Classical Association of Canada / Société
canadienne des études anciennes
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C A N A D I A N C L A S S I C A L
B U L L E T I N
C A N A D I E N D E S E T U D E S A N C I E N N E S
VOLUME / TOME 2,
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1996 03 30
Published by e-mail by the Classical Association of Canada/
Publie par courrier electronique par la
societe canadienne des etudes classiques
President: J.C. Yardley, University of/Universite d'Ottawa
JCYARD@AIX1.UOTTAWA.CA
Secretary/Secretaire: I.M. Cohen, Mount Allison University
ICOHEN@MTA.CA
Treasurer/Tresorier: J.I. McDougall, University of Winnipeg
MCDOUGLL@IO.UWINNIPEG.CA
Edited by/redige par
K.H. Kinzl, Trent University
KKINZL@TRENTU.CA
ISSN 1198-9149
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CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA / SOCIETE CANADIENNE DES ETUDES CLASSIQUES
Annual Meeting / Congres Annuel
PROGRAMME
May 23, 24, 25, 1996 / Les 23, 24, 25 mai, 1996
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
Thistle Complex
WEDNESDAY, 22 May, 1996 / MERCREDI, le 22 Mai, 1996
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Meeting of Phoenix editorial board / Reunion du bureau de direction de
Phoenix, Committee Room, Schmon Tower, 13th Floor
THURSDAY, 23 May, 1996 / JEUDI, le 23 Mai, 1996
9:00-10:30
I A THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER / LA CONSTRUCTION DE L'IDENTITE SEXUELLE
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Chair/President - Bonnie MacLachlan (University of Western Ontario)
1. Ingrid E. Holmberg (University of Victoria): "Why Sappho needs a
man: male, female and language in Sappho's poetry" (20 min.)
2. Jeffrey S. Carnes (Syracuse University): "The quest for a straight
man: Aristophanes' speech and the context of Plato's Symposium" (20 min.)
3. John C. Aveline (University of British Columbia):
"Desideratus/desiderata: equality among objects of love" (20 min.)
I B GREEK MYTH AND LEGEND / MYTHES ET LEGENDES GRECS
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Chair/President - Ivan Cohen (Mount Allison University)
1. Apostolos N. Athanassakis (University of California, Santa Barbara):
"Why so little about the souls of the dead in Hesiod's cosmography?" (20
min.)
2. Jonathan Burgess (University of Toronto): "The afterlife in early
Greek myth" (20 min.)
I C THE GREEK LANGUAGE / LA LANGUE GRECQUE
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Chair/President - Mark Joyal (Memorial University)
1. Eleanor Dickey (University of Ottawa): "Greek forms of address" (20
min.)
2. Bruce G. Robertson (University of Toronto): "Personal names and the
origin of proxeny" (20 min.)
I D ROMAN COMEDY / COMEDIE ROMAINE
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Chair/President - Andre Daviault (Universite Laval)
1. C.W. Marshall (Trent University): "Backstage Plautus: Rudens and
Poenulus" (20 min.)
2. Benjamin Victor (University of Montreal): "Who says what in a Roman
comedy?" (12 min.
10:30-11:00 Coffee break / Pause-cafe
11:00-12:30
II A THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER / LA CONSTRUCTION DE L'IDENTITE SEXUELLE
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Chair/President - Alison M. Keith (University of Toronto)
1. Senta German (Columbia University): "The gendered human form in the
Late Bronze Age Aegean" (20 min.)
2. Cecily J. Hilsdale (University of Chicago): "Portrait of an empress:
Theodora and the space between" (20 min.)
II B GREEK SOCIETY / SOCIETE GRECQUE
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Chair/President - Daniel J. Geagan (McMaster University)
1. David Mirhady (University of Alberta): "The evidence of Athenian
drama" (20 min.)
2. Kathryn Simonsen (University of Toronto): "Do dead men make
donations? Dating IG II2 1609" (20 min.)
3. Leopold Migeotte (Universite Laval): "Le controle des prix dans les
cites grecques" (20 min.)
II C ROMAN HISTORY / HISTOIRE ROMAINE
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Chair/President - Helene Leclerc (University of Montreal)
1. Mark Temelini (McGill University): "Pompey, his theatre-complex, and
the politics of popularity (62-52 B.C.)" (20 min.)
2. C.J. Simpson (Wilfrid Laurier University): "Legal restriction and
excusable elitism. Brief comments on the adoptions of 17 B.C. and A.D. 4"
(20 min.)
II D THE CLASSICAL TRADITION / LA TRADITION CLASSIQUE
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Chair/President - James L.Butrica (Memorial University)
1. Gerald Sandy (University of British Columbia): "Guillaume Bude and
the study of ancient Greek" (20 min.)
2. Thomas G. Elliott (Erindale College): "The production of Gibbon's
Constantine" (20 min.)
LUNCH / DEJEUNER
12:45
Meeting of Council I / Reunion de Conseil I, Taro 260
2:00-3:30
III A CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER / LA CONSTRUCTION DE L'IDENTITE SEXUELLE
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Chair/President - Judith Fletcher (Wilfrid Laurier University)
1. A. Victoria Soady (Valdosta State University) and Helen Wishart
(Brock University): "Euripides' `Hecuba': the role of language in the
social construction of gender" (20 min.)
2. Tricia Gilson (University of California, San Diego): "Mapping
gender: women's bodies and Athenian geography" (20 min.)
3. Kelly Venour (University of Chicago): "Adornment and the
influence of Greek women" (20 min.)
III B GREEK EPIC / EPOPEE GRECQUE
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Chair/President - Robert L. Fowler (University of Waterloo)
1. Rainer Friedrich (Dalhousie University ): "Enjambement in Homer"
(25 min.)
2. Patricia Fagan (University of Toronto): "Transformation and
interpretation in the similes of the Iliad" (20 min.)
3. Victor Matthews (University of Guelph): "Aphrodite's hair:
Colluthus and hairstyling in the epic tradition" (15 min.)
III C CHILDREN AND DWARFS / LES ENFANTS ET LES NAINS
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Chair/President - Martin Kilmer (University of Ottawa)
1. Wayne Ingalls (Mount Saint Vincent University): "Children in the
Iliad: an historical approach" (15 min.)
2. Mark Golden (University of Winnipeg): "Children and childhood in
Hellenistic historiography" (20 min.)
3. Michael Garmaise (McMaster University): "The convergence of the
roles of children and dwarfs in Roman society" (20 min.)
III D RELIGION UNDER THE EMPIRE / RELIGION SOUS L'EMPIRE
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Chair/President - J. Allan S. Evans (University of British Columbia)
1. Jonathan Edmondson (York University): "A dedication to Divus
Augustus and Diva Augusta from Augusta Emerita (Merida)" (20 min.)
2. Roger Beck (Erindale College): "Qui mortalitatis causa
convenerunt: the meeting of the Virunum Mithraists on June 26, 184 CE"
(20 min.)
3. Thomas M. Banchich (Canisius College): "Nestorius hierophantein
tetagmenos" (20 min.)
3:30-4:00 Coffee break / Pause-cafe
4:00-5:00
Special lecture / Conference speciale
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Chair/President - John Yardley (University of Ottawa)
ELAINE FANTHAM (Princeton University): "The anthropology of Ovid's
early Rome"
5:00-7:00 PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION / RECEPTION DU PRESIDENT
New Residence Dining Hall
8:00
OPENING CEREMONY, 1996 CONGRESS/ CEREMONIE D'OUVERTURE, CONGRES 1996
Sean O'Sullivan Theatre
FRIDAY, 24 May, 1996 / VENDREDI, le 24 Mai, 1996
8:00 Head's breakfast / Petit dejeuner des directeurs de departements
Alumni Lounge, Schmon Tower, 13th Floor
9:00-10:30
IV A THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER / LA CONSTRUCTION DE L'IDENTITE
SEXUELLE
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Chair/President - Elizabeth Kennedy-Klaassen (Bryn Mawr College)
1. Alison M . Keith (University of Toronto): "Gender and genre:
Latin epic on virtus and womankind" (20 min.)
2. Geraldine T. Thomas (Saint Mary's University): "A betrayed woman
reacts: changing versions of the Hercules-Deianira myth in Ovid and his
medieval commentaries" (20 min.)
3. Eleanor Irwin (Scarborough College): "Facta sum masculus: gender
and women's physical strength" (20 min.)
IV B GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY 1/ HISTORIOGRAPHIE GRECQUE 1
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Chair/President - Konrad Kinzl (Trent University)
1. Robert Metcalfe (University of Toronto): "Herodotus3.31 as an
interpretative key to the Persian constitutional debate" (20 min.)
2. Cindy L. Nimchuk (University of Toronto): "Herodotus' view of the
reforms of Darius" (20 min.)
3. Gordon Shrimpton (University of Victoria): "A pre-modern
Thucydides" (20 min.)
IV C THE GREEK MENTALITY / LA MENTALITE GRECQUE
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Chair/President - Leopold Migeotte (Universite Laval)
1. Pierre Bonnechere (Universite de Montreal): "Sacrifice humain et
sacrifice animal dans la mentalite Grecque" (20 min)
2. Louis L'Allier (Universite Laval): "Hommes-chevaux, femmes
juments et autres hybrides chez Xenophon" (20 min.)
IV D ROMAN POETRY 1 / POESIE ROMAINE 1
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Chair/President - Phyllis Forsyth (University of Waterloo)
1. Carol U. Merriam (Brock University): "Catullus' images of the
sea" (15 min.)
2. Riemer Faber (University of New Brunswick): "The poet's voice in
Horace, Odes 3.1" (20 min.)
3. Christopher G. Brown (University of Western Ontario): "Horace,
Epode 5 and early iambus" (25 min.)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break / Pause-cafe
11:00-12:30
V A THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER / LA CONSTRUCTION DE L'IDENTITE
SEXUELLE
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Chair/President - Kristin Lord (Wilfrid Laurier University / Brock
University)
1. Michael A. McAllister (University of Ottawa): "The Persian
attitude towards women in the History of Herodotus" (20 min.)
2. Gwyneth Lewis (Langara College): "Sons and mothers: the case of
Apollonis of Cyzicus" (20 min.)
3. Kate M. Manuel (Duke University): "Artemidorus and the gendered
boundaries of dreamt anatomy" (20 min.)
4. Elizabeth C. Ellison (Elmwood School, Ottawa): "The Roman woman
and early Christianity" (20 min.)
V B GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY 2 / HISTORIOGRAPHIE GRECQUE 2
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Chair/President - Victor Matthews (University of Guelph)
1. Frances Skoczylas Pownall (University of Alberta): "Theopompus'
digression on wonders" (20 min.)
2. Craig Cooper (University of Winnipeg): "Idomeneus of Lampsacus on
the Athenian demagogues" (20 min.)
3. Adrian Tronson (Memorial University): "The mythology of
Plutarch's `Panhellenic congress' (Pericles, 17)" (20 min.)
4. Diane Johnson (University of British Columbia): "Claudius
Aelianus and the polymaths" (20 min.)
V C LATE ANTIQUITY / ANTIQUITE TARDIVE
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Chair/President - Iain McDougall (University of Winnipeg)
1. J. Allan S. Evans (University of British Columbia): "The dates of
Procopius' works: a reiteration of the evidence" (20 min.)
2. Thanos Fotiou (Carleton University): "Youth, urban violence and
Corybantic rituals in late antiquity" (20 min.)
V D ROMAN POETRY 2 / POESIE ROMAINE 2
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Chair/President - P. Murgatroyd (McMaster University)
1. Margaret E. Erskine (Johns Hopkins University): "Changing beds: a
new textual emendation in Propertius 4.8" (15 min.)
2. M. Catherine Bolton (Concordia University): "'My talent, not your
inspiration': a discussion of Ovid, Am. 2.17.34" (15 min.)
3. Kevin McCabe (Brock University): "Fate and fortune in Ovid" (20
min.)
LUNCH / DEJEUNER
12:45
Womens' Network lunch / Dejeuner du Reseau de Femmes
Trillium Dining Room, Schmon Tower, 1st Floor
2:00-3:30
VI A GREEK POETRY / POESIE GRECQUE
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Chair/President - Ingrid E. Holmberg (University of Victoria)
1. Dianna Rhyan (Ohio State University): "Persephone and the
narrator" (20 min.)
2. Annette Teffeteller (Concordia University): "I have heard the
mountains singing: Korinna fr. 654 PMG" (20 min.)
3. James L. Butrica (Memorial University): "The plot of
Aristophanes' second Thesmophoriazusae" (25 min.)
VI B GREEK ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY 1 / ART ET ARCHEOLOGIE GRECS 1
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Chair/President - James Russell (University of British Columbia)
1. Martin F. Kilmer (University of Ottawa): "Four weddings and a
funeral: mythology and early black-figure painters" (30 min.)
2. Alan Hughes (University of Victoria): "Konnakis: a scene from the
comic theatre" (20 min.)
3. Zografia Welch (McMaster University): "Hellenistic dining rooms:
problems and possible means of identification" (15 min.)
VI C ROMAN POETRY 3 / POESIE ROMAINE 3
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Chair/President - Richard W. Parker (Brock University)
1. Roxanne Gentilcore (Harvard University): "The landscape of grief:
Seneca's epigrams from exile" (20 min.)
2. Margaret Drummond (University of Alberta): "Medea Romana:
Apollonius' heroine according to Valerius Flaccus" (20 min.)
3. Rebecca Nagel (Harvard University): "Polynices the charioteer and
family destiny (Statius, Thebaid 6.296-549)" (15 min.)
VI D ROMAN NUMISMATICS / NUMISMATIQUE ROMAINE
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Chair/President - Catherine Rubincam (Erindale College)
1. Helene Leclerc (Universite de Montreal): "L'experience financiere
des monetaires de la Republique et de leurs familles: mythe ou
realite?" (20 min.)
2. Anthony A. Barrett (University of British Columbia): "The
quadrans issues of AD 39-41" (20 min.)
3:30-4:00 Coffee break / Pause-cafe
4:00-5:30
VII A PRE-SOCRATICS AND PLATO / LES PRESOCRATIQUES ET PLATON
Thistle 249
Chair/President - Mark Golden (University of Winnipeg)
1. Martin Francis Reidy (Concordia University): "Xenophanes'
association with the colony of Elea" (20 min.)
2. Jackie Murray (University of Western Ontario): "The Phaedo: an
evangel for Pythagoreans" (25 min.)
3. Carolyn Galsworthy (University of Western Ontario): "The chains
of heaven" (20 min.)
4. Vernon Provencal (Acadia University): "'Mine' and 'not mine':
Plato's view of the family in the Republic" (20 min.)
VII B GREEK ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY 2 / ART ET ARCHEOLOGIE GRECS 2
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Chair/President - C.W.J. Eliot (University of Prince Edward Island)
1. Anton G. Jansen (Brock University): "The 'Isthmian Wall' as a
Mycenaean road" (20 min.)
2. Margaret E. Morden (Brock University): "The dynamics of cemetery
use in Early Iron Age Cyprus" ( 20 min.)
3. David W. Rupp (Brock University): "The Western Cyprus project:
investigations around Prastio-Agios Savvas tis Karonis monastery (Pafos
district, Cyprus): 1991-1995" (25 min.)
4. Gerald P. Schaus (Wilfrid Laurier University): "Excavations in
the Acropolis sanctuary at Stymphalos, Greece" (20 min.)
VII C ROMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY / HISTORIOGRAPHIE ROMAINE
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Chair/President - Antony A. Barrett (University of British Columbia)
1. M. James Moscovich (University of Western Ontario): "Sophonisba:
'non humilis mulier triumpho'" (20 min.)
2. Phillip Snider (University of Western Ontario): "The edges of the
world and the German digression in Caesar's Bellum Gallicum" (20 min.)
3. Alban Baudou (Universite Laval): "L'abreviation . . dans le
manuscrit C de Censorinus 17,13" (20 min.)
4. Jean-Luc Gauville (McGill University): "L'auteur anonyme du
Libellus de vita et mortibus imperatorum (c. 400 ap. J.-C.) et la
geographie decrite dans son oeuvre" (20 min.)
6:30 Departure for annual banquet / Depart pour le banquet annuel
Queenston Heights Restaurant
SATURDAY, 25 May, 1996 / SAMEDI, le 25 Mai, 1996
9:00-10:30
VIII ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING / ASSEMBLEE GENERALE ANNUELLE
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11:00-12:30
IX A GREEK TRAGEDY 1 / TRAGEDIE GRECQUE 1
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Chair/President - Rainer Friedrich (Dalhousie University)
1. Judith Fletcher (Wilfrid Laurier University): "Exchanging glances
in Agamemnon" (20 min.)
2. D.G. Beer (Carleton University): "Varieties of pot: the tragic
experience of Electra and Orestes" (20 min.)
3. R. Drew Griffith (Queen's University): "Beheading in Greek
tragedy" (15 min.)
IX B GREEK HISTORY / HISTOIRE GRECQUE
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Chair/President - Gordon Shrimpton (University of Victoria)
1. Caroline Falkner (Queen's University): "Thucydides 3.92-93 and
the foundation of Sparta's colony at Herakleia Trachinia" (20 min.)
2. George E. Pesely (Austin Peay State University): "The year of
Alcibiades' return" (20 min.)
IX C PEDAGOGY / PEDAGOGIE
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Chair/President - Geraldine Thomas (St. Mary's University)
1. Margaret-Anne Gillis (Barrie Collegiate): "The status of Latin,
Greek, and Classics in Ontario's secondary schools" (20 min.)
2. Bruce G. Robertson (University of Toronto): "'Latinitas':
computer software for Latin students" (20 min.)
LUNCH / DEJEUNER
12:45 Meeting of Council II / Reunion de Conseil II
Taro 260
2:00-3:30 pm
X A GREEK TRAGEDY 2 / TRAGEDIE GRECQUE 2
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Chair/President - Christopher G. Brown (University of Western Ontario)
1. David I. Beiles (University of Western Ontario): "The intimations
of Herakles' immortality in the Trachiniae" (20 min.)
2. Leona MacLeod (Dalhousie University): "The `representation of the
female' in Sophocles' Electra" (20 min.)
3. Michaela Milde (University of Guelph): "Oedipus' journey: death
and identity in Oedipus at Colonus" (20 min.)
X B ROMAN LITERATURE / LITTERATURE ROMAINE
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Chair/President - Gerald Sandy (University of British Columbia)
1. A.H. Mamoojee (Lakehead University): "Cicero: antiquus and vetus"
(20 min.)
2. P. Murgatroyd (McMaster University): "Embedded narrative in
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.9-10" (20 min.)
3. Harry Bird (University of Windsor): "A Suetonian theme in the
Historia Augusta and other works" (20 min.)
X C ROMAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY / ART ROMAIN ET ARCHEOLOGIE
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Chair/President - Jonathan Edmondson (York University)
1. James Russell (University of British Columbia): "The problem of
official opposition to a permanent stone theatre in later Republican
Rome: a new explanation" (20 min.)
2. Matthew D. Panciera (University of North Carolina): "Of an arm
and an old man I sing: Anchises on the Ara Pacis" (20 min.)
3. Alexis Young (McMaster University): "Bread-rings or earrings? A
Gallo-Roman funerary relief from Metz" (15 min.)
5:00-6:30
RECEPTION / RECEPTION, Sean O'Sullivan Gallery, Thistle
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