Abstracts for the 1999

Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas

These are the abstracts that have been received as of 12/10//99. Abstracts that have formats different than most are part of panels and colloquia that have their own web pages on other servers. Please see the program (when available) for further information.

1. Sulochana R. ASIRVATHAM The Macedonians in the Historical Imagination of the Second Sophistic
2. Rossitza ATANASSOVA Art and Idolatry in Prudentius.
3. Deborah BECK Diomedes Takes Charge: Character and Speech in Iliad 4, 7, and 9
4. Pamela R. BLEISCH Vergil's Good Causes? Aetiology in Vergil's Aeneid
5. René S. BLOCH Jews and Barbarians &endash; Defining Ethnic Identities in Ancient Ethnography
6. Brian BREED Mimetic Speech and Literary Tradition in Propertius 1.20
7. Edwin CARAWAN "Apply the Laws from Euclides": Andocides 1. 82-99
8. Hugh A. CAYLESS Vergil's and Pythagoras' Helenus in Ovid's Metamorphoses
9. Giovanna CESERANI Modern nationalisms and ancient ethnicities in Magna Graecia: issues in the interpretation of the past
10. David Chamberlain Horribly Similar: Reading the Name of Smerdis in Herodotus
11. Keyne CHESHIRE The Narrative Function of Names in Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus, lines 46-59
12. Kathryn CHEW Violence in the Greek Novels and Hagiographic Literature
13. Kim On CHONG-GOSSARD The Partial Muteness of Euripidean Men: Adrastus, Orestes, and Menoeceus
14. J. Bradford CHURCHILL Sponsio quae in verba facta est? Two lost speeches and the formula of the Roman legal wager
15. James J. CLAUSS Aetiology and Evolution in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius
16. Neil COFFEE Theognis' Riddle: A Reexamination of Theognis 667-68
17. Anthony CORBEILL Ritual Practice and Ecology in Pliny the Elder
18. David CRAMER The Impossibility of Maecenas
19. Jeri Blair DEBROHUN Aitiology and Death, Closure and Immortality in Propertius Book 4
20. Mary DEPEW Callimachean Aitiology
21. Helma Dik On Unemphatic "Emphatic" Pronouns in Greek
22. T. Keith DIX , Carl A. ANDERSON Was the Athenian Empire a Tyranny? The Case of the Eteocarpathians
23. William J. DOMINIK The Classical Tradition in African Drama
24. Basil DUFALLO Audiences with the Dead: Public Speech and Private Magic at Rome
25. Jennifer EBBELER Sumbolast in epistula: Making Identity in Plautus
26. Darel Tai ENGEN Makers of Athenian Trade Policy
27. Mary ENGLISH The Diminishing Role of Stage Properties in Aristophanic Comedy
28. Michael EWANS Dominance and submission, rhetoric and sincerity; insights from a replica production of Sophokles, Elektra.
29. Andrew FENTON Cratinus' Metapoetic Fountains
30. Brenda FINEBERG In Search of the Neighbors' Gardens: Tracking Narratives of Displacement and Desire in Horace's Epistles
31. Jerise FOGEL The Gender of Lies: Lucian's True Story
32. Laurel FULKERSON Epic Ways of Killing a Woman: Gender and Transgression in the Odyssey
33. Michael GAGARIN Procedural Rights in Athenian Law
34. Robert L. GALLAGHER Metaphor in Cicero's de re publica
35. Ann Ellis HANSON  Hippocrates Aphorisms V
36. Karalee Strieby HARDING "Like Artemis or golden Aphrodite": a closer look at a brief Homeric simile
37. Alexander HOLLMANN Dionysos and Kadmilos on a Curse Tablet from Antioch
38. Daniel M. HOOLEY Jonson, Translation, and Horatian Lyric
39. Paul A. Iversen A Flawed Diamond: Syriskos' Character in Menander's Epitrepontes
40. Walter Ralph JOHNSON Unexpurgating Queer Catullus
41. Prudence J. JONES The Cleopatra Cocktail
42. Samuel J. HUSKEY The Deeply Clinging Boundary Stone: An Element of Liminality in the De Rerum Natura
43. Lawrence KIM Hecataeus of Miletus and Palaephatus on the Past: Complicating the Ancient 'Rationalization' of Myth
44. Kenneth KITCHELL Canine Cinaedi and Crabs with Lips: The Role of Changing Greek Pronunciation in Medieval Textual problems in Albertus Magnus
45. Julie LASKARIS Sophist vs. Scientist? Defining the Technai and the Scientific Tradition
46. ANTHONY LEONARDIS Surviving Colonization in Ancient Italy and ColonialNorth America: A Modern Perspective for the Studyof Ethnicity in the Ancient World.
47. Jessamyn LEWIS Eat and Be Eaten: Envy and Hunger in the Metamorphoses
48. Bryan LOCKETT Aristophanes' Clouds: Self-Containment and Vulnerability
49. Denise Eileen McCOSKEY Geography as Imperial Science: Strabo and Augustan Rome
50. James MCGLEW Unity and Division in the Farmer Chorus of Aristophanes' Peace
51. Fred D. MILLER, Jr. Legal and Political Rights in Demosthenes
52. Paul Allen Miller Technologies of the Self in Exile: Writing and Intertextuality in Tristia 2
53. Anatole  MORI   THE JUDGMENT OF ALCINOUS, HOMONOIA, AND INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION IN APOLLONIUS' ARGONAUTICA 4
54. Melissa MUELLER Reciprocity and Revenge in Euripides' Medea
55. Christopher NAPPA Fire and Human Error in Vergil's Second Georgic
56. Carlos F. NOREÑA The Representation of the Emperor's Civic Virtues: Continuity, Change, Structure
57. Barbara A. OLSEN Recovering Gender through Archaeology, Recovering Ethnicity through Gender: Women in the Linear B Tablets
58. Josiah OSGOOD   Female Painters in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
59. Matthew PANCIERA Cunnilingus in an Ostian Bath
60. Jed Parsons Information Technology: The Living Language Textbook
61. Molly PASCO-PRANGER Causa recens melior est: Multiple Aetiologies and 'Historical' Layers in Ovid's Fasti
62. Charles PAZDERNIK Libertas and "Mixed Marriages" in Late Antiquity: Law, Labor, and Politics in Justinianic Reform Legislation
63. Christopher PLANEAUX Socrates an Unreliable Narrator? The Dramatic Setting of the Lysis
64. John T. RAMSEY Mark Antony's Political Maneuvers in July 44 BC
65. Daniel RICHTER Lucian's Learned Barbaros: Parodying Diatribe in the Adversus Indoctum
66. Michael ROBERTS Creation in Ovid and the Latin Poets of Late Antiquity
67. Matthew ROLLER Table talk: words, exchange, and power in the Roman convivium
68. David ROSELLI "Thank Heaven for Little Girls:" The Economics of Virgin Sacrifice in Euripidean Tragedy
69. Vincent J. ROSIVACH Cicero, Cael. 18 and the Educated Elite
70. Andreola ROSSI The camp of Pompey: strategy of representation in Caesar's BC
71. Alex SCHILLER Regionalism or an Urban-Rural Dichotomy of Kleisthenic Attica?
72. Saundra SCHWARTZ Passion and Polis: Civic Trials in the Greek Novels
73. Darien SHANSKE Heidegger on Thucydides: Beginning to Reveal a Connection
74. Alan SHAPIRO Leagros and Euphronios: the Vase-Painter as Erastes
75. Janice SIEGEL The Grand Allusion: Virgil's Aeneid IV and Ovid's Procne
76. Robert Simms What the Literati Knew About Sacrifice
77. Svetla SLAVEVA Literary Form and Philosophical Exegesis:Plotinus' Utilization of Plato's Cosmology
78. John STARKS Plautus' Balanced Structure for Ethnic Humor in the Poenulus
79. Dana F. SUTTON The Queen's Latin
80. Diane Arnson SVARLIEN A Translator's Notebook: The Third Stasimon of Euripides' Hippolytos
81. Garth TISSOL Ovid and the Exilic Journey of Rutilius Namatianus
82. S-C Kevin TSAI Writing Authority: Thucydides, Isocrates, and Textuality
83. Elizabeth VANDIVER The Way Their Catullus Walked: Changing Strategies of Translation
84. Stephen WHEELER The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Lucan's Reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses
85. Karen WANG TWO MYSTICAL SIMILES OF APULEIUS AND ACHILLES TATIUS
86. Steven J. WILLET Foreignizing and Domesticating Translations: the Case of Pindar
87. Mark F. WILLIAMS The De Spiritali Amicitia of Aelred of Rievaulx as Commentary on Ciceros De Amicitia
88. Susan Ford WILTSHIRE Hospitality in the Classroom: Speaking of Homosexuality