CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE ATLANTIC STATES
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE EMPIRE STATE
PROGRAM: FALL 2012 MEETING
New York Marriott East Side, New York City
Thursday-Saturday, October 4-6, 2012
DRAFT (AUGUST 14, 2012)
Program Committee
Henry V. Bender, The Hill School and Saint Joseph’s University, CAAS past President, Program Coordinator
Frederick J. Booth, Seton Hall University, CAAS First Vice President
Nathan Costa, Saint Andrew’s School
Barbara K. Gold, Hamilton College, CAAS past President
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park, CAAS past President and past Program Coordinator
Janet M. Martin, Princeton University, CAAS Second Vice President
Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, Saint Joseph's University
Barbara Pavlock, Lehigh University, CAAS Secretary
Lee T. Pearcy, Episcopal Academy, CAAS past President
Ann R. Raia, The College of New Rochelle, CAAS past President
4:00-6:00 pm
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2012
Packet Pick-up for pre-registrants
Vendors can set up book displays.
5:30-7:30 pm
Dinner Meeting of the 2011-12 Finance Committee
7:30-9:30 pm
Meeting of the 2011-2012 Board of Directors
8:00 am-noon
Registration
8:00 am-5 pm
Book Display
8:30-10:00 am
Paper Session A: Greek Materialities. Lee T. Pearcy (Episcopal Academy) and
Maria S. Marsilio (Saint Joseph's University) presiding
Spartan death in Battle and Plutarch's Spartan Sayings
Andrew G. Scott (Villanova University)
Orientalizing the West: The Spread of Eastern Materiality at Archaic Samos, Argos,
and Epizephyrian Lokroi
Kristen Thiers (Villanova University)
Change in Athletic Training Methods in Ancient Greece
Reyes Bertolin (University of Calgary)
8:30-10:00 am
Paper Session B: Latin Intertextualities. Janet M. Martin (Princeton University) and
Barbara Pavlock (Lehigh University) presiding
"But once put out thy light": Othello (5.2.1-22) and Catullus (cc. 5 and 7)
Benjamin Stevens (Bard College)
Imaginary Founder: The Creation of a Tradition in Grattius' Cynegetica
Lisa Whitlatch (Rutgers University)
A New Reading of the Fourth Ode of Seneca's Troades
Timothy Hanford (CUNY Graduate Center)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2012
10:00-10:30 am Coffee Break
10:30-12:30
Paper Session C: Greek and Latin Literary Perspectives. Frederick J. Booth (Seton
Hall University) and Konstantinos Nikoloutsos (Saint Joseph's University) presiding
Two Complementary Cycles Frame Virgil's Bucolics
John Van Sickle (Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY)
Exile and the Founding of Rome in the Aeneid
Kenneth Sammond (Fairleigh Dickinson University)
The Narcissist and the Sculptor: Art and Dysfunction in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Ashley A. Simone (Columbia University)
Dionysos and the Dramatic Perspective in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe
Jean Alvares (Montclair State University)
10:30-12:30
Paper Session D: Greek Thought and Emotion. William Klingshirn (The Catholic
University of America, CAAS past President) and Timothy Renner (Montclair State
University) presiding
Odysseus as a Political Animal: Political Dynamics in the Apologoi
Thomas J.B. Cole (independent scholar)
Love and Envy: A New-Old Perspective on Ancient Mediterranean Desire
Andrew Scholtz (Binghamton University, SUNY)
Sophists before Soldiers: Socrates and Palamedes
Jonathan Pratt (Colgate University)
10:30-12:30
Panel A: The Roman Elegists as Readers of Catullus. Judith P. Hallett (University
of Maryland, College Park) presiding
Tibullus 1.2: Speaking to the Catullan Door
Michael Leary (University of Maryland, College Park and Norfolk Academy)
and Philip Gallagher (University of Maryland, College Park)
Sulpicia’s Catullus
Katharine Pilkington (University of Maryland, College Park)
Ovid’s doctus psitaccus in Amores 2.6
Steven Konyar and Stephen Boscovitch (University of Maryland, College
Park)
Ovid’s Tristia 4.10 as a Dialogue with Catullus
Stephen Rojcewicz, MD (University of Maryland, College Park)
1:00-2:30 pm
Luncheon Buffet:
Ovatio honoring Barbara Pavlock (Lehigh University), CAAS Secretary.
2:45-4:45 pm
Paper Session E: Classical Reception. Shelley P. Haley (Hamilton College, CAAS
President) and Thomas McCreight (Loyola University Maryland, CAAS Director for
Maryland) presiding
The Rhapsode's Tale: The Multiple Narratives of O'Hare and Peterson's 'An Iliad'
Thomas Falkner (McDaniel College)
Oedipus, King of Thebes (Egypt): Re-Orientations by Egyptian Arabic Playwrights
John H. Starks, Jr. (Binghamton University, SUNY)
Orestes & the Half-Blood Prince: Aeschylean Tyranny in the Harry Potter Series
Brett M. Rogers (University of Puget Sound)
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2:45-4:45 pm
Paper Session F: Roman Women. Barbara K. Gold (Hamilton College) and Ann R.
Raia (The College of New Rochelle) presiding
Insult, or Challenge? The asylum feminis in Livy AUC 1.9
Meredith E. Safran (Trinity College)
Pregnant Embodiment. Alcmene's Resistance in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Patricia Salzman (Montclair State University)
Flavia Domitilla as delicata: A New Interpretation of Suetonius, Vespasian 3
Valeria La Monaca (University of Calgary)
2:45-4:45 pm
Panel B: Greco-Roman Iberia. Raymond Capra (Seton Hall University) presiding
Strabo’s Lost Colonies
Benedict Lowe (Aarhus University)
Commerce and Culture: Greek Merchants and the Distribution of the "Sombrero de
Copa"
Raymond Capra (Seton Hall University)
Altamira to Andalusia: The Legacy and Lore of the Iberian Horse
Carolyn Willekes (University of Calgary)
Altera Carthago: The Fall of New Carthage in the Punica
John Jacobs (Montclair Kimberley Academy)
5:30-6:30 pm
Reception: hors d'oeuvres and open bar
6:30-8:00 pm
Clack Lecture: James Tatum, Dartmouth College
8:00-10:00 pm
Dinner Buffet:
Presentation by 2012 Hahn Scholarship winner.
8:00 am-noon
Registration
8:00 am-1 pm
Book Display
9:00-10:30 am
Paper Session G: Roman Realities and Exemplarities. John Jacobs (Montclair
Kimberly Academy, CAAS Treasurer) and Sarolta Takács (The Sage Colleges, CAAS
Officer-at-Large) presiding
The Multicolored World of the Romans
Rachael Goldman (CUNY Graduate Center)
The Influence of Thucydides' Plague on Tacitus' Fire
Scott Weiss (CUNY Graduate Center)
Augustan Exemplarity in the Life of Vespasian
Ari Zatlin (New York University)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2012
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9:00-10:30 am
Paper Session H: Classical Pedagogies. Mary Brown (Valley Forge Military
Academy, CAAS Executive Director) and Karin Suzadail (Owen J. Roberts High
School) presiding
Problems in Translation: The Elegiac Couplet
Chris Childers (St. Andrew's School)
Revisiting the Latin Gerund and Gerundive: An Active Approach
Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland, College Park) and Richard Gilder
(The Wheeler School)
One Model for Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Publication in Classics
Curtis Dozier (Vassar College)
10:30-11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00-1:00
Panel C: Academic Activism in the Classics: Teaching and Doing. Melinda Powers
(John Jay College of Criminal Justice) presiding
Middle School Latin for Equality
Sarah Derbew (Yale University)
Academic Activism in the Classics: The Public University as Springboard
Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland, College Park)
Dante Behind Bars
Ronald S. Jenkins (Wesleyan University)
The Classics at Marcy: Which Classics and Why
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)
Scholarship as Activism?
Patrice Rankine (Purdue University)
From Tiberius Gracchus to Occupy Wall Street: Using Ancient History to Inspire
Student Activism
Walter Penrose, Jr. (San Diego State University)
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11:00-1:00
Panel D: Latin on the Rise in New York City's Public and Charter Schools:
Challenges and Opportunities. Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College and CUNY
Graduate Center) presiding
In the last decade the presence of Latin has markedly increased at the secondary level
in New York City’s public and charter schools, most notably with the opening of
several new schools that require Latin. This panel explores the nature of this
phenomenon to see what challenges and opportunities it has to offer the classics
profession and the community at large. To succeed and thrive, the field of classics
needs to identify new and sustainable audiences as well as to keep cultivating more
traditional ones. While informing those in attendance about the current situation for
classics in New York City, the speakers’ remarks will also stimulate thinking about
whether what is occurring in New York City can and/or should be imitated or
replicated elsewhere and why or why not.
Jessica Kate Anderson and Kathleen R. Durkin (Maspeth High School)
David Clark (Bard High School Early College)
Ron Janoff (Believe Charter High Schools Network, 2010-2012)
Ryan M. Joyce (The Brooklyn Latin School)
Louise Michaud (Bronx School of Law and Finance)
1:00-2:30 pm
Luncheon Buffet:
Ovationes honoring William J. Mayer (Hunter College, CAAS past President) and David
Sider (New York University, CAAS past President)
Business Meeting of the Association; Election of Officers and Directors
2:30-4:30 pm
Meeting of the 2012-2013 Board of Directors
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