Schedule
 

The 94th Meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest
March 24-25, 2006
Reed College, Portland, Oregon

Friday, March 24

6:30-7:30 - Registration - Psych building
7:30-9:15 - Keynote address - Psych Auditorium
 Jenny Strauss Clay
 Professor of Classics, University of Virginia
 President of the American Philological Association
How to be a Hero: The Case of Sarpedon

9:15 until late - Reception - Psych building

Saturday, March 25

Throughout the day Psych 103 will contain materials of interest to Classics teachers, displayed by Rose Williams (independent scholar and press representative).

First Paper Session: 9:00-10:30

1A

Characterization in Greek Historiography - Psych 102
 Chair, Ortwin Knorr (Willamette University)
    •     Ellen Millender (Reed College), Archidamus II's Intelligence: A Reassessment
    •     Marie Van Kommer (Eastern Washington University), Alexander the Great: Portrait of a Sociopath
    •     Eric Nelson (Pacific Lutheran University), Hippocrates, Heraclids, the "Kings of the Heracleidai”

1B

Greek and Roman Philosophy and Political Discourse - Psych 108
 Chair, Nigel Nicholson (Reed College)
    •     Walter Englert (Reed College), Epicurus on Pleasure and Happiness
    •     Brett Jordan (Eastern Washington University), The Antithesis between Justice and Utility in Cicero's ideal state: A Platonic Exposition
    •      Cristina Calhoon (University of Oregon), The Threat of Novelty: Novercae and Res Novae

Second Paper Session: 10:45-12:30

2A

Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity - Psych 102
 Chair, Karen Carr (Portland State University)
    •     Lindsay Alane Morse (University of Washington), Identity Theft Punishable by Death: Dogs, Beasts and Actaeon in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
    •      Mark Nugent (University of Washington), Sizing Her Up: Art and Identity in Lucian's Images
    •      Michael Williams (Willamette University), Hymns and Acclamations in the Portian Basilica Crisis
    •      Charles Odahl (Boise State University), Christian Minters in Constantinian Arles

2B

Epic - Psych 108
 Chair, Stephen Hinds (University of Washington)
    •     Madeleine Goh (Indiana University), Reverse Similes in the Iliad
    •      Stefan Chrissanthos (University of California, Riverside), Aeneas in Vietnam: Comparing the Roman and Modern Battle Experience
    •      Lorina Quartarone (University of Saint Thomas), The “heroes” of Ovid’s Epic
    •      Ethan Adams (Loyola Marymount University), The Pharsalia Before Lucan

Lunch 12:30-2:15 - Gray Center

Business Meeting, 1:30-2:00
 chair, Nigel Nicholson (Reed College) - Psych 102

Meeting on Classics in Schools, 1:30-2:00
 chair, Rose Williams (independent scholar) - Psych 103

Third Paper Session: 2:15-4:00

3A

Roman History and Historiography - Psych 102
 Chair, Mary Jaeger (University of Oregon)
    •      P. Andrew Montgomery (Samford University), Marius at the Muluccha (Sal. Jug. 92.5-94.7)
    •      Ortwin Knorr (Willamette University), Pulling Strings: Julius Caesar's Rise from Obscurity to Prominence
    •      Matthew Fox (Deep Springs College), The Empire’s New Texts: A Lucan-Centered Syllabus for Roman Literature and History

3B

 Latin Literature - Psych 108
 Chair, Lorina Quartarone (University of St Thomas)
    •     Julia Hawthorne (University of Puget Sound), The Insanity of Plautus: Comic and Tragic Madness in the "Amphitruo"
    •      Benjamin Stevens (Bard College), per gestum res est significanda mihi: Thought about Language in Ovid’s Poetry of Exile
    •      Yurie Hong Easton (University of Washington), Statius’ “Lying Bodies” and the Dynamics of Authority in Silvae 4.6
    •      Stephen Hinds (University of Washington), Seneca’s Ovidian Theater

Fourth Paper Session: 4:15-6:00

4A

 The Post-Classical World and the Preservation of the Past - Psych Auditorium
 Chair, Ellen Millender (Reed College)
    •      Anne McClanan (Portland State University), Depictions of the Natural World in the Ravenna Mosaics
    •      Mary Jaeger (University of Oregon), Petrarch's Archimedes
    •      Jody Valentine (University of Southern California), Loss of the Past: The ethics of antiquities collecting at the J. Paul Getty Museum
    •      Ann Nicgorski (Willamette University), New Acquisitions of Greek and Roman Art at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art (Salem, Oregon)

4B

 Greek Literature - Psych 102
 Chair, Walter Englert (Reed College)
    •     Ryan Platte (University of Washington), Pederasty and Pedagogy in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes
    •      Brett Rogers (University of Georgia), How Not to Teach (and Still Turn a Profit) in Theognis and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes
    •      Anthony Podlecki (Univ. of British Columbia), Gods Onstage: Divine Appearances and their Impact on the Action of Eum., Aias and Hipp.
    •      Nigel Nicholson & Rachel Preminger (Reed College), Athletes, Anecdotes, and the Projection of Civic Identity

 

A note on the keynote speaker

Jenny Strauss Clay is a professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, and has published widely on Greek literature and beyond. Her books include: The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey, published by Princeton University Press in 1983, and then reprinted by Rowman and Littlefield in1996; The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns, also published by Princeton, in 1989, and also reprinted, by Duckworth; and most recently Hesiod's Cosmos, published by Cambridge in 2003.With Robert Horwitz and Diskin Clay, she has also published on John Locke (Locke's Questions Concerning the Law of Nature, Cornell University Press, 1990), and has also edited a significant volume on didactic, with Alessandro Schiesaro and Phillip Mitsis (Mega Nepios: Il destinatorio nell'epos didascalico. The addressee in Didactic Epic, a special issue of Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 31, from 1993). Many may also have seen her recent articles in mainstream newspapers defending the intellectual legacy of her father, Leo Strauss. Delivering this keynote address also represents something of a return, as Professor Clay got her B.A. from Reed, before attending the universities of Chicago and Washington for graduate school. In addition to teaching at Virginia, she has also taught at Irvine and Johns Hopkins. In 2004, she was honored by the American Philological Association by being nominated for election, and then elected to serve, as President of the organization in 2006.

Special thanks are due to the President of Reed College for making Professor Clay’s visit possible.

 CAPN Officers 2005-06

President/Treasurer
 Nigel Nicholson (Reed College)

 Vice President
 Franco De Angelis (University of British Columbia)

Secretary/ Bulletin Editor
 Malcolm Wilson (University of Oregon)

Abstracts Committee
 Lorina Quartarone (University of St Thomas), Ellen Millender (Reed College), Nigel Nicholson (Reed College)

Executive Committee
 Lorina Quartarone (University of St Thomas), Mary Jaeger (University of Oregon), Catherine Connors (University of Washington), Richard Williams (Washington State University), Burma Williams (Independent Scholar)

Scholarship Committee
 Lorina Quartarone (University of St Thomas), Malcolm Wilson (University of Oregon), Richard Williams (Washington State University)

 

Next year’s meeting will be held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, at their downtown campus in Robson Square, March 16-17, 2007, and will be a joint meeting with the Classical Association of the Canadian West.