This page will be updated periodically as new abstracts are received. Over 100 abstracts were recieved on November 19, the submission deadline; all of them will be posted during the first week of December.
To ensure your abstract's inclusion in both the printed Abstract Book and the electronic version posted on the APA web site, simply make sure that your abstract follows the guidelines below and email it to apameetings@sas.upenn.edu by November 19, 2010. All abstracts must be submitted via email to the address above; DO NOT mail abstracts to the APA office or email them to the APA Web Editor. In the body of your email, please note the name of the session in which you will be participating.
HOW TO FORMAT YOUR ABSTRACT:
| Abbate, Giampaolo | The meaning of hó pote ón in Aristotle’s De generatione et
corruptione and De partibus animalium towards a better
understanding of Physica, IV, 11 |
| Aftosmis, Jason | Simonides and the Sirens: Another Look at frr. 508+595 PMG |
| Ager, Britta | Late Antique Prayers to Plants and the Magical Papyri |
| Alwine, Andrew | The Rhetoric of Enmity |
| Barney, Rachel | On Hippo of (Possibly) Rhegium |
| Bauerle, Ellen | Sisters in Arms: Demographics on Women Ancient Historians, and What We Can Do about Them |
| Bazzana, Giovanni | Apocalyptic Literature on Papyri in Roman Egypt |
| Beasom, Patrick | Making Sense of Propertius 2.31/32 |
| Becker, Andrew S. | The Alcaic Effect: Language, Meter, and the
Acoustic Contour of the Latin Alcaic Stanza |
| Beckmann, Martin | Not Created Equal: The Influence of Mass-Production on the Choice of Coin Types in the Roman Mint |
| Bernstein, Neil W. | Tamquam nuntiaturus indubia, manifesta:
“figured” argument in Major Declamations 7 |
| Berrey, Marquis | Competing Cultural Discourses in Callimachus’ Acontius and Cydippe |
| Billings, Joshua | Nothing To Do with Dialectic? |
| Bing, Peter | Precinct of Epigrams: the Sanctuary of Artemidoros of Perge |
| Bishop, Caroline | Hipparchus of Nicaea and the Commentary Tradition |
| Bitner, Bradley J. | Augustan Proconsular Arbitration: Procedure and Legal
Documents in CIG 2222 |
| Blood, H. Christian | Transclassics at “The Most Radical University in America” |
| Boterf, Nicholas | Cunning Wars: The Theme of μῆτις in Book 10 of the Iliad |
| Breed, Brian | Friends, Readers, and the Uses of Literary History in Horace Satires,/i> 1.10 |
| Burian, Peter | Schubert’s Greek Lyre: Epic Heroes in Romantic Lieder |
| Butler, Margaret | King as Entrepreneur: Charisma and Opportunity in Ancient Macedon |
| Caldwell, Lauren | Filiae Loco: Myrrha in Ovid's Metamorphoses |
| Canevaro, Mirko | The Authenticity of the Decree of Teisamenus: What Did (Not) Happen in the Late Fifth Century |
| Carawan, Edwin | Pronoia Revisited |
| Carney, Elizabeth | Looking for Lily: Women and Ancient History |
| Chenault, Robert | The Forum of Trajan in the Fourth Century |
| Cheshire, Keyne | Reciprocity and Community in Callimachus’ Hymns 1, 2, and 5 |
| Christensen, Joel | Time and Metapoetics in the Iliad and Frank Herbert’s Dune |
| Chrol, E. Del | [Un-]Naturalizing the [Un-]Natural |
| Clary, Todd | Rescuing Creusa on a Late Archaic, Black-Figure Amphora |
| Closterman, Wendy E. | Feeding the Dead in Ancient Athens |
| Collins, Joelle | Cicero as Art Collector – A Paradigm Re-evaluated |
| Conybeare, Catherine | The poetics of laughter in the Cena Cypriani |
| Davis, Josiah | Aeneas and the Augustan Charioteer in the Aeneid |
| Deacy, Susan and McHardy, Fiona | Teaching Gender and Crime in Ancient Greece |
| Dean, Crystal | Hearing Egeria: Oral Reception and Textual Literacy in the Itinerarium |
| D'Evelyn, Stephen | Reciprocity, Genre Conventions, and the Asymetrical Gift of Beauty: Re-evaluating Status in Horace Odes I, 1 |
| Dixon, Dustin W. | Euripides’ Bellerophontes: A New Reconstruction |
| Dobrov, Gregory | Comedy, Censorship, and Metaphor |
| Dozier, Curtis | Lectores’ delivery and the ancient experience of Horace’s Odes |
| DuBois, Page | Slavery in the US Classroom |
| Eisenfeld, Hanne | A Darker Mode of Praise: Hieron as basileus in Bacchylides 5 |
| Elkins, Nathan | City of Brick: Urbanization as the Inspiration for Architectural Designs on Republican Coins and Second Style Wall Painting |
| Elmer, David F. | The “Narrow Pass” of Language:
Homeric Poetry’s Testing of Formulaic Epithets |
| Epstein, Shimon | Attic Building Accounts and the Athenian Jury |
| Farrington, Scott | Action and Reason: Polybius and the Gap between Encomium and History |
| Fontaine, Michael | Who’s Out There? History, Irony, and Jokes as Evidence for the Composition of Plautus’ Audience |
| Forsdyke, Sara | Women in Ancient History Graduate Programs in the U.S.A. |
| Garvey, Tom | Telemachos the Great-Hearted: An Epithet Reconsidered |
| Gellar-Goad, T.H.M. | Sing the Lyrics! Perform the Lyrics! Two Approaches to Music in Plautine Comedy |
| Gentile, Kristen M. | Demeter’s Foods: Curing Infertility in Hippocratic Gynecology |
| George, Coulter | Verbal Aspect and the Greek Future |
| Gitner, Adam | Horaces Material chartae |
| Gold, Barbara K. | Teaching Ancient Comedy: Race Matters |
| Goldberg, Sander M. | Terence and the populi studium |
| Golston, Chris | Hyperbaton and the Movement of Prosodic Words |
| Greene, Ellen | Love's Thelxis: Sound and Seduction in Sappho, Fragment 94 |
| Griffin, Michael | Socratic results: Plato’s frames and the positive outcome
of elenchus in the early dialogues |
| Groton, Anne H. | Performing Plautine Lyrics |
| Güthenke, Constance | Family Relations. Classical Scholarship and Greek Tragedy
before the Birth of Tragedy |
| Guth, Dina | The Theban-Athenian Alliance Before Chaeronea |
| Gutzwiller, Kathryn | New Menander Mosaics and the Papyri |
| Hall, Alexander | Dating the Homeric Hymn to Selene: Evidence and Implications |
| Hejduk, Julia | Callisto and Ovid in Exile |
| Heller, Wendy | "Un dardo pungente:" Taming the Epic Hero in Cavalli’s Giasone |
| Herbert, Molly | A Shared Heritage of Grief: Iliad papyrus 12 and
Patroclus’ Funeral |
| Höschele, Regina | From Book to Stone: A Lapidary libellus in the Villa of Aelian |
| Houston, George W. | P.Ross.Georg. 1.22. What Can a List of Books Tell Us About Its Owner? |
| Hruby, Julie | Sensitive Topics and Sensitivity to Context: Teaching Ancient Sexuality at a Christian College |
| Hubbard, Thomas K. | Greek Pederasty, the Construction of “Childhood”, and Academic Freedom |
| Iversen, Paul | P. Oxy. X 1235, Lachares “The Tyrant”, and Menander’s Imbrioi |
| Janko, Richard | New Light from Herculaneum on Greek and Roman Literature |
| Jansen, Joseph | The Athenian Empire in the Fourth Century BCE |
| Jefferson, Eleanor | Celebrity Deathmatch:
The Biographical Appeal of Alcaeus versus Pittacus |
| Jew, Daniel | Revisiting the Life Cycle and Calorific Needs of the Oikos |
| Johnson, Christel | Linens, Sedatives, and Song: The Lady’s Recipe for a Successful Banquet |
| Johnson, Diane Louise | The Epitaphia of Johannes Posselius and the Lutheran Funeral Elegy |
| Johnston, Andrew C. | Remembering the Roman Conquest of India |
| Kalish, Kevin | What Does Homer’s Ogygia Have To Do with Christ’s Martyrs? |
| Kamen, Deborah | Were the khôris oikountes Freedmen? |
| Kantzios, Ippokratis | Alcaeus’ Mnēmōn Hetaireia |
| Karachalios, Foivos | The Polis as Hetaireia:
Pleasure and Social Cohesion in Plato’s Laws I-II |
| Kearns, Catherine | Hortis inhians: Women and Outdoor Dining |
| Keim, Benjamin | Negotiating Honor in Antigone’s Athens |
| Kelly, Karen | Give Me More!: Erysichthon in Callimachus’ Hymn to Demeter |
| Kennedy, Rebecca Futo | Freedom and Imperial Ideology in Aeschylus’ Persians,/i> |
| Kenyon, Erik | The Skeptic's Progress: Reordering Augustine's Early Dialogues |
| Kidd, Stephen | Pherecrates fr.150 and the meaning of bōmolokhos |
| Knol, Rhiannon Gladys Ellington and Struble, Eric B. | Reading Other People’s Mail: Putting Together an Intermediate-Level Latin Reader |
| Knudsen, Rachel Ahern | “I Was(n’t) Born Yesterday”:
Hermes Argues It Both Ways in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes |
| Koenig, Charlou | Rehabilitating Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Is Livy really the better historian? |
| Kondratieff, Eric | Vergil’s Heldenschau (Aen. 6.752 – 892): Funeral Parade or City Walk? |
| Kosmin, Paul | A Diasporic Kingdom: The Abandonment of Macedonia in Seleucid Ideology |
| Kozak, Lynn | Clash of the Epics: Using Film to Teach the Iliad |
| Kutter, Mara | The Peisistratid Tyranny: Conflicting Sources and Revisionist History at Work |
| Lang, Philippa | Galen’s doubled response to disgusting things |
| Larson, Stephanie | Pindar's Theban Mythopoesis |
| Lech, Peter | Changing Roles, Changing Speech: Chaerea in Eunuch and Demea in Adelphoe |
| Leon, Daniel W. | Alexander’s Accessions: A Herodotean Narrative Pattern in Arrian’s Anabasis |
| Levene, David | Historical Allusion and the Nature of the Historical Text |
| Libby, Brigitte | Victory in Defeat: Ennius on Rome’s Trojan Past |
| Liu, Jinyu | Military Textile Supply in the Roman Empire: A Look at the Inscriptional Evidence |
| Lushkov, Ayelet Haimson | Citation and the Dynamics of Tradition in Livy’s AUC |
| Luz, Christine | Prosodic Clausulae and the Orality of Greek Rhetoric |
| Mahy, Trevor | Reading Caesar Back in: The Temple of Mars Ultor and the Forum of Augustus |
| Major, Wilfred | Aristophanes on Democratic Tragedy in Athens 411-404 BCE |
| Marincola, John | Intertextuality and Exempla |
| Marquis, M. Christine | Dido as a Correct Interpreter? A Reconsideration of Aeneid 1. |
| Marshall, C.W. | Livy’s Census Data and Death in the Hannibalic War: a Note on Plautine Audiences |
| Maslov, Boris | The metrical evidence for pre-Mycenaean hexameter epic reconsidered |
| Mawhinney, Laura | Epic in the Cups: Sympotic performance and the songs of Achilles and Patroclus |
| McGowan, Matthew | From Cornu Copiae to Thesaurus:
Latin L exicography in the Renaissance |
| McMenomy, Mary | Eurydice in Play: Reception of the Orpheus Myth in Terry
Cavanagh’s “Don’t Look Back” |
| Meinking, Kristina | Strategies of Separation: Lactantius and Constantine on Church and State |
| Mihalopoulos, Catie | Colonial Stereotypes of Ancient Greek, Indian, and Modern (Homo)Sexual Visual Representation |
| Miller, Paul Allen | What is an Elegiac Puella? |
| Mills, Sophie | Five Young Men, Aristophanes, and Me |
| Mitchell-Boyask, Robin | Jokasta the What? |
| Monson, Andrew | Administrative Regime Change from Ptolemaic to Roman Egypt |
| Moore, Timothy J. | Singing Plautine Lyrics |
| Morey, Anne and Nelson, Claudia | Education for Citizenship in the Imperium: National Anxiety in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson Saga |
| Mulligan, Bret | Drunken Poets and Fallen Philosophers: Gout as a Metaphoric Disease in Antiquity |
| Murnaghan, Sheila and Roberts, Deborah | Empire as Frontier: Antiquity in Historical Fiction for American Children |
| Nakamura, Byron | The Sacred Marriage of El-Gaba’al and the Palladium |
| Neel, Jaclyn | Fratricide and (?) Foundation: Romulus, Remus, Ennius, and the Civil Wars |
| Nicholson, Nigel | Pindar Olympian 4: Mercenaries, Sicels and Post-Deinomenid Sicily |
| Obbink, Dirk | Recent Discoveries from Oxyrhynchus |
| O'Hogan, Cillian | Prudentius and the limits of art |
| Oksanish, John | Behaviors and Bodies in the Second Preface of Vitruvius’ de Architectura |
| Olson, S. Douglas | Vergil’s Aeneid and the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite |
| Owens, William | The Political Topicality of Menander’s Dyskolos |
| Pandey, Nandini B. | Inventing Augustus’ Self-Invention:
The Evolution of the Sidus Iulium within Augustan Discourse |
| Park, Arum | The Truth of Reciprocity in Pindar, Nemean 7 |
| Pearcy, Lee T. | Workshop on Standards for Latin Teacher Preparation |
| Pedicone, Jason | Moecha Metrica: Meter Games in Catullus 42 |
| Pelling, Christopher | Intertextuality, Plausibility, and Interpretation |
| Pelttari, Aaron | The Quotation: An Intertextual Form Analogous to the Jeweled Style of Late Antiquity |
| Penrose, Walter | Homophobia, Homoeroticism, and Handling Charged Discussions in the
Classroom. |
| Persky, Richard | Demosthenes 57 and the Dangers of Social Networking |
| Petit, Caroline | Reading Galen in the 21st century: Problems of Interpretation
and Classification |
| Petridou, Georgia | What is an act of god? Amorphous Epiphanies and Divine Bilingualism |
| Petrovic, Andrej | Towards Transition: Epigrams in the Athenian Court |
| Petrovic, Ivana | Context and Meaning of the Inscribed Epigram |
| Pillinger, Emily | Xenakis’ Estranged Kassandra |
| Polt, Christopher | Feminine Wiles: Comic Figures and Social Control in Catullus 55 |
| Porter, James I. | Tragedy and the Catharsis of Modernity: From Plato to Bernays, via Longinus and Schiller |
| Pryzwansky, Molly M. | Livia’s Putrid Corpse: Tiberius 51.2 as Insight into Suetonius’
Biographical Methods |
| Purves, Alex | Teaching the Homeric Gods |
| Ramsey, John | The Jewish Revolt of Bar Kokhba (AD 132-135) and the Star of Antinous |
| Raphael, Rebecca | Replicants Then and Now: Disability as Rhetorical Trope in Blade Runner and Classical Myth |
| Ratzan, David M. | Voodoo Economics: Law, Magic, and Economics in Roman Egypt |
| Rayor, Diane | Remember the Homeric Hymns |
| Resinski, Rebecca | Painting the Statues: Subversion and Authority in
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wonder Book |
| Rich, Hannah | Cena Nasideni and Cena Trimalchionis |
| Richards, John S. | A Newly Discovered Collection of Poems by Ippolito Grassetti,
S.J., (1619-1663), at the William Oxley Thompson Memorial
Library, The Ohio State University |
| Richlin, Amy | Talking to Slaves in the Plautine Audience |
| Rosen, Ralph M. | The New Galen on Old Comedy |
| Rosenstein, Nathan | Ancient History and the Undergraduate Woman |
| Russell, Craig | Boy Interrupted: Liminalities of Gender and Genre in Statius’ Achilleid and Silvae 3.4 |
| Russell, Gül A. | The Concept of ‘Pupillary’ Image in Galen and Hunayn b. Ishaq |
| Ryan, Kevin | Gradient syllable weight in the tragic trimeter and Homeric hexameter |
| Sabnis, Sonia | Apuleius’ Favorite, Like, Adverb |
| Sagstetter, Kelcy | A Paternity Crisis after the Sicilian Expedition: The Decrees of the Demotionidai Reconsidered |
| Salzman, Michele | Symmachus’ Model: Varro Not Pliny! |
| Sammons, Benjamin | A Word to the Wise: Herodotus and Early Criticism of Homer |
| Scholle, Caleb | The Battle for Socrates’ Succession: Diogenes the Cynic’s Abuse of Plato |
| Schwartz, Ariane | Reading Horace Epistles 1 in the late sixteenth century |
| Sears, Matthew | Experience Abroad and Military Innovation in Athens |
| Seidman, Jessica | A Portrait of Grief: Tacitus’ Ecphrasis in Annales I.61 |
| Shapiro, Julia | Reading the (Un)Seen Body: Physiognomics and the Democratic Ideal of Mass Wisdom |
| Shilo, Amit | The Afterlife and Moral Decisions in the Oresteia |
| Sider, David | The Earliest Poem Attributed to Orpheus |
| Stem, Rex | Did Cornelius Nepos Invent Political Biography? |
| Stover, Justin | Reconsidering the Authorship of the 'Silvestris'
Commentaries on Vergil and Martianus Capella |
| Stover, Tim | Becoming Medea in Valerius’ Argonautica |
| Strolonga, Polyxeni | The Closing Formula of the Longer Homeric Hymns to Demeter,
Apollo and Hermes. |
| Strong, Anise K. | Female-Authored Roman Romantic Graffiti in Pompeii |
| Suksi, Aara | Clytemnestra’s Odyssey: Agamemnon 896-974 |
| Sullivan, Benjamin M. | Inscribed Dedications as Evidence for a Reappraisal of the “Hoplite
Revolution” |
| Syson, Antonia | Death, Dirt, and Disorder in Aeneid 3, 6, and 7 |
| Talbot, John | Horatian Metrical Misquotation in English Poetry:
A Contemporary Instance |
| Tate, Aaron Phillip | Herder, Heyne, and F.A. Wolf: an Homeric Controversy and its Relevance Today |
| Taylor, Tristan | More than Mere Markers? Magnentius’ Milestones |
| Thatcher, Mark | Civic Identity in Pindar’s Syracusan Odes |
| Thibodeau, Philip | Strange Agronomy: Democritea in Vergil’s Georgics |
| Tomasso, Vincent | Old Gods Die Hard: Greek Religion, Mysticism, and Science in Battlestar Galactica |
| Torlone, Zara M. | Odysseus Ancient and Modern: Juxtaposition as a Pedagogical Tool |
| Trego, Kristine M. | Telling the Story of the Ascension of Agesilaos: A Comparison of Historiography, Encomium, and Biography |
| Treu, Martina | An African Ploutos, a community theatre, a‘democratic’
experiment? (Diol Kadd, Senegal, 2008) |
| Tueller, Michael A. | Graveside Irony in the Iliad |
| Tully, John | Reading Ephorus without "Universal History" |
| Vaillancourt, Alissa | Understanding the “Ivy” of Leonidas of Tarentum |
| Varhelyi, Zsuzsanna | Religiously Sanctified Murders and the Transformation of Religious Authority in the Civil Wars of the Late Roman Republic |
| Vasunia, Phiroze | History, Empire, and the Novel: Pierre-Daniel Huet and the Origins of the Romance |
| Waddell, Philip | The Quick-Cut in the Annales of Tacitus and the Column of Trajan |
| Walters, Brian | Vis Legislation and Violent Metaphor in Cicero’s Pro Sestio |
| Wareh, Tarik | The First Obituary Eulogies for Individuals in their Scholastic Context |
| Weiner, Jesse | Natura et Nefas: Lucretius, Lucan, and Frankenstein |
| Welsh, Jarrett | The “Fragments” of Plautus’ Captivi |
| Wenzel, Aaron | Plutarch, Ailios Aristeides, and the Military Construction of Hellenism |
| Westervelt, Hilda | A Taste for Revenge: Nefarious Cooking in Greek Literature |
| Wickkiser, Bronwen L. | Reflections on Civil War, the Body Politic, and the Confederate Memorial at Arlington |
| Wilfong, T.G. | The Last Buchis Bull: A Reconsideration of the Textual and
Archaeological Evidence for an Egyptian Cult in the 4th Century CE |
| Williamson, Christina | As God Is My Witness. Civic Oaths in Ritual Space as a Means towards Rational Cooperation in the Hellenistic Period |
| Witzke, Serena | An Influence of No Importance? New Comedy in Oscar Wilde’s Society Plays |
| Wohl, Victoria | The Politics of Enmity in Euripides’ Orestes |
| Woods, Heather | Literary Legacy-hunting: An Examination of captatio in Roman Satire |
| Yu, Kenneth | Divining Politicians: A Reconsideration of
Oracles in Aristophanes’ Knights |
| Zambon, Efrem | New Melody for Classical Plays: Felix Mendelssohn’s Music and Sophocles’ Tragedies |
