FREAKS! Exploring the Unnatural in the Ancient World

The following papers were accepted for presentation at Freaks!
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Nil Faciet...Perversity and Morality in Juvenal 9
Michael Broder
The City University of New York
mbroder@mbroder.com

Seals and Crocodiles:
The Notion of Naturally Deformed Animals in Classical Greek Culture
Evrydiki Tasopoulou
Bryn Mawr College (Classical and N. Eastern Archaeology)
etasopou@brynmawr.edu

The Function and Meaning of Sphinx Statues in Archaic Greek Sanctuaries
Phoebe Segal
Columbia University (Art History)
ps486@columbia.edu

The Writhing Tongue and the Scrabbling Hand
Jarrett Welsh
Harvard University
welsh@fas.harvard.edu

Taming Priapus: A New Reading of Horace's Satires 1.8
Michael Vincze
Boston U
mjvincze@bu.edu

The Use of Theriomorphic and Therianthropic Imagery in Etruscan and Roman Art
Wayne L. Rupp, Jr.
Florida State University
wruppjr@hotmail.com

Giraffes and Barnacles: Pliny's Monstrous Zoology
Dunstan Lowe
University of Cambridge
dl285@cam.ac.uk

Gender Transformations in Apuleius
Anna McCullough
University of St Andrews
rumdiary@yahoo.com

Vegetarian Radicals in Classical Antiquity
Tom Garvey
University of Virginia
tgarvey@virginia.edu

Pinge Duos Anguis:
The Protective Function of the Serpent on Pompeian Household Shrines.

Amanda Pavlick
Tufts University
apavlick@gmail.com

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