Annual Meeting Abstracts

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
44.1 Afro-Latin and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Classics Black Angel: Classical Myth, Race and Desire in a Brazilian Modernist Play Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves and Guilherme Gontijo Flores 145
44.2 Afro-Latin and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Classics Afro-Brazilian Identity and the Greeks in Meleagro and Dionísio esfacelado Andrea Kouklanakis 145
44.3 Afro-Latin and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Classics Reenacting Death: Aristotelian Catharsis and Afro-Cuban Subjectivity in Virgilio Piñera’s Electra Garrigó Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos 145
44.4 Afro-Latin and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Classics The First New World Tragedy of Manuel Zapata Olivella’s Changó, the Biggest Badass John Maddox 145
75.1 After 69 CE: Epic and Civil War in Flavian Rome Diplomacy and Doubling in Statius’ Thebaid Pramit Chaudhuri 145
75.2 After 69 CE: Epic and Civil War in Flavian Rome Valerius Flaccus’s Collapsible Universe Darcy Krasne 145
75.3 After 69 CE: Epic and Civil War in Flavian Rome Iterum belli diversa peragrat: Argonautic and Roman Civil War Leo Landrey 145
75.4 After 69 CE: Epic and Civil War in Flavian Rome Sparsis Mauors agitatus in oris: The Theme of Civil War in Punica 14 Raymond Marks 145
9.1 Aisthêsis: Sense and Sensation in Greco-Roman Medicine Dreams and the Physiology of Memory in Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia Claire Coiro Bubb 145
9.2 Aisthêsis: Sense and Sensation in Greco-Roman Medicine Aristotle on the Tongue Alexander Robins 145
9.3 Aisthêsis: Sense and Sensation in Greco-Roman Medicine Seeing Through the Womb Lisl Walsh 145
9.4 Aisthêsis: Sense and Sensation in Greco-Roman Medicine Aisthêsis and askêsis: Inward Attentiveness and Embodiment in Galen’s Pulse-Lore Jessica Wright 145
9.5 Aisthêsis: Sense and Sensation in Greco-Roman Medicine Sensus in Lucretiusʼ De rerum natura Pamela Zinn 145
74.1 Ancient Amulets: Language and Artifact The Use of Biblical Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Texts, Functions, and Contexts Joseph Sanzo 145
74.2 Ancient Amulets: Language and Artifact In Sickness and in Health: Roman and Late Antique Amulets from Syria-Palestine Megan Nutzman 145
74.3 Ancient Amulets: Language and Artifact Computational Methods for the Study of Graeco-Egyptian Magical Gems: A Case Study in the Anguipede Walter Shandruck 145
74.4 Ancient Amulets: Language and Artifact Inscribed Neolithic Hand Axes as Amulets in the So-Called ‘Pergamon Magical Kit’ Kassandra Jackson 145
76.1 Ancient Greek Philosophy Plato's Hippias on the Power to Do Wrong Anna Greco 145
76.2 Ancient Greek Philosophy Aristotle on Body Sense John Thorp 145
76.3 Ancient Greek Philosophy Cicero and Seneca as Aristotelians Robin Weiss 145
60.1 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World What Makes a Law “Unfitting”? Edwin Carawan 145
60.2 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World The History and Rhetoric of Disarming Greek Citizens Jeffrey Yeakel 145
60.3 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World The Mercenary, the Polis, and an Athenian Inscription from the Fourth Century BC Jake Nabel 145
60.4 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World Security and cura in the Georgics Michèle Lowrie 145
60.5 Arms, Secrecy, Citizenship, and the Law: State Security in the Ancient World Arcana imperii Reconsidered: Tacitus and the Ethics of State Secrecy Matthew Taylor 145
40.1 Art, Text, & the City of Rome Naevius’ Bellum Punicum and Manius Valerius Messalla: Art and Text at the Beginnings of Latin Literature Thomas Biggs 145
40.2 Art, Text, & the City of Rome urbs amoena: Sex and Violence in the Ovidian City Bridget Langley 145
40.3 Art, Text, & the City of Rome The Forum Augustum from the Farther Shore: Vergil's Reader as Interpretive Hero in Augustus' Hall of Fame Nandini B. Pandey 145
40.4 Art, Text, & the City of Rome Ancestors in Adrastus’ Atria: Multivalent Retrospection in Statius’ Thebaid Laura Garofalo 145
29.1 Athenian Frontiers How to Cast a Criminal out of Athens: Law and Territory in Archaic Attica Mirko Canevaro 145
29.3 Athenian Frontiers Agyrrhios Beyond Attica: Tax-Farming and Imperial Recovery in the Second Athenian League Timothy Sorg 145
29.2 Athenian Frontiers Ethnic Contestation and Nemean 11: Tenedos, the Aiolis, and Athens Eric Driscoll 145
29.4 Athenian Frontiers Out of Bounds: Reassessing IG II² 204 Joseph McDonald 145
29.5 Athenian Frontiers The Children of Athena: International Participation in the Hellenistic Panathenaia Julia L. Shear 145
3.1 Authors Meet Critics: Gender and Race in Antiquity and its Reception Response #1 to Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy Victoria Wohl 145
3.2 Authors Meet Critics: Gender and Race in Antiquity and its Reception Response #2 to Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy Craig Williams 145
3.3 Authors Meet Critics: Gender and Race in Antiquity and its Reception Author Response on Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy Brooke Holmes 145
3.4 Authors Meet Critics: Gender and Race in Antiquity and its Reception Response #1 to Race: Antiquity and its Legacy Joseph Skinner 145
3.5 Authors Meet Critics: Gender and Race in Antiquity and its Reception Response #2 to Race: Antiquity and its Legacy Constanze Guthenke 145
3.6 Authors Meet Critics: Gender and Race in Antiquity and its Reception Author Response on Race: Antiquity and its Legacy Denise McCoskey 145
36.1 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West Plato and Nationalism: Utilizing Classics in the Age of Globalization Leihua Weng 145
36.2 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West What Do Greece and Rome Have to Do with a "Confucian-Socialist" Republic? Yiqun Zhou 145
36.3 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West Virgil (or His Absence) in China and the Viability of Western Classics in Non-Western Context Jinyu Liu 145
36.4 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West How China May Gain from Comparative Studies in Confronting the Ancient West Jenny Jingyi Zhao 145
36.5 Classics and Reaction: Modern China Confronts the Ancient West The Hermeneutics of Recovery: Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, and the Reception of the Western Classics in China Michael Puett 145
15.1 Color in Ancient Drama in Performance The Significance of Skin Color in Aristophanes (Ecclesiazousae, Thesmophoriazousae) Velvet L. Yates 145
15.2 Color in Ancient Drama in Performance Are Aeschylus’ Suppliants Women of Color? Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz 145
15.3 Color in Ancient Drama in Performance Shades of Euripides: the Use of Colour Terms in Staging Ancient Plays Melissa Funke 145
61.1 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry Alternate Alcinoi: Evidence for a Distinctive Version of the Phaeacians in the Argonautic Tradition William Duffy 145
61.2 Contexts and Paratexts of Hellenistic Poetry Apollonius, Reader of Xenophon: Ethnography, Travel, and Greekness in the Argonautica and the Anabasis Mark Thatcher 145