CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE ATLANTIC STATES
PROGRAM FALL 2013 MEETING
The Inn at Penn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DRAFT JUNE 21, 2013
Program Committee
Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY, CAAS Second Vice
President
Jessica Anderson, Maspeth High School
Henry V. Bender, The Hill School and Saint Joseph’s University, CAAS past President
and past Program Coordinator
Frederick J. Booth, Seton Hall University, CAAS President
T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers University
Michael Broder, Independent Scholar
Mary Brown, Valley Forge Military Academy, CAAS Executive Director
Thomas Falkner, McDaniel College
Barbara K. Gold, Hamilton College, CAAS past President
Shelley Haley, Hamilton College, CAAS past President
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park, CAAS past President and
Program Coordinator
John Jacobs, Montclair Kimberley Academy, CAAS Treasurer
Janet M. Martin, Princeton University, CAAS Vice President
Thomas McCreight, Loyola University Maryland
Barbara McManus, The College of New Rochelle, CAAS past President
Barbara Pavlock, Lehigh University, CAAS Secretary
Lee T. Pearcy, Bryn Mawr College and University of Maryland, College Park, CAAS
past President and Co-Editor, Classical World
Victoria Pedrick, Georgetown University
Ann R. Raia, The College of New Rochelle, CAAS past President
Andrew Scholtz, Binghamton University SUNY
John H. Starks, Jr., Binghamton University SUNY
Kathryn Williams, Canisius College
5:30-7:30 pm
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013
Packet pick-up for pre-registration
Vendors can set up book displays
Dinner Meeting of the 2012-2013 Finance Committee
7:30-9:30 pm
Meeting of the 2012-2013 Board of Directors
8:00 am-noon
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013
Registration
8:00 am-5:00 pm
Book Display
4:00-6:00 pm
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8:30 -10:30 am
Panel One:The World of Classics Textbook Publishing: A
Panel in Honor of Lou Bolchazy: Ronnie Ancona and Henry
Bender, presiding
Viam inveniam aut faciam: Lou Bolchazy’s Impact on the
Teaching of Classics: Sherwin Little, American Classical League
An Honor to Have Been Bolchazy-ed: Donald Sprague, KennedyKing College, City Colleges of Chicago, Bolchazy-Carducci
Publishers
Lou Bolchazy: Tradition and Innovation: Henry V, Bender
Opportunities Afforded by Lou Bolchazy: Reflections on Textbook
Writing, Editing, and Consulting: Ronnie Ancona
Lou Bolchazy’s Impact on the Next Generation: Jessica Anderson
and Kathleen Durkin, Maspeth High School
Paper Session A: Perspectives on Plutarch: Frederick Booth and
Shelley Haley, presiding
Demosthenes’ Shield and Philip’s Poetry in Plutarch, Demosthenes
20: Sarah Ferrario, The Catholic University of America
Bad Romance: Eros, Envy and Leadership in Plutarch: Andrew
Scholtz
Plutarch and Paul on Homonoia: Joshua Kinlaw, Graduate Center,
CUNY
Paper Session B: Classical Reception in its Cultural
Dimensions: T. Corey Brennan and Barbara Gold, presiding
Greek and Roman Literature in Karl Heinrich Ulrichs’ Theory of
Homosexuality: Hans –Peter Obermayer, University of Munich
Past Precedent and Present Imagination: Three Oxford Chairs of
Poetry Read the Aeneid: Kenneth Sammond, Fairleigh Dickinson
University
Try, Try Again: Reception, Popular Culture and the “Retrial of
Socrates”: Thomas Falkner
Paper Session C: Vergilian Vicissitudes: Janet M. Martin and
Barbara Pavlock, presiding
Therapeutic Values in Theocritus, Idyll XI and Vergil’s second
Eclogue: Ari Zatlin, New York University
Vergil’s Myth of Dike and the Return of the Golden Age: Katheryn
Whitcomb, Rutgers University
Vergil’s Portraits of Augustus in the Aeneid: Grace Starry West,
Hillsdale College
10:30 am-11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am -1:00 pm Panel Two: Using Inscriptions to Teach and Learn about
Roman Women— inter Alia: Ann R. Raia, presiding
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A Case Study in Inscriptional Evidence: Sacerdotes extra Romam:
Ann R. Raia, The College of New Rochelle
The Word as Material Reality: Interpreting Inscriptions as Visual
Objects: Barbara F. McManus, The College of New Rochelle
Asta ac Perlege: Teaching Latin with Roman Inscriptions: Anne
Leen, Furman University
Workshop: Asta et Perscribe: Exploring the Roman Funerary
Inscriptions Project: Anne Leen, Barbara F. McManus, Ann R.
Raia
Paper Session D: Gender and Genre in Greek Literature:
Victoria Pedrick and Andrew Scholtz, presiding
Alcestis: The Sacrificial Heroine and the Role of the Good Wife:
Nicole Freeto, Rutgers University
“Rhetorical Aeschylus”: Eumenides 778-891 and Aristotle’s
pisteis: Allannah Karas, Graduate Center, CUNY
Olig-rooted Words as a Marker of Genre and Style Among
Hellenistic Epigrammatists: Alissa Vaillancourt, Villanova
University
Paper Session E: Classical Reception and its Literary
Dimensions: T. Corey Brennan and Thomas Falkner, presiding
Women, Words and Weaving in Elaine Reichek’s Ariadne’s
Thread: Katherine Wasdin, George Washington University
God is Dead: The Demises of the Ancient Greek Divinities on
Screen: Vince Tomasso, Ripon College
“Like a Hard Wind Come Through Her”: Medea in Jesmyn Ward’s
Salvage the Bones: Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Hollins University
Paper Session F: Latin Literary Lucubrations: Carl Rubino,
Hamilton College, CAAS past President, and John H. Starks, Jr.,
presiding
The Attainment of Every Virtue: A Pindaric Allusion in Grattius’
Cynegetica: Lisa Whitlach, Trinity University
A Romanized African Speaks About India: Assimilating and
Normalizing the Eastern Other: Thomas McCreight
Servius’ Use of Mythology and the Roman Past: Scott Sobolewski,
University of Buffalo, SUNY
1:00-2:30 pm
Luncheon: Ovatio tor Andrew Miller, University of Pittsburgh,
presented by Benjamin Haller, Virginia Wesleyan College
2:30 -5:00 pm
Panel Three: Women as Classical Scholars: Judith P. Hallett,
presiding
Frances (Fanny) Jackson Coppin (1837-1913): From Slave to
Classics Teacher: Shelley Haley
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Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866-1946): Fashioning the Classical
Scholar as a Woman: Barbara F. McManus
Helen Maria Chesnutt (1880-1969): Pioneer African-American
Latin Teacher: Michele Valerie Ronnick, Wayne State University
Eli’s Daughters: Female Classics Graduate Students at Yale, 18921941: Judith P. Hallett
Lily Ross Taylor (1880-1969): What a Woman Can Work On:
Eleanor Winsor Leach, Indiana University
Simone Weil (1909-1943): Receiving the Iliad: Barbara Gold
Paper Session G: Expanding the Boundaries of Greek and
Roman History: Mary Brown and Kathryn Williams, presiding
Of Public Concern: Miasma and the Formation of the Greek Polis:
Eamonn Connor, University of Pennsylvania
Size Isn’t Everything: Pygmies in Greek Art: Alexander Mazurek,
University of Buffalo, SUNY
The Intermingling of Alexander the Great’s Greek Mercenaries
with the Indigenous Populations: Kristin Slonsky, University of
Buffalo, SUNY
Entangled in the Vines of India: Alexander’s Indian Invasion and
Its Effect on Dionysiac Myth: Sarah Skelley, University of
Buffalo, SUNY
The Legitimization of Elagabalus and Cassius Dio’s Account of
the Reign of Macrinus: Andrew Scott, Villanova University
5:00 pm
5:15-6:30 pm
6:30 pm
7:30-8:00 pm
8:00-10:00 pm
8:15 am-10:15 am
Shuttle Bus Runs from The Inn at Penn to the University
Museum at the University of Pennsylvania
Gallery Visits and Reception (The Greeks and the EtruscanRoman Galleries)
Clack Lecture: “The Greeks and the Sea”: Edith Hall, King’s
College, London
Shuttle Buses return to The Inn at Penn
Dinner, The Inn at Penn
Ovatio for Past President Paul Properzio, Boston Latin
Academy and CAAS past President, presented by Judith P.
Hallett. Remarks by Devondra McMillan, Lawrenceville
School/University of Georgia, winner of the 2013 Adelaide
Hahn Scholarship, presented by Jennifer Larson, Mount Saint
Mary Academy
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
Panel Four: Learning as a Performance: Game-Based
Education and the Latin Classroom: Kevin Ballestrini,
presiding
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Kevin Ballestrini, Norwich Free Academy, Mark Pearsall,
Glastonbury High School, and Roger Travis, University of
Connecticut, presenters.
Paper Session H: Scripting the Late Roman Republic: Thomas
McCreight and Lee T. Pearcy, presiding
Ariovistus the Pompeian: A New Approach to Caesar’s Bellum
Gallicum: Curtis Dozier, Vassar College
Sabinus and Cotta in Caesar, Bellum Gallicum 5.24-37: John
Jacobs
Monstruosa species: Scylla and Civil War in the Late Republic:
Jennifer Gerrish, Temple University
Paper Session I: The Sounds and Silences of Latin Poetry:
Ronnie Ancona and Michael Broder, presiding
After Cato left the Theater: Mimetic Masculinity in Catullus 56:
Bret Mulligan, Haverford College
Horace, Carmina 4.1: The Voices of Silence: Carl Rubino,
Ovid Deconstructs the Paraclausithyron: Nicolas Gross,
University of Delaware, CAAS past President
Paper Session J: Re-envisioning Greek and Roman Women:
Barbara F. McManus and Ann R. Raia, presiding
Kalypso and Odysseus: Coercion, Rape and Sexual Violence:
Melissa K. Marturano, Graduate Center, CUNY
Tanaquil: Our Lady, Health of the Sick: Karen Klaiber Hersch,
Temple University
Poppaea Sabina and the Ptolemaic Queens: Caitlin Gillespie,
Western Washington University
10:415-10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am – 1:00 pm Panel Five: Communicating Ancient Greece and Rome: Maria
Marsilio, St. Joseph’s University and Judith P. Hallett, presiding
Extra-Mural Classics: Ellen Bauerle, University of Michigan
Press/Editor, Amphora, American Philological Association
Communicating Ancient Greece and Rome Via Theater, Film,
Television and More: Mary-Kay Gamel, University of California,
Santa Cruz
Communicating the Classics PhD for Non-Academic Careers:
John-Paul Christy, American Council of Learned Societies
Going Public: Leonard Cassuto, Fordham University/Chronicle of
Higher Education
Outreach is a Political Issue: Edith Hall, King’s College, London
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Paper Session K: Pedagogical Possibilities: Jessica Anderson
and Henry Bender, presiding
Introducing Greek to Latin Students with Athenaze: Paul Properzio
An Update on the Teaching of Latin in Russia: Anne Saunders,
The College of Charleston
Truth, Lies and Freshman Composition: Using Herodotus to Teach
Academic Writing: Janet Moser, Brooklyn College
Life in Roman Britain: Sister Therese-Marie Dougherty, Notre
Dame of Maryland University
Paper Session L: The Ever-Present Future: Session on
Undergraduate Research in the Classics: Martha Davis, Temple
University, and Janet M. Martin, presideing
Cassandra the Keen-Scented Hound: Jennifer C. Ranck, Hunter
College (Lawrence Kowerski, Professor)
Ho Megas Chronos: Time and Change in Fifth Century Athens and
Sophocles’ Ajax:
Emily S. Goodling, Hillsdale College (Grace Starry West,
Professor)
Walk Like an Egyptian: Ptolemaic Dependency on Egyptian
Culture: Nicole Love, Temple University (Jennifer Gerrish,
Professor)
Sor Juana’s Lucretian Roots: Adam Myers, Ripon College (Eddie
Lowry and Vince Tomasso, Professors)
The Postmodern Amphora: Examining Greek Drama and Myth
Through the Graphic Novel: Carl Cardozo, St. Joseph’s University
(Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, Professor)
1:00-2:15 pm
Luncheon. Ovatio for Martha Davispresented by Daniel
Tompkins, Temple University. Recognition of Matthew
Santirocco, New York University, outgoing editor of Classical
World. Business Meeting
2:15-4:15 pm
Panel Six: Critical Theory and Classics: Michael Broder,
presiding
Introduction to Critical Theory and Classics, Michael Broder,
Independent Scholar
Performing Race: A Critical Race Feminist Looks at Seneca 47:
Shelley Haley
Lucretius Now: Serres, Deleuze, and the Temporality of
Reception: Brooke Holmes, Princeton University
Our Father, Who Art My Lover: Psychoanalysis and Paternity in
Statius’ Silvae: Micaela Janan, Duke University
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Panel Seven: Our Classical Cities: 19th Century American
Classical Receptions and Digital Humanities Projects (in
memory of Kathryn Bosher): Lee T. Pearcy, presiding
Introductory Remarks: S. Sara Monoson, Northwestern University
Classicizing New York: Neo-Classical Public Art and Architecture
in the Gilded Age: Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Jared Simard,
Graduate Center, CUNY
Classicizing Philadelphia: Neo-Classical Spectacle and Farce in
Nineteenth Century Philadelphia: Lee T. Pearcy
Pompeii in the United States Capitol: Gregory Staley, University
of Maryland, College Park
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