Volume Contents

Editor's Note          v

Conference Papers

Lowell Edmunds
Critical Divergences: New Directions in the Study and Teaching of Roman Literature          1

James J. O'Hara
Trying Not To Cheat: Responses to Inconsistencies in Roman Epic          15

Michèle Lowrie
Inside out: In Defense of Form          35

Stephen Hinds
Defamiliarizing Latin Literature, from Petrarch to Pulp Fiction 49

Thomas Habinek
Latin Literature between Text and Practice          83

Joseph Farrell
Eduard Fraenkel on Horace and Servius, or Texts, Contexts, and the Field of "Latin Studies"          91

Joy Connolly
Border Wars: Literature, Politics, and the Public          103

Alessandro Barchiesi
Lane-Switching and Jughandles in Contemporary Interpretations of Roman Poetry          135

Papers

Gwendolyn Compton-Engle
Stolen Cloaks in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae          163

David M. Johnson
Persians As Centaurs in Xenophon's Cyropaedia          177

Presidential Address 2005

Elaine Fantham
Liberty and the People in Republican Rome           209

Papers

E. F. Beall
An Artistic and Optimistic Passage in Hesiod: Works and Days 564–614          231

Christopher A. Faraone
Catalogues, Priamels, and Stanzaic Structure in Early Greek Elegy           249

Peter Anderson
A Verse-Scrap on a kylix by Epiktetos           267

Alexander Hollmann
The Manipulation of Signs in Herodotos' Histories           279

David Petrain
Gems, Metapoetics, and Value: Greek and Roman Responses to a Third-Century Discourse on Precious Stones          329

Thomas E. Jenkins
At Play with Writing: Letters and Readers in Plautus           359

Ilaria Marchesi
In Memory of Simonides: Poetry and Mnemotechnics chez Nasidienus          393

Leah Kronenberg
Mezentius the Epicurean          403