfast

7:30 – 9:30 am Meeting of the Etruscan Foundation

8:00 – 9:30 am Meeting of the APA Committee on Computer Activities


FOURTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS

8:30 a.m. Section 26
Greek Rhetoric
Michael Gagarin, Presider

1. Barbara Price Wallach, University of Missouri at Columbia
Homeric Tradition and Personal Responsibility in Antiphon 1 (15 mins.)

2. David D. Phillips, University of Michigan
When the Whip Comes Down: Slave Torture and Defense Strategy in Lysias 4 (15 mins.)

3. N.R.E. Fisher, Cardiff University
The Moral Majority and “big Timarchian whores:” How and why did Aeschines win his case against Timarchos? (15 mins.)

4. Julie Laskaris, University of Richmond
Divine Knowledge in On the Sacred Disease (15 mins.)

5. R. Anthony Kugler, Brown University
The Ox, the Crow, and the Orator: Image and Allegory in Dio Chrysostom’s Second Tarsian Oration (15 mins.)

6. Charles Weiss, Yale University
The Title of Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi and the Mysteries of Rhetoric (15 mins.)

Discussion

8:30 a.m. Section 27
Ovid’s Heroides
Alessandro Barchiesi, Presider

1. Jennifer Ebbeler, University of Pennsylvania
Back Talk in Ovid’s Heroides (15 mins.)

2. Barbara Clayton, Stanford University
Looking for Penelope’s Web in Heroides 1 (15 mins.)

3. Laurel Fulkerson, Columbia University
Erotic Paraffin-alia: Ovid Waxes Poetic in Heroides 13 (15 mins.)

4. Sara H. Lindheim, University of California, Santa Barbara
Why Oenone Should Have Known It Would Never Work Out (Eclogue 10 and Heroides 5) (15 mins.)

5. M. Catherine Bolton, Concordia University
Propemptic Elements in the Heroides (15 mins.)

Discussion

8:30 a.m. Section 28
Pindar & Bacchylides
Jeffrey Carnes, Presider

1. Irene Polinskaya, Stanford University
The Religious Function of Epinikion (15 mins.)

2. Jonathan Fenno, College of Charleston
Pindar’s Streams of Song: Musical Memory and Theban Dirce (15 mins.)

3. Sarah E. Harrell, Princeton University
Dedication and Poetry at Delphi: Bacchylides Ode Three (15 mins.)

4. David B. Dodd, University of Chicago
The Tyrant and the Gentleman: Bacchylides 17 as Agon (15 mins.)

5. Richard P. Martin, Princeton University
Bacchylides’ Bodies, Now and Then (15 mins.)

Discussion

8:30 a.m. Section 29
Greek History
Martin Ostwald, Presider

1. Bruce Robertson, University of Toronto
Why Did the Athenians Avoid Referring to Women by Name? (15 mins.)

2. William Hutton, College of William and Mary
The Imperial Cult and the Greeks: The Case of Pausanias (15 mins.)

3. Darice Birge, Loyola University Chicago
Women and the Greek Past in Pausanias’ Descriptive Geography (15 mins.)

4. Eugene N. Borza & Jeanne Reames-Zimmerman, Pennsylvania State University
Some New Thoughts on Alexander’s Death (15 mins.)

5. Keith Jones, University of Chicago
The Quotable Euripides: Euripidean Quotations in Plutarch’s Life of
Alexander (15 mins.)

6. John D. Morgan, University of Delaware
King Demetrios’ 27th Regnal Year? (15 mins.)

Discussion

8:30 a.m. Section 30
Greek Comedy
Kenneth Rothwell, Presider

1. Judith Fletcher, Wilfrid Laurier University
Sacrificial Bodies and the Body of the Text in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (15 mins.)

2. Sarah Culpepper Stroup, University of California at Berkeley
Designing Women: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and the Hetairization of the Greek Wife (15 mins.)

3. Wilfred E. Major, St. Anselm College
Farting for Dollars: Agyrrhios in Aristophanes Wealth 176 (15 mins.)

4. Douglas Domingo-Forasté, California State University, Long Beach
Oligarchy and the Law in Menander (15 mins.)

5. Vincent J. Rosivach, Fairfield University
Class Matters in Menander’s Dyskolos (15 mins.)

6. Zachary P. Biles, University of Colorado, Boulder
Eratosthenes on Plato Comicus: P. Oxy. 2737 and a Rule for Dramatic Procedure (15 mins.)

Discussion

8:30 a.m. Section 31
Gender and Sexuality in the Classical World, Panel IV:
Men’s Culture: Its Formulation and Transmission
Sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Classical Caucus
John Younger, Organizer

1. Pam Gordon, University of Kansas
Effeminatus, Gallos, Kinaidologos: Entries from a Lexicon of Anti-Epicurean Discourse (15 mins.)

2. Mark Anthony Masterson, University of Southern California
The “Nature” and Use of Roman Slave Masculinity (15 mins.)

3. David D. Leitao, San Francisco State University
A Male Pregnancy Ritual from Amathous, Cyprus, and the Strategies of Replacement (15 mins.)

4. Hans-Friedrich Mueller, The Florida State University (Tallahassee)
Chastening Male Desire in the Age of Tiberius (15 mins.)

5. Daniel B. McGlathery, Ball State University
Reversals of Platonic Eros in Petronius’ “Tale of the Pergamene Boy” (15 mins.)

Discussion


8:30 a.m. Section 32
Translation in Context (link to the Colloquium's web site)
Sponsored by the Three-Year Colloquium on Translation in Context
Elizabeth Vandiver and Richard Armstrong, Organizers
Elizabeth Vandiver, Presider

1. Kristoffel Demoen, University of Ghent
Ulysses in the Low Countries: Dutch Homer Translations from the Renaissance
to the Present (18 mins.)

2. Sophia Papaioannou, University of Texas at Austin
Translating Homer in 20th-Century Greece: The “Silent” Voice of a
Revolution (18 mins.)

3. Richard Armstrong, University of Houston
The First Modern Aeneid: Enrique de Villena’s Eneida of 1428 (18 mins.)

4. Richard Thomas, Harvard University
Dryden’s “Perfect Hero”/Long’s “Little Paris”: Virgil’s Aeneid and Horizons of Translation (18 mins.)

5. Elizabeth Fisher, The George Washington University
Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Sailing to Byzantium (18 mins.)

Discussion


8:30 a.m. Section 33
Approaches to Teaching Multiculturalism in the Classics
Sponsored by the APA Committee on Scholarships for Minority Students
James J. Clauss, Organizer

Introduction: Ann Koloski-Ostrow, Brandeis University
1. Virginia Barrett, National Committee for Latin & Greek
Temples of Philae and Edfu: Multicultural Monuments of Graeco-Roman Egypt (15 mins.)

2. Judith Sebesta, University of South Dakota
Multiculturalism at Ostia (15 mins.)

3. James J. Clauss, University of Washington
Casting a Wider and More Inclusive Net: Teaching Multiculturalism at Home and Abroad (15 mins.)

4. Kenneth Kitchell, Jr., Louisiana State University / University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Recalibrating the Canon – Teaching Multicultural Classics (15 mins.)

Respondent: Gail Smith, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Discussion


9:00 – 11:00 am APA Finance Committee Meeting

9:00 – 11:00 am Meeting of the APA Committee on the Performance of Classical Texts

9:30 – 11:00 am Business Meeting of The Vergilian Society

9:30 – 11:00 am Meeting of the APA Committee on Placement


FIFTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS

11:00 a.m. Section 34
Homer’s Odyssey
Jenny Strauss Clay, Presider

1. Ingrid E. Holmberg, University of Victoria
Hephaistos and the Spider’s Web (15 mins.)

2. Sarah Bolmarcich, University of Virginia
How Does Telemachus Know? The Reunion of Father and Son in Odyssey 16 (15 mins.)

3. Naomi Rood, Princeton University
The Poetics of Displacement in the Reunion of Odysseus and Telemachos (15 mins.)

4. Katherine Crissy, Hunter College
The Genealogy of the Phaiakians: Odyssey 7.54-68 (15 mins.)

5. Netta Berlin, Tulane University
Odyssey 14.495 and the Poetics of Dreams in the Epic Tradition (15 mins.)

Discussion


11:00 a.m. Section 35
Greek Philosophy
David Sider, Presider

1. Francis M. Dunn, University of California, Santa Barbara
Protagoras on Time (15 mins.)

2. Steven Lowenstam, University of Oregon
The Lysis as Plato’s Critique of his Symposium (15 mins.)

3. John P. Harris, University of Alberta
“Tragedy Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight:” Plato’s Symposium 223d3-6 and
Ion 531e-534e (15 mins.)

4. Helen Cullyer, Yale University
Aristotle on the Great and the Good: Megalopsuchia in the Eudemian and
Nicomachean Ethics (15 mins.)

Discussion


11:00 a.m. Section 36
Greek Prose
Harvey Yunis, Presider

1. Andrew Scholtz, Wabash College
Socratic mastropeia: Erotic-Political Paradox in Xenophon’s Symposium (15 mins.)

2. Jason König, Cambridge University
Past and Present in Philostratus, Gymnasticus (15 mins.)

3. Laura Gibbs, University of California, Berkeley
Endomythia and the Morals of Aesopic Fables (15 mins.)

4. Mark Beck, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Plutarch’s Proemial Technique (15 mins.)

Discussion


11:00 a.m. Section 37
Pliny and Tacitus
W. Jeffrey Tatum, Presider

1. Steven H. Rutledge, University of Maryland
The Republican Origins of Delatores (15 mins.)

2. Michael Hendry, Arlington, Virgina
Ouden pros ton Erôta: The Staging of Tacitus’ Dialogus (15 mins.)

3. Carlos F. Noreña, University of Pennsylvania
Public and Private in Pliny Ep. 10.1-14 (15 mins.)

4. Douglas C. Clapp, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Unidentified Speakers in Tacitus’ Annales 2.53-3.19 (15 mins.)

Discussion


11:00 a.m. Section 38
The Social World of Ancient Comedy
Jeffrey Henderson, Presider

1. Kristina Milnor, Barnard College
Making (up) a Home: Domestic Arrangements in Plautus’ Mostellaria (15 mins.)

2. David Kutzko, University of Michigan
On the Stage or on the Page, Don’t Trust That Woman! Mostellaria i.iii, Mimiamboi 1, and Amores 1.8 (15 mins.)

3. David Simpson, Holy Cross Academy
The Meretrix of Terence’s Hecyra: As Bona As They Get? (15 mins.)

4. Alan H. Zeitlin, University of California, Berkeley
Non…ut in comoediis: Male Identity, Marriage, and Closure in Terence’s Hecyra (15 mins.)

5. Ariana Traill, University of Colorado, Boulder
???????????????????: Plutarch on the Menandrian Hetaira (15 mins.)

Discussion


11:00 a.m. Section 39
Latin Love Elegy
Ronnie Ancona, Presider


1. Patricia Larash, University of California, Berkeley
Painted Personae: Female Subjectivity and Male Publication Anxieties in Latin
Love Elegy (15 mins.)

2. Matthew Pincus, University of California, Berkeley
Foribus infixa pependi? Genre and circulation in Ovid’s Amores 3.1 (15 mins.)

3. A.G. Thein, University of Pennsylvania
Ovid and Pompey’s Theatre: Urban Image and Intertextuality (15 mins.)

4. Christopher M. Brunelle, Vanderbilt University
What’s a nice girl like you doing in a poem like this? Phyllis in Remedia
amoris 591-608 (15 mins.)

5. Keely K. Lake, University of Iowa
On the Ovidian Authorship of Amores 3.5 (15 mins.)

Discussion


11:00 a.m. Section 40
The Latin Epic of Late Antiquity
Sponsored by the Medieval Latin Studies Group

1. Charles, Witke, University of Michigan
Image and Vocabulary as Indices of Learning in Severus Episcopus, In Evangelia Libri XII (20 mins.)

2. Jessamyn Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles
Occiduis mundi de finibus: Luxuria and Rome (Psychomachia 310ff.) (20 mins.)

3. Luciana Cuppo-Csaki, State University of New York at Albany
Romanizing the Bible in the Age of Justinian: the Historia Apostolica of Arator as a Political Tract (20 mins.)

4. Ralph Hexter, University of California, Berkeley
Decline and Fall of the Christian Latin Epic (20 mins.)

Discussion


11:00 a.m. Section 41
Three-Year Colloquium on Ethnicities: Ancient and Modern
Bella Zweig and Daniel Tompkins, Organizers
Daniel Tompkins, Presider

1 Bella Zweig,University of Arizona
Introduction (5 min.)

2. Timothy P. Bridgman, Trinity College, Dublin
Hellenic and Roman Perceptions of Celtic Ethnic Identity (15 min.)

3. Eireann Marshall, University of Exeter
Libyan Portraits and Definitions: Modern Perspectives on Ancient Libyans (15 min.)

4. Grant Parker, Princeton University
Ethnicity in Translation: The Case of Ammianus’ Huns (15 min.)

5. Denise Eileen McCoskey, Miami University
The Ethnicity/Race/Culture Conundrum: Unpacking Key Identity Terms in the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean (15 min.)

Discussion (25 min.)


12:00 – 1:30 pm APA Minority Scholarship Fundraiser and Luncheon

Speaker: Bartley L. McSwine

12:00 – 1:30 pm Luncheon Meeting of the Editors of Classical Journals

12:00 – 1:30 pm Luncheon Meeting of the Regional Classical Associations

12:00 – 3:00 pm APA Committee on Professional Matters Meeting

12:30 – 5:30 pm Meeting and Interviews of the
Lionel Pearson Fellowship Committee


SIXTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS

1:30 p.m. Section 42
Euripides
Ruth Scodel, Presider

1. Kristin E. Holland, University of Pennsylvania
Making Marriage: Resisted Ritual in Euripides’ Hippolytus (15 mins.)

2. Luigi Battezzato, University College, London
“New Songs” at Ilium and the Birth of Epic in Euripides (15 mins.)

3. Kim On Chong-Gossard, University of Michigan
Secrets and Solidarity in Euripides’ “Silent” Female Choruses (15 mins.)

4. Mark Toher, Union College
Euripides’ Supplices and the Ideology of the Athenian Public Funeral (15 mins.)

5. J. Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma
The Troades of Euripides and the Sicilian Expedition (15 mins.)

6. Charles Segal, Harvard University
The Lacuna(e?) and the End of the Bacchae (15 mins.)

Discussion


1:30 p.m. Section 43
Greek Historiography
Donald Lateiner, Presider

1. Thomas F. Scanlon, University of California, Riverside
The Clear Truth in Thucydides 1.22.4 (15 mins.)

2. Michael Clark, University of California, Berkeley
Thucydides’ Research During the Peace of Nicias (15 mins.)

3. Joseph B. Scholten, Michigan State University
Agelaos the Peacemaker? Epigraphic Evidence for Polybios’ Historiographic Method (15 mins.)

4. Louis H. Feldman, Yeshiva University
The Influence of Sophocles upon Josephus (15 mins.)

5. Laura A. De Lozier, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Scene Makes the Man: Josephus’ Construction of Antony (15 mins.)

6. F.E. Romer, University of Arizona
What is the Genre of khôrographia ? (15 mins.)

Discussion


1:30 p.m. Section 44
Poetry of the Empire
Peter White, Presider

1. David A. Guinee, DePauw University
The Worst Part of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica (15 mins.)

2. Charles McNelis, University of California, Los Angeles
In medias res: Beginning Epic in Statius’ Thebaid 7 (15 mins.)

3. Dr. Hans Peter Obermayer
Welcome to the Pleasure Dome: Martial Goes To Boy-Love or The Pleasure of the Pathicus (15 mins.)

4. Joshua D. Sosin, Duke University
Ausonius’ Juvenal and the Winstedt Fragment (15 mins.)

5. J. Matthew Harrington, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
The Wrath of Juvenal: Rhetorical Invective versus Personae in the Satires (15 mins.)

Discussion


1:30 p.m. Section 45
Roman Religion
Harry B. Evans, Presider

1. John T. Ramsey, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Beware the Ides of March:” An Astrological Prediction? (15 mins.)

2. Geoffrey S. Sumi, Mount Holyoke College
Topography of Monarchy: Julius Caesar and the Lupercalia (15 mins.)

3. John F. Miller, University of Virginia
Triumphus in Palatio (15 mins.)

4. Carin M.C. Green, University of Iowa
Mars as a Hunter and Ephebic God (15 mins.)

5. Dylan Paul Sailor, University of California, Berkeley
Changing the Subject: Augustan Compital Cult and Subaltern Identity (15 mins.)

6. Christopher Michael McDonough, Boston College
The Hag and the Household Gods (Ovid, Fasti 2.571-582) (15 mins.)

Discussion

1:30 p.m. Section 46
Neo-Latin 1998: Latinitas novissima
Sponsored by the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies
Terence Tunberg, Presider

1. John McMahon, LeMoyne College
De Christiano Wedstedio poeta Latino carminibusque eius (20 mins.)

2. Dirk Sacre, Universities of Louvain and Antwerp
Titanicae interitus sive de poetis quibusdam Latinis qui naufragium illud luctuosum cecinerunt (20 mins.)

3. Tuomo Pekkanen, University of Jyvaskal?, Finland
De Kalevala, carmine epico Finnorum Latine reddito (20 mins.)

4. Michele V. Ronnick, Wayne State University
Concerning Nathanial Hawthorne’s Latin Composition “De patribus conscriptis Romanorum” (20 mins.)

Discussion


1:30 p.m. Section 47
Joint APA – AIA Session
The Electronic Stoa: The Future Potential of On-line Publishing in the Classics
Sponsored by the APA Committee on Computer Activities and the AIA Computer Applications and Electronic Publications Committee
Suzanne Bonefas and Timothy E. Gregory, Organizers

1. Nick Eiteljorg, Center for the Study of Architecture
Publishing Electronic Data: Are we ready? (10 mins.)

2. Jocelyn Penny Small, Rutgers University
How Is a Database Not Like A Book? (10 mins.)

3. Ross Scaife, University of Kentucky
A New Consortium for Electronic Publication: Adventures in Stoicism (10 mins.)

4. Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania
Collaborative, Interactive Critical Texts and Commentaries on the WWW: The Vergil Project and Beyond (10 mins.)

5. Elizabeth Vandiver, Northwestern University
The Suda On-Line (SOL) Project (10 mins.)

6. Sebastian Heath, University of Michigan
Encouraging Collaboration: On-line Publication of Mediterranean Poetry (10 mins.)

Discussion (45 mins.)


1:30 p.m. Section 48
Ancient History Today: Trends, Connections, Controversies
Sponsored by the APA Committee on Ancient History
Lawrence A. Tritle, Organizer and Chair

1. Stanley Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles
Current Trends in Ancient History (18 mins.)

2. John R. Hale, University of Louisville
Campaigning for Classics: A Three-Pronged Attack in Louisville (18 mins.)

3. Mary R. Lefkowitz, Wellesley College
Teaching Ancient History through Controversy (18 mins.)

Respondents: Sally Davis, Yorktown High School, Arlington Country Public Schools, Virginia (8 mins.)
Wallace Ragan, St. Alban’s School, Washington, DC (8 mins.)
James Bigger, McLean High School, Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia (8 mins.)

Discussion


1:30 p.m. Section 49

Colloquium on Ancient Law
Sponsored by the Colloquium on Ancient Law
Edward Harris, Organizer

1. Edward Harris, Brooklyn College
Introduction to the Colloquium on Ancient Law (20 mins.)

2. David Mirhady, University of Calgary
Eisangelia and the Precision of Athenian Legal Terminology (15 mins.)

3. Edwin Carawan, Southwest Missouri State University
Amnesty and Paragraphe: Isocrates 18 (15 mins.)

4. Thomas McGinn, Vanderbilt University
Codex Theodosius 4.6.3 and the Social Policy of Constantine (20 mins.)

5. Alexander Kurke, Thorneloe University
Rhetoric and Corroboration in Cicero’s Pro Flacco (20 mins.)

Discussion (30 mins.)

3:00 – 4:00 pm Meeting of the APA Committee on the Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics

3:00 – 4:30 pm Open Business Meeting of the Women’s Classical Caucus

3:00 – 4:30 pm Twenty-Five Years of Partnership
Classics and the National Endowment for the Humanities
Susan Ford Wiltshire, National Council on the Humanities
and Christine Kalke, Senior Program Adviser, NEH, Co-Chairs

3:30 – 5:30 pm Meeting of the National Committee for Latin & Greek

4:00 – 5:30 pm Reception sponsored by the APA Committee on Ancient History and the Friends of Ancient History


SEVENTH SESSION FOR THE READING OF PAPERS

4:00 p.m. Section 50
Greek Religion
Scott Scullion, Presider

1. Robert M. Simms, Emma Willard School / SUNY, Albany
La vraie cuisine du sacrifice en pays grec (15 mins.)

2. Thomas D. Frazel, University of California, Los Angeles
Persaeus – One Less Ancient Atheist? (15 mins.)

3. Emma J. Stafford, University of Wales, Lampeter
Observing proper limits: Aidôs, hybris and the Sanctuary of Nemesis at Rhamnous (15 mins.)

4. Kent J. Rigsby, Duke University
The Religion of Apollonius the Dioiketes (15 mins.)

Discussion

4:00 pm Section 51
Roman Poetry
Elaine Fantham, Presider

1. Kate DiLorenzo, University of Pennsylvania
Translation, Mutilation, and Contested Meaning in Ovid’s Lara Episode (Fasti 2.571-616) and Exile Poetry (15 mins.)

2. Thomas E. Jenkins, Harvard University
Sealed With a Kiss: Byblis, Caunus, and Epistolary Interpretation (15 mins.)

3. Shilpa Raval, University of Missouri, Columbia
“Since he is mine, he is not mine:” Incest and Language in Metamorphoses 10 (15 mins.)

4. Brian S. Hook, Creighton University
Seneca’s Oedipus and the Color of Ignorance (15 mins.)

Discussion

4:00 p.m. Section 52
The Classical Tradition
Ward W. Briggs, Jr., Presider

1. Alison Frazier, University of Texas, Austin
The Afterlife of the Classics in Renaissance Hagiography (15 mins.)

2. William K. Freiert, Gustavus Adolphus College
The Demeter Matrix in African-American Women’s Literature (15 mins.)

3. James I. Porter, University of Michigan
Race, Class and Kampf: The Tyranny of Germany Over Greece in 19th-Century Philology (15 mins.)

4. Alice P. Radin, Phillips Exeter Academy
Ava, Emu, Ito, Ode, et al.: Cultural Literacy and Classical References in the Crossword Puzzles of The New York Times (15 mins.)

Discussion

4:00 p.m. Section 53
Homer and his Reception
Victoria Pedrick, Presider

1. Ahuvia Kahane, Northwestern University
Kleos Aphthiton, IG 12.1.737, and the Boundaries of Epic Discourse (15 mins.)

2. Barbara Graziosi, University of Cambridge
The Ancient Debate on the Date of Homer (15 mins.)

3. Daniel B. Levine, University of Arkansas
Arcadian Fishermen: A Post-Homeric Joke (15 mins.)

4. Byron Stayskal, Luther College
Did Nineteenth-Century Analysis Progress?: What a Rejected Paradigm Has to Say to Today’s Homerists (15 mins.)

Discussion


4:00 p.m. Section 54
Of Nature and First Philosophy: Ancient Readings of Plato’s Timaeus
Sponsored by the International Society of Neoplatonic Studies
Gretchen Reydams-Scils, Presider

1. Robert Ziomkowski, Cornell University
Providence and the Ideas in the Trinity Discussed by Calcidius (20 mins.)

2. Jan Opsomer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Who in Heaven is the Demiurge? Proclus’ Exegesis of Timaeus 28c3-5 (20 mins.)

3. Peter Lautner, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Interpretations of Timaeus 37b3-6 (20 mins.)

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

Discussion

4:15 – 5:15 pm Meeting of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Great Lakes Colleges Association

4:30 – 5:30 pm Networking Reception of the Women’s Classical Caucus




5:30 – 7:00 p.m. APA Plenary Session
David Konstan, President-Elect, Presiding

Presentation of the Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics

Presentation of the Goodwin Award of Merit

Presidential Address
Helene Foley, Barnard College and Columbia University
Modern Performance and Adaptation of Greek Tragedy


6:00 – 8:30 pm Reception for Members & Friends of the Etruscan Foundation

7:00 – 8:00 pm APA Presidential Reception

7:00 – 9:00 pm American School of Classical Studies in Athens
Alumni Reception

8:00 – 9:00 pm Corpus of Etruscan Mirrors Meeting


8:30 – 11:00 p.m. Special Presentation
Staging The Oresteia: Mask and Modern Performance. A Practical Workshop
Sponsored by the the Committee on the Performance of Classical Texts.

With Peter Meineck, University of South Carolina and Translator, Aquila Theatre Company;
Robert Richmond, Artistic Director of the Aquila Theatre Company; and members of the
USC/Aquila MFA Acting Internship Program


9:00 – 10:00 pm Meeting of the Publications Committee of the
Antiquities Collection of the American Academy in Rome

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