APA Annual Meeting 2008
Classical Reception at the American Philological Association Meeting
4-6 January, 2008
Hyatt Regency, Chicago
Friday January 4
Classical Tradition I
8:30 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.
Columbus Hall EF
John Vaio, Presider
1. Zara M. Torlone, Miami University
The Joy of Nostalgia: Reception of Ovid in Russian Poetry (15 mins.)
2. Zana Bass, University of Pennsylvania
The Sexuality of Dionysus and Pentheus in Euripides and Soyinka (15 mins.)
3. Anne Mahoney, Tufts University
Poetics on the Menu: Pascoli’s Cena in Caudiano Nervae (15 mins.)
4. Akihiko Watanabe, Western Washington University
An Educational and Improving Novel: The Golden Ass in Meiji Japan (15 mins.)
KINHMA: Gladiatrix! Fighting Women of the Screen
Sponsored by the Three-Year Colloquium on KINHMA: Classical Antiquity and Cinema
8:30 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.
Crystal Ballroom B
Hanna M. Roisman and Martin M. Winkler, Organizers
This final panel of KINHMA deals with a frequently neglected aspect of the modern representation of ancient Greece and Rome: the portrayal of women as arena fighters. Ancient visual and textual evidence attests to the existence of female fighters, but as with their male counterparts, modern media usuallypresent highly fictionalized versions. Individual papers address some of the ways in which male directors— and, unusually, one female director—show their women stars in a venue chiefly associated with heroic men.
1. Hanna M. Roisman, Colby College
Introduction (10 mins.)
2. Michael Mordine, Columbia University
‘A Thousand Tempting Beauties!’: Representations of Women in Sword-and-Sandal Movie Posters of the 1950s and 60s (25 mins.)
3. Catherine Colegrove, Canterbury School
The Arena: Masturbation or Liberation? (25 mins.)
4. Lisa Maurice, Bar Ilan University
Roger Corman’s Female Gladiators: The Arena (1973) and The Arena (2001) (25 mins.)
5. Emma Scioli, The University of Kansas
Tamora in the Arena and on Stage in Julie Taymor’s Titus (25 mins.)
6. Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
Who Is Afraid of Lysistrata? (25 mins.)
7. Martin M. Winkler, George Mason University
Concluding Remarks: KINHMA and No Sequel (15 mins.)
From Classical Tradition to Reception Studies: Four National Perspectives
Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Classical Tradition
11.15 A.M. – 1.15 P.M.
Columbus Hall EF
Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Organizer
1. Alessandro Barchiesi, University of Siena/Stanford University
“Italian Unifications”: Sebastiano Vassalli, Un infinito numero (20 mins.)
2. Mary Beard, University of Cambridge
Classics Transformed (20 mins.)
3. James L. Porter, University of Michigan
Hellenism and Modernity (20 mins.)
4. Ernst A. Schmidt, University of Tübingen
The German Rediscovery of Vergil in the Early 20th Century (20 mins.)
Respondent: Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Wesleyan University (15 mins.)
Plautine Elements for the New Millennium
11:15 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.
Crystal Ballroom B
George Fredric Franko, Organizer
Eduard Fraenkel’s Plautinisches in Plautus arguably remains the single most significant study of Plautine comedy in the 20th century. Fraenkel’s penetrating philological analysis of how Plautus adapted Greek New Comedic scripts helped change scholarly views on the Roman poet: the incompetent copier became an imaginative dramatist. The 2006 publication of an English translation invites scholars to reenter a dialogue with Fraenkel’s methods and conclusions. This panel aims to celebrate some of the book’s achievements, probe a few of its insights and oversights, and suggest ways in which it can stimulate fresh readings in the 21st century.
1. Elaine Fantham, Princeton University/University of Toronto
Eduard Fraenkel: Vorplautinisches und Plautinisches (15 mins.)
2. Kathleen McCarthy, University of California, Berkeley
Fraenkel as Translation Theorist (15 mins.)
3. Timothy Moore, The University of Texas at Austin
Leo, Fraenkel, and the Origins of the Plautine Cantica: The State of the Question (15 mins.)
4. Ariana Traill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fraenkel’s Mythological Material in Light of the New Menander (15 mins.)
Classical Antiquity as a Usable Past
APA PRESIDENTIAL PANEL
4:30 P.M. – 6:30 P.M.
Crystal Ballroom B
Ruth Scodel, Organizer
1. Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan
Introduction (5 mins.)
2. Amy Richlin, University of California, Los Angeles
Living in the Very Late Roman Empire (20 mins.)
3. Joy Connolly, New York University
The Grammar of Action: Classics and Political Discourse (20 mins.)
4. Martha Nussbaum, The University of Chicago
Aristotle, Capabilities, and the Court (20 mins.)
5. Stanley Lombardo, The University of Kansas
The Voice of the Text (20 mins.)
6. Richard Mohr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
How the Philoctetes Saved Baltimore (20 mins.)
Performance of Euripides' Cyclops
7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.
Grand Ballroom A
The APA's Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance presents its seventh annual dramatic reading of a play with a classical connection with a staged reading of the rarely-performed Cyclops, the sole complete example of a satyr play that has survived from antiquity. Like last year's Birds, Cyclops will showcase both the musical and acting skills of APA members. All registrants are welcome to attend, and the reading is open to the public.
Directors: Laura and Mike Lippman
Filming: Peter Sipes
The Cast
Papasilenus: Peter Burian
Odysseus: John Starks
Polyphemus: Amy Cohen
Cyclops' right and left hand men: Mark Miner and Timothy-Richard Wutrich
Chorus
Leader: John Given
Chorus of Satyrs: Willie Major, John Bauschatz, Brett Rogers, Toph Marshall
Sailors/Sheep: Alison Futrell, Leigh Leiberman, Diane Arnson, Svarlien Laura Gawlinski, Emily Jusino, Anise Strong.
Musicians: Amy Vail (sailor/sheep), Natalie Synhaivsky (sailor/sheep), Wake Foster (satyr), Andrew Reinhard (satyr), Steven Sirski (satyr).
Saturday, 5 January
Pedagogy
8:30 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.
Columbus Hall EF
Jeanne Neumann, Presider
1. Wilfred E. Major, Louisiana State University
Greek Prose Composition in the 21st Century (15 mins.)
2. Martha J. Payne, Ball State University/Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
Cartoons in the Classics Classroom (15 mins.)
3. Paul Christesen, Dartmouth College
Generals, Gods, and Games: Video Games and Classical Antiquity (15 mins.)
4. Richard H. Davis, Jr., The Hotchkiss School
An Alternative Method for Writing Critical Essays on Latin Literature (15 mins.)
Ancient Through Modern Greece: Inventing and Rediscovering Connections
Sponsored by the Three-Year Colloquium on Greece: Looking Forward, Backward, and Sideways
11:15 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.
Grand Suite 5
Gonda Van Steen, Organizer
This panel investigates the creative ways in which generations of students of the Greek language, of literature, history, archaeology, education, and culture in general have reflected on the crucial and recurring challenge posed by the Greek past. Some have addressed Greek culture as an ideologically-charged paradigm or as a practical, pedagogical, literary, or imaginary frame of reference; others have conceptualized it as an impetus for Greek society's self-discovery and reorientation at crucial moments in its modern history.
1. Kevin Kalish, Princeton University
The Invention of a Poetic Tradition: Greek Christian Poetry and Its Modern Reception (20 mins.)
2. Nikos Panou, Harvard University
Ancient Learning in the Ottoman Balkans (20 mins.)
3. Liana Theodoratou, New York University
‘Another Athens’: Shelley, Aeschylus, and the Reinvention of Modern Greece (20 mins.)
4. Glenn Bugh, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Kevin Andrews and the Lessons of Greek History (20 mins.)
Respondent: Richard Armstrong, University of Houston (10 mins.)
Classics and the Changing Climate of Higher Education
Sponsored by the APA Committee on Education
1:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Columbus Hall EF
Lee T. Pearcy and Barbara K. Gold, Organizers
1. James J. O’Donnell, Georgetown University
What the Provost Sees (10 mins.)
2. S. Georgia Nugent, Kenyon College
What the President Sees (10 mins.)
3. Donna Heiland, Teagle Foundation
What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? (10 mins.)
4. Rachelle Brooks, Northwestern University
Assessment and the Production of Knowledge (10 mins.)
5. Small Group Discussions (45 mins.)
6. Concluding Remarks (20 mins.)
Performing ‘Identity’: National and Social Transformations in Modern Performance
Sponsored by the Three-Year Colloquium on Performing Ideology: Classicism, Modernity, and Social Context
1:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Crystal Ballroom B
Timothy J. Moore, Organizer
This panel examines how performances of ancient and classically-inspired dramas in the modern world have both reflected and transformed the identities of performers and audiences. Panelists discuss how portrayals of Roman history in 18th-century operas could encourage Italians to identify themselves as part of a united Italy, how contemporary Australians see themselves in an adaptation of Plautus, how versions of ancient drama have served as a springboard for remolding the identity of minority groups within contemporary American society, and how performances of ancient drama have helped define the very concept of the “modern”.
1. Robert Ketterer, The University of Iowa
Tragedy, Rome and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century Opera (20 mins.)
2. Pantelis Michelakis, University of Bristol
Dancing with Prometheus: Performance and Spectacle in the 1920s (20 mins.)
3. Melinda Powers, John Jay College
Performing Diversity in American Classics (20 mins.)
4. Gesine Manuwald, University College London
Plautus in 21st-Century Australia: Does the Roman Playwright Still Influence People’s Identity? (20 mins.)
5. John Given, East Carolina University
Creating the Outsider’s Identity: Nathan Lane’s Dionysus (20 mins.)
Sunday, 6 January
Neo-Latin Studies: Current Research
Sponsored by the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies
8:30 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.
Columbus Hall EF
Frederick J. Booth, Organizer
This panel features recent scholarship in the diverse international field of Neo-Latin. The first paper presents an Italian commentary on Apuleius, written in 1500, which offers a Christian reading of Lucius’ conversion. Three papers explore sixteenth and seventeenth century Latin pedagogy in England, France, and Germany. One investigates Latin compositions by Mary, Queen of Scots; another discusses a chreia verbalis, a model composition used for rhetorical training; and the third considers two still effective Latin textbooks. The final paper, examining an epyllion composed in 2006 to commemorate the Mexican hero Benito Juárez, demonstrates the continuing vitality of Neo-Latin.
1. Julia Gaisser, Bryn Mawr College
Lucius the Priest in Filippo Beroaldo’s Commentary on the Golden Ass (15 mins.)
2. Anne-Marie Lewis, York University
The Latin Themes of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (15 mins.)
3. Diane Johnson, Western Washington University
Aphthonius’ Chreia: Reinhard Lorich and the Death of Eobanus (15 mins.)
4. Albert R. Baca, California State University, Northridge
Francisco Cabrera’s Benito Juárez: A 21st Century Latin Epyllion (15 mins.)
Classical Tradition II
11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.
Columbus Hall AB
Daniel Richter, Presider
1. Thomas E. Jenkins, Trinity University
Farcical Philology: Alexander Shewan’s Homeric Games at an Ancient St. Andrews (15 mins.)
2. Kathryn Bosher, Northwestern University
Chicago Ixion (15 mins.)
3. John Carlevale, Berea College
Empire as Organization: The Romans in Life Magazine (15 mins.)
Classics and Comics
Sponsored by the APA Committee on Outreach
1:45 P.M. – 4:15 P.M.
Crystal Ballroom C
George Kovacs and C. W. Marshall, Organizers
1. Kelli Stanley, Independent Scholar and Author
How Myth Validated the American Superhero (20 mins.)
2. Vincent Tomasso, Stanford University
Thermopylae in Frank Miller’s Sin City: “The Big Fat Kill” (20 mins.)
3. Emily Fairey, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Barbarians or Super-Villains? Persians in Frank Miller’s 300 (20 mins.)
4. Anise Strong, Northwestern University
A Dream of Augustus: Neil Gaiman’s Sandman and Comic Mythology (20 mins.)
5. C. W. Marshall, The University of British Columbia
The Furies, Wonder Woman, and Dream: Tragic Mythmaking in DC Comics (20 mins.)
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