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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