SCS Presidential Talks delivered at Annual Meetings

SCS Presidential Talks delivered at Annual Meetings

• J.J. Peradotto (SUNY-Buffalo), "Interrogating the Canon, Deposing the Tyrannus":
  1990 (San Francisco)
• Erich Gruen (California-Berkeley), "Cultural Fictions and Cultural Identity":
  1992 (New Orleans)
• Charles Segal, "Classics, Ecumenism, and Greek Tragedy": 1994 (Atlanta).
• Emily Vermeule, "Archaeology and Philology: The Dirt and the Word": 1995 (San Diego).
• Robert Kaster, "The Shame of the Romans": 1996 (New York).
• Susan Treggiari, "Home and Forum: Cicero between 'Public' and 'Private'" (1997).
• Helene P. Foley, "Modern Performance and Adaptation of Greek Tragedy": 1998 (Washington, DC).
• David Konstan, "Altruism": 1999 (Dallas.)
• Julia Gaisser, "Teaching Classics in the Renaissance: Two Case Histories": 2001 (San Diego).
• Kenneth Reckford, "Pueri ludentes: Some Aspects of Play and Seriousness in Horace's Epistles": 2002 (Philadelphia).
• Michael Gagarin, "Telling Stories in Athenian Law": 2003 (New Orleans).
• James J. O'Donnell, "Late Antiquity: Before and After": 2004 (San Francisco).
• • A response to this address from Steven Willett is also available
• Elaine Fantham, "Liberty and the People in Republican Rome": 2005 (Boston).
• Eleanor Leach, Roman seniores write to iuvenes 2006 (Montreal)
• Jenny Strauss Cla,y Homer’s Trojan Theater, 2007 (San Diego). And check out the companion website to see Homer deploying the troops!
• Ruth Scodel, Stupid Pointless Wars 2008 (Chicago)
• Kurt A. Raaflaub, Conceptualizing and Theorizing Peace in Ancient Greece 2009 (Philadelphia)
• Josiah Ober, Wealthy Hellas 2010 (Anaheim)
• Dee L. Clayman, Berenice and her Lock 2011 (San Antonio)
• Kathleen M. Coleman, Bureaucratic Language in the Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan (Philadelphia)
• Jeffrey Henderson, A Brief History of Athenian Political Comedy (c. 440-c. 300) 2013 (Seattle)
• Denis Feeney, First Similes in Epic 2014 (Chicago)
• Kathryn Gutzwiller, Fantasy and Metaphor in Meleager 2015 (New Orleans)
• John Marincola, The Historian as Hero: Herodotus and the 300 at Thermopylae 2016 (San Francisco)
• Roger S. Bagnall, The Councillor and the Clerk: Class and Culture on a Roman Frontier 2017 (Toronto)
• S. Georgia Nugent, From Chiron to Chiron: Crossing over to the Dark Side 2018 (Boston)