Classical Association of Canada / Société
canadienne des études anciennes
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1997 04 09
Published by e-mail by the Classical Association of Canada/
Publie par courrier electronique par la
societe canadienne des etudes classiques
President: A. Daviault, Universite Laval
ANDRE.DAVIAULT@FL.ULAVAL.CA
Secretary/Secretaire: I.M. Cohen, Mount Allison University
ICOHEN@MTA.CA
Treasurer/Tresorier: C. Cooper, University of Winnipeg
CRAIG.COOPER@IO.UWINNIPEG.CA
Edited by/redige par
K.H. Kinzl, Trent University
KKINZL@TRENTU.CA
Acting Editor/Editeur par interim
J.R. Porter, University of Saskatchewan
PORTERJ@DUKE.USASK.CA
ISSN 1198-9149
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[1] 1997 Annual Meeting / Congrès Annuel
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Études Classiques
Classical Association of Canada
Annual Meeting / Congrès Annuel
Memorial University, St. John's NF
1, 2, 3 June 1997 / 1, 2, 3 juin 1997
Saturday May 31 / Samedi le 31 mai
8:00 - 9:00pm / 20h 00 - 21h 00
Phoenix Editorial Board Meeting / Réunion du bureau de direction de Phoenix
(Restaurant to be announced)
Sunday June 1 / Dimanche le 1er juin
8:00 - 9:00am / 8h 00 - 9h 00
Heads' Breakfast / Petit déjeuner des directeurs de départements
S-2033
9:00 - 10:30am / 9h 00 - 10h 30
Session I - Ie Séance
1A Greek History/Histoire grecque
A-2065: Chair/Président Adrian Tronson (Memorial University)
1. Thanos Fotiou (Carleton University): "The Boeotian incendiary device at Delium and
the Byzantine 'Greek Fire'" (20 min)
2. Noreen Humble (University of Leeds): "Sophrosyne and the Spartans in Xenophon" (20
min)
3. Iain Bruce (Memorial University): "Philochorus on the King's Peace" (15 min)
4. T.R. Robinson (Carleton University): "Nearchus' phantom grain fleet: Scientific
theory and historical speculation" (20 min)
10:30 - 11:00am / 10h 30 - 11h 00
coffee break / pause-café
11:00am - 12:30pm / 11h 00 - 12h 30
Session II - IIe Séance
2A Money in the Greek World/Finances du monde grec
A-2065: Chair/Président Catherine Rubincam (University of Toronto)
1. Léopold Migeotte (Université Laval): "Fêtes, concours et
panégyries dans les cités grecques: Aspects financiers" (20 min)
2. Virginia Hunter (York University): "The Athenian public debtor: A legal and social
perspective" (25 min)
3. Gwyneth Lewis (Langara College): "Loose change and Lysimachus" (20 min)
2B Greek Drama/Théâtre grec
A-2071: Chair/Président Patricia Calkin (Dalhousie University)
1. Desmond Conacher (University of Toronto): "Nomos and physis in Euripidean drama"
(20 min)
2. Leona M. MacLeod (Dalhousie University): "The Thesmophoriazusae as a critique of
'New Tragedy'" (20 min)
Lunch / Déjeuner
12:30 - 2:00pm / 12h 30 - 14h 00
Meeting of Council I / Réunion du Conseil I
A-4059
2:00 - 3:30pm / 14h 00 - 15h 30
Session III - IIIe Séance
3A Greek Prehistory/Préhistoire grecque
A-2065: Chair/Président Adrian Tronson (Memorial University)
1. Jan Arvanitakis (University of Toronto): "Adaptive change and the development of
palatial society in Minoan Crete" (20 min)
2. Kathryn Simonsen (University of Toronto): "Cremation and consumption" (20 min)
3B The Classical Tradition I/L'Antiquité renouvelée I
A-2071: Chair/Président Robert Todd (University of British Columbia)
1. Ross Kilpatrick (Queens University): "T.R. Glover at Queen's (1896-1901): A
centenary" (20 min)
2. Alexander David Kurke (Thorneloe University): "Immortality for a textual critic"
(20 min)
3. Lloydetta Quaicoe (Memorial University): "Oedipus Africanus: Re-interpreting Greek
tragedy in African contexts" (20 min)
3:30 - 4:00pm / 15h 30 - 16h 00
coffee break / pause-café
4:00 - 5:30pm / 16h 00 - 17h 30
Session IV - IVe Séance
4A Historiography/Historiographie
A-2065: Chair/Président Iain McDougall (University of Winnipeg)
1. Catherine Rubincam (Erindale College, University of Toronto): "Qualification of
numerals in the Bibliotheke of Diodorus" (25 min)
2. M. James Moscovich (University of Western Ontario): "Around the world in 80 books:
Cassius Dio and the New-found Lands" (25 min)
3. Peter Hart O'Brien (Boston University): "Ambitiosius solito: Formal speeches and
characterisation in Ammianus' Res Gestae 20 and 21" (20 min)
4B Latin Poetry/Poésie latine
A-2071: Chair/Président Peter Smith (University of Victoria)
1. Roland Jeffreys (Carleton University): "'Augustan propaganda'-An appropriate term?"
(20 min)
2. Catherine Bolton (Concordia University): "Water, water everywhere, and not a lover
in sight" (20 min)
3. André Daviault (Université Laval): "En traduisant Ovide" (15)
5:00 - 7:00pm / 17h 00 - 19h 00
President's Reception / Réception du Président
Monday June 2 / Lundi le 2 juin
8:00 - 9:00am / 8h 00 - 9h 00
Women's Network Breakfast / Petit Déjeuner du Réseau de Femmes
S-2033
9:00 - 10:30am / 9h 00 - 10h 30
Session V - Ve Séance
5A Homeric Poetry/Poesie homèrique
A-2065: Chair/Président Rainer Friedrich (Dalhousie University)
1. Roberto Nickel (University of Toronto): "Aphrodite's gift and the judgement of
Paris in Iliad 24" (20 min)
2. Wayne Ingalls (Mount Saint Vincent University): "Attitudes toward children in the
Odyssey" (20 min)
3. Ian McDonald (Scarborough College, University of Toronto): "Penelope's nightingale:
A Homeric simile reconsidered" (20 min)
4. Robert Schmiel (University of Calgary): "Homer transmogrified: The games for
Opheltes (Dionysiaca 37)" (20 min)
5B Roman Constructions/Constructions romaines
A-2071: Chair/Président Martin Kilmer (University of Ottawa)
1. John Thorp (University of Western Ontario): "Vitruvius' Vases" (20 min)
2. Paul Joseph Chénier (Stanford University): "Sign language: Communications
from the Roman home" (20 min)
5C Excavations New and Old/Fouilles nouvelles et anciennes
A-3017: Chair/Président Nigel Kennell (Memorial University)
1. Gerald P. Schaus (Wilfrid Laurier University): "Excavations in the acropolis
sanctuary at Stymphalos, 1996" (20 min)
2. Carola M. Small (University of Alberta): "Archaeological field survey round Monte
Irsi (South Italy): A report on the 1996 season" (15 min)
3. Alastair Small (University of Alberta): "Lucien Bonaparte's excavations at
Tusculum" (20 min)
10:30 - 11:00am / 10h 30 - 11h 00
coffee break / pause café
11:00am - 12:30pm / 11h 00 - 12h 30
Session VI - VIe Séance
6A Greek Lyric/Poésie lyrique grecque
A-2065: Chair/Président Ivan Cohen (Mount Allison University)
1. Eleanor Irwin (Scarborough College, University of Toronto): "A garden at Olympia:
Pindar O. 3.24" (20 min)
2. George Robertson (Memorial University): "Wealth and virtue in Pindar and
Bacchylides" (20 min)
3. Bonnie MacLachlan (University of Western Ontario): "To box or not to box with Eros?
Anacreon 396 Page" (20 min)
6B The Classical Legacy/Présence de l'antiquité classique
A-2071: Chair/Président Catherine Bolton (Concordia University)
1. Joshua Beer (Carleton University): "Euripides' Medea and Pericles' citizenship law:
A Canadian perspective" (20 min)
2. Paul Murgatroyd (McMaster University): "The Virgil and mythology CD ROM" (15 min)
3. Richard J.A. Talbert (University of North Carolina): "Mapping the classical world
in the 1990s: Progress and prospects" (20 min)
4. Beert C. Verstraete (Acadia University): "The ring found inside the fish: A
comparison of the use of a similar folklore motif in Herodotus and a Dutch-Frisian
folktale" (20 min)
12:30 - 2:00pm / 12h 30 - 14h 00
Lunch / Déjeuner
2:00 - 3:30pm / 14h 00 - 15h 30
Session VII - VIIe Séance
7A The CAC Women's Network/Le Réseau des Femmes de l'ACEC
The Life Cycle of Women in Antiquity/Les âges de la vie des femmes dans
l'antiquité
A-2071: Chair/Président Catherine Rubincam (University of Toronto)
1. Candace Dawn Cain (University of Toronto): "Crocuses for the goddess and the
rituals of womanhood: Reading meaning into the Late Bronze Age frescoes from Xeste 3
on Thera" (15 min)
2. Mary-Louise Mussell (Carleton University): "Home, husband, and hearth: Economic vs
reproductive marginalization of women in the ancient world" (20 min)
3. Kelly Venour (University of Chicago): "The univira and the Augustan legislation on
remarriage" (20 min)
7B Plato and Others/Platon et cie
A-2071: Chair/Président Gerald Sandy (University of British Columbia)
1. Mark Joyal (Memorial University): "Patronymics in Plato (and others)" (20 min)
2. Vernon Provençal (Acadia University): "To idion and to koinon as principles
of the family in Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics" (20 min)
3. Dennis K. House (Dalhousie University): "Aristotle's treatment of Plato's
refutation of Parmenides" (20 min)
3:30 - 4:00pm / 15h 30 - 16h 00
coffee break / pause-café
4:00 - 5:30pm / 16h 00 - 17h 30
Session VIII - VIIIe Séance
8A Sophocles/Sophocle
A-2065: Chair/Président George Robertson (Memorial University)
1. Patricia Calkin (Dalhousie University): "Odysseus in Sophocles' Ajax" (20 min)
2. Susan V. Walsh (University of King's College): "Cruelty and necessity: A study of
Athena's role in Sophocles' Ajax" (20 min)
3. Rainer Friedrich (Dalhousie University): "Oidipous pharmakos: The Sophoclean
Oidipous Tyrannos on the grid of theoreticism" (25 min)
8B "We, Claudii"/"Mémoires de Claudii"
A-2071: Chair/Président Hélène Leclerc (Université de
Montréal)
1. Ella Hermon (Université Laval): "Atta Clausus, le clan, la tribu et la
terre" (25 min)
2. Harry W. Bird (University of Windsor): "Constantine, Claudius and the Historia
Augusta" (20 min)
6:00 - 7:30pm / 18h 00 - 19h 30
Special Lecture / Conférence spéciale
Chair/Président André Daviault
A-1043
"A Note on the 'Alexander Mosaic'"
Ernst Badian (Harvard University)
Annual Banquet/Banquet Annuel
The Crow's Nest
8:00pm / 20h 00
Tuesday June 3 / Mardi le 3 juin
9:00 - 10:30am / 9h 00 - 10h 30
Annual General Meeting / Assemblée générale
A-1043
Chair/Président André Daviault
10:30 - 11:00am / 10h 30 - 11h 00
coffee break / pause-café
11:00am - 12:30pm / 11h 00 - 12h 30
Session IX - IXe Séance
9A Latin Literature/Littérature latine
A-2065: Chair/Président James Butrica (Memorial University)
1. Peter Smith (University of Victoria): "Plautine slave jokes: Did they really die
laughing?" (20 min)
2. Gerald Sandy (University of British Columbia): "Apuleius' Apology: Plato in defense
of rhetoric" (15 min)
3. Gottskalk Jensson (University of Toronto): "Milesian tales: Short stories or
novels?" (20 min)
9B Defunct Spaniards/La mort à l'espagnole
A-2071: Chair/Président Iain Bruce (Memorial University)
1. Tina Saavedra (University of Chicago): "Stone as the great equalizer: Gender in
inscriptions from Roman Spain" (15 min)
2. Jonathan Edmondson (York University): "Funerary monuments with portraits from
Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain)" (20 min)
9C The Classical Tradition II/L'Antiquité renouvelée II
A-3017: Chair/Président Mark Joyal (Memorial University)
1. Annabel Robinson (University of Regina): "Jane Harrison and the sogenannte
Cambridge ritualists" (20 min)
2. Robert B. Todd (University of British Columbia): "The young man in the British
Museum: The genesis of E.R. Dodds' "The Greeks and the Irrational'" (15 min)
Lunch / Déjeuner
12:30 - 2:00pm / 12h 30 - 14h 00
Meeting of Council II / Réunion du conseil II
A-4059
2:00 - 3:30pm / 14h 00 - 15h 30
Session X - Xe Séance
10A Greek Art/L'Art grec
A-2065: Chair/Président Michael Parker (Sir Wilfrid Grenfell College)
1. Martin Kilmer (University of Ottawa): "Myth, letters, and attributes: Inscriptions
in early Attic black-figure pottery" (25 min)
2. Cindy Nimchuk (University of Toronto): "East meets West-Or does it? The
Assurbanipal 'Banquet' relief and Greek monoposiast scenes" (20 min)
3. Ken Cavalier (Simon Fraser University): "Possibilities for Periklean power politics
on the Parthenon" (20 min)
10B Roman History and Religion/Histoire et religion romaine
A-2071: Chair/Président Bernard Kavanaugh (Queens University)
1. Don Baronowski (Université McGill): "Quelques remarques sur les silences du
colonel Polybe" (20 min)
2. Hélène Leclerc (Université de Montréal): "Le mode de
sélection des vigintisexviri et des triumviri monetales sous la
République" (20 min)
3. Mark Temelini (McGill University): "Collegia and the law: The right of association
in Roman society" (20 min)
4. Roger Beck (Erindale College, University of Toronto): "Initiation and mimesis: New
evidence for the Mithraic mysteries" (20 min)
3:30 - 4:00pm / 15h 30 - 16h 00
coffee break / pause-café
4:00 - 5:00pm / 16h 00 - 17h 00
Session XI - XIe Séance
11A Demagogues, Democrats, and Tyrants/Démagogues, démocrates,
tyrans
A-2065: Chair/Président Craig Cooper (University of Winnipeg)
1. George E. Pesely (Austin Peay State University): "Demagogues and tyrants in Archaic
Greece" (20 min)
2. Ariel Loftus (York University): "Avoiding conflict in the Athenian Assembly and
fifth-century ambassadors autokratores" (20 min)
3. Lionel Sanders (Concordia University): "What did Aristotle think of Dion?" (20 min)
11B Roman Epic/Poésie épique romaine
A-2071: Chair/Président Robert Schmiel (University of Calgary)
1. Rebecca Nagel (University of Alberta): "Measurements of immortality in Latin epic"
(15 min)
2. Sophia Papaioannou (University of Texas): "Pyrrhus' episode and the death of Turnus
in Vergil's Aeneid" (20 min)
3. Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen (Bryn Mawr College): "Altera Carthago Capua: Hannibal's
Vergilian models in Punica II" (20 min)
5:00 - 7:00pm / 17h 00 - 19h 00
Reception / Réception
Arts Building Cafeteria
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