THE CONFERENCE SEASON

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The Annual Meetings of the American Archaeological Institute & the American Philological Association
(New Orleans, LA: January 3-6)

It was good to be in a city where a street is named “Erato”, and a handsome oil-on-panel of our Muse by Simon Vouet (ca.1637) is on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

ACM & GLCA classicists joined colleagues from the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) in a Saturday afternoon meeting chaired by DAVE GUINEE of DePauw. Among the items discussed was the diversity of preparation that high school Latin students receive (including the impact of this on our programs). Finding general favor among the group was a proposal to devote some of Erato’s website to a compilation of the talents of our faculty: areas of expertise, experience in serving as external reviewers of academic programs, topics for guest lecturing etc. [The website is under construction: time to volunteer such information!]

Papers that your editor sat in on or otherwise happened to hear about:
Brad Cook (Ohio Wesleyan), “The Epitome of Philip II of Macedon”
Joe Day (Wabash), “Enjoying Gods”
Patricia Fitzgibbon (Colorado), “Epicurean Case Studies in Aelian’s Fragments”
Michael Fronda (Denison), “Livy 23.19.4 and the Failure of the Hannibalic Strategy”
Anne Haeckl (Kalamazoo), “Stone Sculpture at Berenike: A New Provincial Workshop in Greco-Roman Egypt”
P. Nick Kardulias (Wooster) co-authored “GIS Analysis of Landscapes and Settlement in the Malloura Valley,
Cyprus” and “Athienou Archaeological Project, 2002: The Thirteenth Season of Investigations at Athienou-Mallouria, Cyprus”
Michael Ludwig (Wooster & Cincinnati), “Aniconic Images in Ancient Aegean Cultures”
Jim May (St. Olaf), “Ciceronian Scholarship in the Latin Classroom”
Beth Severy (Macalaster) organized the session “Reshaping Rome: Space, Time and Memory in Augustan Tradition”
Janice Siegel (Illinois State), “Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer and the Rites of Dionysus”

The Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South
(Lexington, KY: April 3-5)

On the second day of the meeting, classicists of the ACM/ACS/GLCA consortia gathered at a luncheon organized by TOM SIENKEWICZ of Monmouth. As the meal concluded, participants shared news from their home campuses and heard more about the Sunoikisis Greek & Latin courses planned for the next school year. As always, faculty & students from the ACM/GLCA are invited to participate; contact Rebecca Frost Davis of the ACS Tech Center (rdavis@colleges.org).

Papers that your editor sat in on or otherwise happened to hear about:
Neil Bernstein (Wooster), “Mourning the Puer Delicatus: Heirship, Cultural Capital, and Elite Self-Definition in Statius, Silvae 2.1
Joe Cummins (Grinnell), “Whom Does Plato’s Euthyphro Represent?”
Monessa Cummins (Grinnell), “The Role of Nestor on the East Frieze of the Siphnian Treasury”
Stewart Flory (Gustavus Adolphus), “Eclipses of the Sun and the Moon in Thucydides’ History”
Will Freiert & Patricia Freiert (Gustavus Adolphus), “Phaedre Chinoise: Ju Dou and Greek Tragedy”
Michael Fronda (Denison), “Benificia Romanorum: Cultural Identity in Livy”
John Gruber-Miller (Cornell), “Developing Listening and Speaking Skills: Practical Ways to Implement the Standards with the Oxford Latin Course” and “Visit Ancient Rome Using the VRoma Moo: A Hands-On Workshop”
David Kubiak (Wabash), “An Erotic Epigram of Cicero?”
Donald Lateiner (Ohio Wesleyan), “Telemakhos’ One Sneeze and Penelope’s Two Laughs”
Eddie Lowry & Andrew Rich (Ripon), “The Numismatic Portraiture of Augustus and Agrippa”
Randall McNeill (Lawrence), “New in Town: Urbanity and Provincialism in Catullus 21 and 39”
Rosemary Moore (St. Olaf), “Greek Warrior, Roman State: Patroclus, the Manlii Torquatii, and the Development of Roman Military Discipline”
Shawn O’Bryhim (DePauw), “Changing Roles in Plautus’ Pseudolus”
Richard Phillips (Illinois Wesleyan), “The Myth of the Criminal Magician: Reconsidering the Context of Invisibility Spells”
John Quinn (Hope), “After Abstinence: Classicizing Art in Nazi Germany”
Matt Semanoff (Carleton), “Vati parete perito: Triangulating the Roles of the Narrator in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria”
Janice Siegel (Illinois State), “Rapists in Ovid: The Penis Mightier than the Sword”
Tom Sienkewicz (Monmouth), “Promoting Latin as a CAMWS VP”, and co-authored “The Legamus Transitional Reader Series”
Rachel Hall Sternberg (Wooster), “Between Neighbors: Help and Treachery in Rural Attica c. 366 BC”
Nancy Sultan (Illinois Wesleyan), “Parce, Precor, Venus! ‘Classic’ Misogyny in Stoppard’s The Invention of Love"