Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
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
50.4 Vergil’s Aeneid Pallas Goes Off to War: a Portentum in Virgil’s Aeneid James Townshend 145
59.2 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy Aristophanes’ Ecclesizusae and the Remaking of the patrios politeia Alan Sheppard 145
62.3 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Horace and Vergil in Dialogue in Odes 4.12 Philip Thibodeau 145
77.3 Homer, Odyssey: Speech and Ritual Nausicaa and the Delian Palm: Odysseus' Strategic Epithalamium Charles D. Stein 145
80.3 Roman Politics and Culture “Brutal” Honesty or Rhetorical Rewrite? Brut. Cic. ad Brut. 1.16 and 1.17 Tom Keeline 145
13.1 Monsters and Giants The Hesiodic Shield of Herakles: Monstrous Texts and the Art of the Nightmare William Brockliss 145
22.3 Unauthorized Receptions Aurelio G. Amatucci’s Codex Fori Mussolini and the Prospective Memory of Italian Fascism Bettina Reitz-Joosse 145
32.1 Judgment and Obligation in Roman Intellectual History How Varro Decides Colin Shelton 145
42.2 Unhistorical Receptions of Ancient Narrative Working Women Weaving Tales in Ovid's Metamorphoses and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake Cynthia Hornbeck 145
50.5 Vergil’s Aeneid Inscribing Fate: Epigraphic Conventions and Virgil's Aeneas Morgan E. Palmer 145
59.3 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy History, Memory, and the soteria Theme in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae Robert Tordoff 145
62.4 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Sidera testes: Masculinity and the Power of the Ancestral Gaze in Cicero, Tacitus, and Juvenal Julie Langford and Heather Vincent 145
77.4 Homer, Odyssey: Speech and Ritual The View from Hades: Tyro’s Story in Odyssey 11 George Gazis 145
80.4 Roman Politics and Culture Fit for a King: Caesar in 44 Jaclyn Neel 145
13.2 Monsters and Giants Gigantomachic Imagery and Autochthonous Growth in Vergil’s Georgics Zack Rider 145
22.4 Unauthorized Receptions The Anti-Oedipus: Strella and a Queer Re-imagining of the Tragic Family Lynn Kozak 145
32.2 Judgment and Obligation in Roman Intellectual History Varro’s Dystopian Rome: Masquerade and Murder in the First Book of De Rebus Rusticis Sarah Culpepper Stroup 145
42.3 Unhistorical Receptions of Ancient Narrative Scholars, Metalepsis, and Queer Unhistoricism: Interventions of the Unruly Past in Reed’s 'Boy Caesar' and De Juan’s 'Este latente mundo' Sebastian Matzner 145
51.1 Roman Imperial Interactions Weathering the Wheel of Fortune: On Enduring tyche in Polybius' Histories Rebecca Katz 145
59.4 Politics and Parody in Old Comedy Aristophanes the Actor? Jennifer Starkey 145
62.5 Vision and Perspective in Latin Literature Greek and Roman Eyes: the Cultural Politics of Ekphrastic Epigram in Imperial Rome Carolyn MacDonald 145
77.5 Homer, Odyssey: Speech and Ritual Pandora and the Pandareids: The Struggle to Define Penelope in Odyssey 18-20 Rachel Lesser 145
80.5 Roman Politics and Culture Marsyas Causidicus: Law, Libertas and the Statue of Marsyas in Imperial Rome Mary Deminion 145
1.1 Greek Language and Linguistics Evidence for an Innovative Aspect of ‘Aeolic’ Inflection in Thessalian Greek Toru Minamimoto 145
13.3 Monsters and Giants Playing the Giant: Tristia 2 and Parody Redefined Christine E. Lechelt 145
29.1 Athenian Frontiers How to Cast a Criminal out of Athens: Law and Territory in Archaic Attica Mirko Canevaro 145
32.3 Judgment and Obligation in Roman Intellectual History Cicero on Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in De Officiis Jed W. Atkins 145
42.4 Unhistorical Receptions of Ancient Narrative Creation by Reduction: Alice Oswald’s Use of the Iliad in Memorial Carolin Hahnemann 145