Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
4.1 Written Ritual: Greek Sacrifice in Text and Context Sacrificing and Purifying in Greek Poleis. Reassessments and Perspectives Stella Georgoudi 145
7.4 Re-Creating the House of Pansa Entombing Antiquity: A New Consideration of the Classical Appropriation in the Private Funerary Architecture of New York City Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis 145
14.1 Moving toward a (Responsible) Hybrid/Online Greek Major Starting from Scratch: a Collaborative Approach to First-Year Greek Kristina A. Meinking 145
19.3 Virgil Commentaries La Cerda to Horsfall Notes on the Greater Work: The Iliadic Aeneid and the Commentary Tradition Lee Fratantuono 145
27.2 What is Neoplatonism? Purpose and Structure of a Philosophical Movement to New Directions in Neoplatonism The Dialectic of One and Many in the Development of Neoplatonic Metaphysics Sara Ahbel-Rappe 145
34.4 The Power of the Written Word: Cross-Cultural Comparisons Resource Extraction in the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires Michael Jursa 145
37.5 Provincial Women in the Roman Imagination Matrona Romana: Non-Roman Libertinae Funerary Monuments in Roman Britain Hillary Conley 145
45.4 Rhetoric of the Page in Latin Manuscripts of the Middle Ages Virgil in Virgil: Representations of the Poet in the Bodleian Georgics MS Rawl. G. 98 Alden Smith 145
54.1 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Novel Leaders for Novel Armies: Xenophon's Focus on Willing Obedience in Context Richard Fernando Buxton 145
57.2 Varro, De Lingua Latina, and Intellectual Culture in the Late Republic Creeping Roots: Varro on Latin Across Time and Space Adam Gitner 145
66.2 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity Actors and Theaters, Rabbis and Synagogues: The Use of Public Performances in Shaping Communal Behavior in Late Antique Palestine Zeev Weiss 145
73.2 The Feminine in Propertius Book 4: New Assessments Elegy, Aetia, and the Conquest of the Feminine in Propertius Book 4 Serena Witzke 145
81.4 The Ancient Non-Human Hybridity, Animality and the Making of Roman Philosophy Richard Fletcher 145
84.6 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Arcadius Avellanus: Neo-Latin Works of the Early 20th century Patrick M. Owens 145
4.2 Written Ritual: Greek Sacrifice in Text and Context Anger and Honorary Shares: The Promethean Division Revisited Charles Stocking 145
7.5 Re-Creating the House of Pansa “Reconsidering "Hyperreality": ‘Roman’ Houses and their Gardens (1892-1974) Katharine T. von Stackelberg 145
14.2 Moving toward a (Responsible) Hybrid/Online Greek Major Bridging the Gap Between First and Third Year Greek Courses with an Online Commentary to Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus Norman B. Sandridge 145
24.1 Epistolary Fictions and Realities “A Sort of Living Dead Man”: Cicero’s Self-Representation in Att. IX-X Elizabeth Keitel 145
27.3 What is Neoplatonism? Purpose and Structure of a Philosophical Movement to New Directions in Neoplatonism The oikeiōsis Doctrine in Christian Neoplatonism between Ethics and Theology Ilaria Ramelli 145
34.5 The Power of the Written Word: Cross-Cultural Comparisons The Reach of Late Antique Government Bernhard Palme 145
38.1 Economic Integration and Disintegration: New Approaches to Standards and Denominations in Ancient Greek Coinage Archaic Small Change and the Logic of Political Survival Peter van Alfen 145
46.1 Talking Back to Teacher: Orality and Prosody in the Secondary and University Classroom How Did People Back Then Understand This? Robert Dudley 145
54.2 Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership Reading the Future in Xenophon’s Anabasis Emily Baragwanath 145
57.3 Varro, De Lingua Latina, and Intellectual Culture in the Late Republic The Time, the Place: a Year with Varro Diana Spencer 145
66.3 The Role of “Performance” in Late Antiquity Sharing Letters, Sharing Friendship: Public Readings in Synesius Mathilde Cambron-Goulet 145
73.3 The Feminine in Propertius Book 4: New Assessments Shadows, Dust, and Simulacra in Propertius Book Four Hunter Gardner 145
82.1 Greek Comedy in the Roman Empire Actors' Repertory and 'New' Comedies under the Roman Empire Sebastiana Nervegna 145
64.5 Politics by Other Means? Ethics and Aesthetics in Roman Stoicism Politics of Friendship in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales Jula Wildberger 145
11.3 The Second Sophistic Aulus Gellius’ Noctes Atticae Book 2 and the Didactic Logic of Miscellany Scott J. DiGiulio 145
21.5 The Descent of Satire from Old Comedy to the Gothic Social Status and Strategies of Discourse: Lucius' Asinine Communications in Apuleius' Metamorphoses Evelyn Adkins 145
31.4 On the Boundaries of Latin Poetry Witch’s Song: Morality, Name-calling and Poetic Authority in the Argonautica Jessica Blum 145
41.2 The Social Life of Ancient Libraries Don’t Read in the Library!: Cicero’s Cato (De Finibus 3-4) and copia librorum in Other Latin Authors Stephanie Ann Frampton 145
50.2 Vergil’s Aeneid Persian Dido Elena Giusti 145
58.8 Poster Session From Hebrew to Latin: Verbs in Translation in the Book of Ecclesiastes Luke Gorton 145
62.1 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Who Sees? A Narratological Approach to Propertius 3.6 Mitch Brown 145
70.4 Reception, Transmission, and Translation in Later Antiquity “How many mouths could tell ...?” An Epigram by the Empress Eudocia and Cento Poetics Timo Christian 145
80.2 Roman Politics and Culture Pompey’s Third Consulship (52 B.C.): Elected or Appointed? John T. Ramsey 145
12.1 Fertility/Birth Ritual Space and Gendered Healing: The Delphic Oracle Cures Male Infertility Polyxeni Strolonga 145
22.1 Unauthorized Receptions Latin, Greek, and Other Classical Nonsense in the Work of Edward Lear Marian Makins 145
31.5 On the Boundaries of Latin Poetry The Dupe of Destiny? The Oath of Hannibal in Silius Italicus’ Punica Anja Bettenworth 145
41.3 The Social Life of Ancient Libraries Biography, Portraiture, and the Birth of the Author Thomas Hendrickson 145
50.3 Vergil’s Aeneid Boxing and Siege Engines in Vergil’s Aeneid George Fredric Franko 145
59.1 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy Friends in Low Places: Cleon’s philia in Aristophanes Robert Holschuh Simmons 145
62.2 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Culture, Corruption, and the View from Rome: Propertius 3.21 and 3.22 Phebe Lowell Bowditch 145
77.1 Homer, Odyssey: Speech and Ritual Remembering Odysseus: Line-initial Memory in the Odyssey Stephen Sansom 145
80.1 Roman Politics and Culture Sic semper tyrannis: Domitian, damnatio memoriae and the Imperial Cult at Ephesus Abigail S Graham 145
12.2 Fertility/Birth A Five Year Pregnancy? Women in the Epidaurian Iamata Calloway Scott 145
22.2 Unauthorized Receptions Mortal Heroes: Homeric Themes and Classical Allusions in Sidney Nolan’s ‘Gallipoli Series’ Sarah Midford 145
31.6 On the Boundaries of Latin Poetry Between Myth and Geography at the Edge of the World: The Seres in Silius Italicus David Urban 145
42.1 Unhistorical Receptions of Ancient Narrative Hairy Iopas: Virgil and the Gigantomachy in Joyce’s Ulysses Randall Pogorzelski 145